raz-0

Like HIV and aids. We just banned it. Oh wait no, we educated people about it. Yeah like drunk driving. We don't have an interlock on every car, we educated people that doing stupid stuff was stupid. Yes, but there's a difference between a faulty product and a dangerous product. A car is dangerous. That's why there is no recall for falling asleep and plowing into oncoming traffic. Unfortunately, his peers disagree with him, at least on suicide the absence of firearms just changes the method, not the rate or degree of success. Hmm, is there some magic difference between the hills of afghanistan and the hills of pakistan? Show me a smart gun that isn't a mechanical interlock that can be removed or readily converted to a machine gun is it is capable of semi-automatic fire. You can't. There is no method of inducing a tool mark that cannot be altered very, very easily. Also, what good does tracing a stolen gun back to the purchaser do? The suggestion that it matters in terms of finding and convicting criminals means you have to have the weapon, proof it was used in a crime, and proof that the suspect had it at the very least. Matching up numbers here and there isn't really going to reduce the hard part of that work. HEck, if I can buy replacements with stamps, I can whack someone, swap out a new part, and then I have plausible deniability that my gun was NOT the one used at the crime scene. SO real good plan there bob. Howabout we lean on the government to actually investigate oh lets say for example, the 19% of NICS denials that were due to matching an fugitive. Just saying. Active fugitives might not have good intentions there. It's not the FFLs who aren't taking straw purchases seriously. They oppose the stupid ones. They ahve asked for the one above to be done time and again. NONE of this has a respect for gun owners. It ALL operates from the position that we are all criminal suspects and encourage violence and crime on the part of people who cannot behave reasonably in society.

The problem with comp reviews, even good ones, is they go out of date very, very fast. SOme more good comps, the titan and the hammerhead.

Lee 2nd edition, and some really old used book I snagged via amazon that I thought was metallic cartridge reloading. It's poorly edited, but it had lots of interesting stuff in it. But the lee manual is good enough to get you going.

Yes you can, do the clap test. It's not hard. Whereas I guarnatee you that for most people, muffs over glasses WILL gap at some point. Do both and they likely won't hear naything unless the muffs are electronic. (which BTW is my preferred setup if I have to instruct anyone).

Well except for the bit where you were arguing that they didn't protest the NRA simply because someone told them to. Boil it down, and that is what it is. Facts and thought don't enter into it. Case in point, I ran into an awesome one today. Apparently the NRA spends billions on buying off the government. It's choice, it really is.

Cerakote sniper gray looks a LOT like Parkerizing (zinc rather than manganese), which is what is on a mil-spec barrel. Hi temp engine paint is not quite as good a match, and is less durable and resistant to solvents. but without something to compare to, you probably won't notice. IF you are paying someone to do it, duracoat and cerakote will cost about the same, go with cerakote.

Had both knees done. Meniscus shaved in both, torn bit removed in one when I was a teenager. First one they wheeled me out had me rest a couple days then PT and crutches. Second one they had me walk out on a single crutch regardless of pain and PT started sooner. I got good PT, unfortunately the place doesn't exist anymore (owner was more concerned with being good than making money). Gave me a bunch of exercises, and some general things to do different with how I walked, lifted things, etc. PT get you better. Following their advice and keeping up with maintenance keeps you well. The doctor said I might have to have it done again in 10-15 years. I'm at 25 on the first one, not quite 24 on the second one. Lots of martial arts and hiking on them. It took about seven years to not have noticeable weird numb spots on my knees around the incisions and opposite (mostly) them. Weather changes hurt a bit frequently for the first 3-5 years. They still hurt randomly, and much more so, but less frequently. Been back to an orthopedist twice when it felt bad enough to think I messed something up again, and nothing wrong. Only thing of note was that my doc chose a general anesthesia because he preferred that squeamish people not F up his work and you don't know how bad you'll be until you've been through it.

No federal does NOT sell reloaded ammo as new. The "burnt" marks are annealing. It's common on surplus or mil spec ammo. The primers are also crimped in. This crimp is either a ring crimp or staked crimp. There is a newer more aggressive looking stake crimp that is pretty weird looking(examples of all three pictured below). The case getting dinged on loading ins not an issue with ammo, but with your gun feeding it. Brass is brass, and you smash it with the bolt going home and it will distort. As for stuck in the receiver, if you are runing federal xm193 5.56 spec ammo in a tight .223 chamber, yeah it can get a bit stuck and be a PITA to extract. This is not brand specific.

Actually, rite aid for the plugs too. Smaller quantity and more variety. You want the 33dbr ones. Home depot, lowes, or harbor freight for the glasses.

Like I said in various places on here, the winner of the re-list prize so far this year is 7+ months of relisting. So don't hold your breath. On the plus side, the conversion ratio of relisted cases to something other than denial is better.

There are a number of things wrong with this. This may be right to an extent, but having had plenty of those conversations, there is a HUGE contingent that the hate for the NRA is of a specific nature, and a largely false one. That usually centers around the violence is evil, guns are evil, and corporations are evil idea. The specific hate is based on the notion that the NRA is a shill for big business. Which ignores the fact that 1) the firearms industry although much bigger than it used ot be is small compared to a huge number of other industries. 2) The NRA is actually a lobby group for actual people who actually vote. 3) That the NRA doesn't spend a lot on lobbying and elections. It's less than most reasonably sized unions, and WAAAAYYY less than real big business like comcast. 4) They don't get that a profitable company like midway writes the huge checks they do because the customers volunteer to contribute money to the NRA through them at the time of purchase. Which they aren't. Not even close. Most people aren't, but they mostly lack internal consistency much less facts. There is something really messed up about someone who believes the the government is broken/corrupt/a tool of corporations and that we must therefore turn to the government to fix these ills. Perhaps it is a knee jerk reaction without thought, but they don't seem to apply the thought and seem to be especially enamored at their own brilliance for having this contradictory idea. Add on to that the mass appeal of not bothering to ever check up on what passes as facts, if you even bothered to look for details, much less validity, and they are a mess. Yet they seem to be happy to imagine how something works, and get mad over that and reuse to examine the complaints against chnges in light of how a law currently in place is actually used. Nor do they concern themselves with the knock on effects of kicking the snot out of gun owners and how that precedent set there can and will be used to attack other things they might be fond of. But that's second order thinking on TOP of trying to force oneself to be rational despite the natural inclination not to be so. I think that may actually be illegal these days. You don't even need to get there though. I ask how can someone who odds are has procured and smoked weed and if not knows a buttload of people who do, honestly believe that saying something is illegal and shall not be done prevents any thing? The short version is they believe their right, effort, facts, statistics, and reality be damned. We'll skip over the bit of how a rational mind that says one should be tolerant and respectful of others loves to lead off with basically calling groups that don't agree wit them subhuman idiots, but hey. They are rational and enlightened so F you. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that there are some people who protest the NRA who believe this, but one of the MOST common objections to them I see basically boils down to them being industry shills who spend money to ensure they can make billions slaughtering children. Yes, the NRA is the biggest target. Which actually underlines the lack of nuanced thought on the subject, or they would have a better idea of where the NRA fits on the spectrum of RKBA discussion, which I have never, ever seen demonstrated by anyone fitting the description of anti-gun liberal. I beleive these ideas to be reasonably accurate. More or less, yes they are, structurally at least. The NRA trades more tangibly with the voting membership than they do. In many ways the NRA is probably more akin to a union lobby than the ACLU or PETA. I highly doubt most of the people you are talking about see it as being akin to any of those groups though. This is why they are so largely ineffective. The anti organizations run on big money almost exclusively. Their "voter base" doesn't show up because when you take someone who actually doesn't feel threatened day to day and tell them there are bad guys all around you, they assume that at best they are acting on behalf of some poor down trodden guy someplace else. They also expect someone to do all the heavy lifting of solving that problem. It's hard to motivate people to act on something that is not supported by their own experiences. You can get them to BELIEVE all sorts of crap about it, but act on it? Not so much. You can defend it as some sort of through process, but people hate the NRA because that is the message that is beaten into them. Something bad happens to some people, they have empathy, and someone uses that empathy to beat a message into their head. That message in this context is guns are bad. The knee jerk response to that from a passive person who believes in massive authoritarian structures is that the people in authority should do something about that. SO rather than take responsibility for not really doing anything, they say they can't and point at the NRA. Because short of switching sides, that is the optimal solution for keeping lobbyist money hitting their bank account, and keeping votes rolling in.

OK, I was going to stay out of it until this. What am I getting besides price at the LGS? Please tell me. Because I'll tell you what I have gotten out of them. Can I get it now? Because I'll pay the "gotta have it now" tax to some degree, that is a valid service of a LGS. I'm not necessarily dealing in the very large numbers of guns, some folks have over the years. Leaving out the hard to find, used and discontinued, and custom stuff, there's about 11 guns left that I tried to buy from various LGSs. Of that 11, 3 were actually purchased at a LGS. 5 were actually at an LGS to fondle but I had to go used on one of them to afford it and nobody had used (won't fault anyone for that). That 5th one? Marked up just shy of $300 (THREE HUNDRED!!!!) over what a local FFL ordered me one for. The other 6? Nobody had them, and nobody was interested in ordering them for me. The reactions to TRYING to give them my business ranged from indifference to outright hostility. NONE of them had a decent gunsmith on staff. NONE of them were particularly good at answering technical questions. All but one of them were essentially unable to offer me anything make and model specific in terms of accessories to go with a purchase other than ammo. Spare mags? Nope. Order them? Nope. Holsters? Nope. Decent belt? Nope. Mag pouches? maybe. They offer me the fine experience of putting a frankly insulting price on the display tag and will let me haggle? New stuff... its a commodity, realize that. It's not worth my time when the haggled price is a few bucks under MSRP. You wasted your time and mine with that. Used? When you have it tagged as $30 over MSRP for a new one, why bother? You don't have it and you lie to me about what I am looking for AND what you have in inventory that you are trying to push on me? Ooh, that's worth a premium. You might send something back to the manufacturer for me no charge? Great. But the the local part of LGS really matters. You cna be 20 miles away and be an hour drive in NJ. Does that deal even save me anything once you account for gas, much less time? Especially when I have to go BACK there to pick it up rather than have it delivered to me? It depends, and not all places will do that either. Will you do transfers for used, out of production items I found online? Yeah? It's HOW MUCH? And you want that in advance or you will refuse delivery because I might not come and get my $1000 piece of property I ALREADY paid someone for? Oh yeah, mmm the customer service. Oh you want me to order form you. OK, do you have a XXXX that was only made by company Y from 1984-1991 and I'm only interested in the ones from 1988 or later? No? Shocking I say. SO how about that transfer price or at least let me pay rather than make 2-3 round trips to your store depending on NICS? Nope? Are you stupid, an a-hole, or is it some of both? I hear tales of customer service, but the place that came closest to having it for me was Ray's. Even then, every gun they'd go check in the back for 10 minutes to see if they had more, tell you the one in the case was the last one, and about 75% of the time put out a new one the next day. But overall it actually provided conveniences and wasn't too big a premium. I hear tales of lots of guns to fondle, but staying within a realistic hour drive during business hours, there were two places that have anything I'd have called an inventory. One was Ray's and it's gone. The other is so awesome I think of asking ot look at something, and I just go.. eh why bother it's less money and likely time to buy something sight unseen cheaply and resell it at a loss than to waste my time here and spend the rest of my day more stressed out from dealing with that crap. All the NJ FFLs without inventroy I ahve used have been pretty pleasant. Most are willing to give you pretty good prices on stuff and order accessories for you at a discount if you ask.

The cheapest most bleached crap rice in a bulk bag from sams club or costco. Not quite as cheap as corn cob bedding in the big bag from petco/petsmart, but comes right back out of .223 easily. If you deprime before tumbling, it can get stuck in some flash holes.

That depends. For matches I'm running a drop leg rig for my AR mags. Mainly cause I'm lazy and don't want to be chanigng my belt setup every stage. I'm tall and you can only hike the thing up so much. SO the 15/30s make them easier to reach. You can also monopod on them prone unlike 20s.

http://www.dvor.com/evolution-gun-works-ammo-chamber-checker.html?promotion=evolution-gun-works-chamber-checkers-34-2014-04-23 I love my 50 round one for .40. $70 is less than I paid for mine 5 price increases ago (although it appears they rolled back the last price increase now that there is competition. MSRP is back under $100). The 7 holes are $15 for pistol and 22 for rifle. Revolver 50 holes are $94

I know some towns batch up the paperwork and do it at intervals. They may just be suggesting it because the pile is getting big and it's about that time. Alternatively, it could just be that someone is going on or coming back form vacation.

That is correct, by 4-28 we should know if it has been re-listed again, denied, will be heard, or it the decision was reversed. As far as I cna tell from reading up, the current possible scenarios are as follows: 1) They had enough to grant cert and hear the case from the RKBA side of the house, and the anti side of the house asked for re-list to buy time to shop for votes. 2) They had enough to grant cert and hear the case from the anti side of the house and the RKBA side asked to re-list to buy time to shop for votes.(this scenario would likely be to slap the juris prudence around while maintaining the conclusion that the state has such regulatory authority). 3) Either or both of the RKBA and anti ringleaders don't have sure votes, but don't want to drop the case for multiple reasons. 4) There are not enough votes to hear, it will be denied, but the RKBA side wants to write a thorough dissent and hasn't had time due to the docket. 5) They have a lot of cases, and this case will be getting pushed due to number of cases on the docket that are less of a hot topic, and they want to clear the decks for the backlash of whatever they decide. 6) Summary reversal is in the works. Basically IMO the only thing that has changed is the odds of a summary reversal went up. A re-list could be a stop gap measure that only postpones the inevitable against a slam-dunk for either side even if it was 8-1. 1,2 and 6 could all be done deals signed and ready to go, but are being delayed to affect timing for mid-term elections. 3 is full of options as to how you get there. IMO, I don't think what is going on is a denial to hear. The reasoning of the 3rd court basically says you can decide anything you want with disregard to facts, history, or precedent in anything as long as you can drum up some sort of argument that one level of scrutiny is another level of scrutiny despite adhering to the dissenting opinion rather than the majority ruling. This may seem great for activist judges, but it cuts that way too. Want to play make believe and ignore the law and precedent? Unless it is unanimous with no dissent, we'll just ignore it using this tactic. Several pieces have been written that appear to be lining up to promote doing just that, so the can of worms should be no secret to SCOTUS. Relist can go on for a while, Ryan vs. hurles has been relisted for 7 months straight so far.

click link. Look at calendar. Green dates are conference days. Those are days when cert grant and denials are announced (usually).

Yes. My town just posted that with the 2014 recycling guide. Household alkaline cells no longer go to recycling/household hazardous waste.

It needs to be effective. Rule number 1. As far as nice to have features for nj, .750 diameter with shims, avoid tines to avoid flash suppressor arguments, and find a way to make it effective without a high pressure chamber or other feature that keeps the crown from being inaccessible for cleaning.

Even though there have been multiple reports of over press sure loads from them lately that pop primers and flatten head stamps?

Have you run it in the winter/cold with something other than m193 spec ammo?

If they don't hear it, it means drake as decided on the 3rd circuit stands as precedent and the circuit split between the 7th and 3rd stands. 9th is still open to challenge and if that challenge succeeds, they could use drake as part of the challenge of compelling states interest and two pronged rational basis being the hard floor rather than intermediate scrutiny. As I understand it, there is precedent out there for something like the following logic to fly as intermediate scrutiny: nj has a gun problem, legislature believes restricting access to them for everyone will fix that problem and reduce deaths, expenses, etc. they pass the law and it DOES reduce them, one can argue compelling interest and a sufficient fit. Rational basis would be we want to regulate guns so we regulated guns because we said so. Which is what drake did essentially, but had the second prong of they were regulated for a long time so nyah! Basically they did a piss poor job of even following the recommendation of the dissenting decision. They let it stand, and circuit courts can feel free to pick whatever they want out of a ruling, so unanimous or scotus might as well go suck it would be the rule of the future. Which is why I think pro or anti, it will be heard. I don't know if it is procedurally possible, but I could see a possible option of declaring the judicial reasoning screwed and passing the buck back down to the 3rd with guidelines of how to make a decision without looking like idiots if there is a way to do it. They let it stand, and I'd expect to see at least a couple circuits take a case and apply similar logic to roe vs. wade as a start.

That looks like their trimmer was dull as a brick and it just sort of burnished the neck to the right length. IMO that will grab the neck with extra force which could spike pressure. It could also be yanked off by the cannelure when fired and get jammed in the throat. Do that a few times and it could be bad juju. I'm seeing increasing incidents of stuff that isn't right from them.

And by association, the structure of the law in question, as well as the method of scrutiny applied by the lower court to reach their decision.