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My personal favorite would be a S&W K frame with a 4" barrel - A Model 19 (blued) or Model 66 (stainless). The K frames in that length are very well balanced and easy to point. A 6" barrel is longer and a little more awkward. Anything less than 4" will have unpleasant muzzle flash and recoil. Shooting 38 special through the 4", the recoil is negligible. Personally, if the gun is for self defense I would avoid newer S&W revolvers with the internal lock. They have been known to set themselves by accident (Google S&W Internal Lock) and bind up the gun, making it nothing more imposing than a club. It happened to me with a S&W 629 in 44mag. I sold the gun shortly afterwards. Take a look at these links, then on the lower left, click on "revolvers" to limit the results to just revolvers. http://www.gunbroker...spx?Keywords=19 http://www.gunbroker...spx?Keywords=66 A Crimson Trace laser grip could be fitted to any of them after the fact.

For a 38/357 I don't recommend anything shorter than 4" barrel. Those 2 1/2-2 3/4" snubbies are NOT fun to shoot unless you are a recoil junkie or are shooting cowboy loads. It may turn your wife off to shooting.

Since he doesn't have much to spend, maybe a 1911 in 9mm. By the way, what town had the audacity to make him wait 1 1/2 years?

If it is stupid and panders to the most idiotic gun owners out there - you can almost guarantee Mossberg will do it. My favorite is the Mecha-Robocop-Levergun they make.

Always order six p2p at once, and get renewals.

This is a 10 pound rifle for an intermediate caliber like 7.62x39. Considering people shoot 5lb AKs without complaining about recoil, it seems like overkill. The PTR91 in 308 is a hell of a gun.

I hate to get down on a new guy with questions, but you are a grown man. Stand up for yourself and demand your rights. Make an appointment to speak with your town's police chief. Politely explain the situation. Document the conversation (i.e. who you spoke to, dates, his responses, etc). If you get no satisfaction from him, make an appointment with the mayor. Contact the firearms division of the state police and see if your town ever even submitted the paperwork. Contact the New Jersey 2nd Amendment Society. They specialize in getting police departments to obey the rules the way you and I have to. Fair or not, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Do you think the police are going to start writing you tickets because you forced them to do their job?

Thanks Maks, If I saw that one I would assume it's a flash hider too. Some of the muzzle brakes I see really are questionable just by looks. Many of them describe themselves as flash hiding muzzle brakes. The FSC brake is lucky that they put it out during the Clinton AWB and the ATF had to issue a ruling on it. So at least you can have a piece of paper claiming your FSC556 that looks like a flash hider is really classified as a brake. And I don't even know if New Jersey adheres to Federal standards on determining flash hider/brake. Perhaps I am being conservative, but I wouldn't want to argue the evil features with an inquiring officer. Maybe Shane at TJ Sporting could swap it for a Surefire 556K or something nice. It will suck about the extra costs though.

Dave is the new guy on the board, but a complete gentleman and pleasure to deal with.

Worst case, have that FFL ship to another FFL in NJ that doesn't have his head up his ass.

Do you need them? No. Could it save you a hassle if you are pulled over? Yes. Completely up to you. I find it easy enough to have copies in my range bag.

heritage Guild in Rahway. there is also a smith in Paterson. I do not recall his name or reputation though.

I guess it is ingrained in me by this point in my life to have more doubt in a person's nature than their circumstances. It's probably the environment. Thanks New Jersey!

You need a very high resolution computer though.

No phone call? Doesn't answer when I call or e-mail? Drop the hammer.

I have been there a few months ago (it was Luciano's then). Seemed like nice folks. They had a lot of handguns, but not much variety (forget about seeing a CZ or a FN). It seemed like it was all Glocks, Sigs, and Kimbers. Prices were typical high for a NJ gun store.

I plan to attend the meeting at Brookdale CC next Wednesday.

Sorry, thread drift. Yes, I have seen this happen when the rear of the magazine is not locked completely into place. It may feel like it is, and may not move down if you tug on it, but I bet if you push up really hard on the rear of the mag, the release lever will make a click and move to the rear towards the trigger and you will be able to activate it to release the mag. New stiff Ruger mags are prone to this from what I understand.

Buy a Tokarev pistol. The sell for under $300 and shoot inexpensive ammo. And 7.62Tok is a HOT round. Flat shooting and fun to shoot.

It does make it easier if she wants to transport your long arms in NJ. You just have COE's filled out for each of you (the originals in your name and new ones transferring them to her) and she keeps hers with her and you keep yours with you. Thus they belong to whomever has them at the moment.

You can't play the evil features game with it because it is banned specifically by name. Sucks.

I'll let you know. I am hoping to have mine in a few weeks.

Thanks for the info. I forgot about those features since my PTR came pre-neutered. I'm glad you didn't butcher a perfectly functional gun just to move to this state. And that's a good arrangement you have with your brother.

What was wrong with your g3 clone? As long as it wasn't an actual HK g3, clones are allowed., I owned a PTR91, which is a clone of the HK 91, and is legal in New Jersey for example.

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