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I know the sarcasm in your post title. It's like saying you are lucky to be a house slave rather than a field slave. In the end, it's all slavery.

I can't speak to whether this is true for State Troopers, but I am friendly with local officers who have told me there is a "suggested" amount of tickets they are supposed to write each month. There was a series in the New York Post a few years back where several anonymous NYPD officers indicated they had unofficial ticket quotas to uphold, or they would suffer consequences like bad assignments, etc. Higher up brass denied this of course. And as a teenager who grew up in North Jersey and frequently drove into NYC, end of the month ticket quota time was not a figment of our imagination. Myself and most of my friends had gotten at least one ticket in the area of the 59th street overpass at one point or another. Thankfully though, back then NYC did not reciprocate very well with New Jersey, and we just threw the tickets in the trash. Can't do that any more unfortunately.

multiply that times several per day per officer and it adds up.

One word. REVENUE

Permit applications are up. I was told to expect a three month wait in Middletown yesterday. Normally I get mine back in 4-5 weeks.

Very well reasoned. Unfortunately the average person will only make it through a single paragraph before yawning and turning on tv set.

Wow. Dumb.

K frame S&W. Model 19, Model 10, etc. Light and slim enough to grasp and hold easily. Heavy enough to offset recoil.

There are semi-Autos with which you could trust your life. A bone stock Remington 1100 is not one of them. It is a great clays gun though. FN and Beretta make nice, reliable semi-autos. Remington and Mossberg make functional ones. If you ever plan to shoot clay sports where a second bird is released on report or even at the same time as the first, a pump is a big disadvantage. Otherwise it is fine. I will agree with RayRay though (which means disagreeing with lots of others) and say that a 3.5" shell pump is not necessary and can even be a disadvantage because it is easier to short stroke it (think of the difference between the throw on a 308 bolt action and a 30 '06 one and you will know what I mean). A 2.5" shell filled with 00 or 1 Buck is plenty powerful to stop an intruder.

I owned the Dan Wesson CBOB (predecessot to VBOB). It is a very well made gun, but I felt that full power 10mm was slowly beating it to death. I came to the conclusion that 10mm is a no go in a Commander length or shorter 1911. Rock Island Armory is now making a full length 1911 in 10mm. That is intriguing, considering all the other 1911's in 10mm cost 2-3X as much (Kimber, Dan Wesson, Wilson Combat).

I am down to 45acp and 357mag, and reload for both. Happy to be down to 2 handgun calibers, although the siren call of 10mm is always tempting me.

Range 14 is only $60 for the year. Join on the spot.

I have owned both. The compact Glock 29 never fit very well In my hands, especially with hot loads. The Glock 20 was a great shooter and it's soaked up recoil better than any other 10 millimeter gun I owned.

Maybe it will be like '95, the first time the Devils won the Cup. Sour grape Rangers fans claimed it didn't count because it was a shortened season.

His name is Shane. I would recommend him. Great guy and very knowledgeable.

Ten years ago when I sent my Colt Commander in to Colt, they turned it around in two weeks.

Great transaction. Christopher is a real nice guy. Don't hesitate to do business with him.

A pleasure as always. Daniel is always prompt and easy to deal with.

Thanks. I wish Morristown was a bit closer. How about a Jersey Shore chapter? Sandy Hook was a staging area for the British fleet?

Nope. In general, people are complacent and will do whatever authority tells them to as long as government keeps the benefit/entitlement gravy train rolling. At best, I might expect pockets of resistance in areas where citizens have managed to keep local governance in check, like the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana. Basically places where people aren't piled on top of one another.

Revolutionary Era American History.

I find almost all factory 38 special to be dirty, or at least Smokey. Much more than 9mm or 40s&w.

I have been ripping through the Game of Thrones series and am currently on the last book, A Dance With Dragons. Usually I am reading history books though, especially about the American Revolution. If anyone is looking for a great read, check out Unbroken by the author of Sea Biscuit. I have never read a better book on perseverance against all odds. It is about a downed airmen in WWII who is captured by the Japanese. They were monsters.

That is a great carbine. Super accurate too. Take a look at the Sierra Papa trigger kit. It turns a mushy plastic trigger into a pretty good one.

If I were in your shoes, my first order of business would be to hire a lawyer and get that record expunged. Even if the lawyer cost two Grand, having a clean criminal record for background checks And I don't I mean just for guns, I mean for background checks for future employment.