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Greetings and welcome.

Lynn just sent me a link to this article in The Save Jersey Blog. I'd never heard of the site before, but after browsing it for a few minutes, I have it bookmarked. Anyway, the article is interesting, and it points at the legislative idiocy surrounding "green initiatives" and the shortsightedness and dangers of blindly trying to legislate for the environment at the expense of common sense. Sen. Greenstein Pushing Mindless Electric Car Bill

I know times are tough and the economy is in the crapper, but I still have to voice my support for shopping locally. I really don't see how any local shop, no matter where they are, can compete with an online resource. It's apples and oranges. Online shops have economies of scale and volume, and enjoy minimum overhead, that none but the largest, most leanly run and efficiently managed brick and mortar can compete with. That said, in case anyone hasn't noticed, NJ isn't particularly friendly to guns and gun owners. If the shooting community doesn't support local vendors with their dollars, there's no way the local shops will survive, and we'll eventually lose all of the small local shops, and the shooting community will lose one of the linchpins holding the entire community together. It would be nice if the local vendors had the buying power that Bud's has, but that's not likely to happen if even the shooting community in NJ abandons them for cheaper sources.

Us Kens are clever sonnabitches.

There are usually enough to go around, but when the range is crowded, there may be none immediately available. If you ask an RO nicely, he may go back to the shed and bring out a few additional ones if they have any. I made a couple of sets of feet for mine that I bring with me when I go. I sometimes set up more than 1 target, and I don't want to be "that guy hogging all the sleds".

Welcome to the group. The handgun range at CR provides sleds that fit the target frames and can be moved in or out to any distance. Some of the RO's have an occasional issue with shooters working at ranges less than 5 yards or so, some don't. But to answer your question, the distances aren't fixed, and you may feel free to move your targets as close or as far from your position as you like, within reason.

Apparently not Quality Control.

If you purchased them legally in another state, and if they are NJ compliant as far as capacities and features, you have no issues just bringing them in when you move. There is no mandatory requirement to register your guns in NJ. Just follow NJ laws regarding transportation and, although it isn't required, it's a good idea to get a NJ FID card once you settle in your new place. Search around the old threads on the board. There's a bunch of information, and a couple of horror stories. And, welcome to the group.

Wow. Even cronyism won't get you a permit. How inconsistent with the rest of NJ politics.

Happy Birthday, gents. Enjoy the day.

Greetings and welcome.

Oh, crap. Another Ken. Welcome to the asylum. Try the pie. Ken

A couple of interesting points about the 10 round limit bill. The law of unintended consequences again. Article

Interesting (and depressing) how you get a simple ticket for abusing a privilege, but jail time for exercising a right. Just seems wrong.

If I ever have the time, enthusiasm and energy at the same time, I'm planning a "how-to photograph handguns on the cheap" piece for njshoot. A little setup for practically nothing, makes nice images, and can be pretty much just stashed away when not being used. Problem is, I'll have to build it to show the steps, and I just don't have that kind of energy or commitment during the winter. I'd rather hibernate.

... and we know exactly how much that means to them. precisely bupkis.

+1. Perception is everything.

That's because "Full Metal Jacket" sounds soooo much more evil than "cheap range ammo". They know exactly what they're doing.

Greetings and welcome.

Another 5%er here. It was disgusting and irreverent.

Condolences to the family, and I'm very sorry for the loss of your friend.

As do I. And I feel the same about ANJRPC. I'm not trying to put any group in a public position where they need to explain themselves or their strategies here. They've made more progress towards slowing down the dismantling of our rights than any groups before them. My point is that there are any number of directions an advocacy group can take towards educating and informing beyond their existing core of true believers, and those techniques should be in the arsenal of the groups fighting for our rights here in Fortress New Jersey. They're certainly in the arsenals of the groups fighting against us, and we just steadfastly refuse to learn from our enemies, no matter how successfully they exercise their skills against us at every turn. Simplicity in the message is important. It isn't whether 15 rounds is less deadly than 16, it's the stupidity and ineffectiveness of the limitation that we should be addressing. You don't debate the number, you discredit the underlying faulty reasoning. You don't argue whether XYZ is substantially identical to ABC, you pointedly question and discredit the reasoning behind the rules. Gotta get to the basics, or we'll be arguing about the details until the very day they come for our guns.

If only there was a New Jersey based organization chartered to that precise goal, to provide a venue where information regarding the current status of gun rights activism in NJ could be easily found, where one could find information about pending legislation and who is supporting/opposing it, where notable and respected members of the legislative and firearms communities could present their opinions and perspectives, where people could contribute to the cause proudly and be counted among the supporters of freedom, where, where, where... If only such an organization existed.

The simple answer is yes. And, not only among the pro-2A population, but among the entire NJ shooting community, the non-shooting gun owners, and the non-gun owning population. Basically, among everyone who isn't vocally anti in their ideology. Our greatest hurdle is education. We've gotten preaching to the faithful down to a science, and we happily harrumph, harrumph in agreement when some rare gem of insight is brought up, but the rest of the population needs to be brought into the debate, and the antis are addressing them directly and effectively, with a clear and concise argument, while we argue incessantly among ourselves about relatively insignificant details. It may be time to stop rearranging the deck chairs, and take a look at the rising water line. The harrumphers...

Like many of us, I’ve been following the events in Egypt. Not so much because I care a whole lot about what happens there, but as an observer of the process of the rebellion itself, and of how the various interested parties will eventually shuffle their positions of importance as the process moves forward. It’s estimated that about 15% of the Egyptian population are in ideological agreement with the strict Islamic interpretation of Islamic Law put forward by the Muslim Brotherhood, but the other 85% are so fractured that their voices are being drowned out, and the MB is skillfully taking control of the public discussion. Sound familiar? The small, antagonistic, regressive faction has control of the public space on the issue because the majority can’t get a cohesive and consistent message together well enough to present a united front in opposition of an obviously wrong solution. Sure, the pundits are out in force, intellectualizing and bloviating on both sides, but the very people who are destined to be affected by the outcome are too busy sniping at each other over minute and unimportant details and personal agendas to come together in opposition of what is clearly the wrong direction. This is the lesson we still haven’t learned, and the anti-gun forces of repression will continue to take advantage of our inability to organize until in the end, we too are forced to succumb to the will of what should be an insignificant and fanatical fringe minority.