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It wouldn't have had to say anything. PPP wouldn't be required at an FFL. Ever. You can't buy a handgun unless you're 21, PPP or not, and your driver's license is enough proof of age.

If all they wanted to do was eliminate the need for a PPP to buy from an FFL, all they would have to do is say that we no longer need a PPP to buy from an FFL. A simple and cost-free revision to existing law. They wouldn't need a new card, a new system, or a new requirement. You go to a gun shop with your current FID card and your Driver's License, clear NICS, plop down your cash, and go home with a gun. Much simpler than what they're proposing now to accomplish the same thing. If it was just about money, they would just add a renewal requirement to the current card. This new proposal is about something else. It may be that this is the beginning of a CC permitting system, which would be good. The coincidental timing with the Van Drew CCW bills suggests that this may be the case, and that the state is starting the gears turning to comply with an expected court decision against the current laws. In any case, this is a step in the right direction towards getting some of our rights back, and of reducing the ridiculous and expensive barriers to entry for anyone in NJ who wants to legally own a gun. The NRA piece was badly researched and written, and frankly, I'm not surprised. Until we possibly learn that there's some hidden agenda, something that will further erode our rights, something that will further raise the barriers to ownership, we should do everything we can to support this, and to support anyone who supports it. And yeah, it doesn't fix anything else, and we should be writing editorials and letters to newspapers and to anyone else who will listen, that explain that while this is a tiny first step in the right direction, we will continue to move forward until all of the capricious restrictions and exclusions are eliminated, and until NJ firearms laws are rewritten in such a way as to decriminalize the legal ownership of firearms, except through badly considered, overly specific and narrowly stated exceptions and exclusions. It's time NJ caught up with the rest of the country, and then we can stop saying things like "free states", and "you can do that in America, but not in NJ". Then we will have won.

What the hell were you doing in my old neighborhood?

When I took basic pistol, the instructor provided firearms for the course. we were told not to bring our own guns. I don't know if they're all like that. I would ask first. It may be a non-issue.

Winter Biathlon. Always a crowd pleaser.

I used to do most of the work on my cars, back in the dinosaur days when a tuneup meant changing plugs & points, resetting timing with a light and manual. I don't do much any more. Too many systems are interdependent and computer controlled, and I'm not really interested in turning a simple DIY job into an expensive shop one. I'll still do the occasional brake job, though.

No. That isn't the purpose of the site. I don't need another sounding board for my personal ramblings. This forum suits me just fine for that.

Maks, I know it's there, I was making a point. NJGF is mostly about the forum, and that's the way it should be. The only time I go to it is when I accidentally hit the wrong menu item on the forum menu. BTW, one of the news feeds seem to be throwing an error.

There's a main page???

There's an NJGF blog??

They're not yet, but may be by the end of the day. Waddayaknow... njglock.com and nj1911.com are also up for grab nj1911.com - the home of all things 1911 in New Jersey. I know we have those experts here.

I'v never done a blog, I don't have any expertise or credibility in a specific firearms related subject, and I'm still nurturing njShoot. Besides, I already have a couple of future projects lined up. I'll gladly offer whatever help I can to anyone who wants to run with something, though.

Finally, someone that we can feel sorry for. Welcome to the group.

That's what I thought. I've seen blogs that looked great, but were obviously not being maintained by professional developers or designers. I know there are other services besides wordpress. Like I said, I have no personal experience with blogs, mostly because I've never had to, and as a graphic designer, I'm not to thrilled with the design limitations placed on blogs, but for a down and dirty, easy to launch and manage option for a bunch of related subjects, I can't think of a better way to quickly expand our presence on the Interwebz. njreloadingblog.com njmilsurpblog.com njactionshootingblog.com all are available.

Yep, I'm on my soapbox again. After spending some time on the Conservative New Jersey blog site, I took some time today to look around for firearms specific, NJ specific blog sites. I found one (Cemetery's Gun Blob). We need more. As a community, we need to have a greater web presence. I think the forum niche is pretty well filled, but there needs to be more of a personal presence, and blog sites are a great way to accomplish that. If there were a NJ specific reloading blog, a milsurp blog, a blog for the various disciplines, and even others, every web search for something related to shooting in NJ would have a destination. With information and links to all the others. I don't know much about setting up and maintaining a blog, but I see blogs about family pets and couple's wedding plans. How tough can it be? Thoughts?

Pixie dust.

Considering the level of engineering expertise at Picatinny, I'm thinking that this "secret sauce" is an amalgam of billions of submicroscopic retroreflective spherical lenses that actually bend the light around the object, rendering it functionally transparent. Since the object is rendered transparent to the entire light spectrum, it makes perfect sense that it would no longer cast a visible shadow.

Wow, Wojo. That secret sauce camo really works. I can barely see the gun in that bottom image. You did a great job applying it to the barrel and receiver, as well as completely obliterating the original, less than perfect, factory applied RealTree pattern that came on the gun. My only question is because of the very efficient new pattern, how will you ever be able to find the gun once you put it down? I recommend you install a buzzer in the stock, activated by a "Clapper" so that when you clap you hands in proximity to the gun, the buzzer sounds, and you can reach down and pick up the rifle.

The implication there being that there's been at least one "less than legit" treason execution?

Apparently, one of the positive things to have come from this is that NJ2AS, through the person of Frank Fiamingo himself, has been invited as a contributor to one of the more popular and widely read NJ conservative blogs. Congratulations, Frank. in spite of the occasional small setback, you guys are moving forward at an outstanding pace. Keep up the good work. I just added the link to CNJ to my bookmarks. Conservative New Jersey

you can remove paint and varnish with it.

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Welcome to the community.

Congratulations on getting it all straightened out. Glad it worked out well.