DirtyDigz

I consider myself a beginner and thought this article encompassed more good info than any other I've seen: Massad Ayoob: How to shoot a handgun accurately http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob85.html

All the time on my Goldwing. Cool! As I have sportbikes, there's not enough room for a locking case + ammo, and I'm afraid carrying in a backpack would count as carrying concealed.

This isn't statute, however it looks like the State Police consider a black powder handgun to be "a handgun": http://www.state.nj.us/njsp/faq.html#firearms

I have 4 vehicles, only 2 have a "trunk" (actually, under seat storage. They're motorcycles). I've never tried to transport to the range via a motorcycle. That probably deserves its own thread. Anyway, when I transport to the range in a car, all firearms go in a lockable hard rifle case completely unloaded, without magazines, slides or bolt locked open and trigger locks on. Case gets locked. Ammo goes in an ammo can.

That first bit is from Karl Denninger. He's a bit mercurial, but a real sharp guy when it comes to the financial markets. He called FNMA (Fannie Mae) going insolvent at least 6 months before the government bailed them out. He also saved me from taking a 50% hit last year when the markets crashed, because I got the eff out (and actually made money by going short). I highly recommend reading his stuff if you're involved in investing at *all*. It's worth your while to go back through the archives on his site. He also mostly leaves politics out of it, which is refreshing. (he bashed both Bush and Obama). http://market-ticker.org/

Wish I had seen this before I bought my burris fastfire. Will make this a first stop for sights in the future.

All of them. I have 4 mags for my glock, all are kept loaded with HP ammo while at home. When I go to the range, they all get unloaded, then loaded back up after the gun comes back home. 10 in the stock mags, 12 in the mags with extensions. Oh, and one in the chamber. As long as the springs are good quality, it doesn't matter if you keep them loaded or unloaded.

Interested in this as well, mainly to get the GF some exposure to an AR. Is there a signup or registration for this?

I emailed the local officer who processed applications about twice a month during my 6 month wait. I was very courteous and polite in each email. If I had not done the emailing, I would not have found out that my application was stuck waiting for additional funds ($#$* retroactive application fee increase by the state) or that my FID/permit had been "waiting" for me for over 2 weeks. If they would let me, I would volunteer to help the police department process applications...

Welcome!

Considering it, but I think I have a prior obligation. Would be my first time at anything like this.

Welcome to the forum Caine.

Whatever it is, it's 9mm and it's FMJ and it will work in my Glock. Ordered 15 boxes. That works out to about $.28/round delivered which is pretty darn good in the current ammo shortage. Thanks for sharing remthewanderer!

That Natchezss price is ~50 cents a round. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? That's more than double the .22 cents/round I paid when I ordered 1K rounds from Ammunition To Go about 3 months ago.

Welcome hotshot!

Will consider one of those mech tech units if I get a full frame glock. Youtube review of one of these Mech Tech units on a 1911:

Congrats. I think that is the first NJ FID application I have ever heard of that was processed in the legally specified time period.

Thanks for the invite colonel, I may actually take you up on that. Do I have to be a full member of Shongum to participate in USPSA?

Welcome M1-Matt

Hrmm, neither of the 2 different retailers I bought firearms at since getting my FID card checked for a thumbprint, but I'm considering going back to the Police Station to get my thumbprint on it now.

How well is the firearm section at the Dick's in Rockaway stocked? There's a Dick's a bit closer to me in East Hanover that has a very puny firearm section.

Heh, you sent me the PM on glocktalk on 4/9, not *that* long ago.

I'd be happy if that range could be resurrected. Maybe the downturn in car sales is enough to put the kibosh on the dealer's plans? Haven't been that way in a long time, so I don't know if the building is still standing.

Tangent to this: Went to the Gander Mountain store in upstate New York last October. They would *not* sell me hollow point handgun ammunition, claiming it was illegal in NJ, but they *would* sell me a semi-auto shotgun with a pistol grip (illegal in NJ). Thought it was interesting that they were (wrongly) restrictive on the ammunition, but would freely sell a NJ illegal firearm if I had decided to go through with the purchase.

I started my FID and Handgun Purchase Permit application in late '07, finally get it in 2Q '08, a little over 6 months if I recall correctly. I'm a volunteer EMT in my town, so I had a bit of an 'in' with the police department. Two main holdups were: Several weeks *AFTER* the Police Department submitted my paperwork/fingerprints/money order, the State Police raised the fee and apparently made the increase retroactive to my applications. Even worse than that, they DID NOT NOTIFY the police department that this was the case. It took me calling the PD and them finally calling the SP to find out what was going on. 3 months wasted over a $6 fee increase, if I recall correctly. It then took another 2 months for processing, and then it sat at the local PD for another month before I called again to find out the status and got the "Oh, we notified you X weeks ago that it was ready". Uh, no you didn't. Anyway, when I went to pick up the FID and permit, they just handed them to me via the dispatcher "bank teller" window. Therefore my FID card does *NOT* have my thumbprint on it. Anyone else have a "blank" print block on their FID?