DirtyDigz

"Can you verify that having previously been denied a NJ handgun carry permit due to lack of justifiable need, in of itself, is not a factor that would prevent approval of future NJ FID card or Pistol Purchase Permit applications?"

Pizza Bob, thanks for calling this - I can't make this Thursday 8/24, but starting in early September I may be able to meet up in the area (I'm moving down to the Asbury Park area) if there are any future ones.

Back to the original topic - here's the .50 cal sampler (yes, <=15 rounds linked), can anyone help me ID the "special" round types?: Yellow over red striped, hollow tip = ? Red over silver striped = ? Blue/teal striped = ? Silver striped = ? Black striped = ? Brown Striped =?

Am I? Depends on where you live and how hoplophobic your neighbors and local LEO are. Can you sit on your front porch that's 50 yards back from the street in Cumberland or Sussex county with a break-action shotgun on your lap? Yeah, probably not an issue. Do you also believe you can also sit on your front steps at a row house in Jersey City with an AR at low ready and not get a visit from the po-po and a free ride to the station if you persist?

Please tell me more, Mikey-San. I'm closing on a house in a couple of weeks and the estimated costs of a lot of the closing cost line items are really raising my eyebrows.

New Hope...flame thrower? What story am I missing out on here?

Open carry of a NJ-legal firearm on property you own is legal, but that doesn't guarantee that your local law enforcement won't arrest and charge you anyway and compel you to prove it in court.

Yeah, that's not going to work out too well for you if you have a NJ-defined "assault weapon" in your safe and a search warrant comes-a-calling.

PK, love ya, but that's an over-simplification. Hollowpoint ammo, for instance, is illegal to possess outside of exempted locations, of which the possesor's home is one such exempted location.

Stop the PRESSES! Raymond is no longer recommending birdshot as the ideal HD round!?

Yep, as a Browning 1919 owner I'm very aware of the <=15 linked rounds issue. Ok, thanks gang, going to order it.

There's an outfit that is selling a ".50 cal ammo collectors pack", which is 5 different rounds of .50 linked together representing most of the rounds in active inventory in the military, primarily intended for display purposes. The ammo is live and includes tracer, incendiary, armor piercing and blank rounds. I'm interested in buying it for a "wall hanger" at home. I don't think there are any restrictions on simply possessing ammo *at home*, but want to double check.

Tag for interest - I'll probably need a roofer in Monmouth in 2018.

Hijacking the thread - can you modify an 870 so that it ... what do you call it ... "slam fires" or "pump fires", meaning that if you hold the trigger down it will fire as soon as you pump the next round into the chamber?

In all seriousness - someone from one of the RBKA-friendly groups should reach out to them to see if they want to talk about their odyssey as the Brady Org's lawsuit proxies - they may have some interesting things to say.

One thing I never noticed before - Looking at the LinkedIn screenshot and reading the duties Lonnie performed for Brady, one listed is "led the department in adding names of gun owners to database"

Here we go: http://onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com/2015/04/well-this-sheds-new-light-on-things.html

I vaguely remember this, and I believe there's more to the story - IIRC one or more of the couple was on the Brady Org's payroll at one point. Let me see if I can go dig up the details...

Thanks - didnt know about keystones previously, that's cool. Some wall panels with speaker plug keystones will work nicely for wall mounted surround sound speakers.

Yup, and I won't be in the house until likely early September, and I'm generally heat tolerant, so I'm hoping I can put the cooling installation off until next spring. Light automation interests me - what's the preferred signalling method for that? I'd be happy to put lighting control on the wireless segment of the network.

Combining several replies here, thanks Nick and Voyager: Monoprice - haven't visited them in a long time, but have bought from them before. I'll take a look, looks like they've expanded their product range a whole lot since I last shopped there. Patch panel - Wire runs are punched down to the patch panel, and then patch cables run between the patch panel and the switch, right? Separate wall plates for RJ45 - got it, makes sense. Home automation - no immediate plans, but I'm not opposed to it. Home has electric heat and no cooling currently, going to see if I can get a natural gas line run for heating and a mini-split for cooling once I get in. Once one or both of those are in I'd probably be interested in a networked thermostat.

Receiver works nicely as an airplay device for itunes, and it's remote controllable via smartphone so I can turn it up/down/mute/off as long as I have my phone with me. Having a 2nd zone would allow me to play music in garage (with *good* speakers and subwoofer) with just a run of speaker wire to the living room.

Thanks for the wireless suggestions, but I...want....*wired*. Already have the Asus wireless router with boosted power via the DD-WRT firmware, that's going to be the wireless segment.

Because wireless is "ok" fast when everything is just right (no interference, no competing networks from neighbors, not too many devices trying to move data at the same time, no leakly microwaves, no open arc from the bench grinder etc. etc. Wired is just plain fast all the time.

So I'm moving to a new house, and I want to get it networked and future-proofed as much as reasonably possible. Please shoot holes in my plans and tell me what I could be doing better/different. The house is 2 stories, concrete slab/cinder block first floor, wood frame 2nd floor (Imagine a 2 car garage + another 1 car garage side by side with a double-wide mobile home slapped on top and you're not far off). Built in the 70's, no currently installed cabling besides electric and possibly some old land-line phone cabling. Internet service will be FiOS. Here's some of the devices I'm moving in with: - A bunch of PC's (towers and laptops), macbook pro, couple of Mac minis, some iPads and two xbox ones - NAS box (forget the brand name, but it holds 2 HDD's) - A big "smart" TV (living room) - Couple of smaller HDMI TV's for bedroom and garage - Set of 5 surround speakers and subwoofer (wired, not wireless) - Internet capable (airplay, internet radio) HDMI receiver with two audio zones. Can be controlled via smartphone app. - Asus RT-N16 wireless router runing DD-WRT https://www.amazon.com/RT-N16-Wireless-N-Maximum-Performance-single/dp/B00387G6R8 - I have a box with literally a hundred ethernet patch cables between ~6" and 10' long. Stuff I want to do: - At least one RJ45 jack supporting gigabit ethernet per wall in every 2nd floor room, except the bathroom and possibly the kitchen, and one per wall in the garages (yes, I will have wireless via the Asus router, but I want heavy duty/steady/interference resistant bandwidth too) - Set up one smaller bedroom as a home office - most of the computers and NAS will go in there - Stream video from the office to the living room which will have big TV/HDMI receiver/surround sound (I generally don't watch/pay for broadcast TV. Entertainment is usually either Netflix or downloaded video in mkv/avi formats saved to PC or NAS). - xbox in living room. - Stream video from the office to master bedroom TV. - another xbox also in master bedroom. - Stream video from the office to the large garage TV. Garage space is going to be mainly vehicle parking/maintenance with a gym corner and a firearms/reloading corner. - Have a set of speakers (just stereo, not surround) and subwoofer in the garage using the 2nd audio zone from the living room receiver - Have a set of IP cameras (3 outdoor, 2 indoor) for security using POE (power over ethernet) connected to a dedicated PC running Blue Iris software for monitoring/recording/alerts Stuff I think I need to get: - IP cameras - right now I'm looking at Amcrest POE cameras (I *don't* want wireless cams, and I like POE because it only requires one cable per camera and no wall warts) like these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F7WHH2Y/ref=ox_sc_act_title_5?smid=AM1AKWRN957PC&psc=1 - A gigabit ethernet switch. I'm thinking 24 ports, and it would be nice if it supplied/auto-detected POE when needed, but I'm not opposed to using a separate POE power injector if needed. Any recommendations? Where should I locate the switch and terminate all the Cat 5e runs - close to where FiOS comes into the house? - A big spool of Cat 5e cable. Any suggestions on where to buy? - RJ45 jack wall plates. Is there such a thing as a combination power outlet/rj45 jack wall plate? Questions: - How should I connect all the Cat 5e cables terminating at the switch? Punch down block with patch cables, or just finish the ends with RJ45 and plug into the switch? - How should I hook up garage speakers to upstairs audio receiver? Just run some speaker/subwoofer wire up to the living room? - I have zero experience fishing/running cables inside/outside a house. Should I even attempt to do this on my own, or just go straight to looking for an electrician? Anything else "cool" I could be doing with what I have that I should be looking at?