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Honestly, my suggestion is not to buy the AR. In four years Beretta might finally produce an ARX100, so if you are going to wait four years, at least wait for something that will be a hit with the ladies.

And hands in pockets. Putting your hands in your pockets will get you killed http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/11/sma-chandler-putting-your-hands-in-your-pockets-will-get-you-killed/

I'll send you the bill... I'm one of those old, fat cigar-smoking Army National Guard E-7's. You know, the same guy I used to make fun of 20 years ago when my dumb ass joined.

Considering the good Doctor was a gun owner, I can't think of a better way of honoring him.

Well, here is the problem... unless you owned the bank or the bank was also an FFL, it's probably not a reasonable deviation... unless you are talking a long gun, and that is a pretty darn big box. Remember we can only go directly to or from the range or an FFL or our place of business. I think it's probably okay if you did it in a free state, but you would have to check with the bank's policies.

Look, brother. Life is too short to only shoot guns that other people think you should have. If you like it, buy it. IMHO, it is a novelty gun. The ammo is expensive. I wouldn't buy it as a first gun. But if you already have a dedicated gun for home defense or just want something different for the range, then do it and be happy. Between all the talk about manstopping and magazine capacity we tend to forget that shooting is suppose to be fun and make you happy. Buy it and go have some fun.

IMHO I've always thought the Employer question was left over from the 1960's when people were applying to be security guards and needed a revolver for the job. And it just may have stayed on the form because the form was never changed. But all that being said, if you own your own business and have a tax ID number, you are self-employed. I don't list that I'm in the National Guard and occasionally help out at my buddy's pizza place.

It could have easily been a cheap semi-auto chambered in .25 or .32 ACP.

I carry a Kimber Pepper Blaster daily. It's better than nothing and I wouldn't feel undergunned with it at home.

I appreciate that. I may take you up on it.

I'm going to give Bob's a shot, although I don't know if they still have a range after their fire. I'll also try Sportsman's Center. I appreciate the suggestions. This whole thing actually got interesting to me because it's actually kind of disturbing that I don't know how to use a bow.

So my son has finished two of the Hunger Games books and wants to get started in Archery. Here's the deal. I have no clue how to shoot a bow an arrow. I have no clue where I can even buy one or practice shooting. I think I can go to Dix and rent a bow, but again, I have no idea how to use the darn thing. It can't be that hard... but their must be more to it than shooting randomly at I live in Cherry Hill. Does anyone have any tips for a beginner archer? Is there anyplace around here where my son and I can get training?

I don't celebrate Christmas, but my my stepmom does. I took the kids there today for Christmas Day. They ended up with enough toys to fill my trunk and I got a nice Henley Sweater from my stepmom - which came in handy. I spent all day outside in 32 degree weather playing with a wiffle ball set my kids got. I swear that kids have a different thermostat than dads.

As a kid, my dad would drive me and my younger brother to this lake somewhere in South Jersey. We would take old soda cans and throw them into the lake and then blast them with a .22 rifle. It wasn't until years later that I realized that we were not only littering, but shooting at water with lead round - and God knows where those ricochets were going. I don't remember wearing hearing or eye protection either. I can remember carefully building model airplanes and then blowing them to bits in the backyard with a BB Gun that my dad kept in the garage, unsecured. And the funny thing is nobody ever got hurt and we never pointed it at each other. Different times... It wasn't until the Army that I actually *learned* how to shoot. With my dad it was just kind of putting holes in floating cans until they sunk. But still, good memories. My dad is 76 now. I just saw him today. His memory is going - I once lost him in the Philadelphia Ikea once and it took me over an hour to find him. But I still treasure that time we had together.

Don't discount the Beretta CX4 Carbine, especially if you have a Beretta 92FS or PX4 pistol. The gun has a 15 shot capacity with the Beretta 92FS magazines and would serve equally well for Home Defense. Best of all, you can use the same ammo as your pistol if you have a 9mm.

A spare magazine on your strong side is better than no spare magazine. I'm not a big fan of letting my spare Kel Tec mag jingle around in my pocket. I did that when I was in Florida and it would shift with the weight of the magazine. Sometimes coins would get lodged between the top and second most cartridge. My solution was to put the magazine on my weak since in an old cell phone case. These days its fairly common for a guy to have more than once cell phone, especially if they work in IT. So it's not too strange to see.

Bravo!!! Nothing stops a bullet like a job. We can talk all we want about the 2nd Amendment. If the average Camden resident had $600 they wouldn't go out and buy a gun, they would use it to bay their overdue electric bill. Guns won't fix Camden but jobs and education will.

A Jewish perspective meaning "It could be worse..." as in "It could always be worse..... count your blessings." Just sage advice from the Kibbutz Room.

Do not allow the rifle to be transferred or sold or you are putting yourself at risk for losing your gun rights forever. Read the text below: http://www.evannappen.com/surprise-guns-taken-now-go-to-prison.html Please fight this. If your guns are not returned to you, then you will lose your gun rights forever.

A very Jewish way of looking at things: It could be worse.. he could be a neighbor who never takes care of his lawn. Which would you rather have?

I'll have to go with my Kel Tec PF9. That gun went from being the redheaded stepshild among my Berettas to the gun the gun I choose for nightstand duty over a 15-shot 92FS and the gun I choose for carry over a softer-shooting NANO.

Honestly your average may have gone down because it is cold - it could be as simple as cold hands or you are using a different sight picture because you are wearing a heavier jacket than you did just a few weeks ago. I think it's a poor carpenter who blames his tool. I doubt that you will get into any bad habits. If you gave Kim Rhode a Mossberg 500, she could still probably hit more than an average shooter with a O/U.

IMHO I shot skeet with a Mossberg 500 with a 28" barrel for years. O/U shotguns are relatively new to the clay world- at least in America. If you had gone out to the trap ranges 30 years ago you would have seen plenty of Ithaca pumps and Remington 870's. You would improve your game more by putting the $1000 toward shells and range time than if you bought a $1,000 used Beretta - but you would look exceptionally cool when you missed. The question is what do you want more?

Boy I wish I had caught this thread earlier. First off, the best gun for home defense is the gun that you have in your hand right now. Followed by whatever you feel you can shoot best. Shot placement is king. Penetration is queen. Everything else is angles dancing on the head of a pin. Since you said you have a "collection" I assume that you already have a few guns. It sounds like you already have a Ruger 10/22. Is this the best gun for home defense? Probably not. Will it work? Sure. If I'm a bad guy I don't want to get shot with anything. I would not feel under-gunned if all I had was a Ruger 10/22 based on where I live and my current assessments of possible threats. I live right across from the Cherry Hill Mall in a tower complex. My assessment of the threat is one or two kids who want to break into my apartment for drugs or an easy score. I'm not too worried about hit-men or ninjas or biker gangs. Do you know what's going to happen if a biker-gang tries to attack me in my apartment? I'm going to die whether I have an AR-15, a shotgun, a 10/22 or a 9mm pistol. And you are talking two a two-time combat vet and a shooter for 25 years. You gotta know the threat and tailor the defense to the threat. I'm also not that concerned about penetration or over-penetration. If the round has a hard time going through drywall, it's going to have a hard time going through the bad guy. Over-penetration is the boogieman of home-defense. It's hard enough to hit what you are actually aiming at, much less hitting somebody in the adjoining apartment or house. Is it possible? Yes. Rule #4. Know your backstop and what is behind it. Are you going to remember this in a gunfight? Probably not because you are going to be scared out of your mind. Remember why you are shooting somebody in the first place - it's because they are about to do something so horrible that you need to risk their death or serious bodily harm to stop them. Are you going to be concerned about over-penetration or are you going to be concerned about stopping the threat? Pistols have their place. Rifles have their place. Shotguns have their place. One advantage of your pistol is that you can use it one-handed. You can open a door, carry a child to safety, or keep direct pressure on your spouse's knife wound. You can't do that with a shotgun or a rifle. If you live alone and the layout of your house allows you to dominate without having to move to a different position, then a shotgun is probably fine. All that being said, a $300 shotgun in your hand right now is better than a $1,100 AR-15 in February or a $500 Glock eight weeks from now when your permits come in. So you did right with the the shotgun.

You and your spouse need to have a talk. When I first met my wife, she was ambivalent about firearms. Whenever I bought a new gun she would roll her eyes, but that's about as far as it went. She went to the range a few times, and was a pretty good shot, but got bored after 50 rounds or so. I don't know anything about you. If you owned guns before you were married and she knew, and now, all of the sudden, she doesn't want them in the house, you really need to talk with her, openly and honestly about this. If this is your hobby and your passion, you really need to explain how important this is to her. But if shooting is not that important to you and you don't need or want a gun for self-defense, you can go the parents home route. I would draw up some kind of lease agreement. If these are long guns, and your parents have FID's, you can keep your guns at your parent's house pretty darn easy- just fill out a COE and "sell" them to your dad. When you want to go shooting, your dad fills out a COE and sells it back to you. Of course, you can't do that with handguns But seriously, if this is something you love doing, your wife should understand. Buy her dinner. Tell her she is beautiful. Take her out for a great night on the town. Show her that you love her, but your love your hobby too and you want to keep both.