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The problem has nothing to do with apathy or sheeple or politicians, but it has everything to do with property taxes, and tangentially our 590 school districts and unions. Here me out on this one: In New Jersey, you are either rich or poor. There are very few towns that are in between. Sometimes the rich and poor towns are right next to each other. In other words, you either live in Camden or you live in Cherry Hill. The rich who can pay the property taxes live in the nice towns so their kids can go to good school districts. The poor people do what poor people have done for years: they deal with it. So the rich live in towns where they don't need a gun for self defense. The poor live in towns where they are sick of guns because people are getting shot every day. The end result is that you have two types of citizens: people who don't care about guns and have no exposure, and people who have way too much exposure. It's real easy to pass gun control laws in a climate like that because who is going to fight it? There are really only 3 types of gun owners in NJ: The wealthy gun enthusiasts like me who consider it a sport, Hunters, and the very, very few who have them for self defense. There is just not enough of us to make a difference. If you leave New Jersey, you tend to find lower property taxes and more unified school districts. So there are fewer "good" and "bad" towns. Just "towns" with a good and bad side. If you want drugs or a prostitute, the people from the good side go to the bad side. If the people from the bad side want money, the good side is close enough to rob. In towns like that, where you live in close, but not alarming proximity to crime, you tend to see a gun as a viable too to protect your family - in other words, there is more risk, so more "reason" to own a gun. In NJ, if you want a drugs or a prostitute, do you go to the bad side of Cherry Hill? Nope, there is no bad side. You go to Camden or Atlantic City. The closest think in New Jersey I can think of with a "good" and "bad" side is Woodbury, NJ, or maybe Burlington. But these towns are few and far between in NJ. So this is the real reason why: NJ has effectively taxed crime out of wealthy neighborhoods and contained it, so what do you need a gun for anyway?

I don't think we'll see another AWB anytime soon. The original AWB was a solution in search of a problem. Back in 1994 ago there weren't a lot of these black rifles around. The magazine capacity law probably effected more people than anything else. And anyway, gun companies just switched the names around, removed the evil features and *poof* all the sudden you had the same rifle that wasn't an assault rifle. Today there are *far more* people who own these guns than there were before. This time around, the government will have learned its lesson and they have one of two options: #1. Make the rest of the country like NJ. #2. Ban all semi-automatic guns. Everything. From Ruger 10-22's to AR-15s. Either one of those options would either result in: #1. Revolution or #2. The 28th Amendment which would clarify or strengthen the 2nd.

You picked a fine first gun. I'm not a revolver kind of guy, but I have a feeling that you are the exact person that revolvers were built for. It sounds like you are new to the sport and you want something more for fun than anything else. If you are going to buy a gun for fun that can also be pressed into service as a SD revolver, you can't go wrong with what you picked. If you feel you need to move up in caliber later, you can always get buy-in from your wife and buy more pistols later. Be careful with her and shooting. She may turn into a monster and want her own guns. Welcome to the sport. Have fun and be safe.

I think this is a victory since it defines Heller / McDonald as applicable outside the home. BUT if I were an Illinois resident, I wouldn't go ordering the Crossbreed Holsters just yet... I think that Illinois will look to New York as an example to "split the baby." I can picture them requiring that people get their permits from their Sheriff instead of the state. Sheriffs in rural areas would issue permits with less restrictions than in Cook County, just like NYC. This would let them placate the middle aged white males in rural parts of the state, but allow the Cook County Machine to keep their permits for trusted friends and "donations." Also be on the lookout for "NYC style" exemption for Chicago where your county-issued carry permit is valid everywhere but the place where it is needed most. Oh, and expect further indignities, such as making the physical permit size hard to place in a wallet or requiring that applicants list their intentions to apply in a newspaper. But yes, it is a victory. Now, back to reality in New Jersey. Where we have concealed carry. Haven't you heard? One more edit. To really understand the New York State system, think of a genuine may-issue system as it might function in New Jersey. Sheriffs in Cumberland, Sussex, Warren and Hunderdon counties would probably give out permits the way they issue FID cards. Live in Mercer county or Middlesex? It would pretty much be the same way it is now , no-issue. I think right now, the Attorney General in Illinois is thinking to herself: "What's in this for me" and Illinois will try to either split the baby with their permitting system, or tax it so that the cost is only accessible to those who need it the least, ie: those middle aged white males who live in rural areas.

Welcome to the sport. The PX4 Compact is a fantastic pistol, but you can't go wrong with the 92FS. As an added bonus, you can throw a .22LR slide on there and shoot .22 LR ammo for just $0.03 per round.

If it's down to two, go with the Remington. You will be able to find more spare parts and accessories with the Remington.

+1 The magazine is the Achilles Heel of most firearms. Kimber or Wilson magazines are used for SD/HD. Mec-Gar and Government Surplus magazines are for the range.

Wow, all that an 5% income tax... why do I live here again? They got Cannoli up in CT, right?

+1 what he said. Whindam is basically Bushmaster - the same tooling the same people, but a different name.

Hard to explain... Glocks have no soul. I've always said that my Beretta 92FS is my wife, solid, reliable. My PX4 is my high-maintenance young Italian mistress. My 1911 is the girl I first fell in love with. A Glock is just... a Glock. I mean, I could go on about the size of the grip, the comfort of the grip, the crappy sights (on the Gen 2 model that I had). In all honesty, you can't go wrong with a Glock 19. But it's just not my cup of tea. Guns for me are more about sport and fun than defense. And the G19 will do that very, very well.

Thanks, brother. You'd think that there would be more of us here considering this is New Jersey. Or maybe all of the Jews are still sleeping after eating a latke the size of a sofa last night...

Step 1: Gather materials: * Beretta patch * Scissors * Beretta Blue felt * A small plastic plate * Sharpie Marker * Needle and thread Step 2. Place the plate on the felt and trace around it with the sharpie marker. Step 3. Cut out the traced pattern Step 4. Cut a line up the center. Step 5. Pull the fabric about an inch over the cut until it forms a slight cone or bowl. Step 6. Sew the fabric closed. Step 7. Sew the Beretta patch onto your new Yarmulke. Step 8. Rock the world's coolest Yarmulke at your next holiday party. HAPPY HANUKKAH EVERBODY! Now if only I could unwrap a Jersey Legal ARX-160.

For a moment, I thought this article was bout "Hunting Hipsters," not hunting hipsters. Shoot, what am I going to do with all these pairs of ironic eyewear I bought as bait?

I'm at work, so I can't watch the video, but 30,000 drones? I think the Air Force has maybe... 1000 in their inventory? At about $4 million a pop, that would be... a cost of $120,000,000,000. Yeah, I'm not worried.

The only problem with this would be guns used in cases of employment. You may not think of it here, but out west, guns are also farm tools. I would still want a rancher to be able to give a ranch hand a rifle to protect his livestock. I see nothing wrong with a farmhand using an employer's shotgun to keep a fox away from chickens. Our system as it is now helps prevent the stupidity of the employer having to do a NICS check every time he hands his farmhand a shotgun.

This ... is ... brilliant. Some animals are more equal than others.

I would criticize him more for carrying a .25 ACP... That actually has me scratching my head. Why would a security guard be carrying a .25 ACP. It doesn't seem like the kind of weapon that a security guard would carry. Unless the .25 ACP was his BUG and he left his .38 special at home or in the locker at work. Or maybe he has a real job and used a crony friend to give him a "part time" job as a security guard just so he could CCW in a state that doesn't allow CCW. That, I could see.

That was pretty darn funny.

We really need to know a little more. #1. Is this your first gun / do you have an FID yet? #2. What do you plan to use the gun for? Fun / plinking? Just to have or collect? Home defense? Competition? #3. Do you belong to a range? Can it handle an AR, or are you restricted to pistol caliber? I'm not a big AR fan - I like wood, but from your post, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume its your first gun. I would suggest looking into an M&P 15-22, which is a .22 LR Caliber AR. There is a very simple reason why. You can shoot .22LR rifles at most indoor ranges, and the gun and ammo won't break the bank. You can have just as much fun with a .22 LR AR as you can with a 5.56mm AR, but at pennies per round. But I would need more info about what you want to do with it...

Fobus makes some darn good holsters. I own two of them for my PX4 and my Kel Tec: http://www.fobusholster.com/index.php?p=compatibility_chart&manufacturer_code=Springfield

Of course they would have, he wasn't on his way to the range.

Why not get a beach cart? They have big wheels, are easy to push and best of all, you can use them at the beach too. Do a google search for "beach cart" and you'll see plenty of options.

*shrug* Guns are just machines. The "Printing" of guns is no more likely than the manufacture of guns through homemade CNC machines. I could probably make a crude gun with two a lengths of pipe, a sliding door lock , a spring and a nail for less than $20. And I wouldn't even need a $2000 thermal printer. Just a few minutes and some JB Weld. I like the idea of a surgeon "printing" a heart valve during surgery or an auto parts store "printing" a part for your 1986 Volvo that is no longer being made. Thats where these 3D printers could shine. Imagine an Army maintenance unit printing repair parts on the battlefield to get a tank going for another day.

I poked around, this graphic may help with the definitions:

I think NICS does the mental health check as well. One of the reasons Jared Loughner was able to get a gun is that he was his mental records were never uploaded to NICS. Paul may be able to shed some light on exactly what NICS does.