mipafox

Congratulations! She's pretty, too.

Damn straight. Why can't I rep you?

I actually don't walk into Newark/NY airports with a loaded handgun on my hip. I was talking about PA in that post.

I can't but I have a story for you. My understanding is an EMT from Lehigh Valley responded to an accident across the river a few years ago and was busted because of hollowpoints (no gun) performing his official duties with his personally owned vehicle and went to jail. Should you believe this? Up to you. I believe it, but I never saw first hand proof. Let me see if I can get some details from the source and track it down.

If you believe God can bless you, then it's not a stretch to think that some blessings might be available elsewhere.

I was indeed aware of this and I did not do it. For a number of reasons. My understanding is cops can stop you to check your gun and make sure it is not loaded. Other reasons specific to this trip as well. Even without those reasons, it would take me some specialized training, practice, and familiarization to carry an obviously unloaded handgun, in the open, with any confidence. It's a dicey proposition to a Jersey boy like me. If I was with 3 other people doing the same thing, then I guess the odds of us being able to use the handguns would be much higher as would be my confidence.

Don't buy her something 3x the cost. Now that she OK'd the gun, tell her the price is 3x the real price. Then buy her something for equal price, and buy a second gun and rub a little mud on it and throw in the back of the safe. Safe organization and presentation are some of the most important marriage skills. But, take that with a grain of salt, because I just had to spell check the word "marriage" before I posted this.

Whooh! You had me sweating bullets up to that part! Good Cops, here's a donut!

Actually, I find the easiest way is to walk into the airport with the loaded gun on my hip. I say I have a firearm to check, and they always ask me if I want to check it in my bag or bring it on the plane (?). Maybe they get a lot of cops or something. I open the case, draw it, unload it, clear it, and set it in the case. They look at it. Not sure what they are looking for. I sign a slip and they put it in the case, tell me not to lock the case because TSA will want to look inside. TSA never looks inside, so I lock it. And put the case in my luggage. A lot easier than a trip to UPS. Then they weigh my bag, it is overweight, they charge me an extra $25. I go over to TSA and tell them there is a firearm. They ask if the airline checked it and I say Yes. They X-ray my bag and then take it off and ask for the key to the bag. I say it is not locked, because I knew they were going to do this. I have canned food in my bag because I have high blood pressure and need to pack my own food in large part. They think the canned food is a bomb. They don't care about the gun. They pull out all my cans and swab them for explosives. When they are done, I pull the lock out of my front shirt pocket and hand it to them and tell them to put it on my bag. Come to think of it, it would be way easier if I shipped my food. I would have done it last time but these trips have a way of coming up last minute. I'm not aware of anything, I'm just a scared to after that guy got jacked up in NY when he tried to check a handgun (even though he was covered under federal FOPA). I was asking because I was wondering what it was like to check a handgun in states where possesion of handguns is illegal with exceptions.

They should appoint him the interim leader of Libya. See how they put up with his crap.

I think I'd need a Rabi or a black man to a joke make. 3 is the magic number. Yeah, I've flown into/out of Newark with a rifle. Never a handgun, though. Also, never again, though.

You got it. You gave me a reason to clean the .22 upper. They don't run dirty

This is very true. It was busy but not crowded. 5 minute or so wait at the gun counter, for lunch, and checkout. I hate people. If it was crowded I would say so.

Make sure you have the whole day available, I think we were there for about 5 or 6 hours last time. Was fun though! But I don't think I'll spend more than an hour at Cabelas again for a long time.

I only head down there twice a year on average. If you are from Somerset County, I'm at Firing Line in Lehigh Valley most Sundays. No rifle ammo, but we bring SMGs and sometimes I break out the M16 with the Spikes .22 upper. It's also cheaper, $12/9 per hour I think.

They have some very complicated gun laws there, but are way better than NJ overall. And way more pro-gun in general. It's almost like they've been hijacked by their government. Seems you can take a handgun anywhere in a car as long as it's in a locked container. Even on your passenger seat, with ammo inside. However, cased weapons are considered concealed, and can only be taken directly to or from a vehicle. Or something like that. In the past year or so I once met 6 people at a bar, one an Irishman and one a LA cop, and every one of them supported carry. My last trip, I was talking to a guy and asked him about carry in San Bernadino County, since carry permits vary from county to county. He said it was not possible in his county, but if he could get one, he would carry. And he was not a big gun guy. Has anybody here ever flown out of Newark or NY with a handgun? After hearing all the horror stories I'm kind of curious what the average experience is. Or if people just avoid it.

Not enough earthquakes for that. But it WILL be covered by Al Gore's rising Global Climate Disruption ocean waters. And when you guys start crowding higher ground to the west at the Delaware, we will be crowding the other side with long bayonets.

Cool, this is the first I've heard of this one.

I was referring to machineguns.

Come to the one in Palmerton, PA this summer.

I have one for G19. When I bought it, it would not extract. I sent it back to them. Although their CS was effective in the end, they were not helpful and did not do what I told them to. I told them to ship it back after 5 days because I was going on vacation. 3 weeks later, just as I was reaching for the phone (for real) it rang and it was them asking me if they could ship it back to me. I asked them what they did to fix it and if they addressed my concerns and I got the run-around. So, I got it back. Works fantastic with Remington Golden. Like every single .22 RF conversion I have, it might fail to extract during the first two mags. That includes the one for my M16 that I have shot hundreds of rounds FA with no failures in many sessions, although sometimes during the first mag or two. I think it might be lube or solvent on the extractor (even though I try to get it off) that has to blow off. After the first mag or two, works great. Works like a Glock, flips like a Glock, good training tool or for having fun. Lady that answers the phone has poor communication skills but they will address your issues if you have any. I have a friend that shot unplated ammo through his and blew it up due to lead buildup and lodged projectile. They replaced the barrel free of charge and he loves his as well. EDIT: I also wanted threaded barrel for silencer and I knew they had to replace the barrel. So, since threaded barrel is like $130 or something (I forget) and regular barrel is like $80 or something, I told them to call me before they fixed it so I could pay the difference and get it back with threaded barrel for a silencer. Obviously, they never called me back. When they called me to ship it back, I asked them why. They said they had not replaced the barrel. When I received it, I saw they did replace the barrel. Fuckers. Good product, they will fix it if necessary, but customer service experience is kind of sketchy in my personal opinion.

Ray, I like the Ar with the Magpul grips. I'm going to be doing a middy build with their middy grips. I like the pinko commie pics as well.

I invited a few people that I have met from NJGF. None wanted to come. The place is just across the river from Trenton in Southampton, PA. I shoot down there about twice a year nowadays. Rifle bay is 25 yards, anything short of .50 BMG is allowed. FA is allowed, belt fed is allowed. I heard from two meets ago, FA + belt fed = not allowed. There were 35 people that meet, but I missed it. This time we started with 9 people and ended up with 5. Some "key people" (FA) could not make it. I brought the only FA - M11/MAX-11 and M16. We had a great time!!! At one point I put an 11.5" upper on the M16 (with PWS 556 comp) and did a full Beta dump of 5.56 ammo. It was like a volcano with sparks everywhere. I couldn't even see the target through the sparks, I just focused on the red dot of the Aimpoint. You don't just hear this thing (ears and muffs recommended), you feel it blast you with a shock wave from every single round. We compared the walls enclosing the lane to the other lanes and realized I had cleaned 10 years of residue off of our lane and it was now mostly on my clothes. Somebody was shooting a SOCOM II 18" with a comp and it was not nearly as loud. I don't think the light show would have been better if I brought APIT (obviously not allowed). I've done a lot of Beta dumps. Dozens to start with. But I've never noticed this before. Betas don't have bolt hold open. So, I'm locking the bolt back and there is a light saber in front of me. It's my gas tube! It's glowing white hot with only a hint of red! As I called my buddies over to see it it quickly started cooling through various stages of glowing red hot. So we let it cool while we worked on the SMG, guns we brought, and a S&W 'performance'? (whatever it is called) somewhat tuned 1911 in 9mm that e rented and had a great trigger. After all of the various FA some people couldn't take it anymore and one group decided to rent a FA HK UMP from the range at $60/hour. They had a great time! I was watching them. I wished they would have talked to us before hand, I would have let them shoot our stuff. But we were letting our stuff cool to pack up at that point and were just shooting handguns. Fun day. Great shop, great range, very knowledgeable employees, every one. Show you whatever you want to see even if you aint buying. It is curious they make you show them your NFA paperwork for NFA items before you go in, but I don't care about that. Probably a CYA kinda thing. Just never seen that at the other few ranges this side of the Commonwealth that allow FA.

It has been done. But they are always a friend of a friend and LEO. Short answer, Move. Shorter answer, No. I read many years ago about a guy that got busted for "high cap" mags or whatever but since they were for an MG that he had an NJ license for he was acquited. Don't remember it well enough to know if it was legit, but don't try this at home unless you have an NJ MG license and a unicorn farm.

You guys know better than me, so I could be wrong. But I read there was testimony from his roomate (at the place he was "moving TO") that he had seen the handguns there before. As far as I know the guy broke several serious NJ laws on several counts. The laws are complete BS, and Nappen is insincere IMHO, but that's what I got from it.