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Don't overlook the cost of insurance also.

The friendly UPS man just delivered my order from ATG. 1,000 rounds of Geco 9mm and 1,000 rounds American Eagle .40. Really, it's so much easier and cost effective then dealing with the dicks at Dicks.

When we talk about rights, we need to get out of the habit of discussing them in context of whether we approve of the particular activity. The entire concept of a RIGHT is that it belongs to the individual regardless of popularity and without needing permission or approval. It doesn't matter if you or I think OC is a good idea or not. It is this person's legal right in the location where this incident happened, and the local police clearly have a policy of harassing people who exercise this right in violation of the law. It also doesn't matter if the guy is an antagonistic douchebag or Mahatma Gandhi reincarnated, he has every right to make a stand in defense of his rights.

Rosa parks might have been more articulate and part of a group, but neither of those are requirements to being able to excercise one's rights.

The same could be said about the Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins, Rosa Parks taking a front seat on the bus, and other civil rights pioneers.

Again, I agree. Not every person who owns a firearm is a gun nut, paranoid, or a psycho. Similarly not every person who believes in 'reasonable restrictions' is a libtard, sheeple, or a communist. Insults and antagonistic rhetoric and name-calling only reinforces the negative perception rather than giving them reason to consider perhaps they are wrong.

Absolutely agree, which is why I distinguished "anti-gun" groups from reasonable people who happen to be on the anti side right now. I honestly think there are reasonable people whose anti gun opinions are based on the misinformation and prejudice we have here in the Northeast. These are the types we should try to focus our attention on with thoughtful respectful dialogue.

I'm pleasantly surprised to see this opinion form the Star-Ledger's editorial board, but it just goes to show how completely unreasonably the state's 'justifiable need' requirement is. The good news here is that it is starting to become obvious even to anti-gun people that we have a prohibition, not a regulation. Having to convince a judge that you deserve to carry a firearm when the judge already believes no civilians should ever be permitted to carry a firearm cannot possibly meet any reasonable person's definition of due process. So even though that's just fine with radical anti-gun groups, I think we do have a chance with reasonable, moderate thinkers who happen to be more on the anti- side.

Heller and McDonald did two absolutely critical things for gun rights. Heller established that the 2A protects the right of a person to keep and bear arms for self defense - not for hunting, sport or the national guard as anti's (and the state of NJ) liked to claim. McDonald established that the 2A does indeed apply to states - contrary to how anti's (and the state of NJ) liked to claim. So yes these are going to become the basis, in time, of protection of our rights for things like concealed carry or cases where individuals might be denied ownership entirely for insufficient reason. In NJ it is IMPOSSIBLE for an average person to CCW, so this is a prohibition despite being labeled by the state as a regulation. And in many cases people are denied entirely from owning a firearm without due process - this is the type of infringement and denial of rights the 2A will protect us from. However I doubt this will affect the administrative and bureaucratic issues like the FPID, P2P or AWB. These are inconvenient, ineffective useless wastes of time but it's hard to argue that they prevent you from being sufficiently armed to defend yourself. Thus they will probably fall under the 'reasonable regulation' category left open by the SCOTUS. They might be inefficient but they aren't a prohibition so it will become the discretion of the state. The SCOTUS says you have the right to firearms, but not necessarily the right to an efficient state bureaucracy.

I don't give a crap how the state or people perceive me, but I also have no desire to publicized clues to a thief that I have valuable stuff in my house to rob. No stickers of any kind for me.

dansammo.com, ammotogo.com, kylesgunshop.com, streichers.com are all excellent sources. Even with shipping it's less than buying local with tax.

Exactly, it's one more way to intimidate people from getting guns, for fear of being persecuted by anti-gun employers.

Thumb on the slide stop is a common technique issue with Sigs, especially for people used to a high grip on other pistols.

Because most people are idiots with experience based on video games, movies, and internet forums who think their superficial factoids make them experts. There is a term for this, the Dunning-Kruger effect. People, take a class with a reputable trainer before you start thinking you are in any way qualified to discuss the topic, much less act out any SOCOM Ninja Operator fantasies. The class won't make you an expert but it will show you how little you really know and how much you suck compared to people who really know what they are doing.

Maks, do you think 7 years prison was an appropriate sentence?

I think his rights were violated by the overly harsh punishment and possibly by the judge's instructions. But I'm surprised by the "searched his car without consent" part - the story that has been published since last year was that he freely let them search his car since he was confident he did nothing illegal.

Meh, Atlas Shrugged is the kind of book that seems really profound when you're in college. Now that I'm older and more mature I only like books or movies with nudity, aliens or zombies.

For training yes, but not for defense use: "Federal factory seconds, did not meet strict government specs for accuracy. Now sold to the public at a huge discount. "

Oh hell no. Please tell me they aren't trying to ban the shoulder thing that goes up? How the hell can I commit mass mayhem without that?!? Curse you Carolyn McCarthy you've foiled me again!

Whatever the political agenda, an entire family shooting themselves with the same gun is pretty darned entertaining. That's right, I said it.

This is the best njgf thread ever.

Looks like the Brady Bunch has settled on the term "assault clip" for any magazine with capacity over 10 rounds. They are beginning to work this into all their talking points, websites, and publications. Somehow the term keeps reminding me of Clippy the annoying Microsoft character.

Nobody has ever pointed to language in the statute or administrative code that loaded magazines are illegal. However many people consider the ambiguity to be enough to put you at risk of extra harassment in case of an encounter with a LEO. My personal choice is not to transport loaded magazines. To save time at the range, get yourself a Maglula magazine loader. It's the best $20 I've ever spent on a firearm accessory.

It's not a tinfoil hat thing, it's a real threat to privacy. Anti gun groups have used this technique to harass legal gun owners in several places. Recently someone posted a database of NY firearm owners on the internet, newspapers in different states have published lists of CCW holders, and there was a proposed law in Chicago to publish lists of gun owners like a sex offender.

I believe they honestly think guns are so obviously evil that it does not warrant deeper thought or legal argument. Any time someone resorts to "common sense," as in "common sense regulation," you know they've run out of rational argument and are falling back to dogmatic beliefs. An if we do indeed win the court case, they will think the only possible explanation is that court is in the pocket of the evil NRA corporate lobby.