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My 6'3" 18-year-old son drives a hand-me-down 2010 Scion xB. It has easily been the best car I have ever owned. It is basically a Toyota Camry drivetrain with a boxy body on top. Look for 2006-2012 model years. The previous version of the xB was really small. My wife bought it new in 2010 and drove it 100k miles. I took it over in 2015 and drove it another 120k. My son has had it for a year and a few months. It is currently at 230,000 miles. Nothing on the car, other than replaceables (brakes, rotors, battery, spark plugs, tires and 1 coil pack) has ever gone wrong with the car. It simply will not stop running. It has a surprising amount of head/legroom and used ones can be had right in that $5k price range. Probably 95% of xBs have automatic transmissions. I have recommended this car to everyone that asks. If Toyota still made it, I would buy another in a second.

Scorpio64 is correct. Lever and pump guns with tubes have never been restricted in NJ at all. I have a Henry .22 that can hold at least 20 .22 shorts. You should be able to find or order that .17 Henry anywhere at a NJ shop. Tube fed semi-autos are the only thing that Murphy gave back to us last year (after Florio passed the 15-round law back in '90). I have purchased 2 Marlin 60 rifles with 17 round tubes from NJ shops. It is a shame that Marlin decided to redesign ALL model 60s to comply with NJ's 15 round laws. I have always wondered how many 60s they sold per year in NJ. Good luck.

I was sitting in the waiting room while my son got his wisdom teeth out earlier this morning. Dentist had a CBS morning news show out of NYC on the tv. CBS reported on the shooting and showed a safe for breakfast version of the video. The hosts then went on the heap praise on the guy that popped the bad guy. "We can only imagine how much worse it could have been..." I thought...cool on the hosts for coming to their senses about civilians carrying guns. But you just know what these same journalists and their network overlords would say about CC for residents of NYC or NJ......"NY and NJ are different than the rest of country...too many people....more guns would mean more killings...."

I got mine!!! $55.45 for 4. Many thanks for the heads up.

<<<<<UPDATE>>>>> My son got the email at 6am and the call at 3.... his first FPID card is ready to be picked up tomorrow. So, 2.5 weeks from start to finish and only 4 work days since his fingerprinting. I am impressed. FARS says my P2Ps are completed, but I am still waiting for the call to come pick them up. EDIT>>>> Berkeley Police called at noon today with permits ready to pick up. 2.5 weeks for 4 pistol permits. So, yes. This confirms that Berkeley is allowing family members to be the references. I am printing up the COEs so he can take possession of the AR we built for him in November, a lefty Mossberg 590a1 and a S&W M&P 15-22. Who knows, he may talk me out of more. Of course, when he ships off for 6 years of the USAF in July, we will transfer the guns back to me until he can take them onto a base.

I say enough with senseless gun laws. We should make it illegal to kill people.

30 miles from Cherry Hill is Range 14 near Pemberton. $60 a year and $4 per person per hour. http://www.range-14.com

I was a staff photographer for some of the best newspapers in the state. The rewards for my good work?..... Layoff after layoff after layoff. Since 2013, I have been a freelance photojournalist, working for any and all in the tri-state area. It pays just enough to justify the expense of buying $5000 in new cameras every few years. This legislation terrifies me. If this goes thru, I am done. Unless they carve out an exemption for journalists...which I find unlikely. The sad thing is, relocation for us is not doable. My wife works for the NJDEP cleaning up dirty gas stations. It is good, honest work that actually makes NJ cleaner and makes money for the state. We are stuck here because Gov. BigBoy said NJ workers must live in NJ. I see a name tag in my future.

I buy a holster for every handgun I own, even my silly single action .22s. I believe $20-$40 on a holster is money well spent. How else am I going to carry my handguns when the revolution starts?

This is from Berkeley Township's police website...linked here... http://twp.berkeley.nj.us/departments/police_department/index.php Screen grab of document ( I added highlight)..... EDIT>... I applied on 11/30, both references (18-year-old son and father) were done by 12/3. Got an email yesterday that my criminal history check was done.

Thank. That is an interesting read.

This may be an interesting addition to this thread.... My son just turned 18 on Thanksgiving day. He applied for his initial NJ PFID card before turkey dinner. I applied for 4 pistol permits at the same time. We are in Berkeley Twp. Berkeley says family is ok for the references. He used me and a buddy as his references. I used my son and my father as mine. Let's see how this shakes out in the "initial fpid" vs. "another round of pistol permits". EDIT.... He did not have to pay a dime on the FARS, but I had to pay 20-something bucks. We both have lived in at our current address since 2003. Do they ding us more for pistol permits vs. PFID?

If he was super good looking and shot sub MOA groups...that was me!

Agreed. We were 12 days without power and potable water from the faucets during Sandy. We learned a lot of lessons from her.

I picked up a gardening auger bit for my cordless drill. It makes digging holes for posts super easy and fast. The holes the post hole diggers make are way oversized for target holders.

Another thing to keep in mind.... If you are really in need of water in an emergency situation, you can drain your water pipes and your hot water heater for drinking use. I have a 40 gallon hot water heater. I don't know how much water is in all the pipes. Also, I have a WaterBob for use if a hurricane is ever aimed at me again. It is a sealed bladder with a spigot that fits in your tub. Fill it up pre-storm. https://www.amazon.com/WaterBOB-Emergency-Container-Drinking-Hurricane/dp/B001AXLUX2/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=water+bob&qid=1575408981&sr=8-1

We saw "Knives Out" last week and it is fantastic! A perfectly made who-done-it with lots of laughs and a great ending.

At any given time, I have 5 or 6 cases of Costco water stashed in the garage. I think a case of water is about $3. We freeze the bottles all the time to keep things in a cooler cold or when I am going to be on the road all day in the heat. We have yet to have one burst when frozen and thawed.

I called my town's PD about this a few years ago. I asked if I could shoot my Daisy Red Ryder at soda cans in my backyard. Behind my fence is woods. The cop on the phone said I could not shoot in my yard due to no discharge laws. Now.... have I shot my Red Ryder at soda cans with my kids in the backyard?... yes, on many occasions. Do I fear arrest and prosecution for shooting my Red Ryder in my backyard?...not really. I am able to shoot without my neighbors seeing me and we only shoot a few times a year. The sound from the Daisy is so quiet, I doubt it would register as a discharge with my indoor dwelling neighbors. It is a risk I am willing to take. I certainly would not shoot a 1000 fps pellet gun in my back yard.

Yes she can.

Yes. Immediate family members (not second cousins) can still transfer face to face without a NICS like in the good ole days. Long guns need COE with matching DL and FPID. Handguns need P2P.

I just read that police do not know when the accident occurred and that the driver stopped answering texts from his girlfriend around 1. Accident was reported around 630am. So, these guys could have been upside down and slowly dying for several hours. Horrific.

One veteran cop on scene I was talking to off the record said he would guess the speed was around 140-150.

Hey! That is my photo! They say the crash happened at 630. A local said he heard the crash. I got the call at 8am and was on scene at 830. The car jumped the median, then the curb, traveled about 100 feet down into this embankment and that was all she wrote. The car landed in building upside down and sideways. At the speed they were going, I wouldn't be surprised if the impact with the embankment killed them instantly.