Anselmo

I don't see the point in buying ammo for mucho dollars. The high price of ammo will put ranges out of business. Not many folks want to shoot up $100 worth of ammo in an hour. I know I don't. Ranges will close. People will shoot less. People will die with thousands of dollars worth of ammo in their houses unless ammo prices relax and make it fun to shoot.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. Andy Rooney

Define "more accurate". If the 17 is more accurate than the 19 you're talking very small differences made by very good shooters. Nothing that would apply in a HD situation IMO.

Lots of people say the 19 is superior to the 17 based on balance and size to weight and whatnot. I preferred the 17 over the 19 but preferred the M&P9 to either Glock so I bought the M&P9. S&W makes a 15 round magazine for the M&P9. Extra magazines are hard to come by for any of these pistols these days. if you live in NJ andiIf it has to be a Glock I'd get the 19 unless you had a very strong preference to the 17.

Normal people run away from a shooter. Those in blue have to run towards the shooter. This is real life; worrying about what kind of shoes to wear to the range seems kinda silly.

I agree that their society is less violent than ours. I just don't see a reason to attack their sentencing guidelines or claim that life is cheap in Norway which seemed to be the original point of this thread.

From the stats I've seen, Norway has a much lower crime rate than USA so it's hard to criticize something that seems to work better than our C-J system.

Not just the cost of compensator but it must be permanently attached. In other words, welded. No. You can't have evil parts in your possession from a strictly legal perspective.

It is what we call not legal for NJ.

You get one evil feature - the pistol grip. Once you have the pistol grip, you can't have more.

I can't believe there more thought about footwear than this.

Yes.

I use these when I shoot at Range 14 as they have to be taped or staples to a backer. I prefer the stick on Shoot N C for indoor pistol.

"Give us all the money and the drugs or we'll blow your heads off."

Probably what the LEO called it in the police report. Seems the author or editor didn't know what it stood for.

JHP is more "deadly". The issue seems to be that shooting someone a HP bullet means you're out to kill but shooting someone with FMJ means you're a nicer guy? If the weather service was stocking on FMJ would people still think it suspicious?

My analogy is if you take a horrible golfer and put good clubs in their hand they're still a horrible golfer. It's not the clubs. If you take a good golfer and give them crap clubs, their game is going to suffer a little but they're not going to turn them into horrible players. Well, along those lines... If you take a tour level player and give him crap clubs and then he shoots 78 and 79, fellow tour players might call that horrible. Regular duffers might call it pretty good. It all comes back to the definition of "horrible". Since this is the new firearms owner section, horrible to me means missing the paper at 7 yards or 18 inch groupings at 7 yards.. For you guys that shoot competition and are much better shooters than me, horrible might mean hitting 7 rings at 25 yards or whatever is considered good by me but would be horrible by your standards . It's all about context. And, I mean nothing patronizing. The skill of some of the great shooters at my range is amazing. The best shooters are shooting revolvers and 1911s. I had no inking that my comment would create such debate. I feel like I kicked a hornet's nest. That was not my intention.

I shot 4 boxes of Independence. They all went bang. No problems. Haven't gotten around to gun cleaning yet. Maybe this weekend. How many rounds do you need to shoot to tell the difference between dirty and clean ammo? They all seem the same to me.

There are bad eggs in every industry. That is true. The issue with the State Police and their escort of rich people with fancy cars is that they knew about and didn't do anything about it until the media raised the issue. It's always the cover up that causes more problems, not the actual infraction. A big issue with NJ being a may issue state vs shall issue is not the law that governs this but the implementation of the law. The law states you must show "need" to CCW. The problem, to me, is that people have shown need and still get denied. That there is not the laws' fault but the people charged with upholding the law. That is why you see the 'tudes.

16" is the popular length. Of course it depends. How good is your vision? Do you plan to shoot with irons, red dot or scope? I shoot with a red dot at 100 to 150 yards tops and with my middle aged vision, a 16" gives me all the accuracy I can handle. In other words, going longer than 16" won't help me.

Who's the fanboy? Why are people so defensive about Glocks vs 1911. I've shot them all from the rental case at the range. I prefer striker fired plastic. I'm not saying it's better or more accurate or whatever else people are trying to debate on here. It is just what I prefer from my limited experience. Maybe our definitions of "horrible shooter" differ. I just can't get on board that someone is a good shooter with a revolver or 1911 and you hand them a Glock and they turn into a horrible shooter.

I buy whatever is cheapest.

I shot a lot of rental handguns and found the striker fired pistols to be the simplest. People that shoot horrible with a Glock/M&P are horrible shooters. It's not the gun.

I've never built my own lower but I build my own computers and think it's somewhat similar. You'll save a few dollars maybe but you'll learn a lot. Knowledge is power...

Don't get your expectations up too high or you will be disappointed.