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All three of my children have them. I bought them from the Sportsman's Center in Bordentown.

My former Chief, now retired was driving his son up to college on the PA Turnpike over the winter, when a tractor trailer went by in the fast lane. A large sheet of ice blew off the top of the truck and came down right through the windshield of his relatively new Ford Explorer. They both ended up with minor injuries from the glass and ice, him with cuts on his face and hands, and his son with cuts on his chest, but it could have been much worse. He said he felt like he aged about ten years in those few seconds...

I was driving home from work last year in Bridgeton in my 2004 Ford Taurus, and right after getting on 295N from 42, as I was going under the first overpass around exit 26 in the middle lane, someone threw a cinderblock off the overpass, and it hit dead center of my windshield. It was standard rush hour traffic, with cars less then a car length in every direction. I think our average speed was somewhere around eighty. it scared the living hell out of me. It sounded like a gun shot inside the car when it hit the glass, and I only caught a glimpse of it coming down a split second before it hit. I couldn't do much more then close my eyes and drop my chin to try and avoid getting glass in my eyes. Anything more agressive and it would have been an ugly pile up. Like I said, there was no where to go, and no way to avoid it. Amazingly, my windshield didn't break, it just spiderwebed and dimpled where it hit, and the cinder block went bouncing off into the center island, so thankfully no one else got hit. People in the cars around me saw it, and were either; giving me the wholly crap face, asking if I was okay, or giving me the thumbs up for not crashing us all. I found a Trooper a few exits up and explained what happened. They dispatched a few cars to the area, but as expected, didn't find anything. Two days later, and $340.00 out of pocket, I had a new Safelite windsheild...Glad they had worse timing in your incident...

The basic premise as it was explained to me; if you intend to go into it often, get an electronic lock. If it will be more of an occassional access, you can get by with the mechanical lock. I have the biometric on mine, and while I might be screwed on an EMP, from a more practical sense, it takes me all of about six seconds to access my safe. As I tend to store my off duty in there when not carrying due to three young children in my home, it's very convienient to press one button, rest any of a half dozen different fingers on the reader and have it open. I can also get in about a second quicker if I just punch in the combination. The lock is stand alone and battery powered, it's not plumed into the power outlet, so a power surge of any sort would have no impact on your locking mechanism; just on the golden rod and lights.

So, just so I'm tracking, you called a storefront buisness and wanted them to match an internet store price, got into a pissing match with them because they wouldn't, then didn't buy from the first company either...gotcha... Like I said, my experience was great. I had some extras thrown in for free, and they were very talented for getting my good sized safe into places with less then a quarter inch of clearance. They were clean, fast, respectful, and zero drama. Once they installed it, they gave me a full overview of the safe features again, in home, along with showing me how to operate and set up my locking system. The delivery man also brought a discount Liberty offered to Military and LE to my attention, that I was unaware of. If I recall, it was a hundred and fifty dollar refund. So, like I said, the experience was top notch, and so is the product.

I was at Cumberland Riflemen shooting on the hundred yard range, sighting in a new scope on my ArmaLite AR10T, off one of the benches. There was a guy shooting an ArmaLite AR15T a few lanes over. As I was about to fire, my field of view went black, and I got out of the scope to see what happened. The other shooter was standing in front of my rifle, waving at me, from forward the firing line. While I cleared my rifle, he started more closely examining it, comparing it to his. When he was finally done, and back at his shooting lane, I figured I'd finally start shooting. I'm about a half mag in when I hear him cussing and yelling from over in his lane. I look over, and he is again standing forward of the firing line, this time in front of his rifle. He's got a segmented military cleaning rod jammed into his muzzle. There is still a magazine inserted, and the weapon is off safe. I cleared mine, then walked over to see if I could help, since he was making such a big scene. He angrily announced that his POS rifle wasn't shooting as accurately as they said it would, so he was gonna clean it. I then placed his weapon on safe, dropped the magazine, and pulled the bolt back...wait for it...ejecting the live round from the chamber. When I pointed out how dangerous a position he had placed himself in , he did his best immitation of "Blackhawk Down" by holding up his trigger finger and announcing that it was his safety. I quickly learned why the cleaning rod was stuck, too. An AR chamber brush doesn't fit in the muzzle very well... I tried to gently offer some advice on how to safely clean a match grade barrel, showing him how a bore guide works, my coated one piece cleaning rod, and some of the chemicals I had with me. He immediately turned around stomping away, mumbling that I was a a jerk, that he never asked me how to clean a rifle, and some other silly crap. I decided to leave for the six hundred yard range soon there after, as he was clearly too stupid and dangerous for both our good...

I got my safe, a Liberty Lincoln 35 from the Mt. Laurel store and found them to be highly prefessional from order to ship, to delivery and installation. I've been very happy with my purchase.

Primary Arms Micro Dot Gen 3 is a great bang for the buck. It's not an Aimpoint T1, but it's a nice import knock off, and much much cheaper...

Not sure why my first post was deleted, but here's another vote for Liberty Safes of NJ. I purchased a Lincoln 35, and the experience from ordering to delivery and installation(I had them bolt it down), was top notch. If I ever need another, I wouldn't hesitate to buy from them again.

Can't tell from the photo. Sometimes the barrel can be drilled slightly off center and the crown is concentric to the center of the bore, not the barrel. The barrel can still be accurate. You'd be surprised at how well some truly crappy barrels I've seen shot. I knew one idiot and former friend that cut his Remy 700 PSS barrel down to 18" himself with a hacksaw, and then used a hand drill to recut the crown. It looked like absolute hell, but still shot to about half MOA at six hundred yards. Still, I'd return it for a new one, but that's just because I'm anal as hell(read OCD), and that lack of concentricity would drive me nuts. Even if I couldn't see it under a muzzle break, I'd know it's there...

I feel dumber for watching that...I'm never gonna get those six minutes back... Oh, and the first handgun I bought, was a then newly released Glock 17, Gen Two. I daily carried a Glock 22 for five years off duty before moving to a Glock 35 for another five years or so. It remains in my safe, but my primary off duty gun for the last four years or so has been a ParaOrd P14.45 LDA Limited, supplemented with a ParaOrd PX6.45 LDA PDA. Just for information puposes, I carried a SigSauer P229 for a few years prior to all of these, and a Sig P228 before that. All of which proves...absolutely nothing...

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There was a video circulating a few years back filmed at Ready Aim Fire. You could find it in a bunch of the neighborhood stores for a few dollars, as well as being given away to a bunch of kids at some of the local schools, from what I was told. It was basically a Bloods recruiting video. It showed a handful of thugs shooting a number of different guns, including the class three carbines while throwing signs and the like. They dubbed in some music, and combined the range segment with several other examples of thug life and the game. Needless to say, it didn't make RAF look like the place to take your kids for a fun time together. I know a lot of folks who stopped going there after the video surfaced. It was no real fault of RAF, but they paid for it, regardless. Might be part of thier thinking...

Do you have time shooting on each? That should really have made the decision for you. Stocks, particularly in the price range you are looking, are not an inexpensive upgrade and should not be purchased based on their "look". Case in point, I always liked the way the Accuracy International rifles looked. When the AICS came out, particularly as it was one of the first options for a DBM, I was very excited. Then I got to shoot a few, and found that I didn't really like anything about it, in hand. It fit me poorly. In some shooting positions, it sounds like your shooting a tuning fork which was distracting to me. The stock sillouette also felt very tall while shooting. I didn't care for the cheap feel of the skins, or the fact that they didn't really aline perfectly with one another at the pistol grip when mounted. So, my advice is to get some time behind them before throwing a not insubstantial chunk of money at one. You could be very surprised...I planned on an AICS 2.0 for my stick. It's wearing a McMillan A5 because that's what worked for me...

If the dog and alarm didn't wake me up first, I'd probably be a whole lot closer to stumbling around in a daze for the two or three seconds it takes to breach the door(wondering WTF is that noise and where is it coming from), then vaulting from my bed and sprinting down the hall like a ninja, pumping rounds through my front door at an unforseen chainsaw weilding home invader...

The SUV was a weapon...The girls were potential hostages...juvenile female hostages...cause as a parent and former Marine, I take my kids out for a nice ride to the local track at o'dark thirty, too...Then walk around talking to myself, ignoring uniformed law enforcement officers attempts to speak with me, and acting erratically...obviously it's a Police cover up... What you don't know that you don't know, is painfully obvious to those who actually do...particularly when you allow your bias to drip out in nearly every post... It never ceases to amaze me...the near instant furor that develops here, and repeatedly is permitted to run full bore or nearly so, under the guise of "discussion" to bash Cops at the slightest opportunity. Flip the script and let a "deranged man" drive away with two young girls in the truck never to be seen or heard from again, or wrapped around a bridge embankment, or off the Oceanside dock into the ocean a short distance away, and it would have been,"WHY DIDN'T THOSE COPS DO SOMETHING WHILE THEY HAD THE CHANCE!" Far be it from me to point out the obvious, but parents have in the past and will in the future, kill their children. It's unfathomable to me as a parent of three, but it happens, and seemingly more frequently each day. As a former Marine, I know what a good conduct medal represents...It means I never got a serious disciplinary during the review period. It means I never "got caught". I have one, and was brought back to base by the Duty NCO on more then a few occasions for getting drunk and getting into bar fights. It's a young Marine's favorite past time. I was banned from at least two Enlisted Clubs on base for it. There were plenty of real shitbirds that had them in my time, and I doubt it's changed significantly since my time...sometimes it just means I had a boy working in the admin office or I slid them some cash to make it go away...not that anything like that ever happened... Reports discussing the failing of some gun user posted in the media are dissected for the slightest possible reasons, real or imagined, to show support and exonerate the shooter, and just as importantly to show the media bias and libel. After all, it's common knowledge at that time how twisted and bent the media version of anything is... Let them say something about a Cop though, and for the moral imperative here, it becomes gospel, and a likelihood for some never was armchair quarterback to talk about how those jack booted thugs did it wrong again, and how he could do it ten times better from the comfort and safety of his living room...yeah...sure...hindsight is always twenty twenty...and Chuck Norris ain't got nothing on their skills... Why do I even bother to read these threads any longer... Now come the open challenges, internet muscle flexing and baiting threads because I'm young and naive enough to feed...honest... PS Oh, and Los Angeles is a little over an hour North of here, but your doing great otherwise...carry on...they're all JBTs anyway...right?

Buy the best quality pistol that you can afford, that actually fits your hand...If it doesn't fit your hand, regardless of how cool it looks in pictures, or the mistique surrounding it, you won't perform optimally with it...

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http://www.libertysafe.com/ It's where I got mine. The service was excellent and the deliverymen were top notch, and the safe is very high quality. I was very pleased with the whole experience...

He posts regularly on Lightfighter.net too. They gave him the nickname of Hell on Wheels...

I've bought a few guns off GunsAmerica. You just really need to shop around in order to find a good deal there. Most of the prices are suggested retail, plus shipping and FFL fees.

Uncle let me shoot lots of big guns. On the bigger side, I got to shoot a RAI .50 BMG, M2 .50 BMG, and Mk19 40mm among others.I carried a 203 for a few years as well. My largest personally owned weapon was an EDM Arms in .408 CheyTac.

All of em...

Grew up urban, now suburban, and while I shoot my pistols often, and my shotguns too, for that matter, I tend to focus the most on my rifles.

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