Dan

Looks great, make sure to post pics when its all together. Just curious, what was your reasoning behind going with the Daniel Defense BCG over the BCM (since you got the BCM upper)? Both are great products, I'm just curious.

A collapsible stock is not illegal by itself, only when in the presence of an AR lower. You could always have a stock ordered and shipped to a friends house who does not have an AR lower. Pin it there, then take it home to marry up. Just under no circumstances have the unpinned stock near an AR receiver to avoid breaking "constructive possession" laws.

Thanks for the heads up. Looks like one of those shell-game , no inventory BS companies. They pepper the inet with "sites" that all point to the same server/website, maybe with slightly different styled front ends. They probably don't stock anything event though their sites say "in stock, ready to ship", and sit on orders to wait on getting up enough to bulk purchase from distributors.

AK certainly has more worldwide notoriety, and for good reason. I own an AK styled one, and I like it, but I prefer my AR. I have two main reasons... a) flatter trajectory on the 5.56 round, just look up battlesight zeroing for both 7.62 and 5.56. The 5.56 allows for more accuracy without fussing with elevation. The 5.45x39 round fixes this and is one of the reasons the Russians switched, so compared to a AK with this round, all I have is ; B) AR to me looks more refined, like a fine instrument compared to an AK. This is my personal opinion, and has no bearing on which is a better design, just aesthetically I prefer the AR.

Nope, you do not have an obligation to retreat in your home. There is a difference between self defense, and searching around your house, finding someone not supposed to be there and shooting them. You have to feel your life and others are in danger of the intruder inflicting "unlawful force". If you find the guy passed out drunk on your kitchen floor, or scared in a corner because they see you with your gun, or being fully compliant with your demands to leave/disarm/freeze, etc... there is no perceived danger and you cannot use deadly force for obvious reasons. I suggest everyone read 2C:3-4. Print it and hang it on the fridge.

OP can check out the http://www.handgunlaw.us/ site. Has lots of good and up to date information on state by state carry laws, as well as interstate travel information.

I used to be addicted to ATM's, grabbing $40 here and there as I need it. Now I try to out a few hundred, and keep it in my gun safe (so I don't spend it), then take out 40 at a time as needed to keep in the wallet. My other strategy is to use my amex charge card as much as possible to negate the need for cash. I have to pay it at the end of the month, so it really disciplines me from going overboard. Amex now has a Zinc card, which is just like the Green card but with less "perks" unless you purchase packages. Otherwise the base annual fee is only $25.

Misinformation. In your own home in NJ, you do not have a duty to retreat. That being said, if you know there is an intruder in your house, and you go looking for them from a place of safety with the capacity to call for help, that can get messy from a legal perspective. If not from criminal law, certainly from civil law perspectives. All IMO of course.

The ATF isn't helping. They define "Semiautomatic Assault Weapon" in 27 C.F.R. § 478.11 . I think this is how they "regulate" gun imports by banning any with "evil features", and is why Saiga's and others have to come into the country the way they are. They are just dying to turn their arbitrary regulations internally using the similar commerce regulations as the vehicle. Their big hurdle would be that they cannot legally regulate intra-state manufactured and purchased firearms, as the Constitution has no such provisions to allow the Federal Govt to do that. Would cause a big mess and controversy. In fact, I'm not sure how they enforced the 94' AWB, they must have used the commerce play as well, and is maybe why some states are passing state laws backing up their Constitutional rights as to not acknowledge Federal gun regulations on intra-state made and purchased guns. For an example on how the Fedgeral govt can regulate / ban items, take a look at the Drug Enforcement Act as an example. The beginning verbiage is all about how the Federal Govt is allowed to enforce it due to not being able to tell whether or not illegal drugs have not traversed interstate, thus they assume they have been. Read the -Statute- section in the beginning .. DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL

If there was an active intruder in the house, or a door or window being smashed open woke us up, Personally I'd opt for the barricade option and call 911. If they were using a cellphone jammer (cheap, easily to get, and what I would do if I was a bad-guy), and cut the phone lines, I would pop open a window and lay a string of rounds into the ground. That will get the neighbors attention to call the cops for me. I'm not professionally trained to take on room clearing, and even for those who are, the risks and dangers are pretty immense even with all the proper equipment , i.e. shields, armor, lights, distraction tools,etc. Me in my boxers with handgun/light in hand with no training or practice qualifies me for taking cover and aiming at the door waiting for a bad-guy to come in. I would focus on situational awareness, maintaining control, and friend or foe ID as top priorities.

The anti's will still call them SA, and dismiss the name change as "subversive tactics by the big bullet blasting box fanatics, shoulder thing that goes down group"

Flonase, been using it for a year now and has made a huge difference. Used to not be able to breathe through my nose for days at a time. No more of that. Plus , you can use it long term, its a contact steroid as opposed to a synthetic adrenaline type of chemical like Afrin. I stay away from pills if I can, they turn me into the walking dead. Once in awhile when things are bad, at night, I'll take a benadryl (Costco has generic 400 count for cheap). Still the best at alleviating allergy symptoms, but knocks me out cold which makes it good for sleeping.

True, I suppose that's not a good thing to spread, even though every citizen should know the basics of the Constitution. BTW, his response was "That's really hard to do". Where I said, "there's your answer, 2A is considered extremely important by so many, it shouldn't be changed... and that's why it would be so hard to do"

Great vid. Just sent it to an anti co-worker of mine. Had a huge discussion with him over gun rights. Showed him my new AR build, he was like wow you can have that? I explained the cosmetics aspect of it, how it doesn't change the functioning of the rifle. In the end he was OK with me and people like me having them, just wants to keep them out of the bad-guys hands. I said "exactly", we all want the same thing, but we have to stop passing laws that do nothing to stop guns from getting into bad people's hands, and do everything to make good people instant criminals for no reason. The anti-gun establishment has embedded all of these misleading and down right wrong pseudo statistics into people's minds. He brought up all the typical arguments... "you dont need that to hunt with", "why do you need 30 rounds to target shoot with", "all you need is a handgun in the house for protection", "the UK and Japan have low gun violence because guns are illegal", etc, etc. The best was the 2A argument on how it was "written for a different time, with different circumstances". I just flat out ended the conversation by explaining the Constitution has something called the Amendment process, and it is designed to be updated if that is the case. So go ahead and start working on that I told him.

I just tried out my new Geissele SD3G trigger today. Wow is all I can say. Really transforms the shooting experience. I'm now over the wallet-shock, as it is completely worth it. The trigger break and super short re-take are the best I've ever tried on an AR. I really like the flat trigger on the SD3G model as well. I wish I had brought more ammo to the range today!

I wasn't buying in that large of bulk. Plus they are only 15 miles from me. I asked if they had 8lb bottles in, they were out, so I just got 3lbs singles to hold me over. Plus the "experience" of Solomon's is worth it, lol.

There's a fungus that turns ants into zombies... who's to say it can never happen to humans! My link For me, there are many "it depends" things to consider. Considering much of the state's roads are impassible on a good weather holiday weekend... trying to go mobile during a panic would be futile IMO. My plan is to hunker down. If there is any possibility of rescue or govt action, I figure 60-90 days would be the sweet spot. If it goes past 90 days, now we're into apocalyptic scenarios. At that point it becomes dog-eat-dog.

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14.5" barrel makes sense when you want to have a muzzle brake at the 16" minimum limit we are allowed. Otherwise you can go with a 16" barrel, and the perm-installed muzzle device would make it 17.5".. obviously. This is why I'm really digging the 14.5" + permanent brake. I agree that a complete DIY job, where you are installing your own barrel, gas block/tube, etc... one may want to reconsider putting on anything other than a full length gas system due to the potential gas system tuning that may need to be done (unless you know how to do it and are comfortable). If you are buying a complete middy upper from a company like Noveske or BCM, I'm willing to bet they have these puppies tuned to be as near-trouble free as full length systems.

Good stuff. I've never heard of ATF Newsletters before. thanks So the ATF considers them Other Firearms. I can't find a definition in the NJ statues in which they specify that the serial number containing receiver is defined as a firearm. I guess they go by the ATF definition of "other firearm", and handle them as rifles/shotguns under NJ law.

There is still a very fine line. It seems it is all about intent. If you purchased a lower, built it up for yourself, and used it for a few months; then you decided to sell it... That would be legal as the intent was not to build it to sell it to someone else. You just happened to decide to sell it b/c you needed the money or whatnot. If someone approached you and asked you to purchase the lower and build the rifle for them, then sell it to them at a later date... that intent would constitute a straw purchase and be illegal. This is how I interpret the law here.

This makes no sense. ATF might consider a stripped lower as a handgun, and require that it be xfered to an FFL in your home state. Then once in your home state (NJ), it is considered a rifle, and you can have it xfer'd to you without a PP. Another gray area is once you have your stripped lower in NJ, what if you want to make it a pistol. Do you need a PP, and transfer it to yourself once you put the pistol buffer and upper on? This is assuming you can build it within the limits of the AWB rules around SA pistols... (to my knowledge the Bushy Carbon 15 type 97 is the only one regarding weight restrictions). If the thing had a pistol buffer on it, I would say that's a different story. I'm talking a fully stripped lower. So much is wrong with state and federal laws...

I'll take the 5th. Handguns would have to be at the seller's house, range, or other place allowed by travel exemptions according to law as there are no exemptions for "going to sell it". Even then , technically there are no provisions for temporarily transferring the firearm to the prospective buyer unless you are at a range, hunting, or other specific situations. For that reason I suppose it is wise to fill out the COE's and/or pistol permits before allowing the prospective buyer to handle the gun if you are doing it from your home. COE's no problem, but PP's it would be a bummer if the buyer didn't like it. Tinfoil hat or not, that is how I interpret our laws.

+1 Malsua, thanks. So it is a no-go.

So it seems it could or probably is illegal. I suppose there is a line drawn somewhere , in which you need to be a FFL dealer after so many transactions. I just can't find that information. Like if you buy a bunch of milsurp from a show, then turn around and sell them one by one for profit as another example. Is that illegal? edit: or does it make sense if you get a profit or not. Like if you sell it for the same price you bought it...