Dan

I'm in. Will be nice to get out and shoot after a looong break.

I've all but given up on trying to get a complete BCG at this point. It is the last thing I need for a full build, and they seem to be completely eradicated off the face of the earth.

I've been using Troy Claymore linear muzzle brakes on my 16" builds.

I'm still very interested to hear about this so called "assault weapon". I'd really like to know if it was NJ neutered or not.

Every time that electronic vote board comes up, I begin to feel physically ill.

Can't stand to hear this argument "15 rounds up from 10" etc that these "lawmakers" <sarcasm> throw around. These numbers are arbitrary and have nothing to do with preventing violence with guns. That being said, I hope Magpul does pull out of Colorado if they pass any arbitrary and meaningless magazine limits that would do nothing but hurt law abiding folk's ability to protect themselves.

Looks like an extra-legal form. A) JOIN the NJ2AS B) Contact them around the "Operation Establish Compliance" program

As someone else said in the thread, most likely it is to check to see if they are dealing with someone who can buy it on the spot. The whole "i don't know you" bit was him basically saying "you may just be looking to fondle guns and waste my time". I agree its a shitty attitude, as its a sure way to drive off a potential sale as not everyone rolls around with their P2P's. IMO, you have to learn to deal with 5 window shoppers just looking to hold guns to get to that one good customer that you may have for life and spends serious coin with you. Their loss.

Wow , that young lady has some impressive skills. That looks like fun. Full auto SCAR was that? Must be nice to have a FFL/SOT license...

Typical hypocrisy of the sheeple that live in this state. I wish we could ship them all over to their utopian sheeple herding fields in California. I've experienced similar conversations. I told them "how dare you look for protection from the very thing you would enjoy to see taken from me".

They are great guns. Very nice quality. The muzzle brake has to be welded, bayonet lugs ground down, and the mag has to be pinned before you can take possession. Be sure your FFL/dealer can do that for you before ordering. I suggest both vendors mentioned above AnA and JETAgent as being both very capable , with good experiences with both of them. Grab some spam-can 5.45x39 russian surplus ammo and have fun. The ammo is surprisingly high quality. Though prices have gone up over the years for the stuff, it is still affordable.

I've said it before. Unless he is willing to work at recalling all of these bills for a real opportunity at "dialogue and conversation", there is nothing else to say. Crapping all over the gun owners of NJ by ignoring our pleas for "reasonable conversation" by pushing flawed bills through the Committee, then apologizing and asking to speak afterwards is a pure political play unless these bills are recalled back to Committee. As they say "It is easier to ask for forgiveness then to ask for permission" The worst case scenario is that Mainor gets to say in his speech to the Legislature that "he spoke with representatives of the NJ gun owning community" while he asks for some lame duck amendments to the already beyond repair flawed bills that they will be voting on this week. It will make him look like a man of the people that fixed his error, and reached out while crapping on us all over again.

The fight in my mind was never about the R2KBA, it has always been about where the line is drawn in the sand. Where the line sits regarding the types of arms and where/when a citizen can possess those arms. Arms need regulations regardless of rights, no doubt about that. The main problem now is lawmakers are overstepping their powers by trying to enact such extreme regulations that they are now in the infringement territory. There is a point when the regulations become so absurd that they begin to neutralize or greatly inhibit that Right. This is the line that SCOTUS needs to rule on.

Ron, all we have is this letter http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.anjrpc.org/resource/resmgr/spletter.pdf which states that we can be prosecuted for possessing a "temporarily blocked" magazine, and that it has to be "permanently blocked". Each vendor/dealer/individual has their own concept of what is temporary, and what is permanent. For me personally, the blocking mechanism has to be attached in a way that it could not be dropped or pulled out easily, as in requiring machining/cutting/restructuring to undo.

I'm not sure, but what do you call it when one hand blackens your eye with a closed fist, and the other hand reaches out to shake your hand? The only way that I will believe that Mainor is truly sorry for the travesty that he had intentionally created in those hearings is when he works to recall all of those bills in order to take a closer look at all of them along with NJ gun owners. We all want the same thing, to stop bad guys from getting and using guns. Otherwise, any posturing now is simply to quiet us down as they work to turn us into criminals.

I've been emailing, faxing, AND following up with snail mail. I assumed that the electronic versions are too easy to ignore/delete/push aside. Paper in hand portrays more legitimacy and provenance.

Left today feeling let down by our legislators and defeated. I have high hopes that the larger Assembly and Senate members recognize these bills for what they are (nothing to do with preventing violence with guns, and more to do with making criminals out of NJ gun owners) and vote them down. It is more important then every for all of us to keep contacting our respective State Assembly and Senate members.

Good luck!

I stopped watching halfway through. They are trying to blame gun owners, dealers, and manufacturers for the deaths in Newtown... all with the NRA being the keystone. Really? It's F'ing sick what these guys are pushing. No doubt a "grassroots" pro-bama group. His administration is really pulling out all the stops. I especially like the use of them adding the word "assault" to every type of gun or accessory they speak about. It's a new hobby of mine.. observing anti-gun folks using the "assault" word in front of anything they want to get banned. I'm waiting for the "99% against guns" campsites to start setting up....

Very cool. I can definitely get behind the "I did this" concept!

Wow , excellent! I take it you have done this before with all the specialized tools and whatnot? Do you save some significant $$$ over say a $700 Waffenwerks Bulgarian-kit based 74 which uses the Nodak receiver and G2 FCG, or is it more of a fun/hobby thing for you? I know with AR's, my main driving force in "assembling" my own is to use the various parts that I prefer.

Screw Bud's. They take all high demand stuff and put it up on their auction site which gives them perceived immunity from being accused of taking advantage of people. The low demand/high stock stuff they sell on their regular click-n-buy site.

For the mag limits, here is something logical that I hope these legislators can understand.... When a criminal or maniac plans to illegally acquire a gun for the purpose of using in to commit heinous acts.. It has been shown that they typically methodically plan out this act. They take the guns, ammo, and magazines with them according to what their sick minds are looking to accomplish. In the case of the VA Tech shooter, he had 10 round mags available, so he took 17 of them with him. 10 round mag limits will do nothing to impede these maniacs. On the flip-side, when a home owner uses a firearm to defend themselves, nearly all of the time they are caught by surprise. This means they will have extremely limited time to grab their defensive firearm, while operating under a very stressful situation in thinking about defense of themselves and their family. They will not have adequate time to plan for their actions, and almost always will only have whatever ammunition exists in the gun itself. In this case, having 15 rounds of ammunition would be all they have under our current "limited magazine" laws. A further reduction of this amount to 10 rounds would only serve to hinder the family to defend itself, as all they will have are those 10 rounds contained in their home defense gun. The criminals on the other hand will have at their disposal multiple magazines on their person, and even multiple guns and magazines, since they had all the time they wanted to plan for their criminal acts. This demonstrates that magazine limits on law-abiding citizens does nothing to stop maniacs, and does everything to hurt the ability for families to protect themselves in their own homes with firearms. I propose 1 gun, and 1 bullet, is too many in the hands of a criminal. Lets focus on legislation that keeps guns out of their hands.

I hope everyone is OK and that catch this maniac. I doubt the media will go crazy over this unless an EBR was involved.

If it turns out that the story is true and the rifle does not have enough evil features, or was permanently altered to not have them... Then I will be more then happy to go to bat for this guy including donations. If this is true, then he can be any one of the thousands of us that have been playing the NJ AWB game according to their rules. Another example on how we are guilty until proven innocent in this state.