Dan

Info over at ar15.com, with comments from Aimsurplus and SG ammo. 5.45x39 spamcans are dried up in the country besides whatever retailers still have a few around. Apparently there are tons of it in eastern Europe, but the few main importers of the stuff seem to be not interested in grabbing it up. Speculation is that the ex-commie guys want more $$ for it after seeing what it was being sold for in the USA. What they don't realize is all of the hidden costs of snatching it up out of armories, shipping, distribution, warehousing, etc and room for profit. Most likely we will see it come back, but probably at a higher price. The thing is, if it isn't that much of a better deal over the commercial Russian stuff like Wolf, there is no point in it as I'd rather buy that then some slightly corrosive 70's and 80's surplus. http://www.ar15.com/mobile/topic.html?b=4&f=54&t=142879&page=1

:wild: Are you kidding me? This is right from the NJAC clarifying what is considered a NJ defined Large Capacity Magazine. It does say a piece of wood or pin/dowel temporarily blocking the mag is still considered illegal. That means you cant just drop something in the bottom of the mag to block the follower, it has to be permanent, like how MTN uses rivets. The definition is still shady as they do not define what is considered permanent. IMO permanent means you would need power tools and reconstructive surgery to even attempt to make it a high cap mag. At that point it could be argued that you are "constructing" a high capacity magazine.

M16 carrier is fine in NJ. I prefer them for the added mass over the cut out SA/commercial BC's.

Can always count on RT (government funded Russian news corp) to air out the dirty laundry of the US. They may have ulterior motives, but if that's where we need to get it, then so be it... since our own news channels are obviously not carrying such stories.

AFAIK Federal law on "straw purchases" indicate that if the intent of person A in purchasing a gun is to turn around and immediately sell it to person B, that would be a straw purchase unless person A is a dealer licensed to do such things. There are provisions for when it is an actual "gift". It is also OK to purchase a gun for one's self, then maybe they get bored of it after some time and decide to sell it off. The entire concept is around the intent of the purchase.

I also agree, that some kind of reinstatement of rights has to be in place. After-all, our criminal justice system is all about "reform". I do believe there are exceptions as anything. If the crimes committed in the past by the past felon were extremely violent in nature, or if they did use a gun during the commission of violent crimes, that may be enough to strip them of their rights for life.

Correct, I do not believe prohibited people should be carrying. Instead of LE running a background check to determine if a person is prohibited or not on anyone they come in contact during their normal course of business, it would be easier if all that was taken care of ahead of time, and you just have to show your CCW ID. For instance, LE gets called in for an altercation between two people. Lets say not violent, but enough to get LE involved. LEOs takes both into custody and perform a terry search. They find a concealed HG on one of the guys. Without a CCW ID system, how will LE know if the person is prohibited or not? They would have to detain them while they processed their identity by whatever means, run a NICS check, etc. All of this takes time. It would be very inconvenient if the person was indeed not prohibited after all of this. It would be easier to just show a valid CCW ID , which streamlines that whole process. This is why I am for "shall issue" carry permits. The state has to issue you your permit provided the investigation turns up that you are NOT a prohibited person.

Nice shots. I also use steel ammo when plinking. I then use brass cased reloads for being serious.

You read me wrong on NFA weapons, I feel we should be able to have them, including full auto, SBRs, suppressors, even larger cal guns like 25mm+ and cannons. I do not think nuclear weapons or guided surface to air missiles fall under 2A. Sure you can make an argument for them, realistically lets see how far that goes. I'm also for a "shall issue" permit system for carrying. Some may not agree as yourself, and want the Vermont system where any non-prohibited person can carry. Personally for me, I'd rather have people vetted out as ahead of time whether they are non-prohibited, then just taking people's word for it. VT uses the federal Gun Control Act of 1968 definition of who would be prohibited.

I still think its a good idea to learn on a single stage or turret press before going progressive. For me personally, it taught me the fine details of reloading. The hands on approach gave me the experience to be able to better fine tune my LnL when I went progressive. Plus, I wasn't really sure if I wanted to go "all-in" when it came to reloading. The single stage press was affordable enough to allow me to experiment to see how I liked it without breaking the bank. My single stage press investment is not wasted once I did move to a progressive. I still use it to hand-load for precision rifle rounds. I suppose if you know you are going all-in, a person can use a progressive as a single stage to get started with as you suggest. I would only recommend that if they had the funds for the investment, and had a very good feeling they will become a serious reloader.

I think that everyone agrees that there are boundaries when it comes to any inalienable or ratified/legal individual rights. It all comes down to where those boundary lines are to be drawn. The anti's love to use the missile launcher/nuclear bomb argument as "being arms, so you say they should be for sale to the public" yada yada. Safe to say that most people, even pro-2A rights people, agree that guided missiles and nuclear weapons are clearly outside the 2A boundary limits. What needs to be hashed out are those boundary lines. The problem is both sides refuse to give up any ground, as the basis for the anti's movement now are their ideas of "reasonable and common sense" regulations. They know they can't ban guns all together due to 2A, but they can try to regulate them and their ownership into the ground. This is there way of trying to push the boundary back so far that the only guns they want people to be able to get are single shot .22's "smart guns" which read your fingerprint in order to use,... wrapped up with so much regulation it would take years to get a license to own one, you could only keep 50 rounds of serialized ammo at home, and you can only leave your house once a month to take it to the range in a triple locked case. That is "reasonable and common sense" for many anti's when it comes to how they see a compromise. I lump Bloomberg and Lautenmommy here. Many of us gun owners (myself included) see "reasonable and common sense" to be NFA Title 2 guns and ownership/possession/CCW/carry provided via "shall issue" permits which a person can get once they are found to be free of any past violent convictions, is not a felon, is not a past violent felon, etc. "Gun laws" should primarily focus on harsh punishment for those people who misuse guns to commit crimes, and not designed to punish law abiding folks. We have to work to stop these "whittiling away at our rights" laws like magazine size restrictions (who is right to say 1 round or 100 is the limit?), banning guns because of their style/cosmetics, ambiguous and confusing possession and transport laws (NJ), and "shall not issue" provisions in laws for carry permits.

Personally I'd go the Saiga or any other "based on AK style action" type rifle for 5.45. You can get a great full "AK74 style" rifle for the price of a 5.45 AR complete upper. Also read around. There looks to be some finickiness with types of mags, and some loading issues. Also, if you plan to go 5.45, I'd grab up as many spam cans as you can find for a good price. It seems there is a shortage of ex-commie spamcam surplus right now. Hopefully the importers will be getting a few new boatloads soon. At the same time of your purchase, grab a AR lower to save on NICS. It will only add another $80 to your budget. You can can then begin a slow AR platform build based on your funds availability.

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Duppie, Wow that sounds great. Can you share the basics for a Paella newb? I'd like to try this. I'm a big seafood nut myself, so it makes sense. Seafood + grill =win. Since its crappy outside today (so far), I'm going for beer steamed PEI mussels appetizer, coconut-lime-chille Quinoa, and pan seared diver scallops. I can't wait.

Here's what I got back from Aimsurplus. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Dan <> wrote: Hello, are you going to be getting more 5.45x39 milsurp spamcan ammo back in stock? Dan -------------------------- We hope to but have none lined up for sure at this time. Thanks, Stephen

If I was in such a state where I could have one a RDIAS would be my choice. Can't you pop that thing in and out of any AR lower you want to turn it FA? Drop in when you want it, take it out and back to SA only.. am I right?

OK, I see that making terroristic threats is illegal and this guy should be dealt with. But why does the media make it look like the crime was having guns and ammo?

I know that and most of us here know that. I would have done the same thing as you did. I'm just saying how things can be twisted on a public forum by anti's.

I think many gun owners have had situations like this. Where you are so glad you had an ability to mount a defense just in case a situation did evolve into such a thing, including myself. My other observation on these kinds of posts is that they tend to be double edged swords. It is great to tell others that you felt empowered to handle a situation in your own home where you felt an unknown threat may be present. The other side of the sword is that it can be twisted by the anti crowd something along the lines of "fallen blinds in the kitchen prompted trigger-happy gun owner to almost shoot family members" ..."just what if it was a child or other house visitor that knocked something over by accident, they could have been shot!". This is why I tend to shy away from myself or others sharing these experiences on a public forum.

OP: I feel you chose a good place and environment for OC. Makes sense in summer heat, wearing light clothing and wanting to carry a larger handgun. Even you admitted that OC isn't for everywhere, which I also agree with. In most cases I do feel discretion is a carrier's best friend. I wouldn't listen to the haters. Flaunting and narcissistic BS, pretty much anyone with <insert something nice like jewelry, fancy cars, luxurious, etc> can be labeled as such. If you ran around approaching everyone, speaking about how awesome your gun is compared to everyone else's, or got up on a soap box proclaiming your rights and how you are free, OC to support Liberty, blah blah, or where OC'ing down some slummy Philly area just to attract police attention... then would say someone is flaunting.

Obama was slick to not include "law abiding citizen", instead included two extreme sides of the scale. Military and criminals. This causes confusion amongst gun owners, as they were not labeled , and feel his comment excludes them from being implicated in the speech. This is far from true, by specifically stating "belongs in the hands of soldiers" , "not in the hands of criminals", he is making his point clear that he feels that AK-47's (implying all EBR type guns, this is the truly misleading part as the general public doesn't make the distinction between real assault weapons and EBR's) ONLY belong in the hands of the military. Us law abiding gun owners not being mentioned in the "not" clause along with criminals is inconsequential.

Mental health checks are a joke. Are we going to do mental health checks to buy gasoline, pool chemical supplies, propane tanks, pesticides, etc, etc? Plus, I'm willing to bet it makes people paranoid to go seek professional mental and emotional help when they really need it because they do not want to "be on record" while loosing their 2A rights. I'm all for background and criminal checks like NICS. If someone was ever involved in a violent act and the authorities got involved it will have it in there, even if the end result was that they were committed to a mental institution. What we cant account for are the ticking timebombs, where they seem like any normal or even an odd person but they never did anything wrong. Then one day they snap. There is not much we can do to prevent this from happening, but we can prevent how much damage they can cause by respecting law-abiding peoples' rights to defend themselves with firearms.

Just curious, which places say they will have the 5.45 milsurp russian spam cans in early next month?

That could be it, I worked directly with a lady named Nicole.

Wow, I can't find any at the usual suspect places. I guess the USA needs another ex-Commie ammo shipment!