Dan

Figured I'd weigh in as a Subaru owner. I have a 02 WRX with 124K, and a 11 Outback 3.6R Limited with 40K. The WRX after year one was modified and is pumping out an additional 80HP+ over stock... verified on a dyno. So far besides maintenance, it needed a steering rack and alternator. The Outback has been solid with no issues. Neither make motor oil vanish away (wish I could say that about my Infinity G35). Neither are leaky. The Outback has a computer that tells you MPG, it says it gets 26-30mpg normal highway 70mph speeds, and around 16-19 city stop and go depending on how much lead is in your foot. Nothing spectacular, but nothing unusual. I'm a Subaru guy because I like their track record and mechanical engineering that they put into the car, especially the symmetrical AWD and handling (both inherent mechanical and computer assisted stability). To me, this equates to predictable handling especially in emergencies and inclement conditions. The Outback has great utility in terms of cargo area and ground clearance (equal to many larger SUV's). There are many types of AWD systems out there, its good to read up on them and understand how they all work .... if that is important to you. For instance, back in 11' I test drove some competing vehicles, and some of them said AWD ,but in reality they were FWD with a small gearbox that transferred some power to the rear if the front slipped. This equated to the front wheels spinning out with a delay before the rear kicked in. I did not like that at all. Whatever you test drive, really put it through its paces with some emergency maneuvers in an empty parking lot. Crank the wheel and floor it from a stop, do some simulated emergency lane changes and slalom type maneuvers. See how it reacts. When it comes to reliability, with all things said, I firmly believe any top brand Japanese car will last a good long time provided it gets its proper maintenance. Good luck on your quest!

I agree on the civil suit thing. It would be great if all of these pro 2a rights groups that I am a member of had a program for providing legal assistance to shops who sell legal gun accessories to folks behind enemy lines.

Wow post resurrection from the past! The trigger continues to rock the same as I've had it from day one. I haven't had any bump fire happen. Best I can describe is like a 1911 trigger on an AR. I agree with vlad, for any situation outside of range or controlled competition. I'd stick with a two stag. I have the SSA-E in other rifles that fits that bill.

It will take the greater gun owner community outside of nj to start pressuring vendors into standing up for nj gun owners by taking time to learn our laws and not invent new ones. This would be similar to how it went down with the personalized handguns. Our laws are annoying to learn and follow , but they don't change that often that it's such a burden to keep up with.

Seem's like LaRue is being "pro 2A" by making up more anti-gun laws. It is not illegal or even against NJAC to acquire, purchase, and deliver an adjustable stock in this state. LaRue seems to think it is and are either very uninformed, or playing the CYA game to the extreme at the cost of NJ gun owners. A proper pro 2A stance would be to support gun owners behind the lines in any way they can by offering their goods and services while abiding by the letter of the law... which would be to allow the shipment legal gun accessories, which is pretty much anything that is not a mag over 15 rounds. Adjustable stocks and flash hiders are not illegal by law, only if they are combined with other parts on a SA rifle. With LaRue's logic, a pistol grip should also be illegal to ship to NJ. If the person ordering is breaking any laws by possessing the rest of the parts that could make a banned gun in NJ, that is at their own risk. Personally, I have things like this shipped to a friends house, and do the compliance work there before bringing it home to be mated up with the rest of the parts.

Good riddance. I hope this example serves to remind other manufacturers to not take for granted their civilian side of business.

Magnalube-G for grease, Slip EWL for oil, G96 Gun Treatment for CLP are my go-to combo. Bonus is that Magnalube and G96 are both NJ based companies.

Looks like a win win to me. I've dreamed of having an e trigger like on a paintball gun on a real gun. With the mechanical backup, what's not to like?

As long as LE can assert that they "reasonably believe" the weapons can expose the victim to risk. In this case, the guns being under the same roof of the attacker (wife) is reason enough for them to invoke the seizure under color of law. OT but read up on civil forfeiture laws if you haven't before. They vary state by state, but in many, LE can even confiscate large sums of cash for no practical reason simply by stating that they "reasonably believe" that said cash has been acquired via non-specific illegal means. It is then up to you to hire a lawyer and battle through the legal gauntlet to prove that your cash is legit and attempt to get a court order to have it returned. Bottom line, your stuff is only yours unless the govt take an interest in it. If they do, they can figure out a way to make it look legal, and you the look like the bad guy.

In NJ, cops can seize any weapons at the scene of an act of domestic violence. It doesn't matter if the weapons are the victim's or attacker's. All LE needs to do is to learn that a weapon is present on the premises in order to legally confiscate said weapons. After that it is purely up to the courts to determine if the weapons will be returned or not, all the way up to giving them the power to revoke FPID's and forced forfeiture of weapons. There are even protections that it is illegal to bring civil actions against LE for not returning seized weapons!! So in essence, the cops can keep them forever, and you can't even sue to get them back. 2C:25-21d : http://law.justia.com/codes/new-jersey/2009/title-2c/section-2c-25/2c-25-21/ Besides this terrible law, my issue lies in the cruel and unusual punishment associated with the victimless crime of simply possessing a prohibited weapon, in this case banned in NJ rifles and normal capacity magazines. Crimes where no victim is present do not warrant the kind of jail time that the state and federal laws prescribe. I feel the same way with drug crimes in this country. Its no wonder we lead the world in prisoners of 743 per 100K population and continues to climb.

IMO, The bottom line is that the unconstitutional awb is still on the books and anyone here with an ebr could face prosecution at any time when it comes to "substantially identical ". It's all about the appetite of the prosecutor and AG to drag it through court. There are no consequences if they decide to ignore the NJAC , and I'm sure they have lots of excuses all set. The MAK case precedent is a defense tactic that could help. NJAC are just guidelines used to make consistent SOP's and current interpretations. It is a band-aid approach instead of fixing the law. It has mutated into a perversion if you ask me, a type of status quo between gun owners and the state. We get our ebr's and the state keeps their authority to turn on us at anytime they like.

I enjoy my Marlin 1895 in 45-70. The lever action itself was a bit gritty at first, but broke in nicely after a few nights of actuating it over and over while watching TV. 45-70 is pricey to shoot if you don't reload. If you reload for it, it is tremendously more affordable as the big money is in the brass. You can make anything from powderpuff target loads , right up to something that can drop any animal on the continent.

I'm not trying to worry you, but to inform. If you haven't had one before, getting a GSD is akin to getting a high performance racing vehicle. They perform extremely well but needs lots of maintenance and work. Socialization, obedience training, daily exercise/training, and SHEDDING. Add to that, no matter how good of lines and breeder you use, there is always a chance of getting nabbed by some time-bomb polygenetic hereditary disease no matter how clean the pup's genetic tree is. We used a very well known working-line dog breeder and got hit with an elbow UAP (ununited anconeal process) when our dog was a puppy. We could have "returned her" for another puppy, but at 5mos old, we already loved the hell out of her. $1500 surgery and some time later, she was perfectly fine , and still is 7 years later with that elbow. The breeder was so shocked he footed the bill to take her to his own specialist for confirmation after our vet diagnosed the issue. He did go half with us on the medical costs since we decided to keep her. She also has another type of hereditary disease that involves one of the hind connecting muscles atrophying , and causes her to favor one leg over the other. This causes her to bunny hop off the one leg to compensate for the other. Her hips are fine as confirmed by x-rays. The only thing we can do is to not work or play with her too hard, as in lots of running. Its tough as that's what she loves to do. All that aside, she is the best dog ever. Great with kids, loves to play, absolutely loves people almost to the point excess. Excellent alerting dog, she is always on the lookout and alerts us to anything touching our property. My wife feels really safe at home alone with her. The bark and looks alone are akin to the good ole pump shotgun sound to anyone approaching the door. She is very obedient (results of a lot of fair training of course). Everyone that comes over my house wants to steal her from me. I wouldn't trade her for anything. In the end they have a lot to give, but even if you have zero health issues, there is a lot to put in to get it back.

Another Geissele vote. I Have a SD3G flat blade and SSA-E. The SD3G impresses me the most.

Zeke, definately hit me up. My last bike was a 2008 VFR, was a great bike. Mike, sounds good. I'll fire you a PM at least a few days before when I know I can have a sat or sunday free. For the rest who responded, thanks for all the info on trips and ride events.

Hi All, I just wanted to float a message here for any motorcycle riders in the central NJ area that would like to get together for occasional rides. Sure I could try motorcycle forums and sites, but in my experience, the gun/2A crowd has always been a good group. With life being what it is, my usual group of riders have either sold their bikes or schedules get in the way too many times during the short riding season we have. I figure expanding that group would be a great chance to meet good people and increase the odds! I'm located in Old Bridge and ride a BMW K1300S. I'm down for anything from a few hours to all day trips of 6+ hours in the saddle. My style is best described as "sport touring" , and enjoy riding with anything from cruisers to sportbikes. My typical availability is sat or sun weather and commitment contingent. I usually know by Wed that week if I can get away a weekend day. Feel free to shoot me a PM if interested in getting together for a ride!

I tend to only sell if I find I just plain don't like a gun that I purchased. If I sell because I feel like I'm not using it enough, it bites me in the ass as eventually I'll wish I didn't sell it.

It's normal. I'm on a year break right now after going nuts for a few years. It's a cycle for me with all if my hobbies. Just don't sell. I learned that lesson with motorcycles. Everytime I think I'm done I sell. Then the bug hits again and I'm out at the dealer. Take a break, the cycle will return again.

I tried to buy a Keltec gun once. Never going to try again. Masters of marketing and make some cool guns, but they seem to fall down on the execution/delivery side.

Hopefully all of them are either barrel obstructions, fail to chamber properly, or out of spec ammo. I'd hate to think that many kabooms are the result of random catastrophic failure of materials when everything else is in spec.

And those people manning those guns will also want food+water, plus they are now armed.

In NJ, we deal in lots of gray. If the rivet looks or sounds "temporary" to you, don't do it. If you feel you could argue that it is permanent if you ever did find yourself in court, then go for it. The bottom line is that there is zero case law when it comes to any kind of altered magazine that I know of. Until some starts hitting the books, its all up for grabs besides using a "piece of wood or a pin" that is expressly stated in the NJAC as being unacceptable as permanent.

Pin is different from a rivet. Of course everyone can interpret that 50 different ways also.

I would say they are legal. Just like MidwestPX 15/20 mags, where blind pins are used. One would have to destructively modify the magazine in order to exceed 15 rounds. IMO the spirit of the law is to prevent people from temporarily blocking mags that can be undone by using your hands or simple tools in a short amount of time. Like opening the bottom and pulling out a dowel, or a push-button slide that blocks the follower. Of course its IMO and open to interpretation as some people here feel it is good and others do not. Its a comfort level that anyone living in NJ would have to be willing to accept. It all comes down to convincing the jury if a prosecutor really wanted to try to push something like this. They would have to argue that taking a grinder and drill to the mag to unblock it means that it is not permanent. If you think that risk is too much, move along.

He explains your 2A view is "legitimate" but "clearly in the minority". So what? One of the purposes of the Bill of Rights is to prevent the majority from voting away important and inane human rights like those listed in the 2A. It is his duty as a legislator to understand that. Clearly he does not. Also recent "jurisprudence" has in fact been reinforcing that 2A is an individual right, to be held under strict scrutiny legal tests when a law comes in direct contact with 2A issues. Here is a very recent case outlining this http://ia800902.us.archive.org/4/items/gov.uscourts.idd.32180/gov.uscourts.idd.32180.42.0.pdf . So I have no idea what his recent jurisprudence comment is referring to. Perhaps he's referring to the biased NJ District courts, who rule against or completely twist the new tests and concepts introduced in Heller/McDonald and other 2A rulings by district courts. CA, Chicago, MD all come to mind in favor of the new 2A interpretation...