Dan

Congrats! Regurgitating advice that I was given here on the forums with my first BA.... look into getting some lower rings for the scope to bring it as close to the barrel as you can. I was recommended TPS rings, and thats what I went with. Glad I did. Linky here

NJAC on "large capacity magazines" , where does it define what is permanently altered? It only describes examples of temporary alterations. “Large capacity ammunition magazine” means a box, drum, tube or other container, which is capable of holding more than 15 rounds of ammunition to be fed continuously and directly therefrom into a semi-automatic firearm. A large capacity ammunition magazine that has been permanently altered so that it is not capable of holding more than 15 rounds of ammunition will cease to be defined as a “large capacity ammunition magazine." An ammunition magazine, which has been temporarily blocked or modified from holding more than 15 rounds, as by a piece of wood or a pin, is still considered to be a “large capacity ammunition magazine." As for muzzle brakes being pinned/welded... could not find any guidelines in the NJAC or statutes on what defines a "flash hider" and "threaded barrel"... other than "A threaded barrel capable of accepting a barrel extender, flash suppressor, forward handgrip, or silencer". There are many "muzzle brakes" out there that can readily accept a silencer, does putting one of those on now make the barrel being defined as "threaded". If it came from the factory with a threaded barrel, and you have it pinned/welded, nowhere in the NJAC or statutes does it say that the barrel is now considered non-threaded. Sure we have the defunct federal AWB guidelines, but they mean squat to NJ other than something handy to use in court while defending yourself. Same goes for the pinning of stocks, I could not find anything in the NJAC or statutes indicating the modification must be "not readily reversible". Sure it makes common sense to most people that a pin with epoxy in it means it can no longer move, but the guidelines and statutes are still very ambiguous. It could be argued that a simple hand drill and a punch can "readily reverse" the alteration to make the gun defined as a banned configuration. Sorry for playing devil's advocate, but I'm just trying to bring to light something that I feel very strongly about... that NJ's current firearms laws are unconstitutional, not only on 2A grounds, but for being too ambiguous and vague. Edit: NJFIU - are they allowed to provide legal advice to the public, along with mandating prosecutors to follow their guidelines and recommendations? I'd like to know where I can find all of the NJSP FIU "guidelines", would be much appreciated!

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That is a good definition of what is a fixed magazine in my book, no arguments there. I wish NJ's statutes had something similar. You are right, I am thinking in to it too much.. for a reason. I am demonstrating that NJ's laws are vague and ambiguous when it comes to such things, and how laws on cosmetics and simple features are unconstitutional. The terms used in NJ's gun laws can be twisted and argued both ways in court, leaving each gun owning individual to assume high levels of risk that they will not get prosecuted. For example, pinning stocks, altering mags to only hold 15 rnds, pinning a muzzle brake (which some could be argued to also be flash hiders). All of these activities bring on risk to the gun owner. The same goes for anyone trying to use this hypothetical tool in order to have more evil features. We are forced to stop and think, "how is this law interpreted". Not a good situation when you are trying to follow the laws, and have to take educated guesses on whether or not a prosecutor would pursue charges. Just look at that example awhile back of the gunshop on Long Island. Where the prosecutor made a video demonstrating how they can unpin the stock and drill out/remove the pin for the muzzle brake, thus making a banned "AW". Without definitions of what is considered permanent, what is considered fixed or detachable, what is considered a muzzle brake, what is considered telescoping versus adjustable, etc... anyone who owns an EBR with these things in NJ is in the quantum state of being legal and illegal at the same time.

I misunderstood the product, I thought a tool was also needed to insert the mag as well. Interesting hypothesis if the tool can be made that it needs to be used to insert the mag as well. So on an SKS you can replace the OEM mag with another "fixed" magazine that can hold more rounds. Lets say I replaced the 10 round stock "fixed" magazine with a 15 round "fixed" magazine. The act of changing the "fixed" magazine by using a tool to push a button. Do you still consider it "fixed" under the statutes?

This was what I was thinking. I was mistaken that a tool was needed to both insert and remove the magazine in this example. If a tool is not needed to insert a magazine, then the NJ definition of "accepting a detachable magazine" would have more teeth. If a tool was needed to insert and remove, then I think it is defensible.

Nice, thanks for the heads up Nick

So with an SKS, all you need is something small to press in a button to release the trigger group, then the mag easily slips out. Then the rifle can now take detachable magazines (for which they do sell). Would that rifle be considered being able to accept detachable magazines? Where is the line drawn? How much effort and what kind of tools do you need to remove a magazine in order for it to be considered a "fixed" magazine rifle. Easy to prove, hand the rifle with the tool actuated magazine release to the prosecutor with a magazine, ask him/her to now insert the magazine. They will ask you for the tool because it is impossible to do without it. I would promptly say I do not have a tool. Jury, does this rifle accept detachable magazines? Same goes for altered magazines, pinned stocks, muzzle brakes. If they need some kind of tool , torch, grinder, etc to turn the rifle into a banned version isn't that going to extremes? Imagine the state trying to prove that your car's exhaust system exceeds the maximum noise limits by removing the muffler to demonstrate. All that being said, no doubt that NJ's laws are written in such an ambiguous way that it comes down to which side can convince the jury of what the intent of the laws are. Downright unconstitutional IMO, but they are there for now until we can get them re-written. Personally I would not take a chance on being the test case on something like this.

If you need a tool to remove or insert a detachable magazine, the gun will no longer be able to "accept" a detachable magazines. You would need a tool to have the gun accept the magazine. This would arguably be just like a fixed magazine gun, in which you need to use a tool to remove it, like the example above with the SKS. The problem as others have stated is that NJ does not define what "detachable" or "fixed" are. Would that be detachable without the use of tools... or would the need to use a tool make it a "fixed" magazine. Not defined anywhere that I know of. As usual, the laws are vague enough in the sense that they could go after anything they like. Just like they can argue that modified magazines or adjustable stocks are in fact still high cap mags or "telescoping stocks" because they feel the modification is not "permanent" enough. There are no guidelines as to what permanent is, etc , so they can argue to a jury that a pin does not constitute permanent. I find it hilarious, as it should be easy to defend in court since the state offers no guidelines on the topic. Comes down to who wants to be the test case....

Sounds like fun, I will subscribe to your newsletter. But for Old Bridge as for many clubs won't allow non-members besides a few guests of an existing member.

So looks like Kenneth Melson is preparing to step down over the whole Operation Fast and Furious fiasco. The problem is that Holder is now courting Andrew Traver as his replacement. We are trading bad for worse IMO. This is the guy Obama originally tried to get in, but was defeated over massive pressures from the pro-2A groups, example (here). I'm betting they are going to try to move quick on this, catch everyone off balance and slip him in. As I keep saying, this is the new anti-gunner tactic... death by a thousand papercuts with increased "regulations" and "common sense" laws. The BATF has a history of making stuff up as they go, rule by policy creation , as opposed to proper legislation. This guy will surely manipulate the system to serve his anti-gun needs.

How about the PKM with the 100rnd belt box attached to the bottom. I'm pretty sure there aren't any transferable PKM's out there in the wild! From what I could find , there may be a handful out there that were bring backs from the Vietnam War. This was in the scene with the shootout with the bad guys when they were trying to steal the car with the M2 mounted to the top. The Sig 552 Commando was a nice treat also, tons of those floating around out there also. The M240, M2, M4, Garand, Mauser (i think i saw one there), MP5, even the AK (although S/A only would have been more plausible being civilian owned and gathered that way) are plausible weapons for them to "find". The PKM, Sig552, and lots of full auto AK's are a bit of a stretch. Of course only those familiar with these weapons would notice with 99%+ of the viewers not knowing or even caring.

Show was OK, I'll keep watching it. I'm a sucker for alien/invasion/post-apocalyptic/zombie, etc type stuff. I wasn't expecting anything amazing, and is why I am probably satisfied. Too many freaking commercials. It was even annoying FF them with the DVR. And as others said, whats with the plethora of full automatic eastern bloc type weaponry (AK and PKM). As far as I know Massatwoshits doesn't allow civilian owned NFA weapons, and I'm also pretty sure the National Guard doesn't stock those things. They should have kept it with common police and national guard issued weapons for better realism.

DVR also set. I'll start watching 20 min in so I can FF commercials.

Just like the spike's lowers for 79 on Aim, these would be best worth it if you buy 2 or more at a time. Then the FFL/NICS fee evens out a bit. Plus its always good to have an extra lower or two around for a rainy day! I just got a few spike's recently, I probably would have jumped on these PSA's if they had this deal going on. Bit of an unknown on how they are, but being PSA I'm sure they are top notch as they have an excellent reputation.

I've used the PSA lower build kit as well. Good stuff for a good price. I have another one sitting here for the rest of my new SPR style AR build to arrive.

I wish people would stop saying they won't vote for Ron Paul because he will "pull votes" from other candidates that "have a chance". If everyone stopped thinking that and actually voted for the guy, our country would finally have a chance.

Hypothetically... a) Contact the shipping dealer to see if they could put a trace and redirect on the package to the FFL b) See if the FFL could go to the post office to pick it up .. if they are local of course c) Refuse shipment and assertively ask the shipping dealer to next day air it to the FFL when they get it back. I'm sure they would....

The Gateway icon is problably the bios preboot screen splash, there should be some comments like "Press Esc to enter setup" or something like that to get into the bios. a) try windows safe mode to see if it is a driver/software issue first. continuously press F8 during boot up to see if you get a menu screen for it. b) try re-seating the video card and cables, wiggle ram chips in their slots just in case one has a loose connection

Not entirely true. ONLY if you have the rest of the parts readily available in order to assemble an AW (according to the evil feature list). For instance, if you do not own a pistol grip that can fit an AR, or have one on your land... while doing this work, you would be 100% legal owning an AR with a threaded barrel. You can even go as far as putting a Monsterman grip on , and having an AR with a threaded barrel. Just don't have a regular AR pistol grip anywhere near the gun (land , property, vicinity, etc). Yes this is NJ we live in, along with all the asinineness.

Too bad native fish can't get carry permits... Its been a loosing battle trying to rid infected bodies of water of these suckers.

Looks like you had a very bad experience, sorry to hear that. I know I'm not going to change your mind, but... I have customers with 40K workstations on SEP, and that is by far not even our largest. Sure there are issues that come along, a majority of them are policy/config type things. Occasionally there are incompatibilities with other software , but its dealt with just like anything. I do remember dealing with a boot delay with a big bank that I cover, I do believe they needed a hotfix, which got into one of the service packs. No telling if it was the same issue. As for machines being compromised, it happens.. nothing is 100%. SEP has to balance the line between being too aggressive in causing false positives and potentially bringing down whole company's pc operating environments (like accidentally removing important system files), and being powerful enough to stop most things. This is why many times Malwarebytes and similar products can find stuff that SEP can't, because it is very aggressive with its removal and can cause issues on the workstation; of course at this point you just want the machine cleaned and you probably backed up important stuff at this point. We have something similar to MB, called Power Eraser, details below. Signature based AV detection is a thing of the past (still necessary but not the front line in protection any longer), and SEP 12 coming out next month will incorporate the reputation technology that has been in Norton since 2010. Norton indeed does protect against malware, lets just say bad stuff in general. Since Norton 2010, the reputation engine will flag anything trying to get on the machine if it doesn't have a good internet hygiene report behind it. Extremely effective, and is why our corporate SEP 12 is incorporating the same tech. If an infection does get on a machine regardless of the AV product, try out Power Eraser, here's the link. It is free. When was the last version that you tried of Norton? Prior to NIS 2009, I would not put anything Norton on my machines even though I worked for the company. 2009 and forward, the product group came under new leadership, they completely re-wrote the code, and the product is spot on. Don't knock it till you try NIS 2011. Try the free trial here. It will do an initial full scan , while analyzing the reputation of all the executable files on your machine. After that first scan, subsequent full scans will go much quicker as it can skip known trusted files like those part of the OS and major apps, etc Scrubbing off the old Norton bloatware product bad memories is a tough thing to do. All I'm saying is to try it out and see for yourself.

Prevention - Norton Internet Security 2011. If you knocked Norton's stuff in the past, I understand it was pretty bad bloatware. Since 2009, they have completely redesigned it. It's lean and mean. Even includes a performance meter to show you exactly what resources it is using. On top of that the security it offers is second to none. It is using a Symantec cloud based file reputation service called Insight. They have been cataloging executable and other file types since 2008. It compares every file you run or download to this database, to determine if it is dangerous or not. Chances are if it is a brand new file, that no other Norton users have ever seen, it is malware. You can even check file statistics yourself, it will tell you how many other users are running that program, along with when it was first seen and Norton's trust rating. You see the way they get these things past traditional signature AV (which norton still does have), is to constantly mutate. Typically these fake AV programs are built from a malware generator , so each user has a unique version. If the executable doesn't have a good reputation , Norton will flag it and not permit it to download in the first place. Traditional AV signature based solutions will just pass it right through as they don't have the "blacklist" signature for this newly mutated app. Not going to lie, I work for Symantec so I am biased. I have done my own real world testing in the form of every family member having Norton Internet security since version 2010, and not having a single report of a virus or malware since then. I used to get called at least once every few months prior to that. Not completely scientific, but in my eyes pretty damn good. Cleaning - If you do get something, as nothing is 100%... Try Norton Power Eraser, do a search for it. It is a bootable .iso that you boot your PC off of. It then scans your enitre computer and checks it against a more aggressive signature base, along with the Insight reputation scan on every file. Usually does the job. If thats not working I would move onto trying all the usual suspects like MB etc. Haven't had to do that in a long long time.

Rifle yes if you have a FID, hangun generally no (need to transport under exemptions only) Exemption for transporting a handgun to the range: If you belong to a gun club that meets the requirments, the "directly" statement is removed, and thus you technically could stretch that you are taking the HG to your uncle's house for target shooting the next day, as that would constitute "indirectly". Its in the "gray" like most of NJ's gun laws, and you do whatever you feel comfortable with.

I guess theoretically , with a carry permit, one can carry "any handgun" or one that is stated specifically on the permit at least. There is no wording that the firearm on the permit has to be legally owned by the carrier. Who knows, being the NJ carry permit is as rare as an albino elephant living in Antarctica.