kman

Ha! Actually killing yourself, or attempting to, is against the law!

In other words, can you threaten that you will use force on a criminal - force which you cannot actually legally use? From what I understand, you can threaten them that you will use force beyond the force you are able to actually deploy. Although then you run the risk of what if your bluff is called. You also run the risk of provoking them into attacking you, which might end up getting you into a legal trouble also. Interestingly, in New York, you are duty bound to evacuate your own house, if you are able to and you fear serious bodily harm. You can only defend yourself with a firearm if you have no retreat option, even in your house, in New York. At least in New Jersey, you don't have to evacuate your own house at 3 AM on a cold January night because some degenerate broke into your house. One thing's for certain, everyone here saying "just plant evidence on him" or the tired variant of "make sure they are inside when the police come", these comments are ridiculous. The police will almost certainly not be there when you need them, but after the crisis is over they will come in great number and set up an investigation, take forensic evidence, and certainly discover any tampering with the scene and charge you with murder, tampering with evidence, lying to the police, obstruction of justice, all of which are felonies. In a self defense situation, you acknowledge the act (shooting someone) and have to testify to prove your affirmative defense to murder or attempted murder on the basis of self defense. If you lie right off the bat to the police and tamper with a crime scene, you will be found out, your credibility will be destroyed, your lies will be shown to the jury, and you will likely be found guilty of murder or attempted murder.

Sheesh, you went to CT Cabelas on the very day that they enacted the "Eligibility Certificate" to buy ammo in that state. So much for that.

You are right it would not apply in a typical burglary. The original post was can you hold someone at gunpoint, which really is a question of what can you do if they refuse to stay and walk away from you, which ultimately boils down to the question of whether can you fire on them or tackle them. We are told in New Jersey you can do absolutely nothing to keep them in custody against their will, no matter what they did. I would not violate that unless my conscience could truly not tolerate the outcome. Only in the most serious of circumstances would you want to consider firing upon a fleeing criminal. Nevertheless, in such a circumstance with a truly heinous crime and no doubt as to the perpetrator, it becomes your moral duty as a civilized man or woman to take action and stop them from getting away and doing it again, if you have the ability to do so right then and there. Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

It would have to be based on what you saw them do. If you catch someone savagely raping or someone and the rapist runs, I would argue the moral thing to do is disregard any countervailing laws and stop this person from escaping apprehension if you can right then and there by any means including firing at him if you have a clear shot, so he is apprehended and can't get away and do it again. This is not a suspect if you are 100% sure because you saw them doing it with your own eyes and what they did was beyond mere theft of property. This person needs to be stopped even if it requires a shot in the back to do it. Police are allowed the same latitude to fire on a fleeing felon. The law may say let him go because you do not have a government issued badge, but sometimes you have to not follow orders because your own morality supersedes government instructions.

The answer is you can invite a burglar to stay till the police arrive but you can't force him to stay without risking arrest and prosecution. If you can, take a picture so police can catch him and you can identify him later. In NJ the gun is to defend yourself and others from risk of serious bodily harm, and if the guy is running away he isn't harming anyone and you cannot fire at him. Even if he has your property. Perhaps if he has the antidote to poison you are dying from you could make a self defense argument that you had to stop him to save your life. If he is running toward someone else with intent to harm them, you could invoke a claim of defending them. If this is some sort of serial murderer or rapist or extreme sociopath that is an outrageous menace to society, I would argue you have a moral obligation to stop him regardless of the law by any means you can up to and including firing on him so he does not escape arrest. Otherwise gruesome harm he inflicts on subsequent victims after his escape, that could have been avoided by his apprehension, are on your conscience. Others in this state differ in their notions of morality. In Texas it is legal to fire on a fleeing felon who is going to get away. They dont like allowing criminals to get away with it down there. Up here they have different notions. An ordinary thief is a protected class of people in the court house here. If you harm them without a clear basis for self defense you are likely to be pulverized in a court of law.

Maybe horizontal is best of all, if we are splitting hairs here. And if we are going to get really technical, horizontal and upside down, to keep oil out of the stock if it seeps due to gravity. Since i cant help myself, i would point out that best of all is storage in a zero gravity environment! Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

"No mental health background checks" is news to everyone in Essex County where nobody has been able to legally purchase a handgun or obtain a firearm purchaser ID card since Hurricane Sandy - everyone in the county has to wait while the mental health records of the county are meticulously recovered from water damage, so that mental health background checks can be done.

Also don't forget to move the gun side to side a lot while you carry it so it can make lots of loud clicking sounds.

Main thing is lead. I loaded 38 special with lead and plated but otherwise same powder (bullseye) and the lead smokes a lot due to the lube on the bullet. If you want clean go with plated or FMJ and you have 90% of the 'dirty' ammo problem solved. Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

Medium rings might be too low for a 50 mm scope. It is a matter of getting the scope high enough so the scope bell does not touch the barrel, but no higher since the higher you go the higher up off the stock you have to position your eye to look through the scope. You can get weaver rings cheap on ebay, the older made in the USA ones. Used are fine. At the prices on ebay you can buy medium and high rings and see which ones fit better. Dont get cheap no name rings that strip when you tighten them to the bases. Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

The best dent or scratch is the first one. Once you get that one you got it out of the way and can then relax and not worry about getting more of them. So congratulations. Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

I got a rifle through him a couple weeks ago he is a real nice guy. Will definitely order through him again. You can text him the model firearm you want and he will look it up with distributors and text you back the price. You come to his house to do paperwork and pick your item up. He doesn't really have much in terms of inventory but can order what you want or do transfers through him. Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

Note he was not wearing eye protection either. Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

I am skeptical that an inheritance out of state is a "transfer" requiring a FFL get involved. I could be wrong but think it is a different circumstance from buying or being gifted a rifle out of state, because in an inheritance you just get it by operation of law and thus there is no dealer transfer required, if you went to the dealer he could not transfer it because it is already yours per probate laws. In which case lock it in a pelican case and store it in a safe place outside of NJ. Anyone else have any info to the contrary? Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

I'd say ask whoever does your taxes, but drivers license isn't the main consideration for primary tax residence, it is 99% the number of days you stay in one house versus another, and then other factors like proximity to work, where you go to church, where your family is, etc. A PA drivers license isn't going to change whether you owe taxes to PA or not from your NY employment due to owning a house there. I am not a tax man but when I worked in NY while living in NJ, NY got my income taxes, NJ got nothing, and that's straight out of H&R Block. The money was earned in NY and withheld by NY, so I paid NY taxes, and NJ's income tax percentage is less than NY, so my credit for taxes paid to NY totally wiped out any income tax liability in NJ. You'd only pay taxes in PA if PA's income tax was higher than NY, which I seriously doubt. A couple minutes talking with whoever does your taxes will set your mind at ease. The couple hundred it costs to go to H&R Block is so totally worth it, BTW, if you are doing your own taxes you might be messing them up big time. Gun laws are complex enough, tax law is totally indecipherable. As for whether you can take your guns to the NJ shore with a PA drivers license, it's no difference if your DL is NJ or PA - if you have the NJ FPID card then you can take an unloaded rifle or shotgun, and non-hollow point non-"dum dum" bullets in your trunk anywhere but a "school zone" or other exclusion area regardless of whether you live in the state or not. If I were you, I'd be at the PA DMV right now, followed by a trip to the county sheriff's office where your house in PA is to get a resident carry permit. What's the point of having a place in PA if you aren't going to avail yourself of the benefits?

Something similar happened to me once, my car parked in front of my place got hit in a collision that occurred in front of my house while I was at work. The police did their report but I wasn't there. They mailed me a letter asking for my insurance info but I didn't respond since I didn't want to report an accident and was going to pursue damages from the perpetrators myself. Since the cops didn't hear from me they mailed me a summons for "no insurance". I went to court with my insurance card and the case got dismissed right there. However before I went I did some research, and the law doesn't require you have insurance all the time. The law is that you have to have insurance to "Operate" a vehicle. The ticket that I got (which was like five or six years ago) had two check boxes - one box was "Operated" and the other box was "Parked" to indicate whether this was ticketing of a parked car or a car that was being operated that they pulled over. The ticket was checked "parked". "Operated" was not checked. Well, if it was parked, and not operated, then even if I had no insurance, I still should have got off, because while it is illegal to "operate" a vehicle without insurance, that is not what the ticket said - in fact the ticket said the exact opposite, the policeman did not check "operate". Just go to court with your insurance card and whatever other paperwork you got from your insurer, and they will dismiss it. Hopefully you are in a small town, in which case the town prosecutor is not going to give you a hard time. It's just a pain to go to court. If they give you trouble (and assuming your ticket is marked up the same) then give them the operating argument.

You got it backwards. PA's new attorney general is ditching non resident carry permit reciprocity. Your Florida permit wont work there no more. And in NJ you can have firearms on any property you reside at, and even if you own or rent no property in NJ, you can still get a FPID from the NJ state police. Get a PA drivers license and a PA carry permit and you are set. Keep your NJ municipal issued FPID and if you want, get a non-resident one issued by the NJ state police with your PA address on it. Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

I put +2 because one transaction led to another. Excellent person to deal with, an absolute gentleman.

Where a constitutional right is affected, the law is that there has to be a good reason to criminalize something, some sort of compelling interest beyond just a legislature say-so. Prison for a pistol grip and bayonet mount? This is a good case to challenge the constitutionality of NJs irrational AWB and appeal it all the way. What argument can they make that a ban on grip shape is rational? What you need to challenge the law is a prosecution so real prison is being threatened for an otherwise law abiding person. In the absence of any bayonet crime, the argument for banning them is very flimsy and difficult for a prosecutor to argue to an appeals court. Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

Getting back to if this was a NJ illegal gun due to bayonet mount, etc, this is a great case to challenge the whole AWB. The banned features are totally irrelevant and irrational. Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

Definitely trustworthy honest and a good person to deal with!

If you are spending money on land, you ought to be able to spare some money for real legal advice: http://www.jacksonvillelawyer.pro/lawyer-attorney-1315473.html I have a feeling with the appropriate documentation you can set up an NFA gun trust that will get you what you want without too much difficulty. It's all a matter of $$$. $$$ for lawyer advice and drafting, $$$$ for the tax and paperwork, $$$$$$$$$$ for the gun itself (or suppressor, or whatever you want), $$$$ to work out a custodianship arrangement with an appropriately licensed FFL in PA till you establish residency, etc. You don't need any LEO signoff with a trust, so you don't have to worry about that.

In my experience starting out with a lesser recoiling round is better for developing marksmanship. Recoil makes it hard to develop an intuitive sense of whether a particular shot went well or went bad and why, and harder to get in the habit of a good follow through. Plus you can develop a flinch. This is why starting with .22 is such a good idea. Plus it is literally a numbers game. Shoot 10,000 rounds with good form and you are an expert. .22 is the only affordable way to do that. Shoot the same number of rounds with bad form and you are even worse off by the way because you will then have to un-learn the bad habits before learning the right way to do it. This is why a .22 slide is a good idea, you can shoot .22 and 9 or 40 in the same range session. That and having someone knowledgeable show you how and correct your form in the beginning whether it be training or a friend who knows what he is doing. Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

If you want a P226 you can get the conversion slides from Sig and shoot .40 and 9mm and .22 out of the same gun. They work great. Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2