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Here's an idea. Cut off a part of the flag and use it as a test sample to see if you can find any solvents that will dissolve or soften it. I'm thinking acetone, benzene, something like that. If you can find something to dissolve or soften the flag, you can put your gun in to soak overnight and the mag ought to come out easy the next morning.

Glock trigger is different - it's something that if you are used to a regular trigger, you might not like, or, you might like better. The trigger is very predictable and you can get very accurate with it, if you open your mind a bit and figure out mentally how it works with you. This is a good tutorial on the virtues of the Glock:

He sent the check right away, great guy to deal with!

Another thought. Make the trip to Ready Aim Fire in Bristol, PA and rent some guns there. For one flat fee you can shoot every handgun they have, provided you buy the ammo from them. So you can try all of them out.

Go to the gun store and hold them all and get the one that fits your hand the best that you can reach everything the easiest and that is the most comfortable. It is like clothes. Buy what fits. Just dont get something cheap like a hipoint. Get major brand reliable proven guns. Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

Utah will get you into some places that Florida won't (I think Nevada at least), but there's more class time involved to fulfill the requirements, so it's a little more onerous. Once you get your Florida one, New Hampshire is easy to get - a very simple one page form with no photos or fingerprints, and easy to renew, so that's a nice one to have just because it's easy to get. New Hampshire issues them to anyone who has a permit from anywhere else. A lot of people get Virginia, but you get a really cheesy laminated card from them that looks fake and is too big to fit in your wallet and there is no renewal procedure, you have to re-apply and take your fingerprints and photos and get notary signatures and all of that if you want to renew, every five years. So I didn't renew my Virginia one. Yeah you have to go through that again for Florida, but at least Florida sends you the renewal form in the mail so you are set up, and once you get your pictures and fingerprints and notary stamp, the Florida permit lasts 7 years and gives you an official looking card and has more states covered. I had a Maine one, but that one lasts only 4 years, and by the time I realized it, it was expired. They never sent a renewal form either. Maine you can apply without fingerprints also, so it's something you can do just by printing out forms and photocopying permits and sending a check. If you are going to go up to Maine, it is a good thing to have since legally speaking you need a concealed weapons permit there to have a pocketknife in your pocket. Most states you need to show up somewhere in person, or take a local class, which means you can't do it unless you actually travel there and take the time to do it. Here's a link with a lot of info on this. I used this link a little over 5 years ago to get the information for mine. http://handgunlaw.us/documents/NonResidentPermits.pdf Things might have changed since I last looked this over, since it's updated from time to time.

You can order this case (or one like it) to her house: http://www.amazon.com/Plano-Single-Scoped-Double-Non-Scoped/dp/B000P431BG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1353817335&sr=8-4&keywords=gun+case She can open the shipping box, take the case out of the box, put the guns in the case, put the case back in the box, wrap the box up, and it's ready to ship.

To play it safe, I'd recommend you have your grandmother pack up the guns at her house and have fedex scheduled to pick the packages up at her door. Because she's risking an arrest under our crappy laws if she leaves the house with a handgun to take it to the Fedex location, plus you never know what the Fedex people at that location are liable to do if they ask what's inside and she tells them it's a handgun in there.

I must be missing something here, but last time I looked up the statute for so-called "Assault Firearms" in New Jersey I remember seeing a provision regarding "Evil Features" (i.e. flash suppressors, pistol grips, barrel shrouds, stuff like that) and you could only have no more than one evil feature, or perhaps it was two, or else you had an "assault firearm". Anyhow, I just looked it up again and that provision is gone. I can't find it in N.J.S.A. 2C:39-1 on the NJ State Statutes website, nor in the NJAC section on the NJ State Police website. http://lis.njleg.state.nj.us/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=1224515&Depth=4&TD=WRAP&advquery=2C%3a39-1%20%20Definitions&headingswithhits=on&infobase=statutes.nfo&rank=&record={1A47}&softpage=Doc_Frame_Pg42&wordsaroundhits=2&x=31&y=5&zz= http://www.njsp.org/info/pdf/firearms/njac-title13-ch54.pdf It has the usual list of specifically named firearms, the section on evil features for shotguns, the ban on over 15 round magazines, and the ban on semi-auto guns with fixed magazines over 15 rounds. But nothing on evil features for rifles. Could it be that this section was repealed? It seems impossible, but how else could it have disappeared? I'm sure I'm not the first person who noticed this.

Great person to deal with!

And if your grandmother lives in Minnesota, it's even easier. According to opencarry.org, private intra-state transfers in Minnesota are legal. http://www.opencarry.org/?page_id=157 So, assuming your grandmother is also a Minnesota resident, it appears you can go pick them up.

The brass you lose with your auto loaders someone else ends up picking up. You just gotta pay more attention when you are searching for it. You ought to leave the range with more brass than you brought half the time, because of others who leave their cases for you to pick up. Or maybe I just have really good eyesight, seeing all this brass that everyone else leaves for me.

He sent me a postal mail order right away and was a great person to deal with!

Really nice guy, met up with him at SCFGPA so we could try out each others' guns and do a trade, overall have to say that this guy is 100%. Definitely trustworthy and honest and an all around good person to deal with.

Where in the statute does it say you can transport hollow point ammo to and from the range? I ask because I didn't see any provision for that in the earlier quoted statutes and now am concerned. Based on the statutes here you can buy it, bring it home and then it never leaves the house again even if you move and you can't transport it to the range either. Am I missing something? Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

The problem with the UN arms trade treaty is that various drafts we have seen thus far have required things like nationwide registration of all firearms, a federal firearm ID card, requirement of a gunsmithing license for doing any gun work (even for yourself), registration of all ammunition manufacturing (including people reloading at home), control over ammunition sales, legal access controls to more parts than just the receiver of the gun, special treatment for semi-automatic firearms, etc. So basically it will just be a big package of unnecessary, inconvenient, onerous, legally ambiguous and perilous requirements implemented by the BATFE and politicians who think you shouldn't have this stuff in the first place, enforced by people with little to no particular firearms experience or expertise or interest, with the intention of making gun ownership too burdensome for most people to indulge in, and to make a larger proportion of the population into "prohibited persons". Such a system could easily turn into the type of environment that only the Class III/Full Auto enthusiast crowd have had to deal with - onerous paperwork, draconian punishment for paperwork errors, long long delays in legal recognition of transfers, closure of future registration for new guns, inflated prices for grandfathered items that can no longer be registered new, strict and absurd rulings on technical matters, etc. The whole concept of applying international law to our domestic firearm rules is a losing proposition for us. As bad as New Jersey is, it is fantastic from a gun law perspective compared to most of the world where if you are lucky if you can have a double shotgun after massive paperwork is completed and inquiry is made and expensive fees paid. Any international regime is going to result in a reduction in our rights.

I got one last year, it is fantastic. Just about perfect in every way. I just put an aperture sight on it. That heavy barrel makes it very easy to shoot very accurately. Feeds everything and never jams.

I'm in the process of making my own generator/battery charger using the parts and advice from this website. http://theepicenter.com/tow082099.html If something looks cobbled together and makeshift nobody's going to want to steal it anyhow - they won't even know what it is. Requires brains to operate. Generator security through obscurity. A side shaft engine, a board to mount it on, a metal plate, an alternator, a deep cycle battery and a power inverter is going to cost as much as a good generator in the long run, and at least you have modular parts you can swap out, repair, replace as needed. Plus a battery or two to power things through the night without the generator running and attracting attention.

If she's nuts enough to be denied a FPID, then she must be too nuts to be entrusted with a drivers license, the legal entitlement to direct what is essentially a large steel battering ram at high velocities in close proximity to vulnerable pedestrians. Certainly she should be barred from ownership of matches, gasoline, etc. as well. If, on the other hand, she can be trusted with command of a car on a public road, and she has not run her enemies down with her vehicle, then why should she be denied a FPID? Both cars and guns can be deadly in an instant if one is disposed to harm others, both have legitimate, essential uses, and both rely upon the personal morality of the operator to determine whether the use be beneficial or detrimental to others. If you do not support her right to a FPID, you support and feed the arguments against you yourself having a FPID. She needs to hire a good lawyer immediately and contest this.

Speaking of inverters, every store is sold out of all of them everywhere I have seen. I was lucky to get a 400 Watt one just before it sold out at a Pep Boys. Every store afterward, all sold out, empty shelves. Got a good deal on a big deep cycle AGM battery at Sam's Club. Now with the two of those together I can run the furnace if we lose power, and charge cell phones, etc.

Great guy to deal with, I bought a part, sent money via paypal, and he mailed it priority to me right away!

Here I am not going to argue this since like I said, you can take your chances if you want to, but here is the trial testimony of the ATF firearms examiner in the Olofson trial giving testimony about putting M16 parts in an AR-15. We all know this testimony is wrong, but nevertheless this is what will happen if your gun malfunctions and they find M16 parts in it. On the basis of this testimony any jury will put you in prison no matter what you say. Hence the peril of putting M-16 parts in an AR-15 firearm and the reason why I posted in the first place. As always, you are free to do what you want. Jury Trial - 1/7/08 Witness: Max Kingery Q. And how many firearms approximately have you examined in your official capacity to make that determination, that is, whether the firearm qualifies as a machine gun? A. As evidence I've examined several hundred firearms, maybe approaching a thousand firearms that would have fit into the machine gun category. Q. Okay. And if I show you what's been marked as Exhibit 1 in this case, do you know whether you've had an opportunity to examine this particular firearm? A. Yes, sir, I have. Q. And how do you know that? A. From the serial number. I looked at it earlier also as it was sitting on the table and verified that it's the same firearm that I examined. Q. Okay. And do you know how many times you've had an occasion to examine that particular firearm? A. Well, not counting today three occasions. Q. And is it true that you examined that particular firearm specifically in the course of performing your duties as an FEO? A. Yes. Q. And do you recall when the first test was? A. It was in October of 2006. Q. Okay. And how did that test come about? How did you first come into contact with that gun? A. The item was submitted to Firearms Technology Branch as evidence, and it was assigned to me for examination. Q. Okay. And once it was assigned to you, you took possession of it, right? A. Yes, sir. Q. And what did you do that? A. Well, I examined it to see if it had been modified in any way, or if any parts had been installed into it to convert it into a machine gun. Q. And what did you find upon that examination? A. When I examined this firearm I found that there were four of the fire control components, it had been assembled with machine gun components for four of the firearm components. Q. And what four components were those? A. The trigger, the hammer, the disconnector, and the selector switch. Q. Okay. And based on your training and experience, what is the effect of having those four components, those four specific components be M-16 parts rather than AR-15 parts? A. When installed to an AR? Q. That's correct. A. It would make the weapon fire automatically, or allow it to fire automatically. Q. And when you say allow it to fire automatically, you mean allow it to fire more than one round with a single pull of the trigger? A. Yes, sir. Q. And, therefore, constitute a machine gun? A. Yes, sir. Q. I show you what's been marked as Exhibit 9. Now, Exhibit 9 is a document entitled, AR-15 to M-16 Conversion, right? A. Yes, sir. Q. And it indicates on page 2, if you turn to that, there's a notice at the bottom I believe that indicates that the purpose of the manual is to instruct individuals as to how to convert a nonautomatic to an automatic firearm, right? A. Yes, sir. Q. And -- THE COURT: Counsel, please note that document is not currently in front of the jury. Do you wish to have it displayed? MR. HAANSTAD: I'm sorry, yes, Your Honor, please. THE COURT: Can the jury see that clearly? Go ahead. BY MR. HAANSTAD: Q. And if you turn to page 10 of that manual. Now, at the top of page 10, it's captioned, AR-15 Parts? A. Yes. Q. And it shows five different fire control components, right? A. Yes, sir. Q. And you had mentioned that four fire control components were M-16 rather than AR-15 in this particular firearm, right? A. Yes, sir. Q. And which four are those? A. The hammer, the selector, the trigger and the disconnector. Q. Okay. And again, based on your training and your experience, is it necessary to replace all five of these AR-15 parts that are listed here in Exhibit 9 in order to make an AR-15 fire automatically? A. No, sir, it's not necessary to replace all five. Q. Okay. And you testified that during your October 2006 examination of this particular firearm of Exhibit 1, that you noted that four of these five were changed, right? Or I'm sorry, four of these five were M-16 rather than AR-15 components, right? A. Yes, sir. Q. Okay. And based on the fact that those four components were M-16 rather than AR-15, did you have an expectation as to whether or not that firearm would qualify as a machine gun? A. I expected that it would fire automatically, yes.

I'll explain why I made that remark, because it is important. Olofson had an AR that was built using several purportedly legal M16 parts. That was how Olympic Arms made his AR. It malfunctioned, as we all know, and everyone here knows that the parts were not the reason why the gun malfunctioned. Everyone here knows. The prosecutor, jury, and judge? The public watching television news? They don't know how an AR works. They probably are either incapable of actually understanding mechanically how it works, or if they are able to understand it, in all likelihood they don't care and are not going to try to figure it out. All they knew is the thing fired full auto, had full auto parts in it, therefore Olofson must be guilty. So my point, and I should have set it forth at length the first time, is that sure you are free to put M16 parts in your gun if you want to, but god forbid the thing malfunctions and fires off a string at the range in front of a bunch of witnesses. Because then you have a real problem explaining to the judge and jury and media why you decided to use machine gun parts when you were building it, if you didn't intend for it to be a machine gun. The jury who decides your case will not be composed of engineers, but ordinary people. Certainly there is a very small chance of anything like that happening to you. But you ought to be aware of it in making your decision. As always you are free to do what you want, subject only to results and consequences.

David Olofson thought his rifle was legal so beware! Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

FPID doesn't need to have your current address? Can you point out where that is in writing? Because it sure is a pain re-applying every time you move.