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New: Custom Ed Brown 1911 to be finished Used: pre-29, 5 screw with 5" barrel shipped 1956 with original box

Best? No such thing IMO. Ammo should be selected, amongst other things, it's intended function. With regard to CCI's .22 selections, can't go wrong with them. Incredibly reliable and solve the reliability issues with commonly finicky .22 semi-autos.

5.7x28 - nowhere to be found except GB, and no way in he!! I'm paying $2+/round for it!

These are ALL new. Tack them onto the list of the 23 I posted a week or so ago. Some duplicate the same desired end result with soem careful tweaks to basically try and get through to the same end via a different path. They are slinging everything to get something to stick. This is why it's critical to show up at the sessions for these Bills and give testimony against. If you've never seen how Bills get passed, it will floor you how quickly politicians yield their pens without a blink of an eye if the room is quiet!

Not just the 8th folks. We need pro-2A and pro-gun represented at each and every one of the Bills when brought up in their various legislative sessions to give testimony to the committee against the Bills! THIS is the most effective pressure to be exerted.

If you're up for quality gun leather, and don't mine waiting for it and paying the price I can hook you up with some of the best. Drop my a PM for options.

Combat, a couple things my wheel gunning brothers didn't mention... You're going to need to invest in a quality set of flat-ground slotted screw drivers so that you will have the proper fitting driver to properly remove grips screws and the crane retention screw (and maybe in the future to remove the sideplate to smooth out the action). With a stainless gun, you will be pulling the cylinder from time to time to give the end a thorough cleanup so that retention screw with come in and out. You definitely don't want to booger up the screws! Now personally for thorough cleanups, I do not like lead removal clothes or clean ups with copper scrubs because of my experience with metals. YMMV. I choose to use a polishing compound that's a homebrew solvent suspension of fine polishing compounds. You don't have to make it yourself, you can actually buy a pretty good version at any TA Travel Center. I've not found anything that cleans up a stainless wheel gun better. Normal post range/competition cleaning for me is a thorough barrel and cylinder cleaning, clean up the forcing cone and a couple of wipedowns with a quality CLP. Cleaning up the forcing cone requires getting into some tight places. I don't like attacking them with aggressive brushes unless I have to. So locate yourself the best Tobacco and Cigar shop you have around and go in and buy a pack of Dill's bristled pipe cleaners. Soak one with CLP or cleaner of your choice and have at it. Edit: forgot to mention you can order Loctite 222 direct from www.mcmaster.com. I recommend for a stainless gun, if you are fanatical about appearance to use 222MS. It's food-grade and non-staining.

...and this is, in part, why I am saying it's on the citizens who are also firearms enthusiasts...

From personal experience, the Shield and PPS are comparable physically but the Shield has a shorter slide. These single-stackers are really nice CCWs, and likely not inline with what the OP wants, especially with large hands. Regarding both guns, I would take the Shield over the PPS. Out of the box the Shield's trigger is far superior to a PPS! It is very crisp and short on reset. The PPS trigger is gritty/creaky with a long takeup. Dry fire both in the gun store and your will see what I mean. Better yet, if you can fire both!

Even single citizen has the right to speak before his or her legislature. For eveyone's knowledge, every single one of the 23 NJ Bills coming up related to gun control can have testimony! I will try to post, as is the NJ2AS when these Bills are coming up. The compounding difficulty is that they are effectively being shoe-horned into this legislative session given the event that spurned them. So the notice for hearings is VERY short.

And that very position is what has allowed government to run the course it has. It is no longer by the people, for the people. Still as of this moment in the USA, everyone has the right to make their own choice. I've chosen mine - to do everything within my power to fight for what I believe in, and I will be able to live with that regardless of what happens. My father, a Marine gunny and blue collar guy installed a very simple fundamental in me - put up or shut up. I chose to put up. Nonetheless, I have to be honest, such an argument personally blows me away because the antis have no problem coming in droves to flex influential muscle, taking off work, making alternate arrangements. Can you imagine the power if we could form the same level of solidarity in firearms owners?

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For those interested, let me check with my guy and see if he minds me posting his contact information publicly or not. If he does, I'll PM it to you. For those asking, the patterns are done from standard catalogued films. My NJ guy uses: http://twnindustries.com/Films.html It is possible to have custom films prepared, but I can tell you it is at considerable cost. My NJ guy does not do custom films at this time. I do have a guy in the northwest who does. I have much experience and knowledge of the product and process as I've been using it for a long while as part of my other hobby for resto-rods, muscle cars, and custom street trucks as well as on long guns and the occassional set of grips for my handguns. Hydrographics, or more commonly, water transfer printing it what manufacturers of firearms use to do digital camo. It is the OEM process. It is also used in sporting goods, and all that faux wood and carbon fiber in your vehicles is done this way too.

For those concerned with the walk from the train station, cabs are readily fetched at the station. There is also ample parking around the State House in public garages and street meters. You will not be able to use the limited free parking at the State House Garage due to construction restrictions and the purpose at-hand. Anyway, I have parked in just about all the garages and at meters along W. State Street many times and never a problem. Here are your garage options: http://maps.google.c...arking&t=m&z=16

I attended the Senate Law and Public Safety Committee session for NJ Bill S2430 this morning in the State House Annex. For those of you who are not aware of the content of this Bill, it can be found here: http://www.njleg.sta...500/2430_I1.HTM This Bill is submitted under a notion of focusing on mental health in an attempt to veil this: “Although New Jersey has strict gun control laws, these laws are easily circumvented because of the lack of similar federal laws. In order to provide more safety for New Jersey residents, the federal government must reinstate its ban on assault weapons which expired on September 13, 1994 and must expand background check requirements for gun purchases to include all sales and transfers” BLANKET ACCEPTANCE of anything the Federal government enacts for gun control! Now, the Committee postponed a vote on the Bill today and only took testimony, both for and against the Bill. I believe this was, in part, due to flooding the legislature with calls and faxes last week! Based on my observations during testimony, I can tell you body language and comments and questioning from the Committee members shows there is already a bias towards gun control (no surprise). It was also clear that the Committee is uneducated about firearms. Further, the supporters for the Bill were present in mass numbers – about every civic coalition, organization, and group you can think of; a couple of mayors (Roselle and Plainfield), a city councilman…. Senator Lesniak stacked the room well. Sure, some of the Bill supporters went on record saying it’s not about the guns, but their whispers before the testimony began were very different I will say in absolution. The problem with this Bill is the way it is dangerously, and probably very purposefully written, to have broad-sweeping gun control, yet is being “marketed” as a Bill that creates the Governor’s Study Commission on Violence for which mental health is a key driver. Fact of the matter, the way this Bill is written is that there will be no study of real facts, figures, expert testimony, or any form of hard, tangible evidence regarding the effects of gun control on violence. There would be no point for the Study Commission to address that aspect because passing of this Bill would be blanket adoption of whatever the Federal government enacts against gun rights! This is not what New Jersey firearms enthusiasts want, and this is not the message Governor Christie delivered in his speech on January 17th. This is a CONTRIVED BASTARDIZATION trying to be ramrodded through the legislature!!! Because this was not voted today, there is time for each and every one of you to make your position known to the legislature! Please contact EVERYONE I list below and tell them 1) you oppose the gun control element of Bill S2430; 2) that you wish for them to vote against this Bill as it is currently written; and, 3) you want, as constituents of this State, any Study Commission on Violence to include due representation from New Jersey firearms enthusiasts. Please email, write, fax, and call the following legislature members: The entire Law and Public Safety Committee (these are those who will vote the Bill!): Senator Donald Norcross: http://www.njleg.sta...BIO.asp?Leg=324 Senator Linda R. Greenstein: http://www.njleg.sta...BIO.asp?Leg=329 Senator Christopher Bateman: http://www.njleg.sta...BIO.asp?Leg=304 Senator James W. Holzapfel: http://www.njleg.sta...BIO.asp?Leg=334 Senator Nicholas J. Sacco: http://www.njleg.sta...BIO.asp?Leg=140 The Bill Sponsors: Senator Raymond J. Lesniak: http://www.njleg.sta.../BIO.asp?Leg=61 Senator Shirley K. Turner: http://www.njleg.sta.../BIO.asp?Leg=47 Senator Jim Whelan: http://www.njleg.sta...BIO.asp?Leg=301 Senator Sandra B. Cunningham: http://www.njleg.sta...BIO.asp?Leg=290 Senator Joseph F. Vitale: http://www.njleg.sta...BIO.asp?Leg=175 Now let’s get down to some brass tacks here everyone… There were about a dozen of us present in opposition of the Bill. A dozen. We were outnumbered about 2.5:1 in testimony. I absolutely salute and applaud Frank Jack Fiamingo and the NJ2AS for being there, for speaking, for representing the interests of New Jersey firearms enthusiasts, for fighting the cause… But I’m going to be straight here, as any real Jersey boy is, IT IS NOT ENOUGH! Why? Because not only must you battle the issue, you must battle the stigma placed upon groups like the NJ2AS. It, frankly, dilutes their effectiveness because of this State's historic position on firearms. Do you want to know who the Committee listened to from those that opposed the Bill on the basis of gun control? THE AVERAGE JOE! It was testimony given by CITIZENS that the Committee took most interest in. Paying sufficient attention to what was being said to then ask follow up questions! Don’t let me simply synopsize this, listen to the entire proceedings yourself here: http://www.njleg.sta...030AM-M0-1.wma! Of course you must wait into about two-thirds in before opposing testimony. A warning to Veterans, you may be offended by Senator’s Lesniak’s position citing his service in the US Army. Others, you will likely be as offended as I was that the Senator could be there long enough to make sure to hear all his supporters, but then left before those of us against the gun control element finished testimony. Nevertheless, the salient point is that CITIZENS got their attention. We need more New Jersey CITIZENS who are also members of the firearms enthusiast community of this State to attend these sessions and give testimony – i.e., share your thoughts and feelings, deliver the counter message! A dozen is not enough when they come by the bus load from the opposite side. Many of you will proclaim it’s not possible because of work, but I work too and took vacation time in order to attend and I’m certainly not local to Trenton... This is an important issue to me. Is it not to you, my fellow New Jersey firearms enthusiasts??? Please contact the above list of legislature members every day until the Bill is voted on, and if you can, please come help resist the passing of the 23 gun control Bills in-person at the legislative sessions!

Here you go: http://www.nj2as.com/EVENTS?eventId=620963&EventViewMode=EventDetails

How about using hydrographics instead? Google it up and see if it interests you. If it does, I have a fellow who does exceptional work I can refer you to here in NJ.

It's an interesting problem... Law enforcement has been seeing cuts throughout the nation, and now gun grabbers want to disarm law-abiding citizens of the nation. This dumb engineer doesn't see how that adds up to reducing violence. Maybe the Sheriff's message wasn't too politically correct, but it just might be keeping it real... FWIW - Wisconsin reports at about 60% of the population begin gun owners (that's about 3 million WI gun owners).

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We all heard either heard or read about the governor's commission to study the issues at hand. This is in committeeTOMORROW at 10:30AM. The proposed Bill, as it stands, does not have due representation from our firearms community! Read it for yourself: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2012/Bills/S2500/2430_I1.HTM Many of us here have been discussing it, and the NJ2AS has been posting to gain support to bring numbers into the room tomorrow! However, as of right now there are only 9 people registered to attend. That will hardly fill the committee room where the Bill is going to be read... Please, come out and lend your support! If the governor's commission doesn't have firearms interests represented, it is sure to be biased and that will be bad, bad news for us! Hope to meet some forum members tomorrow!

It's a pretty basic outdoor range. Accessibility is why I remain a member (363 days a year, Mon-Sat 8am-sunset, Sun 9am-sunset). There's no "short" ranging so your shooting pistol at 25 yards, which is not for everyone, and there are 50 and 100 yard ranges plus trap. Pretty well-maintained. If you give Nick a call at 609-254-4390 you can arrange to have a look around. It's $200 first-time joining and $35 to add spouse, but the primary member must accompany spouse.

Yes. I still hang onto a membership at Telco. Anything in particular you want to know?

I think we're all on the same page the more I read the post, the confusing part is where the purchase money is involved.