Old Glock guy

Thanks for the reply. What you say makes sense. I hope it's right.

Would you be prepared? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/

Just curious as to how you broach the subject?

I like it!

I picked this knife up from Amazon, and it was delivered promptly with free shipping. Turns out that what they mean by "assisted" is that when you push a button (with the safety off), the blade springs open. Excuse my naivety, but is that the same thing as a switchblade? Am I in violation of NJ law by owning it? (And will the NJSP come knocking at my door now that I've posted this?)

Rrages makes 15 round mags for the S&W 15-22 (actually, they block a 33 round mag at 15 rounds to accommodate us poor souls in NJ), but I have not seen anyone making something comparable for the 10/22; which is surprising, considering the popularity of the latter.

For future reference, I got up there around 3:30 today, and by then the crowds were mostly dissipated. There were just a handful of people on the HG range, and the 100 yard range looked similar. Plus, the rain held out, so everything worked out OK for me.

Does anyone know around what time the crowds start to thin out? With rain in the forecast for this afternoon, and The Bullet Hole closed on Sundays for the summer, I may be SOL for today.

How do you like your G34? I'm pretty sure I'm getting one. It looks like it's similar to the M&P Pro Series 9mm (my first choice), which S&W will not ship to this godforsaken state due to its 17 round mags. And BTW, when NJ set an arbitrary ban on mag capacity, what made them choose 15, since so many mags are for 17 rounds?

Ah, the eternal shotgun question. There are discussions of this all over the web. You can do a search to read all the opinions, but ultimately you might as well just flip a coin, because there is not much to choose between them. I agonized over this for awhile, and ended up with the Mossberg 500 Persuader. This one: http://www.mossberg.com/images/Mossberg_Guns/930/NEW/50577.jpg I like the no-nonsense look of it, but the R870 looks almost exactly the same.

I have this same issue, but I was not aware of it until recently. (To really complicate things, I have a dominant left leg and eye, while I'm right handed.) I was shooting handguns sighting with my dominant (left) eye until the instructors at Gun For Hire convinced me that I should learn to shoot with both eyes open, so I've been working on that. For rifles, I've been sighting through my weak eye, which seems to be working OK. I can see fine out of my right eye. It's just that since the brain seems to favor one eye over the other, that's not the one it favors. I'm going to try it with both eyes open, but as Bonesinium notes, that might be too much of a challenge.

Welcome. Until you can get around to posting pictures, a description will suffice for now.

Good one! To the OP (and others), I hate to sound like a jerk (that's what people always say just before they sound like a jerk), but all this stuff about OGAM, transport laws, etc. gets discussed over and over again. The search function is your friend.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I was blown away by the speed with which I received some ammo from Target Sports USA. Ordered 1000 rounds of Federal American Eagle 9mm for $219 and 175 rounds of Federal Premium 12 Gauge 2-3/4" OO buckshot which came with an ammo can for $119. Neither was a really hot deal, but the prices were decent, especially since shipping was free. I assumed that with free shipping they would be sent on a slow boat from China, but amazingly after I placed the order yesterday at 1:25 PM, it was waiting for me in my driveway when I returned home from work this evening! Is that even possible???

Very nice! Good luck with it.

I have an S&W 15-22 and a Ruger 10/22, both purchased in the last few months. Both are lots of fun to shoot, plus the ammo for them literally costs pennies. I'm enjoying them so much that I just ordered a GSG 522SD, which is another AR clone that you might want to investigate. I suspect that there might be a real AR in my future.

I've often thought that being able to store guns at a shooting facility would be a major convenience, for the reasons mentioned of being able to go other places to visit friends or family, get something to eat, etc. I can't think of any reason that ranges couldn't do it, except perhaps fear of liablity if the lockers were to get broken into and guns stolen.

I might be able to make it, depending on the time. It would be great to meet some of you guys.

You can rest assured that you chose the right guys with GFH, and I think you will like the SJSC location in Winslow.

What are you going to do, vote for the guy proposing CCW permits with no fees? Good luck trying to find him or her in NJ.

That seems to be pretty much the way it works.

I like my Glock 23 (gen ?), but I can't really say I love it. I have a couple of other HG's (in 9mm) that are more fun to shoot. Is anyone familiar with the M&P's in .40? In particular, are they less snappy than the earlier G23's?

Well done! I was going to mention that I have heard from a few sources that loaded mags are considered loaded guns in NJ, based on a decision in a court case. But since I can't cite the case, I hereby retract my statement.

Not sure if this has been addressed, but it would seem to me that one of the problems with open carry is that one would constantly be stopped by police. If the guy in the video (and in others I've seen) is doing nothing more than walking along with a legal firearm, why would the police stop him? And (as I believe someone pointed out in another thread) once he answers that LEO's question, what's to stop the next LEO down the street from going through the same routine? Seems like it would take a long time to get anywhere with all those stops!

I don't know anything about De Weese, but I know Van Drew personally. Not only is he a good guy, but despite his Democratic affiliation, he is fairly conservative and a strong 2A supporter. It's my understanding that the reason he attached a high fee to his CCW permit bill is that he thought it would have a better chance of getting through the legislature that way. When he sensed a lot of resistance, he lowered the proposed fee to $100 annually, which I feel is fair.