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Damn.....What do you do? Tap it out backwards with a wooden dowel?

Brian Aitken has a short video on Live leak covering a book he has apparently written about his trial ,incarceration, and the fact that because he is still considered a felon he is unable to see his son. I would link the video but for some reason I am not allowed to do so any longer on NJGF. I would appreciate it if anyone is interested in the video please link it to this or your own tread....I believe he should be heard. Thank you.

Very true. I stay with OE specs on my cars,The wife's SUV takes 0/40 Mobil 1 and I do the change within 10 to 15 k, My Volkswagen takes 5/30 Mobil 1 and gets a change between 7 to 10 k depending on how hard I beat her. We typically don't change cars until that 200k mark and I know one of my old GTI's is still going well past the 270k mark.

Acknowledging that all of the above is merely an exercise in hypothetical's......I'd put them in a secured ammo box and drive intelligently to my next domicile... there...band width saved.

My very liberal brother in Norway....absorbs every anti American/anti firearm article,television show he can access and throws it back to me on FB.Ironically he was trained as a NATO forces sniper but couldn't hit the side of a barn when he was a boy.......Rather reflects the state of Norwegian commitment to NATO I should think. Just to piss him off I shipped 2 NJGF tee shirts to my nephews and he get steamed every time they wear them around him .He a great guy but I do so enjoy teasing him...... always have.

Thanks for the info....I like the idea of the Easton location because I've heard the range is pretty decent and we've been exploring Pennsylvania a lot more over the past months.

We were in deed lucky....as for fear, is it not the same fear that drives someone to carry in their homes even considering the astronomical odds of any incident warranting an immediate armed response? I've come to terms with my fear and refuse to be beholding to it.

My "conditioning" started on a small,politically unstable Caribbean Island where we had 2 major revolutions to overthrow the government by the military. 3 so called "black power" uprisings where we had a dawn to dusk curfew, feared for our lives because we were "White", heard gunfire every night for weeks with my mother sleeping with a .22 under her pillow for years and we practiced a safe procedure should an intruder break in by hiding in a large closet with a sharp cutlass for protection.......so because of that conditioning,living in suburban New Jersey where we have a better chance of setting the house on fire burning scented candles than a armed push in......I think I can be rather casual, you see Vlad I've lived the scenario you all only imagine.

Since Mecgar stopped making 15 round mags for the 75b I believe all newer stock will come with 16 round mags.

Really? I wouldn't.....I'd just pack heat. Good Night Gentlemen.....It has been a pleasure.....

Why....give logical reasons and I'm sure we'll all entertain them....... Again I seek a logical debate not hyperbole

Precisely.......would you strap a fire extinguisher to your hip while lounging around the house?.......but you argue you would a firearm...correct? Yet you would in all probability need the extinguisher sooner than the firearm.... and that Gentlemen is the inconvenient Truth..

Please...My intention was not to upset you but only to offer an opposing view with reasons.... My reasons however alien to you are my reasons.....as you, yours. I respect them as I hope you do mine. Vlad has perfected the art of debate on NJGF without malice and I try to emulate but nuances sometimes gets lost in the translation.

...and I respect that...

Please....... if you can't discern the difference between common sense precautions and a underlying need to be a home Rambo then I fear we have little to discuss further. I don't begrudge you your need to feel somehow safe in your own home with a firearm strapped heroically on your hip... what ever blows your hair back.... but I reserve the right to disagree.

+1 And I'm only Danish on my Grandmothers side.

Life in my limited and admitted selfish interpretation has little room for unbridled paranoia and what if's.....I take appropriate safeguards and am situationally aware as I've traveled extensively and have lived through 2 revolutions,several uprisings and a few curfews so to waste life and energy preparing for some unlikely eventuality because of a romance with a firearm appears counterproductive and a waste of time.

Vlad....you're a man of the world and infinitely informed, What do you estimate the chances of a armed intruder kicking down the door and the average firearm owner needing a firearm immediately on hand? 10%..5%..1%..0.5%..0.2%...less? I reside in the real world and while admire the conviction and steadfastness of those who don't play the odds...I have more important thing to think about.... Life being on the very top of the list unburdened by outrageous odds.

I find it interesting and fortuitous that I always receive a "Free shipping, no minimum" email right after all their popular ammo is sold out.

A sobering and very accurate depiction of what a minority see as some romantic opportunity to lock and load.

I don't carry in my home,I do however have several firearms concealed but within reach. I look at it this way,If it ever came to the point I felt that a firearm has to be on my person in my own home at all times.....it's time to move or perhaps seek some help.......that IMHO is paranoia, plain and simple. Now I venture that we all like firearms or we would not be here but there are some who's whole identity and psyche is so intertwined with what for most is a hobby that they lose sight of the ridiculousness of the whole scenario. I don't stress that 40 ft separates me from a loaded firearm or what "condition" that firearm is in because if I did then the question must be asked.....Am I the master of the firearm or is the firearm the master of me? Now again,we've all heard the old and tired cliches of "use it or lose it"",better to have it and not need it rather than the opposite" ect...ect... but in my mind I've made the best choices to insure my family's and my comfort ,safety and to consider me carrying a firearm in my own home is essentially surrendering to fear.

Just out of curiosity.........Is Wayne, NJ a particularly hazardous town, perhaps an area in transition?

I was able to find a Iphone app called Legal Heat that runs through all 50 states gun laws in a simple format. Seems pretty comprehensive.

I averaged 5 to 7 sessions a year as the shooting sports are only 1 of my interests.....then the "Dark Times" came and ammo became astronomically expensive if available at all so I hung on to my ammo and pretty much stopped all together. I went through 200 rounds yesterday and anticipate another visit sometime in the next few weeks.

Florida maybe in the future but at this point we're looking into a small RV to do short jaunts at first to some of the other southern states.