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I have also found slickguns, galleryofguns and nfdmall pretty useful for shopping and pricing.

See this is why I am reluctant to first talk to a neighbor about a problem--especially one I do not know well. They will get defensive, try to avoid responsibility and make it somehow your fault, and then they go after you for the smallest issue. It is unfortunate, but I think it is better to just call the law and let them deal with it.

Thanks for all the feedback everyone! Lots of great information here. I ended up going with the M&P Shield 9mm. Took forever to get it--very difficult to find in our local gun stores. So I was ready to buy online, then they had the recall and I could not find anything online for about two weeks! Finally started coming back about two weeks ago. Picked it up yesterday (actually my wife's first handgun purchase), and of course checked the trigger for the recall issue. Looking forward to getting it out to the range. I will report back on how it performs.

I ordered one for my wife and she just picked it up yesterday. Have not been to the range yet, but hope to get out with it this week. I like this gun. I was not able to have my wife try it or even hold one prior to ordering due to the non-availability at any LGS (Shore Shot had it in stock once, but it was gone by the time I got there). So I kind of had to order it blind and hope she liked it--I was pretty sure she would like it based on my own handling of it, but you never know. We picked it up Saturday and she really loves the gun. We have done some dry fire with it. Now just need to get it out to the range!

If I were a business owner AND I trusted my employees, then I would definitely want to give them wide discretion to make this type of decision--in this case TD Bank has received a pretty decent amount of word-of-mouth advertising for $5.

Several times I have got the skin of my palm sucked into the chamber on my 92FS--hurts like a SOB. And then you have to re-grasp the slide--putting extra tension on the skin--in order to pull the slide back to release it. First time it took me like 20 seconds to think through the pain and figure out how to extract it!

Yes--access to all safes, but she usually forgets and has to ask me for the code. She just got FID and I have a 9 ordered for her, she also "has" a Beretta 92, which is technically mine. And I have no worries about her capability and safe handling.

Glad you caught it and got it taken out. That is one of my biggest fears also--what if you are out in the sticks somewhere, or climbing a mountain or something. I tried to convince the surgeon who did my hernia to remove the appendix while he had me opened up. He convinced me not to--not that I would have changed his mind anyway. But I still have that fear that it is just going to go one day--and I will ignore it, attributing it to some bad food and hope it will pass--and I will be screwed.

But it does not define "vehicle." Do you think any vehicle (bicycle, segway, golf cart) as long as it is locked up and neither readily or directly accessible? I guess this is the danger of non-lawyers trying to understand the law. Seems a little absurd that one should need to retain counsel just to figure out how to legally transport.

You are correct. I misspoke, which is why I retracted it above. Thanks for the correction and I apologize for the misleading information.

Yeah, I think my original statement was incorrect. Sorry for the misinformation.

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Well that pretty much settles it then. Great polemic skills there.

Do you ever fly commercially?

I am pretty sure there would be armed MPs as well as a number of regular officers carrying M9s in the Navy yard--so likely a much higher proportion of armed citizens than the rest of D.C.

No one is trashing police or military--well maybe someone is. I think the adults are trying to have a discussion about this response/incident in NYC and if maybe weapon policy and training would have led to a better outcome. In my experience the military training and drilling is pretty extensive and constant. That is just my observation based on seeing U.S troops during normal working activities.

Conjure indeed! If you are just going to resort to an ad hominem argument because either you cannot refute what has been said, or you are incapable of the abstraction required to understand metaphorical reference and analogy. Well then there is no discussion.

So if a bridge collapses, only PEs should be allowed to criticize the engineer who designed the bridge?

Is every right in the Bill of Rights sacrosanct, absolute and not to be restricted for any reason whatsoever? Are any of them?

If (as 'plode' first suggested) the activity occurs on land that you own, then I am pretty sure this possession exemption applies: 2C:39-6 e. Nothing in subsections b., c. and d. of N.J.S.2C:39-5 shall be construed to prevent a person keeping or carrying about his place of business, residence, premises or other land owned or possessed by him, any firearm. The quote above is taken from the same list of exemptions (infra), specifically 2C:39-6 f (2). IANAL, but both exceptions are written to specifically apply to sections b., c. and d. of N.J.S.2C:39-5 (supra), which deals specifically with unlawful possesion of handguns (b), rifles and shotguns ( c), and other weapons (d).

I carry a Spyderco Tenacious every day. I often use it at the mall to slice an apple, open plastic packages, or remove tags from purchases. Normally it is stowed in a hip pocket with only the clip visible. Never been questioned, but if I was I would explain what I normally use it for.

This is something I do not understand. And I have never received a red-light camera ticket, so have not had a chance to find out. I would think that, unless they have a picture of the driver, there is no proof of who was driving the vehicle when it was recorded in the infraction. So the right to face ones accusers, plus the presumption of innocence, coupled with the 5th ammendment--the burden of proof is on the state. Has anyone tried to go before the court and demand that they fulfill their burden of proving who was driving the car? It seems like that would be the end of it, but apparently not because my understanding is that people are not regularly beating these tickets. I also understand that their are no points/moving violations, so maybe that is the state's key to this revenue stream--a moving violation requires the higher threshold of guilt? Friends of mine have received speeding tickets from cameras on I-95 in MD. The ticket is only $40 and no points, so most people will just pay it--especially if you are just driving through. I would not be suprised to see these on the Tpk and parkway soon.

There are problems with the yellow light timings being too short for the speed on the road they are placed--often these are never calibrated or certified. If you are in the intersection for any reason for even a few hundredths of a second you can be ticketed. And most of the right-turn-on-red tickets are issued if you do not stop for a certain amount of time--typically 3-5 seconds, but traffic law states that you must only come to a complete stop before a right-turn-on-red. The 3-5 second requirement is a total fabrication. I totally agree with not running red lights. Problem is the cameras do not provably enhance safety, and may even cause more accidents because people will slam on the brakes at every yellow light. The only purpose is revenue stream.