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I got a Remington 870 #25077, a basic 870 Express with an 18" barrel and an extended magazine, holds 6+1. I found it for $290 new on GB. You can always accessorize an 870, but this shotgun is all you will need for HD. For my HD set-up, I swapped out the receiver from my waterfowl Wingmaster that only takes 2 3/4" shells since with XX buck, you don't really need 3" shells unless you really want to punish yourself. I added a Hogue front grip, a take-off Remington solid synthetic butt stock, and a 6-round Side Saddle and now its good to go! I still have the Hogue pistol grip and it looks really cool, but your aim goes out the window if you're shooting farther than 10 feet.

I got this 1950 Ruger Standard from my Dad. This is the first gun that I ever shot. Your Mark I looks really nice.

Never had that problem with my CZ...

Driving pissed off with loaded weapons looking for someone, couldn't have ended well... Some bad firearm PR was probably averted here...

What this study found is that countries with restictive gun laws have much higher overall murder rates, with England and Russia as prime examples. Gun anti's love to quote the gun murder rate, but deliberately choose to ignore the overall murder rates as proof that gun ownership actually deters violent crime. In these countries, people are beating, strangling, and stabbing each to death other at much higher rates. Right now in Russia, the overall murder rate is 4 times higher than in the US and with England it is difficult to determine due to mysterious methods that the English use to report murders(but definitely much higher than they actually report as murders), and private ownership of firearms has been almost eliminated in both countries. The study also supports the premise that in states in the US that easily issue CCW permits, violent crimes rates are declining more rapidly and lower than states that do not issue them due to the fact that criminals choose not to commit confrontational crimes out of fear that their victims could be potentially armed. Read the study results on the link posted by the OP, it is enlightening.

It is a shame that all of those Mausers bolt actions are still bayonet capable; the potential for street bayoneting is still out there. Public safety is so vulnerable...

If this is truly for safety measures that will benefit all NJ residents, then why must only gun owners bear the tax burden rather than having all NJ residents contribute?

I have heard of a Ruger Security Six used as a rental at a range that fired an amazing 1,400,000 rounds.... Not sure if or what maintenance was performed, but never the less, 1.4 million rounds is an incredible number for a pistol to shoot and continue working. http://www.chuckhawks.com/ruger_security_six.htm +1 on H&K USPs, I own 2, but I am no where near a high count on either...my Ruger Security Six has a relatively low count even though I have owned it for 32 years.

Would the courts charge and convict a woman from justifiably defending herself in her own home from an armed thug, regardless with what instrument she uses? I would say not, but this is New Jersey....

I do not believe that a "license" is a requirement for firearm ownership, if you are referring to an FID card. As a NJ resident that moved here from another state, my firearms were my property and they moved here with me; no need to license myself or register them. I have an FID now because it is proof to an LE officer that I have been subjected to a backgroud investigation should I ever be stopped while I am transporting, or if I wish to purchase a firearm or ammunition. If you or your wife were to use a firearm in self defense, you would be put under the scrutiny of the NJ criminal justice system and you would have to justify your actions. You can't just be scared and shoot someone. You will need to articulate your justification to use deadly force including the victims ability, opportunity, and intent to harm you to avoid being charge with a crime. I am no lawyer, so contact one like Evan Nappan for more information if you deem it necessary, although some have already mentioned what he might say. I guess that you could also ask yourself, "Would you rather be in trouble or dead?"

I picked up a Savage Mark II FVSR off of Bud's Gun Shop not too long ago. I calculated that with their price and a $40 transfer fee, I still made out pretty well considering the mark-up I've seen at NJ LGSs They are out of stock now.

I had several AKs before I bought an AR. I bought the AR pretty much to satisfy the ammo availability problem. I've see AK tests where they dump them in mud and then pull them out and shoot them. An AK can be serviced with water and motor oil if it had to be. The AR is way more sensitive to environment factors, requires regular maintenance that must be performed in a clean environment, and I doubt one would function long if at all if dunked in mud. The AR is more accurate and has a longer range, and .223/5.56mm ammo is here to stay. I would use my AK for close proximity combat where accuracy and distance capability is less of a concern than reliability. If I needed distance in a HD situation, I'd go for my .308 Garand... I don't think that you could justify the use of deadly force shooting a target at a long distance these days unless we were in a world of sh1t and if the need did arise, we would have a load of other problem at hand also. Being attacked by a lone gunman at a distance is a very unlikely senario where I live, and if attacked by a group of gunman, well, like I said, I'd have a load of other problems for that to occur. My neighbors are a bunch of liberal gun-hating wimps so I'd have no back-up at all.

My wife prefers to eat the small does and refuse to eat tougher large gamey bucks. To control the deer population the does need to be cullled. It only takes one buck to impregnate a herd of does, so I don't feel bad about shooting them small. The ones with spots are not worth the effort since there is not much meat, but they don't have to be too much larger.

I have a Remington 5R Milspec in .308 that is a tack driver. The 5Rs are out-of-the-box 1/2"moa rifles and there are many similar review from other satisfied owners.

Who is to know what is the truth and what is not? Blaming the local PD for all delays probably isn't the case... Count your blessings when you do get your FID/P2P or address change. Don't like it? Move to a free state!

When I was fingerprinted which was done by a contractor, they took forever to respond back to the police department. I called the PD and they pinged the fingerprint contractor. It eventually came through, total 4 months of wait time. I move to a different town (Denville) and they seemed to have their process implemented well, and they are not anti-gun and are always polite and helpful. The change of address still took 3 months, and they told me that the state police were slow processing. That was last September.

I think that's the problem with many NJ residents that I have met here, their roots run too deep to leave. My job forced me to move here, and believe me when the opportunity to get out comes, I will be packing fast.

It is a fire trying to spread, but there are a lot of places where it will not catch. It seems like NJ was burned to the ground by your wildfire a long time ago..... Ok contained separately in your trunk. Locked if you don't have a trunk...

Seeing as though you should be transporting your hollow points to and from the range in a separate locked container, the likelihood of dropping a few HPs from the range in your car is a senario that won't happen if you are following the regs as you should be. Yea, the laws here are most often over the top, but for the sake of keeping ourselves out of trouble they aren't that hard to comply with. Lots of folks want to sing the blues, but how many are actually packing their sh1t and moving? The grass is greener almost everywhere else, and the political climate here isn't changing anytime soon. Let's just hope Christie vetos the remaining three bills. If he was really going to sign them, he would probably have already done so today.

The hardest part for me was to drill and thread a hole in the receiver chamber for the bullet guide. The metal is extremely hard and using a drill press in a must to keep your hole straight and to keep your tools lined up with the hole. You have to clean the metal shavings constantly when drilling and then tapping and go a little at a time or the bit and/or tap may break off in the hole.

Congrats! Don't stop at one...

Looking down the bore worked for me at Cherry Hill on Friday. With a bolt gun, it's pretty easy to see just where the bullets will go! 100yds from a benchrest, Prvi Partizan 196gr FMJBT M75 sniper ammo from Widener's.

I have a SWFA 10x42HD on my Remington 5R, and it is an awesome scope for the $s. I had a regular SWFA 10x42 before that on the same rifle and it was decent also.

I like to lay the gun down stationary and set the crosshairs on an object that stands out 75 to 100 yards away. Without moving the gun, I then look through the bore to see if that object appears close to what I see through the scope under the crosshairs. It is a sanity check, and only works on firearms that you can easily view down the bore. It always gets me on paper at 50 yards.

I put a Timney on an old Chilean Mauser Modelo 1912. If you love the rifle, what is is worth to you to have a decent trigger on it, especially if you shoot it a lot? I had to really hog out the stock to fit the Timney on there, but it really is pleasure to shoot now.