MartyZ

I did that last time, when I came in to give them my forms they gave me 3 more forms to fill out. They asked me to fill out an employment verification release form and a credit history release form.

Ok, modified and sent: Dear Gov. Christie: I was a staunch supporter of yours in 2009 as the first republican governor of NJ since I moved here. I was extremely excited that with Corzine out of office and you taking over, NJ will finally be on the right track to success. As you are well aware, there are currently approximately 23 pieces of legislation up for a vote in assembly that have to do with further restrictions to our firearms laws. These new restrictions have nothing to do with reducing crime, increasing school safety or addressing mental health. These laws don’t address the true problem which is mental health issues and prosecution of criminals that use firearms in the commission of a crime. The legislation that is proposed, such as magazine capacity does little to deter a criminal but may mean the difference between life and death for the victim trying to defend them self. Other legislation, such as the .50 BMG restriction, personally I don’t remember hearing of any crimes committed with a $10,000, 31 pound, 5 foot long rifle. The only impact that these laws would have is to turn law abiding gun owners into criminals overnight. I respectfully request that, when and if, these bills reach your desk you veto them. We as responsible law abiding gun owners will remember your actions in November and in the 2016 presidential race. If, for some reason, you decide to sign these bills into law, I can assure you that we definitely won’t forget that either.

I was using "Assault Rifle" as a general term that would pertain to A1329, A3659 and A588. I will remove it and be more specific.

This is what I am about to send out. Please give me your thoughts before I send it. Dear Gov. Christie: I was a staunch supporter of yours in 2009 as the first republican governor of NJ since I moved here. I was extremely excited that with Corzine out of office and you taking over, NJ will finally be on the right track to success. As you are well aware, there are currently approximately 23 pieces of legislation up for a vote in assembly that have to do with further restrictions to our firearms laws. These new restrictions have nothing to do with reducing crime as they only address cosmetic features of a firearm. These laws don’t address the true problem which is mental health issues and prosecution of criminals that use firearms in the commission of a crime. Cosmetic features such as a pistol grip does nothing to the operation of any particular firearm and magazine capacity does little to deter a criminal but may be the difference between life and death for the victim trying to defend them self. You know that what everyone refers to as “Assault Weapons” are not “Assault Weapons”. They are semi-automatic rifle that cosmetically resemble military weapons. The resemblance is only cosmetic and not functional. These are NOT fully automatic rifles and do NOT have near the same capability as military rifles. If you look at the 1994-2004 federal assault weapons ban, it had no measurable impact on reducing gun related crimes. And upon further research you will find that in 2012 less than 2% of all gun related crime was committed with a so called “Assault Weapon”. The only impact that these laws would gave is to turn law abiding gun owners into criminals overnight. I respectfully request that, when and if, these bills reach your desk you veto them. We as responsible law abiding gun owners will remember your actions in November and in the 2016 presidential race. If, for some reason, you decide to sign these bills into law, I can assure you that we definitely won’t forget that either.

Ok, I just called them. Their response, I'm paraphrasing, "the schedule for accepting firearm permit applications is strictly up to the local police chief".

I just called manalapan PD, they have since changed their policy to once a week. But I still have to call on monday to get that weeks schedule and it's still 9am to 12pm. That means I still have to take 3 days off from work. Is there a NJSP requirement that local PD have evening hours for permits or no? If not, then calling NJSP is useles

That sucks.

I have a question, can I go to the NJSP for P2P if going to my local PD (Manalapan PD) is extremely inconvenient? The reason I ask is that in the past, the permit hours were alway 4pm to 7pm every tuesday and thursday. Now they changed it to 9am to 12pm, one day a month and you have to call them on monday of every week to check if they are doing it that week. I work 60 miles from home that means that I have to take at least 3 days off for the entire permit process and it will take me about 4 months to get the permit. For instance, pick up applications in Feb, drop off applications in March and then wait 2 months to pick up permit. I have a few friends that have gone thru this process and it is a major PITA.

I used to be a shore shot member. Not all their employees are bad but on multiple occasions the 2 guys working the counter on Saturday mornings just pissed me off. I bring my friend there to buy 2 pistols from them and when I express my opinion to my friend regarding what they were showing him they both looked at me like I was crazy. On another occasion, they would refuse to help us all together. Also, at shore shot, if your shooting rifle ammo, better be frangible. That frangible stuff kept jamming my AR. I am now shooting at Brick Armory, all the sale people are extremely friendly. You can shoot any rifle ammo up to 300 winmag. They custom orderred a Kriss super V for me and even matched shore shots price. But as someone mentioned earlier, their range is somewhat lacking in safe behaviour. On the other hand, I almost got kicked out of shore shot for loading a magazine outside of the stall.

Those are meprolight tritium sights, I had those installed. But I had the same issue with the original sights. I also tried hogue rubber grips. Again, I think it might be me, I am a lot better with semi-autos. Maybe I just need more experience with a revolver. But next time I go to the range I will definately have someone assist me.

Accuracy is not the problem, sight picture is. My POA has to be approx. 1" above my target at 10 yards. This is not so much a problem when I'm putting holes in paper, I can adjust. But in a real life situation, this could be a problem. I thought that by increasing the sight radius I would solve the problem. I read something online were the grip position on these models mught affect the barrel rise which would affect POI, the artical said that these models should be gripped high where the web between the thumb and trigger finger is on the flat part all the way at the top of the grip. I will try that next time I go to the range. Sorry, i'm not selling it any time soon .

HKHockey, here are the pics of the 2 different sling configurations with 1 sling.

Seeing all the comments here I now starting to seriously think that I would be making a big mistake by changing the barrel. I will take it out to the range in a few weeks, maybe it's just a mis-understanding between me and the sights . It is a beautiful gun though.

Single sling that can be configured for both single and double point. Takes 15 seconds to switch between the two cofigurations. I will try to post pics of both configurations tomorrow afternoon. http://www.amazon.com/CoiTAC-Tactical-Point-Bungee-Sling/dp/B003UWYEZ2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1360475681&sr=8-2&keywords=single+double+point+sling

For easy attachment of either single point sling or double point sling. Single point behind grip, double point on stock and forend.

I'm trying to grow my collection but the wife keeps getting in the way.

Stag Model 8(Piston) w/permanent muzzle break, stock is pinned and magpul mag is permantly limited to 15 rounds

My wishlist 1) HK P30 9mm 2) .44mag (Can't decide whether I want a revolver or Desert Eagle, can't afford both) 3) AR variant in .308 (AR10) 4) .50 beowulf AR15

Even trying to boresight the gun, with the rear sight bottomed out (Sorry topped out), the laser is below the POA when I have the front sight and rear sights lined up horizontially. I will trying the filing trick to see if that works.

In reality, the biggest problem I have is the sight radius. I don't know if it was a design flaw in that model but at 25 yards or closer, no matter how you adjust the rear sights the POI is always lower than the POA. This is the model with the integrated metal front sight, not the plastic one. If I can figure out how to fix that, I might reconsider.

The conversion does include the barrel, $106.99 + shipping(midwayusa) for barrel and $90(Heritage Guild) for labor. I would sell it and buy a new one if it wasn't for the headache of getting a PPP. My local PD only does the permits 9am to 1pm once a month with no set day of week. You need to call them on Monday every week to see if they are doing permits that week.

Ok folks, I have a S&W 686-4 (1994) with a 2.5" barrel. I am seriously considerring changing the barrel to a 4" or 6". I can get it done local for about $200 total. The reason I want to change the barrel is 1) reduce felt recoil, 2) increase accuracy. I need suggestions as to pros/cons of 4" vs. 6".

Ok, I just called heritage guild back and they want $90 for the labor and I found the 4" barrel on midwayusa for $106.99 and 6" for $121.99 but both are on backorder. Looks like i'm going to wait for midwayusa to have them in stock. Still trying to decide whether I want 4" or 6". This is mostly a range gun from which I shoot mostly 38 special from. Is there much of an accuracy difference betwen 4" and 6"?

I wanted to have the work done at a local gunsmith, but everyone i've called doesn't do this type of work. The only place were I didn't get a NO from is heritage guild, and that's only because they haven't returned my call yet. I will try calling them again. I would much rather have it done locally.