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Did you pay more than MSRP? Even list price isn't bad, all things considered. Some of the internet prices are really low, but when you consider FFL transfer fees I figured it would be best to buy from a NJ dealer. When you get into a gun that costs several hundred bucks, those FFL transfer fees are less of an issue but when a gun lists for $149 (.380 ACP) the FFL fee is a large percentage of that purchase.

I'm 1000% with you there! The frustrating P2P system and unconstitutional OGAM rules have hurt both business and the general public. It hasn't stopped criminals from obtaining firearms ("criminals" generally don't follow the law) and it hinders law abiding citizens from exercising their constitutional rights. (I know I'm preaching to the choir here)

Thanks for all the input guys! Still a mixed bag of reviews, but enough good reviews to warrant considering one. I have three PP's to burn, and really only have two particular guns I want. I figured a Hi-Point could use up the extra one instead of having it go to waste. Thinking either the 9mm since I am getting a SR9 and it would be less ammo to stock up on - or the .45 ACP, just to have a .45. Too bad these guys don't make a $130 .22 auto loading pistol - it'd be a no brainer! Cheyenne is listed as an authorized dealer. I need to stop in and see one "in person" for sure.

Who said anything about giving them an email address? I don't even fill out the phone number! If there is a safety related recall, they'll send a letter. I've gotten brand new portable heaters, hair dryers and coffee makers because there was supposedly some sort of defect that could cause a fire. (one in a bazillion chance, but a chance nonetheless) So years later, they'll send out a recall and if you still have the appliance they will repair or replace it free of charge. I also have a few email addresses. One specifically for ordering online, so all the spam goes to one place. Most legit places will take you off of their list if you click on the "unsubscribe" button. I actually get very few emails from places I haven't actually done business with. I get some pretty good deals from those emails too.

LOL - I love it!

LOL - that's the standard line a a lot of retailers. "Their all the same inside anyway" While it is true that some electronics firms farm out the manufacturing to the same company, they are all built to spec. They are not the same. Some TV's may share common components too. There are only a handful of manufacturers that make large LCD and plasma panels, so that no name plasma TV may have a LG, Samsung, or Panasonic plasma panel. But the rest of the "guts" could be poorly assembled junk. I favor Panasonic because they also manufacture a lot of the smaller components that go into their TV sets. (capacitors, resistors, etc) I was in the repair business for some time, and the Panny's were always the best made stuff. Sony went down the toilet in the 80's. Made a lot of money off of Sony repairs. Their big advantage was the patent they held on the Trinitron picture tube. (they did have the best picture) The patents expired, and picture tubes are outdated technology now. No real reason to buy a Sony now other than brand recognition.

I pretty much agree with most of your points, but personally, I don't associate quality with origin of manufacture. I am typing this message on an IBM ThinkPad that is about 7 years old. It was built by a company called "Lenovo" in China. It is very high quality. IBM eventually sold their PC business to Lenovo and Lenovo is selling under their own name, shedding the IBM brand. The Ruger SR9 and the High-Point C9 are both built in the USA, yet both of them are considered garbage by some people. (and some love them) Many OLD things made here in America (and elsewhere) were built to last. From toys to electronics, things were built to last generations. The stereo receiver in my living room is a 1962 Fisher. Sure it's hooked up to modern speakers and CD player, but it still works and sounds as good or better than what they build today. Do you think a new surround sound home theater system will be around and working 50 years from now? Our society has turned into a "disposable society". Nobody repairs things anymore. When things break, they get replaced - not repaired.

You'd think it would be more cost effective to build large flat panel TV's here in the US rather than build them overseas and ship them. Shipping costs are pretty expensive from the far east. I remember back in the 70's when we were shopping for a new TV for the family, the Sony TV's from Japan were much more expensive than the American made Admiral and Zenith brands. We bought an Admiral, it was still working thirty years later (with no repairs) in 2005 when my dad replaced it with a 50" Samsung. The Samsung needed a color wheel replaced after 5 years (it literally exploded) and the lamp was replaced at the same time. The lamp was normal maintenance for a rear projection set, but that color wheel should have lasted longer IMO. I guess they just don't make them like they used to. People are so worried about how long the LCD panel or the plasma panel will last in their TV, but that's not the part that will probably fail. (unless you physically break it) I routinely pick 3-5 year old flat panels from the trash and repair them. Mostly power supply issues due to substandard components. I would buy based on brand reputation and quality rather than origin of manufacture. My last purchase was a Panasonic plasma. Hope it lasts 20 trouble free years like the Magnavox it replaced. (which still works)

LOL - yeah, their products aren't going to win any beauty contests for sure. But if they work reliably, what the heck!

Looking at their pistols. Very affordable and have a lifetime guarantee. (380 ACP for under $150) I'm reading mixed reviews on the intarweb, just wanted to see if any members here own or have owned any of their products.

Absolutely! I would want to get notice if there were some sort of a recall on the gun. I also register appliances for the same reason. TV sets and other electronics rarely get registered.

Norton is a lot better than it was 15 years ago! But I agree that their Norton Utilities could really eff up a computer. We use the corporate version of Norton Systemworks where I work, and it is pretty darned good at catching malware/viruses. As far as free AV - I'll vouch for AVG, Avast!, and Avira. Combine any one of them with Malwarebytes and you're good to go for free. If you really want to get adventurous, go with a free operating system like Ubuntu Linux. Moving away from Windows pretty much insulates you from any viruses and malware because 99% of the stuff only affects PC's running Windows. You don't need an expensive Mac to claim you are immune to most viruses.

Sometimes legit websites get hacked and infect computers too!

+1 RSS feeds allow me to read the things I am interested in. Twitter for non-commercial and non-famous people is a waste of time and bandwidth. It's a promotional tool for companies, sports personalities and movie stars. Even some famous folks have suffered the consequences of tweeting like a twit. Gilbert Gottfreid, the comedian who is better known for doing the voices of Iago the parrot for Disney and the AFLAC duck got fired from AFLAC for tweeting a stupid joke about the Japanese right after the devastating earthquake and tsunami last year.

More than you think. High speed internet just about anywhere is one of the benefits of living in a "densely populated" area like NJ. Sparsely populated areas of NJ have no access to the internet except for satellite. No cable, no fiber, too far away from the central office for DSL and dial up won't even work reliably because of the noise on the old copper wiring.

Just call them and switch over your internet. If they give you a hassle about the phone, tell them you have an alarm system that depends on the traditional phone line. This is the only way I know of that they will retain your old copper wiring and run the fiber.

I'm another one who just doesn't get twitter or facebook. Just look at the news and you'll see that nothing good comes from either of them. People losing their jobs, losing their spouses, etc. They are just data mining marketing tools, and the companies profiting off of you are harvesting massive amounts of information about you with you being a WILLING participant. You say "so what - they target ads and what not based on my internet activity". And that might be true, but if the gubmint wants every bit and byte of that information, they have to fork it over. Everything you've ever tweeted, posted on myspace, facebook, internet forums, etc. Everything you've googled - to be taken out of context for sure. And furthermore, I doubt anyone would be interested in my everyday activities and I would be worried if they did.

If there is fiber run in your neighborhood, Verizon will usually send out flyers or door-to-door salespeople to try and get you to switch your TV, internet and phones to FiOS. They want to get rid of their old copper wire network so they don't have to maintain both infrastructures. Once you do it, they disconnect the copper wires to your house and run a fiber cable to an adapter that splits the three services in your home. Your Once you go from DSL to Fiber internet, you can't go back (why would you want to?) as they won't re-connect those wires. You don't have to get all three, but if you only get cable TV or internet, your phone service will still go over the fiber. FiOS telephone service is not VoIP, it just replaces the copper wire from your house to their central office. The FiOS box has a battery that keeps your phone working (not TV or internet, though) in the event of a power outage. You keep your existing wiring in your house and keep using your current phones. I'm not sure if rotary dial phones will dial out though. (a lot of people still have one around) You can go o their website, enter your address and they'll let you know if the service is available. Chances are, if they didn't already try to sell you, it isn't available in your area yet.

Need more information to make a judgement call. There are always two sides to the story. Many times, the youth, which has a troubled past was beginning to "straightening out their life" and go "legit" before they got killed. Not saying the cops were right or wrong, but I guarantee this kid was no angel.

Watch child welfare come and throw the guy in jail or revoke his gun rights because he's "unstable" or some other BS like that. (at least that would happen in NJ, sounds like this guy is in a southern state.......)

I manage around 50 or so internet accounts at work. FiOS, Comcast, and cablevision. FiOS has proven to be more reliable than cable. (both Comcast and cablevision) However, when there is a problem, Verizon service (even for business customers) is the worst. Techs have the "not my job" attitude and often point fingers at each other while your business sits dead in the water. Cable internet has more glitches than the fiber technology, but their service (especially Comcast) is much better than Verizon. As far as speed goes, most sites you are surfing or downloading from won't allow you to pull data as fast as you can download it if you've got big 20 mbps pipes. Until a few years ago, we were running our corporate email (400 remote employees), application servers, general internet access for 50 users and corporate website on a single T1 (1.5 mbps) without many issues.

Even if this makes it past the house, the "do nothing" senate will kill the bill. It will never see the presidents desk to veto or pass. The house or representatives has passed a lot of good bills only to be killed by the senate. Gridlock is better than what we had from 2006-2010 because it seems whenever government is "doing something", they are creating more regulation. When is the last time you saw any government agency relaxing regulation? 'nuff said........

I've got to do my taxes to see if I owe, or I am getting a refund. If I am getting a refund, I plan on setting aside some money for another pistol and maybe a nice scope like a Pro Staff for the old Winchester. Certainly nothing wrong with splurging to buy something a little over the top considering that firearms and accessories tend to hang around a long time. (at least in my family) The Winchester 77 belonged to my dad - he bought it at the PX when he was in the service and used it for plinking around when things got boring. He gave it to me, and I will give to one of mine in the future.

LOL - yeah, I've drooled at the Nikons but like a high end golf club in the hands of an amateur, I doubt it would help my skills any!

Update - I picked up the Marlin last week. When I got it home, I gave it a real close inspection and found the "front sight ramp insert" looked like a chimp pounded it in. I called Marlin and they've got a replacement on the way. The scope should be arriving from Amazon any day now. The rest of the gun looks like it was assembled with care. The checkering on the stock was good, and the action is smooth. The receiver had the gold laser engraved serial number and "50th Anniv." markings. There was no "gold fill" on the barrel markings though...... From what I'm reading on the intarwebs, there is much confusion about the serial numbers on these models. It appears that the first 200 had a serial number that started with 60DLX000 - then they decided that they were going to build more than 1000 of them. (10,000 was the number, I think) Due to limitations in the laser engraver, they had to shorten the "60DLX" to "60DL" to accommodate the extra digit. Well - mine has a serial number that starts with "MM". (MMxxxxxG) I think that these were selling so well that they decided to make more than 10,000. For all I know, they could still be pumping these things out at the new Remington facility. So much for "limited edition" but hey - I got my mitts on one in 2012 when these were 2010 models. It's for shooting and not collecting, so I am still a happy camper. Looking forward to getting it out and dialing in the scope!