TheDon

All good points. But it does not matter whether a RV is a residence in some states, or whether the IRS considers it a home. All that matters is whether NJ criminal statutes would consider it a "residence." Who wants to be first to test this in court, and appeal after appeal after appeal? Not me, I have better things to do with my retirement fund than give it to a lawyer. I woluld not carry a handgun in a camper in NJ. I second the shotgun advice above.

I need someone with graphic arts skills. I want the Grateful Dead dancing teddybears holding an ARs and AKs and the Grateful Dead skull with Punisher teeth.

Let me confirm that I understand this correctly: One trigger pull == a volley of seven .44cal balls? Mommy! My shoulder hurts just thinking about that. ;-)

Picture of decal from website says © Spikes. The decal is just a chrome spider. Anyone who recognizes that logo is likely to be pretty cool about the second ammendment. ;-)

[ROTFL] Thanks for the photoshop work. I am so stealing this. FYI, to embed, do not include as an attachment, post as "Image". But you have to uplaod to some hosting site. I just use facebook.

+1000 My questions were answered like 3 pages ago. :thsmiley_deadhorse: I am tired of being accused of not accepting responsibility.

Tobi assured me that nobody came to the front door and certainly did not ring the doorbell. We had a discussion about doing a better job watching the side yard.

IMHO, you do not fix mosins, you replace them. Check out Bud's Gunshop, online. For $139, you can get one in excellent (90-to-100%) condition. Mine was damn close to 100% and had never been fired other than sighting it in at the factory. My gutt says it was probably never issued. The $40 difference is one trip to the range and it shoots like a dream.

If I were in their shoes, I would have rung the front door bell. This was a disorderly person's call, not a criminal call. My point was that their choice to lurk in bushes and to enter a fenced-in backyard without announcing themselves put them in danger. And, what was really served by approaching the party from the sideyard gate in lieu of the main gate at the end of the drive way? Again, the question was only about procedure. Not about whether they were justified or allowed to do what they did. Questions already answered 100 times.

Thanks for the heads-up. I was planning on just giving him the sights that came on my son's M&P to get him by until he can afford optics and BUS. Now I guess the we'll need to order a riser for the front sight.

Sorry, completely unfair: 1. not even close to midnight, 9:15, 9:20 at the latest 2. not really being loud, no music, just kid laughing and the fireworks (roman candles are more of a spit a fizzle than an explosion) 3. well-lit backyard: pool lights, patio lights, porch lights. The darkness was in the bushes. 4. not offended by cops behavior in the least, went to great lengths in my OP to express my respect and reiterated in several subsequent posts Point of post was curiosity over proceedure. This is getting sooo tiring. :thsmiley_deadhorse:

+1 For TWIW Hank is a good man. He is at the top of his class in the Moorestown area. I have to warn you that he is not cheap. But you get what you pay for and he is without any doubt worth every penny. I am planning on taking an old 1920's Ithaca coach gun to him for some stock repair work.

I just looked up the specs on the model 3. Strange handguard system, but otherwise a good LE. I am going to try to convince my neighbor to spend the extra $100 for the performance package: upgraded barrel steel (4150 barrel steel chrome lined) •1:7 twist rifling •M4 feed ramps •M-16 bolt carrier •Heavy buffer assembly I'll have him post a price request when he is ready to buy. Am I correct that Stag does not have a midlength? Thanks for the recommendation.

Thanks A-Tech. I'll check into Stag. Shame on me for just assuming Stags were in the same price range as the S&W. Another question: If I tell him to go with an A2 upper, what will he really be losing for a plinking/zombie gun? Anything in the A3 spec that is a "must-have"?

I go shooting with my next-door neighbor from time to time. He's a pistol-guy at heart, but has gotten somewhat attached to my AR15. He wants to buy one and asked me for a recommendation. I asked him for a budget. He said $700. Trying not to laugh, I suggested something closer to $1,200 and informed him that my ST would cost him $1,800+. He said he really has to keep it under $750, $800 max out the door. I am really reluctant to say the "B" word. You can't even get a S&W in his price range. Anyone know anything about PSA? Any recommendations in his price range? Thanks

If you want to make a statement, put something on the back of your car that only people in the know will understand. I would never put a NRA logon on my truck. However, I got both these on the back of my truck (Would happily add something subtle for NJGF if it was available). Anyone who recognizes those logos is not going to give me a hard time about firearm ownership.

Send them out, we'll wait. Not that I would in any way want to see our servicemen put into harms way (not really much of a threat here, anyway), but I would would love to see one of those rowboats to challeng a US battle group in international waters.

2C:39-5 allows for an exception in your place of residence. The question is whether a camper is a residence. That is a gray area that to my knowledge has never been tested.

Going to watch this one too. I too believe the statutes are silent on this gray area. I had someone explain it as: Hotel: only a residence when used as an apartment for extended-stays when no other NJ residence exists. Motor-homes: motor-home parked and set up in a camp sight is a residence, motor-home on the road or parked in a roadside rest is a motor vehicle. Trailers and campers: not a residence. But, I do not know any of the above for certain.

Agree. There are 8.5MM people in NJ and another 12MM in NYC and LI. If real SHTF, PA cannot and will not allow 20MM refugees to overwhelm their resources. I guarantee you that the PA National Guard will shut down all the DE River bridges. If real SHTFin NJ, your choices will be to head to a FEMA concentration camp like Fort Dix, take refuge in the country side, or shelter in place.

Yes, and no. Yes, honesty is always the best policy and you should certainly never lie to or mislead any LEO. No, when the interviewing officer is asking leading questions, trying solicit a confession, you do not confess. If you engage in an intelligent conversation, you can usually let the officer know that you are accepting responsibility for the situation without making statements that will hurt you if you are arrested. I think behaving in a cooperative and respectful manner (as I did) was key to getting off with a warning. The cops felt confident that I was going to take responsibility and shut the fireworks down, so they let me go with a warning. The fact that fireworks were being set off at at least 3 other neighborhood parties while the cops were in my back yard probably also helped my case a little. ;-) I also suspect that things are different between a small township in South Jersey and a large municipality in North Jersey.

My wife's perspective on R14: At R14, I took the two boys, laid down $18 for 2 hours and we only stayed 2 hours. Only having 55 mins of live fire time in that two hours limited the number rounds we could shoot. Now, we can disappear into CJRPC for 3+, sometimes even 4 hours, and easily blow through 3-X the ammo. CJRPC is much more expensive, net-net.

I didn't say class C fireworks did not have the potential to cause injury or damage. I said that only a total tard could manage to hurt himself or others. We were not being tards about it. The kids were firing in a direction where the nearest home was 300+ feet away. Irrational fear of fireworks is very similar to irrational fear of firearms.

If you have kids or shoot with friends and shoot for longer than an hour at a time, R14 is more expensive than anywhere else. In 2011, I was spending $30+ per month there to shoot with my two boys. That was at $3/person/hour. When they raised it to $4, I ran to CJRPC and never looked back. The first time I took my youngest son to CJRPC he said to me: "I never realized how bad R14 sucked until today." Unsolisited honesty from a 14 year old kid. Also, you really only get about 25 mins of shooting in when you pay for an hour: 15 mins cease fire, 15 shoot, 15 mins cease fire, 10 mins shoot because they make you pack up early during your last session. And zhe Tower Nazzi vhilt nut stop receiting zhe vrules. Zhu vhilt vfollow zhe vrules. Forget having any conversation with your group during cease fires, The din from the loud speaker is harder to have a conversation in than live fire.

NYPD should take some pointers. Maybe a good training video for them.