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That's exactly why I'm looking for someplace to shoot 00 buck, several times preferrably. I have said that already. Not 1-2 hours away preferably.

Damn! Nice shape for something 81 years old!!

That's all exactly right, which is why raw numbers (like "tax everyone making 200,000 = taxing the rich) don't matter.

I'd like to see that try to be proven in court. Unless you have a printout of this thread...

"me and a few others"??? Wow.... maybe you need to get out more...

It DOES come down to ignorance and sheeple. The Franklin quote said it best: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." people are willing to give up liberty for security. Except they have been told they aren't giving up any liberty, and they CHOOSE to believe it. add to that the media making all gun owners out to be "silly, unreasonable, unnecessary, or just downright crazy", and the sheeple fall right in line. It's called WILLFUL IGNORANCE. And this isn't just about guns... it's about laws of all sorts, the Patriot Act, the TSA, the list goes on & on.

There goes your theory. I am neither rich nor poor. I am middle-class. As are all of my family and friends. Unless you call "rich" people with 30-year mortgages, 2 car payments, and a couple of credit cards.

huh... the guy has 350 posts... not exactly a troll or newbie. Think he'll show his face again?

I heard somewhere his gun jammed, and at that point he killed himself. Something about a full magazine being found at the scene... but it was from the internet/twitter, so who knows....

While that may be true, it also seems (at least in my circles), more people who were previously not gun owners, are becoming gun owners. I wonder if there's a way to find out if apps for FIDs increased in recent years?

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Just like a scene out of "Antiques Roadshow," a woman in Hartford, Conn., turned in an old rifle to her local police station's gun buy-back, only to discover the gun was worth anywhere from $20,000 to $25,000. http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/valuable-wwii-gun-police-buy-back-022155231--abc-news-topstories.html

Exactly right. IGNORANT. Sheeple.

Not if they grandfathered in all existing to keep current gun owners "pacified." LOL. Good luck with that one, with a marxist president and democratically-controlled Senate. Even if 2/3 of the states WOULD pass it, they'll never get the chance to... the idea will die in some committee somewhere. ...which would be why re-instating the old AWB would be the "smartest" thing for the govt to do- not only is it nothing new, but NJ and CA still adhere to it, for the most part, anyway. They might even take on some "new" "assault rifles" to "the list"... that list was floating around here just a week or so ago... You people who think the govt cares about public opinion are naive... I think the last 2 elections have shown well enough that the quantity of gun owners in the country is no longer relevant to them- it'll only be relevant when the shooting starts, at which point they will attempt to round us all up like dissidents. Maybe they'll even use our own military against us- ahem, WACO anyone?- which is of course unconstitutional, but when was the last time constitution stopped them from doing whatever the hell they wanted anyway?

Good thing I already got my "assault weapon" lol

Yes, but that is not how the government, the media, or most of the population, will see it, unfortunately.

between the batman theatre and this, I'll kiss your ass if anybody thinks there won't be attempted gun control legislation out of this. At least a re-enstatement of the AWB... which won't affect us, since we're still oppressed under most of it.

Nice figuring on that PRS... what model is it?

dude, I would LOVE to see pics of that National! to post pics: you'll see an icon in the top of the reply window that looks like a photograph. Click it and you can add the picture as an attachment...

Same store as the one that opened a couple months ago in Stanhope, I think?

Bristol is too far, just like every other suggestion on this thread except the Bullet Hole, which has a reputation similar to your range in Bristol. So far, my only option is to take up lowslowmiata on his offer sometime... not sure if I can do this week- swamped at work, it turns out. I'm not a "shotgun guy"- I have an 18" 870 I keep for HD. But I've never fired it, or any 12ga shotgun for that matter. I'd like to run at least a couple boxes of the managed-recoil 00 so I know what to expect from the recoil IF I should ever need to use it (or if I decide to start shooting clays, which I am considering as well, once the weather warms up).

"the pits"?? What are they?

Really? wow... thanks! I'll keep that in mind!

original post said "without a hunting license."

No they dont- I called today and asked. They said slugs only. Hackettstown, btw