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My thinking is, one less legal elephant to worry about. What if you get taken to court for defending yourself with a firearm in your own home? What if you accidentally leave a cartridge in your pocket or in your trunk? What if you're like Brian Aitken and are transporting your firearms and ammo between properties? All of these are opportunities for this state to rail you, all because of "expanding ammo".

Hey guys, there's this new non-lead ammo hitting their market. It's being marketed as self-defense ammo that is NON-EXPANDING. This is definitely good for us in NJ, where expanding ammo is it's own "legal beast" within out dizzying array of BS gun laws. Here's a video review from TNOutdoors9: The bullet itself is a "copper-polymer matrix", and retains its shape when it goes through ballistics gel or soft-tissue. It does, however, have the tendency to fragment when hitting more solid materials. What do you guys think? EDIT: and Happy Easter!

Wow, a lot of stories! Good stuff guys!

Hey guys - thank you all for the feedback. I came to the conclusion that despite not liking the 12 gauge, I still consider it an essential "tool" and would probably add it back to my arsenal later down the road. I don't think it'd make sense for me to keep switching back and forth, wasting money on transfer fees and shipping and such. I'm going to just slowly save up and hopefully I'll pick the 9mm up in a year or so. Let's hope are laws don;t become more FUBAR'd by then. Oh and the guns in question are a 18.5 inch Mossberg 500 and a CZ 75B SAO.

Hey guys. I wanted to see if anyone has experience with selling a gun to fund the purchase of another. If you have, what did you sell, what did you buy, and did you ever regret it? I'm in a situation where I'm considering selling a pump action 12 gauge and all of the goodies I have for it, for a full-size steel 9mm. The 12 gauge is reliable, versatile, great for home defense, and is much less likely to be affected by future anti-gun legislation (helps me sleep better at night) - and the 9mm is limited in its application - but I do not actually enjoy taking the 12 gauge to the range. Lots of recoil, beats my shoulder up, etc. Nor do I actually take advantage of the gun's versatility (I don't hunt, etc.). Shooting the full-sized 9mm is a dream, on the other hand. Decisions are still to be made. EDIT: Money is tight, too, and I'd feel bad about myself for blowing money on another gun.

Steve from Monmouth Arms is awesome (even though I've never actually purchased something through him). Heritage Guild in Rahway is kinda meh. Prices are pretty high and some employees are sort of rude, others are pretty cool. I guess it doesn't help that they're the only (or one of the only) shop(s) in rapidly-anti-gun-and-fascist-as-hell Union County.

Just as others have said, anything that is capable of incapacitating a fully-grown man will penetrate drywall. Low-recoil or full-powered buckshot (00, 0, #1, etc.) will get the job done apparently. I think the bigger issue is finding a brand of ammunition that patterns well in your shotgun, so that God-forbid you ever need to defend your life in your own home, you aren't throwing pellets every which way.

I lift 3 times weekly (heavy barbell routine, strength-oriented with some bodyweight exercises). Over the summer I will start doing two-a-days plus conditioning. AM: heavy barbell training followed by conditioning (hill sprints, rowing, or jump rope). PM: gymnastics/calisthenics outdoors (progressions with pullups, dips, front/back levers, handstands, etc.)

Go to PAFOA.org and read up. PA is 100x better than NJ for guns... NFA items, CCW, open carry, no mag limits or limited "features".

Title says it all. I currently have two boxes of el cheapo 00 buck and am going to buy more. I'm curious to see if people stock more el cheapo shells or more premium HD/target loads. As for "stocking", I'm thinking of what you guys have for home defense, SHTF, and target shooting needs.

Okay, I seem to understand it now. Thanks guys!

Hmm, interesting. Can anyone else verify this?

Went to my PD before day-90, and the clerk extended my permit right then and there. He dated the renewal date as the Monday of the following week (which would have been past the expiration date of the original 90 days). So, it looks like it was renewed AFTER it expired, but in fact it wasn't. Did my PD screw up or am I good to go?

I do whenever I just happen to watch TV. I like it very much.

Welcome from Linden.

Good to hear. Do these products all perform well compared to their traditional JHP counter-parts?

Just got permits last week - took 5 months. When I applied for my FID in November of 2012, I got it in June of 2013. Oh, and Mayor Gerbounka is part of MAIG. He's even stated before that "no one should have an assault rifle". He defined "assault rifle" as a semi-auto rifle that takes magazines. LOL.

Actually, the 15-round limit is for semi-automatics, or for magazines that are used or can be used for semi-automatics. Because this AR uses standard AR mags, we're stuck wt 15-rounders. If they made magazines that only worked with this gun, then we're talkin'!!!!

The price is what gets me. I've heard very little bad of them, so I'm tempted. No cash for a real CZ at the moment :-(. I saw your listing, the Shark looks awesome. However, I'd probably go with a compact model, in C-100 not T-100. Also, my permits aren't in from the PD yet. Thank you though. Excellent to hear. Thank you.

I just learned about how widely copeid the CZ 75 is. I found one company, Canik-55, that makes these clones for the Turkish military and police. Tristar Sporting Arms is the importer for Canik-55, and they offer the C-100, which is a alloyed-compact that carries 15 rounds of 9mm (or 13 rounds, I guess depends on what mags you get). And they're being sold for only 300-400 bucks. http://picturearchive.gunauction.com/4894134305/11192424/75%20002.jpg Anyone have experience with these bad boys????

Had a free consultation with an accountant in my area (neither of the accountants mentioned already) - seemed like an okay person, but didn't get any of my burning questions resolved :-( I'll be checking out Angelo & Associates soon.

Eric223, I've been waiting since November for 2 P2Ps. I've been told "they should be typed up soon". So I'm sure I'll get them by June -___-

Will look into them - thanks.

Starting a small business, need some advice. I'm not bringing in money yet, so someone who offers a free consultation or doesn't charge outrageous fees would be great. Also, it'd be nice of this accountant is "deduction-oriented" - AKA, does whatever he/she can to keep as much money in my own pockets. I'm sure we all feel the same way about taxation.

Get my first handgun... :-(