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Jim Moran is laughable. The same guy who beat his wife, (then got divorced right after), physically accosted a small child, whose son ran his campaign and conspired to commit massive voter fraud by forging utility bills, and then, whose same son beat his girlfriend to a pulp outside of a bar last month and got away with no jail time. This is the congressman that is going dare place restrictions on law abiding citizens? He and his family can't keep their hands to themselves, and they have police protecting them 24/7. Our guns have hurt less people than his family's fists. what a joke

will gladly tell.... after it's sitting in my safe! :-)

I just confirmed with him and he said I can only do this if I am in person, he will not do it over the phone. I completely agree with the idea that to be legal it has to be shipped to an FFL in NJ, it's just strange that I have to be there in person. I figured online purchases are no different..you pay, it gets shipped to your FFL, then it goes through the process...I think he literally is making so much money in state he doesn't want to waste time with out-of-staters and figures myself and others wouldn't bother to drive there? not sure.

Yeah, I didn't understand this difference either. I figured I could buy it with a credit card over the phone and email him the ffl info in jersey And it normally would not be worth the trouble, but this gun is nowhere to be found in stores or online

There is a hard-to-find handgun that a CT shop has informed me is going to receive a large shipment of. He told me he is way too busy to ship out of state directly. However, he said I can go to his shop, buy it from him, and have it then shipped to a local NJ FFL.. 1. Is this legal? 2. Wouldn't I have to have a permit to purchase in CT to even start the transaction? I lived there and it required a carry permit from the state to buy any handguns. Or does the fact that you are immediately shipping it to another ffl circumvent the law in CT and make you subject to only NJ law? And if it is legal, would I have to ostensibly pay for two NICS checks? One in ct and then one at the point of sale in NJ?

Ahhh, my next purchase..... did you get a replacement? How did that end up working out? Important thing also to recognize that blacksmythe mentioned above is that UPS is union operated. The workers are employees of the company. They do their job on the clock. With Fedex, individuals "own" the routes. They buy rights to a route and then get compensated by the volume of packages they deliver. Thus, they are incentivized to deliver all their packages as quickly as possible. If they finish their load, they can go home. I believe there is a limit to how many routes an individual can "own", but my understanding is an entrepreneur will buy a few routes and then pay people to drive their trucks.

thank you all

cool, thank you! i assume that is a doc we can print off from online?

Got you. She will eventually get the FID, so I could get it as a gift, keep it in my possession until she gets her FID, and then there is a process in which I can "transfer" ownership to her officially?

I don't think being hesitant to put stickers like that on your car is illogical or paranoid. Opinions aside, I value my anonymity and I don't put anything on my car, gun related or otherwise, because I don't want my car to be an attraction for other people. I want you to forget you saw my car after I pass you in the left lane or in a parking lot. We all know there are overzealous people. including LEO's out there. I can personally say, that on a car that had no stickers, I have been pulled over (admittedly for nothing by the officer) and asked 4 times if I was transporting guns in my car. When I told him the second time, he started telling me "you know what I could do to you if I find out you are lying to me about carrying guns in your car????" the 3rd and 4th time, I told him I answered his question already and the answer hadn't changed. Still didn't consent to any search and he eventually left me alone. I truly was not transporting anything. while he may be an anomaly, with jerks like that with a badge, I don't ever want to telegraph to anyone that I may or may not be a gun owner. It does nothing to "empower" the cause in my opinion, and only makes you a target for undue attention, from the law or otherwise. And when I lived out of state and carried concealed, the entire purpose of doing so was to do it unbeknownst to everyone around you. If people know what you're up to, it defeats the purpose. It does telegraph to the people around you "hey, I probably have guns, either in my house or possibly in this car". Being into firearms is not about feeling you have a 12 inch di*k, or showing off to other people. No more than any other hobby. The fact that I don't want to put up a quote of the 10th amendment on my car does not mean I believe states can't decide what is best for them, and that I am bringing down "states rights" for being a "wuss". I don't think someone is dumb for proudly putting an NRA sticker on their truck. Conversely, I don't think I am a wuss for not putting one on my car. I just personally don't want any messaging on my car. When I was in college, and I remember drunken pricks walking down the street and kicking in the tailpipes and scratching the paintjobs on cars because they had a sports team magnet that they didn't like. I know dummies like that exist. it's not worth it to me. I am passionate about a lot of things, and I don't feel the need to plaster it on my vehicle. I'll wear it on a tshirt..I'll talk about it with people I encounter...I don't need to have it on my nice car that will sit in a parking lot and have someone possibly key it. just no upside. I want my car to be the least identifiable, most forgettable thing you've ever seen.

Let me stipulate for any whacko non-members reading this , quote - I am not trying to break the law, or circumvent it in any way. I am merely asking a question for educational purposes so that I can comply with the law 100%. I have taken my girlfriend trap shooting a few times and she has taken a liking to the hobby. She does very well and gets a kick out of it. With her birthday coming up, I am considering purchasing her her own shotgun as she has to take turns with mine. Is it legal for me to buy one and gift it to her? I imagine this might fall under a "straw" purchase. Is there any way that once I buy it it can legally become her property? Or basically, if I intend to get one, do I have to basically buy it, keep it under my "jurisdiction" allowing her to use it when we go to a trap range, but all liability for that serial number is forever my legal problem? I have an FID, she does not, yet. I have been trying to get her to file for her paperwork. But regardless, the purpose is to get her one as a gift so that she is not paying for it herself. Please educate me on this process, if at all possible

Cheers everyone!!

beretta 92fs inox in stainless with rosewood grips ruger s1911 ruger sp101 357 walther ppk stainless but my mind keeps changing every day. the damn problem with this hobby is that 90% of it is just finding the toys you want. All 4 of these arms are not readily available in any NJ store.

very funny ripoff of drudge but a good idea. what I think would make it more potent: There should be a counter of lives saved since the last shooting death perpetrated by a LEGAL gun owner. That way viewers can realize that it truly is lopsided and that overall the firearms are serving a purpose. Then every time a legitimate murder happens with a legal weapon, you reset the counter, and set aside that death vs all the prevented deaths during that time period. Then you restart. Every time, I am confident the lives saved will dwarf the lives lost

I never said the state police is the same as the usps. I am drawing the parallel of using your money to fund television advertising for an organization that has a monopoly on a certain aspect of a business, and then proceeds to run their shop in a way that loses even more money. For letter mail, you dont have a choice. just like when you call the police for help. It would be ridiculous if police forces used your tax dollars for TV ads telling you to call them when you need help. why isn't it just as ridiculous when the USPS makes ads telling you to ship products with them?

they are garbage. they need to go. next we should start having commercials for the state police "is someone harassing you? do you have a neighbor building an annoying pool that you suspect might be violating an ordinance? are you tired of driving the garden state parkway without having received a citation in 6 months? call the NJ State Police! We would be glad to cost you money in a variety of fun and interesting ways! Call in the next hour, and we can throw in some additional retirement benefits that our union will haggle from the unsuspecting tax payers! order now!" like you have a choice to call someone else. Does everyone understand yet that the USPS is one of my hotbuttons? they are a joke

what a beautiful and novel thing; a service that does more of what I want for less money, and they make a sick profit while doing it. fancy that I would love to see every post office in the united states replaced with fedex's opened 7 days a week with great hours, maybe even something crazy like past 5pm when the majority of working class people can actually go there to give them business. And when they buy up airtime on television for a commercial, my blood pressure doesn't need to go through the roof, because it didn't cost me a penny. They only have to answer to their shareholders. But judging by fedex's profits over the past years, I am confident their shareholders are doing just fine

I still stand by my statement. Nothing has changed. Leverage is the way it's supposed to work. Whether or not it is working is another story. Tell me where you can go in this world and mail something across a country for $.45? Only in the US. It's a bargain if you ask me, although I prefer email. ------ Whether or not it is working isn't another story, IT IS THE STORY! And it is not a valid comparison. the federal government forbids first class mail by private carriers, they are obligated to inflate the price artificially, SO AS DELIBERATELY NOT TO COMPETE WITH USPS. If fedex and ups were allowed to compete in this segment of letter mail, they would blow the USPS out of the water. This is equivalent to the government and 2 private companies each running a car wash. As a consumer all you want is a car wash, but the government will pass a law saying you can only do a full body detail at the private companies, and only the government car wash can do an exterior wash, and if the private carriers do offer only an exterior wash, they are obligated to charge 6xs as much.. how is that impressive to you? That's fascism, not impressive business maneuvering. To say that it is impressive to send something across the country for 45 cents shows how dumb their logic is. THEY ARE RUNNING ON A DEFICIT. THAT'S WHY ITS IMPRESSIVE, BECAUSE THAT PRICE IS WAY TOO CHEAP. They could say it costs 2 cents and lose money. That would be even MORE impressive. why not do that? The fact of the matter is, it costs way more than 45 cents to make something go 3000 miles to california. Their business model obviously doesn't work, because they aren't profiting. there is nothing to be impressed with here. That's like a ferrari dealer charging 20,000 dollars for their cars , and you're impressed you picked it up at such a great price. then when the dealer is bankrupt, they just take more taxpayer money to make up for their deficits, and then write a few commercials just to top it all off. ------ I did this but with 20 packages years ago and then realized by getting a pitney bowes machine, I saved myself money. I was able to weigh the packages myself faster than it could be done at the PO and save $$ by only paying exact postage. It was a pain but I merely stated I waited my time just like they can wait their time. I had to ask for the postmaster to finally not have trouble. This was prior to me streamlining the operation. The streamlining saved me a bundle and I had the carrier pick the packages up at my house. So it saved me a trip to the PO also. On the flip side, my PO knows who I am and takes care of me. --- you are right, I can do this...if i CHOOSE to. Choose is the operative word. I don't give a rats behind if they dont WANT to do it, but if I walk into their store to ship 20 boxes, whether its convenient for me or not, I dont care. THEY BETTER DO IT. again, no mcdonalds will turn you away because you are "ordering too many big macs". What kind of sick business philosophy is it to lose money year after year, and then proceed to turn away business!!??? ---- 30 years to get to retire in that job sucks. management is just ridiculous. Besides that, the pay sucks. They top out in the $50's if that much and that's now. When I was in, $50's was attainable with OT. Couldn't pay me $100k a year to go back to that job. -- boo hoo, so quit! which apparently you did! no one is holding a gun to people's head and forcing them to do a job they don't want to. if the value proposition of working at the post office isn't worth it to you, then don't work there. It will either be worth it to someone else who will be thankful to do it, or if no one wants to, they will have to adjust their compensation to attract talent in the market of job seekers. its simple capitalism. And that's the rub, the post office isn't a capitalistic enterprise. That's why it sucks, it's inefficient, brazenly irresponsible, and it loses money.

Bryan, I challenge you to do this. Go up to a counter with 100 document mailers. Tell them there are different amount of paper in each one and they need to each get weighed. I do this for my job very often, and in multiple post offices, in 3 different states (the magical number seems to be 3) if there are more than 3 envelopes or packages, they REFUSE to weight them because "it takes too long" or "there are people waiting in line". this is of course, after you waited 20 minutes in line because only 1 lane is ever effing open. Try it, then come back and tell me they have good service. Then, go to McDonalds, flash your credit card, and ask for 100 big macs. Go to Best Buy and tell them you want 10 flat screen tvs. Go to Macy's and tell them you want to buy 20 leather jackets. NONE OF THEM WILL TELL YOU NO. They exist to serve you with what you demand, because if they didn't, they would go bankrupt. That fear doesn't exist with the USPS, they can run deficits year after year, cut down their operations, skip your house when it comes to deliveries, tell you they don't want to help you when you go into the post office, and it doesn't mean sh*t to them. They have no check, no incentive, nothing. Then go into a UPS or Fedex store and ask to ship 100 packages. The managers eyes will light up with dollar signs and treat you like a king

Explain to me then: they are running negative operating income every year, they are constantly trying to eliminate another workday for their carriers. Where is the magical money coming from that is funding their operations if it isn't from taxpayers? Do you truly believe it should cost 45 cents to ship something to California, just as it should cost 45 cents to mail something across town? When you go to buy a car, can you buy a honda or a ferrari, whether or not one costs more to manufacture than another? Absolutely not. A letter to california needs to get on a truck, then an airplane, costs jet fuel, pilot's salary and benefits, more trucking, etc etc. It should never cost the same as a local delivery. Hence why fedex and UPS charge you different rates depending on where things are going. Tell me, if they don't use taxpayer money and they fail to make a profit, who pays for their stupid television commercials with the goofy looking white guy who says "if it fits it ships"?

They have no incentive to do their jobs. Who are you going to complain to? Can you imagine the owner of a fedex, liquor store, restaurant, etc..(let's say restaurant for this example) say "oh im sorry, you're party is too big and we don't have time to serve your table of 10 because there are other smaller parties waiting behind you" No one in their right mind turns down money. Only disgusting, lazy, bloated pension government workers at a post office would actually say to you they don't want your business because basically, they don't feel like doing work...and there is no one there who cares to yell at them. And what's worse, it costs us all money. the post office had a purpose in the time of the pony express. The private sector is faster, cheaper (where they can compete), kinder, more convenient, and open for better hours. The USPS needs to go.

Here is the video of the congressman not knowing the Constitution

This is absolutely right, and I forgot to mention it. Basically this is the painted scenario: The government outlaws a certain type of delivery of mail, so that the USPS has a monopoly on it. Then they proceed to run their organization in the worst possible manner so that they bleed millions of dollars in losses every year due to bloated pensions and artificial pricing structures, forcing private sector competitors to arbitrarily charge more for the same service so that you are encouraged to patronize the usps. Then, they waste even more of your tax dollar money on tv commercials to convince you to use their failing service funded by more taxpayer dollars, that they by law keep competitors away from participating in fairly. it's hard just following the logic. I can not wait to hear that the USPS is closing up shop forever. good riddance

LoBiondo...I remember seeing a youtube video of him incorrectly saying that article 1 section 1 of the constitution was "the right to free speech" cringeworthy

It's a failing, money losing branch of the government. What do you expect??? I have a white hot hatred for USPS, and I pay whatever it takes to never use them. For work we would go to ship document mailers and the women at the counter would refuse to weigh anything more than 3 mailers because they said "we don't have time and people are waiting". They then "guessed" it was three stamps worth. I made a huge scene and they finally individually weighed them and most were double the weight. They were prepared to ship something out they knew was under postage just to get me to shut up and leave. I hate the USPS more than words can describe. There are always 5 windows for service, one person actually helping people, and three others walking and laughing in the back. I am also the only one to ever say this....how are taxpayers not white with anger when they see the United States postal service use taxpayer money to air television commercials to advertise a government service that then loses billions of dollars??? Now they are talking about eliminating another day of service...everyone should stop using USPS until they finally close the entire joke of an operation and support private sector FedEx whenever possible FedEx can spend all the millions on commercials it wants, because it isn't costing me a dime. Also...they have to make an effing profit otherwise they wouldn't exist, unlike the post office that just continues burning through our tax money. Another thing...what a ridiculous socialist notion that the cost of mailing a one page letter across the street is the same price as mailing to Guam or Alaska. What an absolutely ridiculous notion. They need to go under