Everything posted by WP22
- NICS issues
- This Can't Be True, Can It?
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Developmental years inspirational authors
If I had to name on book, without a doubt, it would be "one hundred years of solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I've always liked to read. But after highschool I stopped until, by chance, I picked up that book; it rekindled my love of reading. I became so enamored with the genre that I read everything he ever wrote. Then I mixed in some Salman Rushdie and Isabel Allende. Moved on to some Mario Vargas Llosa and, WTH why not since I'm going around South America, I read a bunch of George Amado. Now, looking back I did read alot of pinko, commie fiction book writers. Anyway, latter on, another by chance book pick lead to refocus my reading interest. It was "flags of our fathers" by James Bradley. That lead to read his other book "Flyboys" That opened the flood gates to read all I could find about the American involvement in the Pacific during WW2. I was never interested in the big picture of troop movements, grand strategy...;my interests were always stories from the "boots on the ground", "the grunt, " the blood, the fear, the piss, the shit" perspective. One of the better books of the genre is "With the old breed at Peleliu and Okinawa" by Eugene Sledge. Then I become interest in the sadism and depravity exhibited by the Japanese in their occupied territories, so I read a few books about that.; "Unit 732" and "the rape of Naking" come to mind. There were a few about the experiences the westerners -mainly the dutch- civilians suffered under the Japanese occupation of Indonesia. Then one day I picked up "The Gulag Archipelago" by Solzhenitsyn and that sent me down the rabbit hole of exploring another aspect of human depravity; being caught in the meatgrinder of the soviet purges. A few books come to mind: "Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag" by Bardach, "Journey into the Whirlwind" and "Within the Whirlwind" by Ginsburg. Then I stopped reading books. I still read a couple hours a day online but it seems I just don't have the interest to pick up a book. It will come back.
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Trump on board with raising age to own
I would think-hope, wish-he would appoint somebody from the list he put out during the campaign. But for sure? No, we don't know.
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Looks like we’ve lost Florida. CS/SB 7026 has passed
And there goes a potential senate seat pick up.
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Gun lube / coating recommendations?
Being a marine in the Pacific during WW2, I would think he would have used jap guts.
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Magazine limits
Yes, it is. And NH was my #1 choice to escape this insanity. I just don't think they'll be able to keep their shit in a sock for the next 30 years. So I'll be looking South.
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Gun lube / coating recommendations?
Because I'm a gun owner, I'm already considered a terrorist by many in the US, I may as well go all in.
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The whole NJGF T-Shirt thing..
Time for a little reality check; This has been brought up multiple times, There were brainstorm sessions to come up with designs, Some members offered to do all the work required, This whole thing was brought up to the sites owner, multiple times I assume, The owner which stands to make a couple dollars (or not) thru the sale of the T's and thru increased exposure and expanded membership took orders, Several months have gone by, The owner is obviously busy but hasn't delegated the project to anybody either, Nothing has happened. What does that tell you? It tells me, it ain't gonna happen. The person that has the most to gain doesn't do it and doesn't delegate it to anybody either. You can lead the horses to the water..., the old adage goes.
- NICS issues
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Gun lube / coating recommendations?
I use hoppes gun oil because I have it on hand. When I run out, I'll be switching to motor oil. If it's good enough to protect a motor that spins at several thousand RPM for extended period of times at high temperatures, it's good enough for guns.
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Newspaper reporter looking to interview a subject for a story...
Please note Ms. Parker, that bolded part is not a hypothetical, never enforced law. In fact there an older gentleman charged with a crime for having an antique pistol in the glove compartment of his car. He was 72 years old and the pistol in this case was 300 years old.
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Newspaper reporter looking to interview a subject for a story...
I may misremembering, but I seem to remember that the NJSC granted cert just before Judge Stu "I'm just passing trough" Rabner -folks that read Bob Ingle's "The Soprano State" will get it- was due to be reappointed. Once he got it, he did a Emily Litella "never mind". At the time it looked like Judge Rabner had head faked Gov. Christie.
- Firearm transportation in NJ
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Finally! Some Role Models I can Totally Respect!
Being able to stop after 3 chips is a testament to her mental strength. I'm weak, so very weak. If snickers bars increases longevity, I can easily do 150 years.
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Newspaper reporter looking to interview a subject for a story...
Ms Parker: While many here will be glad to help you and answer any questions you have, I, too, am in the camp that you should go trough the actuall process to acquire a firearm. You don't actually have to buy but going trough that process will give an insight that only comes from actually doing it. Only then you can put to rest the notion you can buy a firearm in 5 minutes, only then you can put to rest the notion that's easier to buy a firearm that to buy a car, only then you get to experience how arbitrary and capricious the process can be, only then you may begin to realize that most of what you read about firearms is written by people have have absolutely no direct knowledge of the process. I should warn you, though, you won't have the material next week, or next month, you'll have it when your local police department decides you should have it-state law be damned. I sincerely whish you good luck and may this experience be educational.
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Power Outage Map
Lost it sometime on Friday-I wasn't home. Came home to cold and dark house. It came back sometime today between 12 and 3. My neighbor was chasing the JCP&L crews up and down the street for updates.
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Trump on board with raising age to own
Right, because the generation that a few weeks ago had to be told not to eat tide pods is the generation that I'm going to trust to fix all it's wrong in the world.
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Trump tells Congress forget CCW reciprocity
And based on what I heard on the press conference, passing nothing would be a great thing.
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Dick's Just Became Part Of The Story.....
And Nappen won't do it because he's not an idiot. Women are a protected class. Gun owners are irredeemable deplorables bitter clingers only worthy of scorn.
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Mini Mags at 6 Cents/Round TSUSA
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Dick's Just Became Part Of The Story.....
==THIS.== And it wasn't for lacking of reminders of how they acted after Sandy Hook. Black Friday deals were a big thing with brochures posted ahead of time and the reminders were met with " a deal is a deal". We get what we deserve. every single time.
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Dick's Just Became Part Of The Story.....
It's not surprising in light of how they acted after Sandyhook. Yet, when calls here were made to boycott them and consequent reminders of how they acted were made, they were met with apathy. Rather black Friday deals were posted here and waited with baited breath. There were not made to pay a price then so they got emboldened.
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Those who moved to Florida Sorry, Those Thinking of Moving to Fla Don't.
While still about a decade to go, but the choice right now is between NH which I know fairly well and TN which I don't. I think by the time I'm ready NH will be too far gone. Keep an eye on FL for the midterms and the 2020 presidential and the impact that the couple hundred thousand Puerto Ricans that resettled there after the hurricane will have. I think FL is a couple of election cycles away from being solid blue.
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Trump on board with raising age to own
And I made that point several times that fell on def years. And you had people here that supported the banning of bump stocks. You reap what you sow.