ryan_j

NJ doesn't have to be a blue state. It is only a blue state because the blues vote and we don't.

As for us we just have two. No "fun" sports cars or anything... A Honda Accord 3rd gen (04) and a Toyota Sienna minivan (13), Limited AWD all tricked out with satellite TV, 120v power outlets and everything. The minivan is a sleeper though. Does 0-60 in about 7.5 seconds, probably less if I turn off traction control and use the sequential sport shift to manually change gears. It hasn't made an appearance at CR in a while though, because of all the potholes by the pistol range.

hahahaha I actually know the guy who owns that van!!!

I faced the same dilemma in getting my credit established as an (legal) immigrant. I went and got a secured credit card from Sterling Bank and Trust in Michigan. I deposited $500 and got a $600 line of credit. I paid it in FULL every month to avoid interest charges. I don't think my card had an annual fee and I got interest on the deposit. Eventually I got offers for other cards and I took those. Sterling stopped offering the card so I canceled mine. I got my deposit back in full. I then was able to take out other loans like a car loan and a mortgage, and other credit cards. One of my credit cards I have now has a limit of over $50,000. Lord alone knows what I'd use a credit card to buy something for that amount. But the bad part is that I got into debt, partially because I ran a consulting business and it didn't go so well. Still paying it off but it is not that easy. So a secured credit card is indeed one way to establish your credit. But don't treat credit cards like free money and pay that bill off every month. Also, don't use up all of your credit (don't "max out" your credit cards). The fees aren't bad if you shop around. Another alternative to getting a loan is to use conventional underwriting where you submit more documentation and the look over it. This is typically done for 15 year mortgages where you don't (or can't) use your credit scores. You likely will have to put down more money. Used to be 20% for a typical mortgage, today it may be more. I'd stay away from bad credit credit cards and auto loans because they rape you with the interest rate. But as maks said you can get started with a copy of your credit report. It is free at http://www.annualcreditreport.com

As for this woman, I agree with her on religious grounds. She's an orthodox Jew and can't have strange men in her home while her husband is at work, so she claims. Whatever, that is her right. But she should have just taken the assessment and filed an appeal. If the housing market is shit as she claims she could win an appeal easily. I really hate these money grab reassessments the towns do. They do it when the market is up but rarely ever when it is down.

This is my #1 problem with property taxes. You are paying RENT to the Government to stay on "your" property == you don't own it! I would be happy paying a higher income and sales tax if I never had to pay another dime in property tax, ever.

NICS is instant in other states or close to it. What I did hear is that the NJSP are responding only to fax and not phone calls. That helped slow things way down. Maybe THAT was deliberately designed to slow things down, who knows, pure speculation. But national NICS also has delays on the phone, but there's E-NICS for some states.

I have been hearing "they're delaying as a defacto waiting period" since last year. They are not. They are swamped, plain and simple. Obama and Feinstein scared people into buying guns in record numbers. Expect a little delay in the NICS. It sucks but they were never prepared for this volume.

No it is not true. I bought a gun in January and my NICS was approved in 1 day.

When last I went to the parks with my mom and little brother we went to a timeshare presentation and got free tickets. No we did not buy a timeshare! That's one route you can go... but I don't know if they do that still. Also, the disney parks are gun free zones just in case you were wondering, not even off duty LEO can carry. But if you have a FL CCW you can carry no problem outside of the parks. We went in March. The crowds were very small. When I went in 1987 as a kid we went in August and it was long lines everywhere.

So is it legal to have a 15 round mag and one in the chamber, giving me 16 rounds in the gun?

My good friend Jonathan Hardy is one of the top guys in CCDL, which is a grass roots gun rights org in CT. They get people to show up because they are very well organized. However, he told me that he learned a lot of things from NJ2AS. He runs a blog called CT Pistol permit issues - http://www.ctpistolpermitissues.com So have no fear, I believe we are definitely on the right track. But there is a lot of work to do. We have good people on our side like Frank Fiamingo and Anthony Colandro, Scott Bach, Evan Nappen etc (and others who I may have forgotten, I apologize). I think when it warms up more people will show up. CT is shall issue for CCW in practice btw, even though the law says "may issue."

The second one, wow! More than ever I want to leave this state.

WTF? Is this even real!

Make sure he puts you in the will as the heir to his guns otherwise you WILL need to go through an FFL if he dies.

Congratulations!!! I have two girls myself and a boy. They are triplets actually. I love all of them but the girls are definitely more attached to daddy. Just make sure that you clean your guns outside when her boyfriend comes to visit. If he gets scared off, good. If he comes over and starts talking with you about guns and what he shoots, even better!

No. There's no mandatory gun registration in NJ except for handguns purchased in state. EDIT: Looks like the 4473 does list the details. I suppose since the dealers keep copies of the 4473 that the ATF can get a copy of it? ATF works closely with the NJSP... so supposedly they can send you a notice to turn it in.

The only problem I'd have with buyback purchases is that the gun may have been used in a crime. I don't want that bad juju, not to mention if the serial number has been identified by the authorities I could end up with problems.

Yes, of course. When the time is right. So I think it's best we hold off for now.

It's a beautiful place but a liberal utopia. Honestly I prefer somewhere like rural Tennessee, Georgia or Texas. Best times I had was up in the great smoky mountains.

I could believe that.

Yep. The Montego bay side is really nice. My dad used to go there to work. Kingston, not so much. It will make Camden look like disneyland.

You can certainly bring large sodas to NYC but you can't buy them there. I've offered my friends to buy large drinks like 2 liter bottles in NJ for them and bring it over. Just a little civil disobedience to stick it to Bloomberg.

It will come to a point where the only free state left will be Alaska because it's too cold and underdeveloped for the leeches to want to move there.

If it's a long gun, buy it in Pennsylvania. No long wait for NICS there.