Howard

I think was is being said is that he can carry a long gun just about anywhere with an FID card while a hand gun can only go between exempt locations.

If you are brand spanking new you don’t know the questions to ask and don’t even know like things like outdoor ranges or shooting events even exist. Just like you and I probably don know about various book clubs (wine drinking clubs) that house wives go to

Ordered some 2 round magazines today, cause they may be really tough to come by come January

Pool lighting is actually fairly safe. The old style high voltage (like I still have) is typically in a sealed water tight fixture and the wires allow the entire fixture to be pulled out of the water to work on. They are also all grounded and all metal is fully bonded. Newer pools all have low voltage LED based lighting.

I️ agree bad idea to do swimming and electrical work at the same time, does not even matter if you have a friend close by

Can’t live life in fear like that. You risk being killed each time you get behind the wheel. Do you ever eat when you are alone - you could choke to death. You could be out walking and trip and knock yourself out as you fall into a puddle and drown. I️ feel much safer out alone shooting at the range than with lots of dangerous newbies around me at a public range.

Well that is one way to do things, but it sounds a little too cautious. I️ go swimming in my pool alone, and shit can happen. I️ do electrical work at home as well when no one is home as well. All of these things have risk just like a Gun, but you have to live your life.

Well Dave, as they say times change. Five years ago when I got this crazy idea I might want to get a gun I didn't know jack shit about guns. Some might say that is still true today, but that is neither here nor there Anyhow I did not know anyone that had a gun or shot a gun and I did not know this forum or any forum on this topic existed. I did not know you existed or would guide my way. I grew up in Manhattan and guns were things bad people and cops had. So I went to the oracle of all knowledge, YouTube, and watched a video on how to shoot a gun. Actually I probably watched 10 hours of them. I then went to the indoor facility about 10 minutes from my house and nervously walked around looking at the hundreds of implements of death they had in the show cases. A nice woman behind one of these counters asked if she could help me and I did not even know the questions to ask. She explained that I could rent a gun and try it out. Wow, I thought that would be great to be able to try something and see if I really wanted to do it before buying. So, I did just that. No forms to fill out, no special ID, no nothing. So that is how I got to where I am today. Had that not existed I probably would not be here, would not own "a" gun nor have perused things further. Had I had to find a friend to shoot with I don't know where I would have started because I did not know of anyone that had a gun. Wait I actually had a boss a while back that hunted and I thought he was a crazy nut job as he talked about a safe he had with like a dozen hunting rifles. Back then I thought that was crazy, why would anyone "need" 12 guns. Bottom line this policy is bad for the future of bringing new people into gun ownership in the culture that is the socialist people's republic of New Jermany.

I shoot alone at the range all the time. I find it much more useful practice and much safer - there is no one else there to accidentally (or intentionally) shoot me. Oh and since I am an RO/SO/RSO I have all three of them with me

Actually I am finding their service about the same as Verizon. There are a few areas where I now get service that I did not before and some that I had before and don't know, but overall just about the same.

Go to your current carrier and talk to their retention department and demand a better deal, often they will work with you to not lose a customer. I just switched, from Verizon to Sprint cause they had a deal that was too good to pass on. I had Verizon like forever, and was not on a contract. Sprint offered to switch me for free and give me unlimited voice, text, and yes data for a year for free. Yes, the monthly cost is free - all I pay are the taxes of $3.60 / month. No contract and no obligation to stay with them when the deal expires. I was paying about $53/mo for unlimited text and voice and only 2 gigs of data with Verizon.

As was just said these are BS rules that will not stop someone that wants to kill themselves. With out much thought I can come up with a couple of ways to do this. Just walk out onto the range, most places don't have locked doors and ask someone if you can try their gun or just grab one. Want to be less noticeable, well here is one that has been done before - make believe you are a new shooter and sign up for a lesson with an instructor. When they hand you the gun, well you can do your thing. There are many other ways around this, but bottom line these are just feel good rules forced by the Left.

You do realize that in most areas the copper wire that goes to your home actually transition to fiber optic before going to a central office so if power goes out it will likely not work the way it did 40 years ago.

True, but so can phone lines. There is no one perfect answer. But between VoIP and cell I have never been totally without phone service.

I’ve got a UPS on the cable box and router and they continue to function during power outages.

So just tell them you self identify as Female and if they won't rent to you then you charge them with some left wing bias charge and make lots and lots of money in the socialist people's republic of New Jermany

I think NoMoRobo has a paid version that works on POTS lines. But the bigger question is why do you have an expensive POTS line? I have two VoIP "landlines". One is on MagicJack and the other on Ooma. I don't recommend MagicJack, but I got it for $99 for 5 years of service, so I have kept it. The base Ooma service is under $5 a month and is great.

Try NoMoRobo on the landline if your provider supports it. On the Cell I use Hiya which does a good job blocking stuff.

Slay, hunt, kill. I was close

Check with Deerhunter, he owns and HVAC business in Randolph.

When I mentioned 4/3rds I was talking about the mirrorless cameras. Some of them are very impressive indeed. All of these things are tradeoffs between price, size, weight, function - there is no one right answer for everyone. The biggest losers are stand alone point and shoot cameras - why would anyone carry one when many of the cellphones are actually better. Not sure if cellphone will kill L16, not with all those lenses and the capability it has. The top cell phones only have two lenses, and the camera does not use them at the same time. Yes the $2,000 price tag is up there, but it is just a beta now. Assuming they work the bugs out and start producing in volume one would expect the price to drop significantly. Actually that price is fairly low when you compare it to what a good DSLR with a bunch of lenses costs (not talking about kit lenses).

The 6+, 7+ and 8+ are all about the same size. The X which has a bigger screen than those is actually a smaller phone. By removing the finger print sensor they were able to make the X roughly 1/4" narrower and 1/2" shorter. That makes it much more pocket friendly.

I find the touch ID to be useless about 50% of the time, one of the reasons I am happy to try the face ID as it can't be any worse than the touch. I have read many articles talking about Apples marketing strategy and they have taken the conclusion that the iPhone 8 was designed to be a failure, which is why they are continuing to make and sell the 7 series. The concept is there is a huge price jump from the 7 to the X, so they came out with another model that is only $200 less than the X but doesn't offer all that much more than the 7. Thus, people that want a new phone first say, wow that X is so expensive so they decided they want the 8. But once they make that decision then they reconsider and say "well it is only $200 more to get what I really want" Thus, the 8 is really the phone that Apple does not want anyone to buy. They want you to buy the 7 if you want a cheaper phone or reach to buy the higher cost higher margin X.

I am using Sprint right now, but don't have a contract. Had Verizon for just about forever but a month or two ago Sprint offered me a year of service with unlimited voice, text AND data for free, all I pay is the $3.60 a month for taxes - could not say no to that. There is no obligation to stay or to continue after the year. So, I have no problem paying for the phone outright on the $55 a month I am saving over Verizon. When you pay the full amount you get an unlocked phone that can be used on any provider. As far as filling the phone, if you use something like Flickr or Google you can upload all your photos to their sites and not store any on the phone which saves memory. Will keep at it, but I was very happy to be LONG Amazon today! Sure beat the crap out of AAPL

Guess you have never been to Victory Gardens, or the Hollows in Morristown I lucked out, they had one with 256 gigs left at Bridgewater that will be available for me in the morning next Friday. Just lucky I guess. I have a 6+ with 64gigs, but running out of memory on it. Never saw the need to upgrade to the 6s+, 7+ or 7s+ or even the 8+. But the X has enough features that it seems worth it, and I'll switch my wife over to my 6+ replacing the crap Android she has. What's a thousand dollars anyway, just a few matches worth of ammo