wooly bugger

Awesome letter. I loved the ending. Thank you.

Don't get into accurizing it or you'll end up losing hundreds of hours and hundreds of dollars. Seriously, I had a great time tinkering with mine. I have a Hogue stock, a bull barrel, and a Volquartsen trigger, as well as a few other mods, and it shoots great. One nice mod is a lever magazine release, which is a lot easier to use than the factory release. I'd get a bunch of 10 round mags, just in case Cryan has his way with us.

There's plenty left to buy. Online, at least. I've got an M1 Garand and a Mosin-Nagant M44 waiting on a check. AR's are even starting to reappear.

If it's truly because of a deluge in purchases, then I'm happy to wait a week. It's more important to me to swell our ranks than for me to have an instant gun. Of course, that's assuming that when the run dies down, we go back to normal, which is by no means assured.

I hear Josh Moore might have one for sale

Forgive me if its mentioned in one of the 600+ preceding posts, but where can you listen to the proceedings?

Where have you been? Average "NICS" time has been over a week. Now it takes two trips. Once to fill out the paperwork, once to actually take possession.

Went to my FFL to fill out the paperwork and got a peek at it. Very little cosmoline and in great shape. Now I just have to wait for the background check to go through....

But YouTube doesn't give them exposure to the local gun community and local issues the way a trip to GFH would. Even crazier, submit a "safety" bill requiring PDs to hand out this educational material along with the FID

No ballot initiative in NJ. Would threaten the hegemony if the subjects could interfere with the rulers.

Just shows how deep is the cultural rift. It's inconceivable to me to keep my kids away from guns until they're 18.

He specifically said there has been only one shooting in Newark with a legally owned gun. Typical politician. Hopefully his actions will mirror his first statement and not the second. It's cheap to pander through twitter. It's a different political calculus to get pulled into another messy legislative morass.

If 20k is just the backlog, I'd love to know what is the absolute number of new FIDs. This is a several percent increase in our ranks. A very good thing. My concern with a lot of inexperienced gun owners is accidents. Maybe in addition to the training places, they could also include a link to a non-commercial gun safety web site.

Wouldn't it be great if, as a public safety initiative, we could get PDs to hand out a list of training organizations with each FID? It could do a lot of good, from an education perspective, to get these new owners into Gun for Hire, where they can learn about both gun safety and the political environment.

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When I called Christies office and started giving my spiel to the staffer, he stopped me and said I could keep going, but all he would record is a "for" or "against." I'll bet someone just skimmed your letter and took a guess on for or against. Time for us all to call his office and give a very simple "against" statement.

I'm not too interested in auto knives. Just not worth the hassle and risk of having to prove a "good reason," when an assisted opener is just as fast and won't raise eyebrows.

I wish we had a more sympathetic poster boy. This guy is a crook. We need a martyr. [to anyone from DHS, I mean an innocent person prosecuted under he sillier parts of the law, not the jihadist type.]

No, of course not. That's one more victim of society tragically cut down before society gave him a chance for rehabilitation and a tear-jerk redemption movie.

I think a better metric would be number of crimes averted. Otherwise, you get dragged into, "a gun in the home is x times as likely to kill an acquaintance (like a fellow drug dealer) than a criminal."

Not necessary. They can achieve the same goal by printing money and driving up inflation. It's the beauty of fiat currency

Unnecessary. If she'd been lucky enough to live in Nj, she would have had. 94% chance of getting a CCW.

No, they lock you in a public box and let people throw things at you until your background check comes through.

I think the market's thawing a tiny bit.

Do now they're colluding?