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I'm having my every 4 year itch to try this sport. Has anyone tried? Is there any way to do it here in NJ?

There's a joke in this thread somewhere. Not sure where. Not a title you'll find on many other forums.

If you haven't read Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals," it's a good education in these types of tactics. I like turning their guerilla tactics on them.

Have we applied for an en banc hearing not the 3CA case?I'm hoping that whatever ultimately happens with Peruta, by the time it happens, SCOTUS will have already considered it a sign of a split and taken it on.

We'll get a preview with what happens in CA. My guess is yearly, expensive renewal requirements with FID-like turnaround times, coupled with expansive gun-free zones. (E.g., 1000 yard radius around schools, churches, public parks, etc) to the point where CCW will be a practical impossibility

Good to hear. I'm a life member of both. Good strategy too, as "NRA" immediately sets off an allergic reaction in many people, gun people included. But most people have no idea what ANJRPC is. So, if they were to donate to someone's campaign, for example, there's less public perception risk to the candidate.

I see just fine but maybe didn't express myself well. I meant in NJ, where NRA was silent last year. Of course NRA helps nationwide, but my biggest concern is here. Does ANJRPC get funding from NRA, or is the affiliation more of an administrative thing? I see SAF on every major lawsuit, and I'm increasingly convinced that at this point, judicial solutions have a much higher chance of success than legislative solutions. The fact that our own bretheren in NJOA turned on us supported Sweeney, and we couldn't muster the outrage, despite Weinberg et al openly telling us to f ourselves, to kick out a single politician, makes me pretty pessimistic about legislative solutions.

I'd defended NPR in a previous post for their non-political shows like "Prairie Home Companion." I retract my defense. I listened to PHC last night. It was a rerun from shortly after the Senate rejected UBC. First, there was a Lefty and Dusty skit where the comical figure was a Texan who walks around with 400 lbs of weapons. OK, not so bad. Then, during the Lake Woebegone skit, Garrison Keiler went off on a tear about how the Senate is owned by gun manufacturers, how they're creating a spiral of fear that will end up with everyone owning assault weapons and school shootings occurring every month or two, and how so much that is wrong in this country is caused by states that shouldn't even be states, like SD. They're so sparsely populated that they should just be national parks. This led to wild applause from the audience in Austin, TX. This isn't the first time I've listened to a show and had one of these bombs dropped on me. I remember one show where the guest made some comment about the inherent stupidity Southerners before the civil war. Another one where some lib made the comment that Western frontiersmen hated women, animals, and Indians. This sort of stuff just goes unchallenged. I hate NPR. I'll add to my list of good news sources The Economist.

When SAFE was passed and Remington was considering leaving, didn't the state pay them 30 pieces of silver to stay? And they stayed. This move would have been much more powerful if they'd done it then and said, screw your blood money.

I'm in. As far as I can see, the SAF has done much, much more to defend our rights than the NRA. Edit: I just bought a life membership. I'll be buying multiple life memberships in the future. Thanks OP for nudging me to do what I've been meaning to do for awhile.

Did he just accuse the entire NJ police force of being comprised of domestic terrorists and gangsters?

WSJ and BBC. I used to like NPR and still like their non-political stuff like "Wait, wait, don't tell me" and "Prairie Home Companion," but after the gun control stuff came out, some of the hosts started showing their true colors. Same with the NYT. Good investigative reporting on non-political issues, but their blatant agenda, particularly acute with the gun issue, ruins it for me. And just the titles of the vitriolic pieces from their in-house blowhards; Down, Collins, and the appropriate named Blow, make me physically ill. The crisis opened my eyes to the deceitfulness and contempt for truth of the anti-gunners, and unfortunately, that includes most liberals. Obama's war on rule of law had taken down liberals another notch in my book. Far right conservatives are just as deceitful, but I don't mind them as much, probably because they are less of a threat to my vision of a constitutional republic than the far left. I find I'm most aligned to libertarians. I'm pro-gay rights and pro-choice (although with reservations,) so I know I'm unwelcome in far right circles. As a 2A absolutist, I'm in a tough spot, because most of my social and professional circle is liberal. In the past year, some have dropped their facade and let their hatred of gun owners shine through. I can accept differences on any other political issue, but this one strikes me to the core, and I've cut off several friendships as a result. A bit like being black and having sweet neighbors who just happen to be racist. It's funny how brilliant scientists can drop all of their ability for nuanced data interpretation when it comes to guns. The whole situation is sad, and my intolerance on this one issue is turning me into something I don't like very much.

I'm wallowing in all the good news at the end of a long day and getting caught up. Re: the Cato brief. I agree the use of Comic Sans is bizarre. I assume that these briefs are template driven, so it must have been someone's conscious choice. I was almost ready to dismiss it as a fluke until I read the second question: "Was this court serious in DC vs. Heller when it ruled that the 2A protects the individual right to keep and bear arms?" I don't read these often, but it seems incredibly unprofessional. It's surprising, coming from the Cato and given the high quality of the rest of the brief. Re: the CA9 opinion, I think we got incredibly lucky. It looks like the case fell to 2 conservatives and 1 liberal, chosen out of a mostly liberal court. I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth, though. I read somewhere and hope it's true that NJ will have to stick with its original defense in front of SCOTUS. It was such an embarrassingly bad defense by an attorney who knew she was playing a stacked game. I don't think SCOTUS will think her arguments are so cute, and I suspect 2 CA3 judges are going to get publicly keel hauled in front of their professional peers. If NJ has to defend its original argument, that gives us plenty of time to revive the aborted mass CCW application plan. (What ever happened to that, NJ2AS?) I've been leery about participating and giving my police chief an excuse to cause mischief on future applications, but if it helps sway one of the most important SCOTUS decisions of my life, I'll apply in a second. Reading about the SAF and Gura strategy from others more knowlegeable just increases my deep respect for the tactical mastery of these guys. We're lucky to have them.

Well, at least he's declared himself. Time to flush him out on other topics. I'd like to hear an explanation for why an adjustible stock should be illegal.

I just got a CMP Garand today and finally got a chance to try out my Garand bayonet. The fit is rather loose, and there's quite a bit of rattling. Is this normal, or do I have a mismatched bayonet? The markings on the bayonet are "AFH" (and below it) "US" with what looks like a circle with flames coming off it between the U and the S.

Call me an optimist, but I think these scandals are a tempest in a teapot. I haven't seen anything in the media in a while. The Hoboken mayor (which IMO was a much bigger scandal than the bridge) has been suspiciously silent. I think in two years, the outrage will have dampened, people will still be disgusted by it, but people will base their vote on other real issues.

I don't understand how this works. I thought his term is up in 2016 and it's lights out.

When all the legislative stuff was going down last year, I spoke with a detective at my local PD (in a very liberal town.) I wanted to give the chief a heads up about the paperwork nightmare the PD might experience if we had to reapply for our FIDs every 4 years. The detective was very friendly and neutral, and after chatting with him awhile, I got the sense we were on the same page. Knowing that he had to stay apolitical, I didn't push him. At the Beth-El anti-gun minute of hate last year, the Union County head sheriff (who was a charming elderly man but a complete dunce) dragged along one of his poor subordinates to man a table displaying the scary evil guns they are fighting. We chatted after the event, and, again while his words were neutral, his true colors shone through. I felt really bad for the guy. During the head sheriff's speech (where he stated that the Newtown shooter had a full automatic weapon,) he outed his subordinate as an NRA member.

Obviously he was shooting a 9mm. [asbestos suit on]

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Big Green Egg all the way. It's extremely versatile. i use it for everything from standard bbq to smoking to dutch oven cooking to Thanksgiving turkey to pizza making. As the BGE cookbook says, it turns my oven into an expensive storage space. I have the large, but if you're planning to do high volume bbq/smoking, I'd recommend the extra large. The cooking area on the large is kind of small. When I do a 16 hour smoke, I'd like to do it in quantity.

I don't know enough about geology to judge the merits of anthropogenic climate change, and neither do 95% of the people who passionately cling to one side or another. In the absence of expertise, I have no choice but to rely on the conclusions of those who are experts, with the allowance that academics by nature tend toward the left-wing. If anyone knows of a source debunking of climate change geared toward someone with a sound scientific and mathematical background, I'd love to see it.

I tried downloading the paper, but it's only available to subscribers. Can anyone get a copy (Lexus-Nexus?) and post?

It's simple. Have her apply for an FID and, voila, 9 months later, you'll have your background check!

Great books. I also recommend "The Bracken Anthology," which is a collection of his essays. It's available for download at Amazon pretty cheap.