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I don't know about Fort Dix but the basic pistol class is now two part. Part one is completed on line and part two is done in the classroom and range. It makes the live demonstrations and live fire go much faster but the online portion is childish and there is no interaction with an instructor if you don't understand something.

Here's a tip. Buy your paint from a paint supplier instead of the big box store. Ask them if they can tint your primer to be a close match to your paint. Depending on the color you choose, they can sometimes do this. A primer coat close to your paint color makes it much more likely that one coat of paint will cover. We do this if we're painting a dark or bright color over something else dark or bright.

If you're just knocking down the shiny surface, 120 grit. If you have rough spots you want to remove, start with something course like 80 grit and then hit it with 120. The flatter the paint, the harder it is to see imperfections. If you are putting something shiny on the wall, you might need to sand with 200 grit to make the surface smooth. Commercially, we usually go with an eggshell finish. It's flat enough to hide imperfections but smooth enough that you can clean dirt and spills.

Why is a U turn illegal? They teach a K-turn in drivers ed and make you do it during the drivers test. Is it legal if I stop in the middle of the turn and back up a little but illegal if I have room to do it all in one motion?

I hire 25 kids in the summer to paint. We apply hundreds of gallons of paint each year. 1) If it has a sheen, lightly sand to knock the shine down. Many books say to use TSP. It works too but it's a mess. One or two strokes with sand paper is all it takes. You just want the shine gone. 2) Us a good primer. I prefer Kilz original but it stinks. There is a water based Kilz 2. Works well too but not as good as the original. Zinseer also makes a good primer. 3) Use a good paint. The big box stores will have 3 price ranges. Cheap, middle, expensive. Get the expensive. It will have more solids. More solids means a thicker coat when it dries, which means less coats needed. Don't bother with the "fancy" grade. Eddie Bauer or Tommy Hilfiger or some other designer will have paint that is no better than the store brand - if you get the best of the store brands.

Four options: 1) Pay the fine and the insurance surcharges that come with it 2) Call the municipal court, ask about seeing the prosecutor. It's often possible to show up early and talk to the prosecutor. He'll probably let you plea down to a charge with no points. The prosecutor's job is to make money for the town...period. The judge is there to make money for the town...period. Forget any notions you have about justice or what's fair. It doesn't apply here. Usually, the prosecutor offers a charge that does not have points but has a much higher fine. Make sure you're prepared to pay the fine on the spot...plus court costs. 3) Show up and fight it alone. You will lose. The judge is there to make money for the town. He does not care if you are right. Be prepared to pay the fine on the spot plus court costs. Court costs are the penalty you pay for exercising your right to defend yourself in court. 4) Show up with a lawyer and fight it. The choice of a lawyer is critical. The chances of winning depend primarily on how chummy the lawyer is with the judge. If your lawyer isn't chummy enough, he'll suggest negotiating with the prosecutor for a lower fine. One advantage of having a lawyer is that your case gets heard first instead of sitting there for hours waiting your turn. But still, be prepared to pay the fine on the spot plus court costs. Good luck.

I expressed the same concern. Someone correctly pointed out that NJ does have a statute under which residents of the State may apply for a license or permit to carry a concealed firearm. They almost never issue a permit but they do have a permit that you can apply for. And since (1) and (2) have an "or" and not an "and" between them, NJ only has to meet one of the two conditions - which it does.

New vs. Used? I've bought several of both. You rarely save much buying used - unless you're buying something that's showing it's age. Good used guns in good shape cost very close to the new price. Guns don't depreciate much. You really don't save much buying used. I have bought $50 shotguns with broken parts knowing I was getting into a project but even project guns end up costing you much more by the time the project's done. Go for new.

SCOTUS already said that there is an individual right to carry a firearm for self defense and that that right is "incorporated" to the states - which means the states can't violate the right. (Heller and McDonald) NJ ignored those rulings. I don't see any reason they wouldn't ignore this federal law and any SCOTUS rulings - what's the penalty? NJ goes to jail?

MJ is still illegal federally. Obama announced that the DOJ would not be enforcing the law for medical MJ users in states that passed medical MJ cards. But still illegal.

.22 is a great starter gun. The low recoil makes it easier to learn the fundamentals without being afraid of the gun. The cost of Ammo means you can practice as much as you want without breaking the bank. I own lots of guns in lots of different calibers and I still shoot .22 more often than anything else. The only down side to .22 is that it's not a great defense round - if anyone ever did kick the door down in the middle of the night. But you already said you aren't concerned about that. If you do ever get bored with a .22, guns retain their value. You can sell it for close to what you bought it for and buy something bigger. There is no way you loose getting a .22. My favorite .22 when considering accuracy, cost, and dependability is the Browning Buckmark. Second would be a Ruger 22/45 or any of the Ruger Mark II, III guns. But, there are a lot of other guns that are nice too.

It's not greedy bad business. It's greedy good business. In a free market, it's greed that motivates people develop new products, bring new ideas to market, and keeps prices down. However, I have no problem with a manufacturer setting a min. advertised price. The manufacturer believes they can maximize their profits by forcing retailers to keep prices high. That's part of the greedy free market too. If Holosun was selling water to people who were dying of thirst - it would be greedy bad business. But since they'll selling something non-essential that many other manufacturer's are also making and selling, competition will prevent overpricing of goods. It's all just greedy good business.

Get the person writing the ticket to correct the error. If you end up in court, you'll loose a day's pay and end up paying court fees because somebody other than you screwed up. Municipal court is a completely corrupt money collection system. It's outrageous that you're charged a fee for the privilege of defending yourself against something you never did - but that's how it works. And, if the officer tells the judge that he's sure it was your car - no evidence in the world will matter. The judge will ALWAYS side with the person writing the ticket even if he knows you're right. Municipalities hire judges that collect fines. The judges see the same cops every day and he probably won't see you again. In traffic court, you are guilty until you can prove yourself innocent and even then, you're probably still guilty. I also got a ticket once from a place I had never been. I paid the fine plus court fees.

In NJ, every sale of any firearm requires a background check. When doing a private sale of a rifle, the FID card is the proof that the buyer was background checked. buyer must have FID, matching DL, and you fill out the COE. Nothing goes to the NJSP - but nothing goes to the NJSP when you buy a long gun from a dealer either. When the dealer does the unnecessary and redundant NICS check at purchase, they tell NICS that the background check is for a long gun. No model, no serial, and NICS doesn't know if you bought 1 or 100 rifles at the same time.

I have hundreds of security cameras at work. We have a combination of cameras of all ages with many different resolutions. We review cameras for incidents that we want to investigate and often the police stop by to see if we've captured something that's happened in the neighborhoods around our buildings. We review cameras for some event at least weekly. There have been so many events that we've captured on camera but can't ID anyone because the resolution isn't high enough. We have also had many, many incidents that happened just feet away from where we had camera coverage. In fact, if 95% of your property is covered with cameras, 90% of the incidents will happen off camera. I don't know how that's possible but it's true. Get the highest resolution you can afford and the most coverage you can afford.

My theory, based on nothing but guesses, is that the shot and wadding is moving pretty slowly during the first 1" of travel down the barrel. I imagine the shot cup, filled with shot, makes the jump just fine. Once the shot cup, filled with shot, is moving down the barrel, it's exactly the same as if the chamber and shell were the same length. If something was happening to disrupt things during that 1" jump, the shot cup or wad would end up showing some marks from the impact with the chamber and I've never seen that. If there is a difference in patterns between 2-3/4" and 3-1/2" shells, I would tend to think that's a result of higher velocity pellets passing through and being compressed more quickly through the choke.

I'm curious too.

Today, I'm afraid the constitution is almost irrelevant - at least the 2nd amendment. Violating that right is a non issue for many of our leaders. Unlike Obamacare, there will be no down side to shall issue. Nobody is going to lose coverage, nobody is going to be taxed because their plan is too good, nobody is going to be forced to spend money on something they don't want, nothing is going to go up in price. I agree, once it happens, I think it will be a long time before it goes away.

Anybody?

I want to mount a scope base on a 20ga shotgun. I ordered the base and was planning to silver solder it to the barrel. The base came today and it's aluminum - so no silver soldering. Plan B is to drill and tap the barrel but I suspect I don't have enough metal to do this safely. I'm hoping somebody knows the real formula or rule about how much chamber wall must be left undisturbed. The thickness of the chamber wall - right where I hope to drill 3 holes is .143" thick. The screws are 6-48. Ideally, I'd like to have a thread depth at least the same as the thread width of .135". This leaves only .008" chamber wall which seems way to thin. I'd even need to use an end mill instead of a drill bit to get a flat bottom hole and I'm not sure a bottoming tap would actually reach all the way to the bottom of that flat bottom hole. But...then again. I'm not reducing the chamber except for three tiny spots and those spots are reinforced by the machine screw so maybe I'm okay. Anybody know the "real" rule about this? And if it's not a go, is there some option other than silver solder to stick an aluminum base to a steel barrel? Thanks.

I did petit Jury once. Murder trial took 5 weeks. It was very rewarding. I left impressed that 12 strangers with absolutely nothing in common could show each other so much respect and work so intelligently together to try to get to the truth. But, I agree with Malice4you. During the trial, we sat in the Jury room waiting to enter the courtroom more than we heard witnesses. We'd enter the court room, a witness would speak for 1 minute, a lawyer would ask for a side bar, we'd be sent to the Jury room because they needed "10 minutes" to sort something out. 3 hours later we'd be dismissed for lunch. After lunch we'd go back to the courtroom to be sent out again for 2 hours. Day after day.

These are the guys to ask: http://texaschlforum.com/ When I was planning my trip, they answered several of my stupid questions.

I can't find the safe I use but it's very similar to this: https://www.walmart.com/ip/SentrySafe-.4-cu-ft-Security-Safe/35255021 It adds about 2 seconds to me being able to retrieve my gun. I added a piece of 1/4" thick steel channel to one side, inside the safe, to prevent a bullet from leaving the safe. Makes me feel better about keeping my handgun loaded. I'm sure that keeping it loaded makes up for the 2 seconds lost. The kids aren't going to guess the combination. It's a 4 digit combination. That's 10x10x10x10=10,000 possible combinations. If you enter the wrong combination 3 times, it times-out for 5 minutes. 5,000 guesses will take you almost 6 days to have a 50/50 chance of guessing it. Spend12 days and nights guessing combinations and you're guaranteed to get in.

You can't have your guns in MD unless you are protected by FOPA (Federal firearm owner's protection act) which protects you from MD laws as long as your guns are locked up and separate from the ammo AND you are TRAVELING THROUGH Maryland. As soon as you stop in MD, you are no longer traveling THROUGH and FOPA no longer protects you. If you stop, you must follow MD law which says you can't have your guns. Just don't stop in MD.

Everything is illegal.