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That appears to be a lever lock. A normal set of picks will not work - completely different mechanism. Lever locks are very secure and difficult to pick. They can be picked with a "hobbs" type lock pick or a "curtain" pick but those are expensive and very lock specific. Nobody is going to have such a thing for this old safe. No locksmith is going to spend any time trying to pick it. Here's an animation that's pretty close to the type of lock you have. You can see that the "fence" needs to fit through the "gates" in the levers for the "bolt" to retract. The levers have false gates that this video doesn't show. These false gates bind everything up if the levers aren't lifted to the right height. Here's the animation: I'll PM you with what I would try but you will likely end up having to drill it out and then see if you can find replacement parts.

We don't need to speculate about what might work as the new currency if SHTF. SHTF situations happen all over the world all the time. Have bullets, nickel, copper, or even gold become the currency in use when this happens? No. Around the world, people barter with things others can't do without - alcohol, cigarettes, diapers, baby formula, medicine (not fish antibiotics). For some reason, there's this belief that when SHTF everyone will change their lifestyle and will now need magnesium fire starters, paracord, and ammunition.

Buying things when the price is down and selling when the price is up is good business but that's not what this is. This is buying nickle and copper when the price is down but paying more than the price was when it was up. In fact, if you're right and metals are down 30-35%, buying at 80% over spot is never going to pay off.

Neighbor in his 80's. Gun's been in the attic since the 70's. ̶R̶e̶g̶i̶s̶t̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ Background checks didn't start until '68. Records certainly weren't computerized when this gun was bought, although the purchase may be enshrined in some folder on a shelf in a forgotten room somewhere. Your neighbor needs to decide what to do but I doubt that anybody's ever coming to look for this gun.

I still don't see how the hollow points are an issue. You can't transport them outside of exemptions but you can have them at home - even if they're in magazines.

"The Constitution does not trump “states’ enforcement of their ‘longstanding prohibitions’" I guess slavery is okay because we did it for a long time. Same with not letting women vote. As long as rights are violated for long enough, it becomes okay. Interesting logic.

I guess SCOTUS really has no say in anything. If state governments refuse to comply with the law, as interpreted by SCOTUS, what recourse is there? It seems to be something that happens near the end of any great nation and we were unfortunately here to witness it. The rule of law is dead in America.

i If the Supreme Court does hear it and rules in our favor, it will still mean nothing in NJ just like Heller is blatantly violated today.

I don't clean guns in my back yard. That's where I shoot.

If you're going to go the penetrating oil route, use real penetrating oil, not WD-40. I've been working in machinery maintenance for 25+ years. I have not had a lot of luck depending on penetrating oil. I've used it a lot, I just haven't ever been convinced that it made much of a difference. There has never been an a-ha moment where I sprayed something that was stuck on Friday night and came in Monday morning to have it suddenly loosened up and removable by normal methods. In fact, I don't think I've ever finally gotten something apart and found that penetrating oil had even penetrated the threads on a stubborn fastener. My preferences for a stuck fastener: Heat (apply with torch or weld a nut onto the end) Impact (hammer, chisel, impact driver) drill it out and use an ez-out tool drill it out with a left hand drill bit (which sometimes bites the fastener and turns it out as you drill) drill it out and chisel, hammer, file, or saw out whatever pieces of the fastener are left in the threads drill it out to a larger size and re-tap to a larger fastener size. drill it out to a larger size and re-tap it with a thread repair tool and install a threaded insert to get back to the same fastener size. Unfortunately, most set screws with a socket head are pretty hard. That eliminates drilling without the right kinds of bit and a drill press. And even with the right tools, it's common to end up with a broken drill bit stuck in the fastener - which doesn't improve your situation much. You already gave impact the old college try. I think you're left with heat.

Can we get a photo of the fastener?

Impact drivers work because the drive the screw bit into the screw with each impact. They don't just turn the screw with each impact, they force the bit tightly into the screw slot with each impact. Because of this,they do not tend to slip and damage screw slots. Assuming the set screw metal is hard enough to handle the impact without deforming and that you have a driver bit that fits tightly, this sounds like a good option to me. A heat gun will never put out enough heat to make a difference. A pencil type torch only burns for a minute or so but they can concentrate heat in a small area. I've used copper sheeting as a heat shield before to protect everything around a fastener but aluminum foil would do the same job if you work quickly.

I just did a quick calculation on a post it note. If I got it right, $5 worth of nickles has a melted down value of about $2.80. That's not considering the cost of melting it down and somehow separating the copper and nickle. I don't consider Gold to be a very good investment but at least I'm not going to pay 78% over spot for Gold.

I have a couple of websites. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is something you'll have to learn if you hope to get customers via the web. I don't know how your website is hosted but there are some really great plugins that help you through this. You'll need to know who your market is very specifically, otherwise you'll be creating pages that Google will deliver to every gun enthusiast in California - and that does you no good. Lots of relevent content that's written specifically for your narrowly defined audience is the key. And don't try to game the system by throwing in lots of keywords to get attention. Google's ranking algorithm is very smart now. It will throw you to the bottom of the Google list where nobody will ever hear from you. You're in a crowded market. Getting attention via a website is going to be a lot of work.

When I get crabs from Salem, I prefer Marty's in Quinton. But Cincinnati Cinnamon sounds nice too.

They've got a bill board up in Bridgeton, Cumberland county that says "restore the right to carry in NJ". But no call to action, no instructions on how to help, nothing about it on their webpage. It doesn't seem like they even have a project working on the right to carry. I'm not sure why the billboard is even there unless it's just PR to make NJARPC look like they're fighting for something.

Does anybody water their gardens with water that was exposed to the chemicals in a rubber of their garden hose? That was transported through the Poly-Vinyl-Chloride pipes from the well, or that comes from a waste water treatment plant that separates water from people poop, dumps in chlorine to kill what they couldn't separate, and pumps it back to your house? I'll eat the crabs, even if somebody said the water is contaminated. Yum, crabs.

The other "bad thing" is that it's a violation of a civil right important enough to be enumerated in the Bill of Rights as #2 on the list. But other than that, your town sounds like a pretty sweet deal. And that is why NJ will never be any different. Everyone is comfy with the way it is now. Especially if you live in a nice town that only charges you a fee, fingerprints you, makes you fill out permits, and checks your criminal background and mental health background every time you want to exercise the "keep" half of that civil right and won't ever let you exercise the "bear" half. It is nice that they do all of that for us so efficiently. I feel comfy just thinking about it.

You can apply for a thousand permits at a time if you want. Fill out the multiple purchase exemption form and buy as many as you want. Who cares if it throws up red flags. NJ is the way it is because everyone is afraid of upsetting someone in power. You never see people this scared on the gun forums of any other states. WE ARE WIMPS and we deserve the laws we have. We'd be better off if we had the stones to remind those who make the rules that they all work for us instead of cowering to them in fear. I hate that we'll never win because we're afraid to fight.

Let's hope that Trump wins (I can't believe I said that) and appoints some very conservative justices to the Supreme Court before this makes it there. Of course, NJ will ignore it just like they've ignored Heller.

I think everyone is overthinking this. Everything on your roof came from the outdoors. It's the same stuff that is going to end up in the rain water that waters your garden anyway. I prefer to let my rain water run down through my 100' sand-based water filtration system into the aquifer I pump clean water from. Running the pump costs less than buying a rain water collection system.

Because the NJSP scammed the legislature. The legislature passed a law that listed "bad" guns and said all guns that were "substantially identical" were also bad. The court correctly ruled that there is no such thing as "substantially identical", Its either identical or it ain't. Instead of throwing the law out, the court let the NJAG decide what "substantially identical" meant. The NJAG turned the job over to the Firearms Investigation Unit of the NJSP who is certainly filled with pro gun troopers. Why would you volunteer to for that assignment if you didn't like being around guns all day? Those troopers wrote a ridiculous list of 5 "evil features" and made the rules very easy to circumvent. The legislators who passed the law don't know the difference. The courts don't know the difference. The AG probably didn't know the difference. The court ruled that that list was good enough and it was adopted into the administrative code where it's been law ever since.

NJ law is silent on how a muzzle brake is attached to the barrel. AFT rules say welded or silver soldered. That's rule is to bring a less than 16" barrel up to the required 16". In NJ, if you are adding a muzzle brake to a barrel longer than 16", I don't think there is a rule. Long standing tradition and folk knowledge is that it needs to be welded or silver soldered (brazed) as per the ATF rules for short barrels. Sort of the same thing for pinning adjustable stocks. The NJ law doesn't tell you how to do it. There are accepted methods but who know if some other method is just as valid? I don't know what the police, prosecutor, judge, and jury would say.

If I understand correctly, the group wants $175,000 in donations so they can fight NJ's laws in the federal circuit court...where it already lost in the Drake case and SCOTUS refused to hear it. Now, with no Scalia, I don't want SCOTUS to hear any gun cases for a while.

For me, page says "firearms quiz" with a picture but nothing to click. I guess I'm not even qualified to take the quiz.