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We just happened to be at the Vietnam memorial on Veteran's Day a few years ago. It wasn't planned that way. The place was overrun with vets in uniforms or at least in hats and jackets. That was an amazing way to see the wall. Names engraved in granite is impressive but ten thousand vets in quiet lines patiently waiting to see the wall, greeting each other, crying together, really made it stick. Even my 5 year old (he's older now) was silent.

Spy Museum is good. Take the Metro to Chinatown for lunch - interesting. If you haven't taken the metro before, it is the best in the world. There's a hidden metro station right in the middle of the mall near the carousel. The kids love to eat at the vendor vans behind the air and space museum - take the "back" doors out to the street. I don't know why it's so much fun to order pizza and egg rolls from a van with a window but you'd think we were in Disney world. Sit on the steps to eat and feed the birds by hand - if you're still enough. And the NRA museum will take you an hour to see on the way home. There's a shooting range in the back of the NRA museum building that's open to NRA members pretty cheap. I discovered it when I got lost in the parking lot and will be taking a handgun down to keep in the hotel next time I go just so I can say I shot at the NRA headquarter's range. We do DC about once a year with the kids. Always stay in Alexandria and metro wherever we want to go.

I read an article that claimed that 9 or the most popular 12 flashlight apps were really spyware. That these apps had access to your camera, wi-fi, microphone, phone records, downloads, photos, and more and could be controlled from other places - usually out of the US and some would send updates on your activities, turn on cameras, or send your browsing data including passwords you used to 3rd parties. If I used the task manager to clear memory. A few seconds later, I'd have 19 apps running in memory again. I never thought much of it until I read the article I mentioned. I disabled my camera app - nothing changed. Much later, I uninstalled the app. I no longer have these ghost applications running in the background and my battery live is more than doubled. Apparently some applications work around being disabled.

We once had one rusted in place just like this one. We beat on that thing with hammers, tried penetrating oil, even put an oxy-acetylene rosebud and turned the receiver dull red. Nothing. Would not come out. One day, we had the 90 pound jack hammer out and somebody suggested trying to loosen the hitch using that. We put the jack hammer on top of the hitch and started hammering. It took about 20 seconds and the hitch came loose.

I've never used John but his name is thrown around a lot in Cumberland County and I have 3 close friends who have used him for gunsmithing and transfers. I've only heard good things.

There is currently no rule about when the local PD can extend the 90 day permits to 180 days. So EHT could do it right from the beginning but I've never heard of that before. If the proposed changes to the NJAC are adopted in February, there will be a list of "allowed" reasons for extensions and extensions will only be allowed if you request an extension before the initial 90 days is up. Currently, there is nothing preventing a local PD from extending your permit if you show up on day 120.

The long answer: Recoil is directly related to momentum. Momentum must be conserved. The momentum of the bullet going down range must equal the momentum of the gun moving up range. momentum is calculated using the formula mass * velocity = momentum. All guns are not equal: larger frames have more mass. Since momentum is mass * velocity, a gun with more mass will move backwards with less velocity. So big guns kick less. Semi-autos absorb some of the momentum in the slide spring while revolver's don't. Because guns vary, felt recoil may be different than recoil. If all features of the guns are the same, we can us the formula above, multiplying bullet mass in grains by the velocity in fps we get: 45ACP 187 grains * 938 fps = 175K ft gr / s 44Mag 217 grains * 1381 fps = 299K ft gr / s 45Colt 272 grains * 1294 fps = 351K ft gr / s 454 Casull 282 grains * 1685 fps = 475K ft gr / s 9mm 119 grains * 1140 8 1381 = fps 135K ft gr / s The numbers in bold are the momentums of the various bullets and therefore the momentums backwards of the various guns. While foot grains per second doesn't mean much to us, the size of the numbers do. The short answer: A 45 Colt has 17% more recoil than a 44 mag. A 454 Casull has 58% more recoil than a 44 mag. I've never shot a 454 but I own a 45 colt. My 15 year old daughter handles it fine. Two of her skinny, waify friends also handled it fine but decided one shot was enough.

I've bought a couple of old junkers at Butches in Vineland, Cumberland County. Not in your neighborhood. But like I said,I paid almost nothing so I know they paid less than that.

Post them here. I'm sure you'll get some offers. An old, rusted, dirty shotgun probably won't bring much. I've bought old guns in fair condition that became project guns for under $50 at gun shops before. I could use another project gun - lets see some pictures.

At work I have a laptop with a docking station. The docking station is connected to the network, monitor, keyboard, and mouse. As long as the laptop is docked, you can't tell it's not a desktop computer but I can also undock and take it with me. Best of both worlds.

I've been using a laptop as the family desktop for 5 years. It leaves the desk maybe twice a year if that. It does go with us on vacation each summer wherever we go. With 2 USB drives, two printers, a scanner, a bluetooth dongle, and wireless mouse adaptor plugged into a USB hub, I can plug in one wire that connects the laptop to the hub and it makes a perfectly fine desktop computer. Although we very rarely do it, it is convenient to be able to take the same computer we use every day with us when we go somewhere. I'll never buy a desktop computer again.

I don't see anything in the NJSA that talks about one feature. All I see is a list of banned firearms and the phrase "substantially identical". I may have missed it though, if it's there, can you give me the reference so I can find it? And the NJAC does carry the weight of law. The rules of the AWB are all contained in the NJAC. The definition that the courts use for "justifiable need" comes out of the NJAC.

The AWB is written into the STATUTE. The statute gives the list of guns that are banned and then says that any gun that is "substantially identical" is also banned. The statute would need to be changed by the legislature. This re-adoption is of the ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. The admin. code is the part of the law that created (invented?) the 5 evil features list. So you get to comment against the stupid evil features rule but even if it was removed, you'd still have the statute. Right now, an AR15 clone that does not have 2 evil features is legal because the Admin Code says it is. If the admin code went away, that same gun might become illegal because it is "substantially identical" to the AR15 on the banned list in the statute. Firearm laws are ridiculously complicated.

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The Section of the NJ Admin Code (NJAC 13:54) that deals with carry permits, assault weapons, mag limits, dealer procedures, and lots of other stuff is up for re-adoption with several changes. There is a 60 day public comment period. Some of the proposed changes: Shotguns become "assault weapons" with only one evil feature instead of the current two evil features. FIDs would expire 30 days after an address (or any other) change. Currently they are good until replaced. Dealer records could become electronic Lots of other changes. Since this is the administrative code and not the statutes, there is no legislative process. The Superintendent of State Police just gets to write changes to the law. The only "check" is that we get to comment which isn't much of a check. You can download the proposed changes here but keep in mind, the entire 13:54 is up for comment, not just the changes. I plan to comment on several parts. http://njsp.org/news/pdf/rp_20141215_1354.pdf

Purchasing in PA and bringing it home without an FID is completely legal. 2C:39-6.e. Nothing in subsections b., c. and d. of N.J.S.2C:39-5 shall be construed to prevent a person keeping or carrying about his place of business, residence, premises or other land owned or possessed by him, any firearm, or from carrying the same, in the manner specified in subsection g. of this section, from any place of purchase to his residence or place of business, between his dwelling and his place of business, between one place of business or residence and another when moving, or between his dwelling or place of business and place where such firearms are repaired, for the purpose of repair. For the purposes of this section, a place of business shall be deemed to be a fixed location.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/poll-support-connecticut-gun-law-state/#pd_a_8523591 surprise results considering who's conducting the poll.

The one judge asking for the en banc hearing sounds bad to me. Any judge that agreed with the "carry is a right" ruling would have let the ruling stand - so this one judge is clearly against the ruling. Any judge that thought the other judges would just vote against en banc hearing would also just let the ruling stand - so this one judge believes he has support. Any judge that thought he would ultimately loose an en banc hearing would also just let the ruling stand - so this one judge believes the ruling will be overturned. This judge knows his fellow judges better than I do so I have to assume he's right and the ruling will be overturned. Then we have 3 circuit courts that have ruled that there is no individual right to carry.

If charges were dropped, it certainly supports the the idea that the charges were political.

It won't keep anyone from stealing your gun. Even if it was impenetrable, the bad guys can just walk off with the safe and open it at their convenience later. It will keep young kids from getting hurt. I'd still use one.

Even among NJ's Pro-2A community, we believe and act as if guns are dangerous and inherently evil. We say that everyone should have the right to carry one, there should be no permission from the government to purchase one - but, we flip out if the store lets you pick one up based only on the knowledge that you know your name and which gun you already had a background check to purchase. You realize that many people on this board remember when there was no showing of ID to purchase a firearm. Once upon a time, the right to keep and bear arms was not as infringed as it is today. I'm disappointed that even this group finds that so scary. I'm disappointed that we want to be sure that our ID's are checked and that we're properly vetted before exercising our rights. As long as we're scared of guns, we'll never convince anyone else otherwise. We are our own worst enemy.

A great idea but it's a lot for us to ask somebody else to do for us when we weren't willing to apply for permits ourselves when the idea was brought up a year ago.

This has Christie's fingerprints on it. Ag could have easily found that this smart gun meets the requirements of the law and the new AG under Fulop or Sweeney will. Probably a political move but I'll take it. But keep in mind that the AG's interpretations aren't law. The NJSP under the AG said that Hornandy critical defense bullets aren't hollow point. Brian Aiken went to jail for having them. The county prosecutors and judges don't obey the AG.

I only know that Cabelas Hamburg is not checking ID's for mags. They have bins full of P=mags in the aisles.

If it happens, NJSP will review the records of all NJ FFLs and they'll know who we are. They'll go back 10 years and start collecting and jailing.