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Just a couple of examples: PA has 12.7 million people and 360,000 permit holders - that's 3% of the population. FL is 14%. These are the only two states I know. NJ has about 9 million people and 1200 permits - .013%.

FOPA is that federal law. Firearm Owners Protection Act. It says in part: "Notwithstanding any other provision of any law or any rule or regulation of a State or any political subdivision thereof, any person who is not otherwise prohibited by this chapter from transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm shall be entitled to transport a firearm for any lawful purpose from any place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm to any other place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearms if, during such transportation the firearm is unloaded, and neither the firearm nor any ammunition being transported is readily accessible or is directly accessible from the passenger compartment of such transporting vehicle, provided that in the case of a vehicle without a compartment separate from the driver's compartment the firearm or ammunition shall be contained in a locked container other than the glove compartment or console." There is some legal question about the definition of "place" and whether your home is the place where you can possess and carry or if it means your state. The courts haven't ruled on this yet. If place means "home", you can transport from your home to CT. If it doesn't, you can't. I wouldn't hesitate to do it but thought you should know this and make your own decision.

Liquid fuel won't burn. It needs to vaporize first. When a 50 gallon drum is filled with fuel, the only fuel available to explode is the little bit of vapor at the top. A 5 gallon plastic drum half full has more danger from explosion than a 50 gallon drum filled to the top. Of course, if it's fire and not explosion you're concerned about a 50 gallon drum results in more fire. but a 5 gallon can has plenty of fuel to burn down a house. Growing up on a farm with our own gasoline and fuel tanks including transfer tanks mounted on trucks and trailers - I'm very comfortable with gasoline stored in a 50 gallon drum. Don't smoke when transferring fuel and you'll be just fine. No need to over think it. Millions of gallons are transferred every day with very few mishaps and the mishaps that do happen are almost always caused because somebody was smoking or working near an open flame. My gasoline is safer than my guns.

We don't need a thousand people who were denied. I once thought we did. The argument is that it is unconstitutional to only allow someone to exercise a constitutional right if they are able to demonstrate an “urgent necessity for self-protection, as evidenced by specific threats or previous attacks which demonstrate a special danger to the applicant’s life that cannot be avoided by means other than by issuance of a permit to carry a handgun,” (N.J. Admin. Code § 13:54-2.4d). NJ isn't just violating rights in practice - it's written right into the NJ administrative law.

Yes, they changed the law in 1789. You can find the new law listed as amendment number 2.

One in the chamber - DOA, with the trigger covered in the holster.

Are you sure you didn't purchase this before he moved out of NJ? It can be hard to remember dates as we get older.

Dicks has the best prices I've seen - if you can find it. I check my local dicks once a week and I have a list of ammo I'll take. If no 22, I'll get something else on my list. However, their price on 45 colt just nearly doubled this month so their ammo prices might be coming in line with everyone else's. Some Dicks are better than others - I have 3 within 20 miles of here and one always has far more ammo than the others two. (the gayest sentence I've ever written) I have bought quite a bit of ammo by following gunbot.net but there are often quantity limits which drives the shipping price per box way, way up. I find a deal that's worth buying every couple of months and check gunbot at lease every day. I don't shoot much this time of year so I'm buying faster than I'm shooting.

I thought the 1200 figure included armed security but not retired LEO. I've read a figure of 32,000 for retired LEO but can't find the reference now. I did know one person who had a carry permit 25 or more years ago. He owned a convenience store and had a permit with restrictions. He was able to carry from his store to the bank if he had more than a certain amount of money in his possession. So on good sales days he could carry for about 10 minutes at the end of his work day and then the gun went in the trunk for the ride home. He has since passed away.

I'm cashing out my pension contribution and I'll invest it myself. I'm not spending 20 more years working in a state where I don't want to live just for the money.

Wife and I are working on our plan now. We used last summer's vacation to investigate possible locations and will do the same this summer. My daughter has 3-1/2 more years of high school and our son is young enough that a move won't be too traumatic for him. We'll be going as soon as the daughter graduates. Probably KS, OK, MO, AK area. We both have very different lists of what kid of place we want to live and it's been tough to find a place that works for both of us.

I have 2 modern kerosene heaters and one old style that I've bought at yard sales or auctions over 20 years ago. We loose power often during storms and have relied on these a few times. The old one in the picture below puts out a lot of heat - just let it warm up on the porch - once it's hot it no longer stinks but for the first few minutes it bellows black smoke. I keep 3- 5 gal containers of kerosene on hand. I could warm enough of the house to live semi-comfortably for a couple of days. We heat with oil and I also have an "adapter" that I made so I can run my oil fired heater from these kerosene cans if run out of oil and can't get a delivery. This has happened. I've also plug-connected my oil fired heater instead of having it hard-wired. I can unplug it and plug into my generator or even an inverter on my car battery. We live in the most rural part of NJ and it's a little hilly right around our house. When it snows, the road in front of our house fills in between the banks on either side. We have been trapped at home for 3 days with 6 feet of snow on the road before and lost electric for part of the 3 days. We have become pretty good at being prepared to be on our own for a few days. But the good news - I can shoot whatever I want, whenever I want in my back yard.

You need energy to move the water. Solar? Wind? Bicycle Power? Steam? Propane? Figure out what energy you have available first and then figure out how to use it to do this job. No energy - no work.

“One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” ― Martin Luther King Jr

Just joined SAF and made a small donation too. Wish there was a SAF decal available - My back window is starting to look like a who's who of 2A organizations.

http://gunbot.net/ammo/rimfire/22lr/ today: 13 cents a round and up. I've seen as low as 7cents a round (plus whatever shipping is) a few times in the last months. I've also rarely found .22 at Dicks for around 10cents a round.

ccw in America is allowed - when you're visiting there. And carry at home, in your own yard, and at your place of business (that you own) is legal. Lots of opportunities to carry.

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http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2014/02/fight_gunfire_with_guns_in_cri.html please vote and post.

The test of any theory is whether it can be used to predict the future. If the rest of the anti gun bills show up on the next a Law and Public Safety Committee agenda, we'll know.

This is the only gun bill on the agenda for tomorrow. Last time, all of the gun bills were done on the same day. This is a test to see if we show up like we did last year. I don't believe we are showing up this year. That's bad. They won.

I don't think the white house will apply pressure that we'll ever see. I think that whatever they were able to use to turn Roberts on obamacare might turn him again on gun control.

I don't know how important these guns are to you but there is no "thing" that my father has that will be important enough to ruin my kids relationships with grandparents. This sucks for you. You got the shaft and they're being unreasonable. But being a man means doing things that we don't want to do. I think you need to just back down and suck it up - sorry. If you think a second conversation might make them more reasonable then go ahead and try that but if you don't think it will make any difference, I would drop it. Don't feel like you've lost either. He's 37, lives at home and has a PO. Everybody involved, including his mother, knows you already won - at life.

I hope it gets heard too but I'm nervous at the same time. The court is pretty evenly divided and there is a reason they haven't wanted to rule on right to carry for 20 years. This could bring right to carry to NJ or could shut it down for the rest of the country. The white house will not want the right to carry to be recognized by SCOTUS and they apparently have a lot of influence over at least one justice.

Nothing in an office is ever kept to a small few. somebody will tell. So ridiculous that we live in a place where anyone even has to ask this question. "Can I carry a cased, unloaded, rifle with my permission slip to show a friend?" Shame on all of us for ever letting this happen and for complying.