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Just hiking, a small beach on the lake, and fishing spots. No rentals of canoes. They do have a campground with cabins and tent sites. A nice park but nothing too exciting to do. We end up there several times a year just to walk around - it's 10 minutes away. My wife and kids have cabin-camped there with sis-in-law and her kids.

Nobody can get a federal court to rule that the second amendment even says what it says. Good luck suing the government for damages caused by violating that right.

They're in a tough spot? Knowingly violate a civil right or find another career? How many will do the right thing?

N.J.S.A. 2C:39-5f "An assault firearm also means a part or combination of parts designed or intended to convert a firearm into an assault firearm, or any combination of parts from which an assault firearm may be readily assembled if those parts are in the possession or under the control of the same person." So if all parts are in your possession OR under your control, it's an assault weapon.

Absolutely! I guarantee they already have something written up just waiting for the next tragedy. I'm sure it will include "reasonable measures" to "protect working families" during this "time of national crisis". We will need to "act quickly" to pass the "reasonable" legislation that is supported by "90% of Americans".

Ought to be easy to ID a suspect with a hundred people taking photos at the finish line.

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Act fast, the storage capacity of recorders is limited. The video could be gone a few days after it's recorded.

I'm not a lawyer but I believe you can't sue the State for monetary damages with very few exceptions such as: the state agrees to let you sue them or the US congress allows you to sue the State for civil rights violations. Of course these are civil rights violations but the congress will never see it that way.

I've never showed a DL for an ammo purchase and have used a FID with old address several times for ammo.

Establish an electronic system of instant background checks for gun retailers, combining the separate permits for handguns and hunting weapons into one. Does this mean long guns now require the same permitting process as handguns? Unlikely they're making hangun purchases easier. Require safety training to qualify for firearms permit; for a constitutional right? Ban the sale of the .50 caliber Barrett assault weapon; Who ever robbed a convenience store or did a home invasion with one of these? Changes from second-degree to third-degree the crime of unlawful purpose when the weapon is a BB gun. A step in the right direction. But since a BB gun really isn't a gun at all - still unacceptable that there is a law preventing possession. I will campaign for whoever runs against him the next time around.

Can somebody point me to the law that says you can't carry a gun purchased by someone else. I just did a search and found nothing.

Please dont' think I was taking a poke at you, just at the system and our collective complacency.

A couple of problems with backfeeding your house through a receptacle. first, if you do forget to turn off the main breaker in your home, there is a real chance of killing the guy working on the utility pole. Electricity is delivered to your street at medium voltage - thousands of volts - but the actual number varies. A transformer for your house steps this down to 240V for you to use. If you backfeed 240V to this transformer, it's stepped up to thousands of volts and feed back into the power grid. A lineman working on the "dead" grid won't know that you're feeding it with your generator. I won't do this because I know I'll remember to turn off the right breaker but if I'm at work and can't get home, I don't know that my wife will get the right breaker or will be sure that it's off. Second, the branch circuit feeding the receptacle you're feeding isn't sized to power the whole house. Power comes into the house on big wires and is distributed to branch circuits through small wires. Feeding power through the small wires can cause those wires to overheat, melt, or catch fire. You can get a generator electrical panel installed that can be switched manually to use a cord connected generator. This smaller panel would feed your critical circuits only - a few lights, a few receptacles, your refrigerator, heater, etc. Normally, this panel would be fed from your main electrical panel. In an emergency, flip the switch and plug in the generator. These are set up to prevent backfeeding the main panel. I just use a long extension cord I made with a distribution box attached with 110V receptacles and a 240V receptacle for the well pump. I plug stuff into this cord instead of using the house wiring. It's crude but I don't use it very often - in fact I hope I never use it again.

If you're storing for long, long term survival, it becomes complicated. If you just want to survive the next "normal disaster" a well stocked pantry with canned foods, pastas, rice, and lots of bottled water works fine. We just keep lots of food that stores well on our pantry shelves. We cook and eat from the emergency supply every night and just re-stock when we get groceries every week. We decided to do this a couple of years ago when a bad storm went through South Jersey and we lost power for a few days. We were fine but learned that we just weren't prepared. We could survive 3 weeks now in luxury and probably more than a month if we were careful. We built up our supply slowly - a few extra things every time we went shopping No MRE's, no oxygen absorbers, no special storage containers - just the stuff we normally eat but more of it. I used to work with a Mormon woman and got to know her pretty well. Her pantry was the size of a big walk in closet and was stocked like a grocery store. Apparently the Mormons believe they should have a year's worth of food on hand. They had it down to a science. She never grocery shopped to eat. She fed the family from the pantry and shopped to re-stock the pantry. Other "survival" things we did: I rewired the circuit to the heater (oil fired - no natural gas lines around here) to be plug connected and the same for my well pump (no city water either). I can unplug them and plug them into my portable emergency generator. - I keep three 5-gal gas cans filled at all times and rotate them through my lawn mower just like we rotate the food supply. I also have a "spare" propane tank for the bar-b-q grill and I fill the empty one when I put the full one on the grill. In an emergency, I've got several days of food, water, shelter, and heat, limited electric, and a grill to cook on - luxury. I've probably got a month of the true necessities - food and water. Preparedness probably cost me a thousand dollars - maybe a little more but it took us several months to get everything together.

The course was fine. Probably took an hour and a half to watch - not really sure of the time. The applications from both states arrived by US mail after I requested them by email. My local PD is the NJSP, they were kind enough to do the ink fingerprinting for me. I'm ready to send in the applications this weekend. Glad I didn't. PA just dropped reciprocity with both VA and AZ non-resident permits.

Glad it was pleasant for you but can you imagine your great grandfather feeling the same way about having to be fingerprinted, background checked, mental history checked, wait 5 weeks for the police to process paperwork so he would be allowed to go to the gun shop to have a second criminal background check done, wait another week or two, and finally be able to buy the gun. I can't imagine he'd find it pleasant. We have slipped so far down the dangerous slope.

Only illegal if you have another evil feature in addition to the stock and all the necessary parts to assemble the gun.

As part of Jury selection, they've asked me twice if I had any bumperstickers. I didn't . The guy with an NRA bumper sticker was dismissed by the defense immediately. I spent 5 weeks on a murder trial.

We completely eliminated a bad mole problem on several athletic fields several years ago. This was a big issue so I did a lot of research. First: gum does nothing. Moles don't eat gum and just ignore it. Grubs are not the problem. Moles will eat grubs but only if they can't find worms and if there aren't worms, they'll move to where there are worms. Worms make up almost the entire diet for a mole. Moles need two things: close proximity to water and worms. The tunnels generally lead back to water. We trapped for years, tried gum, tried crushing the trails, all kids of stuff. finally we found the solution. Talparid. It's a poison in rubber (maybe not rubber) worms that feel and taste like the real thing. It's the only mole poison approved by the EPA with submitted efficacy data. It's not easy to use. The instructions require gloves to keep your scent off the worms and making holes to test tunnels for activity, later placing worms in tunnels and covering the damage. It takes several weeks of work each evening but we got rid of the whole colony in one season. Activity dropped to almost nothing in a few weeks and within a few months, they were gone and they haven't been back.

28th Amendment "Any Senator or Congressman who votes for and any President who signs into law any legislation later deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States will be immediately removed from public office." This would make our elected leaders more cautious when overstepping their authority. What Amendment would you write?

He's twice as much in trouble now.

AZ doesn't specify who must do the prints. I could probably do them myself. But VA requires that they be done by LEO and requires the LEOS signature and contact information so they can verify.

Constructive Intent To be guilty of a crime, you have to intend to commit the crime. Doing something illegal by complete accident isn't a crime. However, you may have "constructive intent" if you took some action that you knew would put you at risk for committing the crime. Mary didn't intend to hit the pedestrian with her car - no intent no crime. But if she was driving drunk or speeding, she knew the result of her actions could result in hitting someone so there is constructive intent and a crime is committed. But...none of that matters in NJ. In NJ, it's illegal to possess a gun with too many evil features. And it's also specifically illegal to posses all of the parts needed to assemble an assault weapon. Outside of NJ, I suspect that "constructive possession", rather than "constructive intent" is more the issue. Possessing all of the parts of a machine gun is not possession of the machine gun but it could be "constructive possession" and still a crime.

A vote is scheduled in the US Senate on "universal background checks" for next week - the first step toward an outright ban on gun ownership. Step 2 will be universal registration. The Dept. of Justice - under the President's authority - is already marketing that as necessary. Senator Lautenberg and Menendez will vote yes but I'm not giving up yet. I'm writing letters to each of them. Please do the same. This is important. In 20 years when you are expected to turn your guns in - you will bear some of the blame if you didn't try to stop it now. I believe that we will loose the right to own a gun in my lifetime but I'm not going to let it happen without at least being heard. It takes 10 minutes to write a short letter, address one to Lautenberg and one to Menendez and stick them in the mailbox. Do it today and it will reach them before the vote. Your letter can be very short - their staff will only read the first line anyway so be clear of your intent in the first line. Rant over- stepping down from the soap box. ----- Here, I'll even get you started: Name Address City, St. Zip April 4, 2013 Honorable Frank Lautenberg 141 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Honorable Robert Menendez 528 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator (Lautenberg or Menendez:) I am writing to urge you to vote NO on the “Universal Background Check” bill...