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This may have been the plan all along. Now the rest of the regulations seem more reasonable by comparison. And the dropped parts of the bill will show up later attached to funding for school lunches, funding for battered woman's shelters, medication for poor kids, or some other bill that will be hard to vote against.

I wouldn't wear it - not my style. But if I can snap the pin off the back and it's not going to rust in the rain, I'll put it right over the NRA emblem on my truck: http://www.nrastore.com/nrastore/images/zoom/22581grplg.jpg

Looks like their facebook page has gone missing.

IMHO it would be better if the whole package was introduced and voted down. By allowing the watered down version, Harry Reid is just helping this pass. And the AWB and magazine limits will show up later attached to a bill to fund medicine for school children or shelters for battered women, or something else that will be difficult to vote down.

And don't forget the 3rd background check you have to pay for at the dealer.

I only see one "evil feature". What am I missing?

10/22 was my first gun. I've probably put 10,000+ rounds through mine in the last 30 years. Mine's a little dinged and dented now but it's well used. I remember as a teenager trying to light matches with it at 50' with iron sights. I never got one to light.

1. Application type (FID/permit w/ existing FID). FID change of address and 2 PP 2. Police Department where you applied. NJSP - Bridgeton Barracks 3. Name of the person you dealt with at the PD. TPR Evans (?) 4. Time taken to issue FID and/or permit. Called to follow up today (after 34 days.) Was told total time is now taking 3 - 4 months. 5. Documents required by the PD (aside from the standard application and the mental health release form). Only Standard forms 6. Notes - anything pertaining to the application process (unforeseen difficulties, chief of police calling your home, you hiring an attorney, etc.). Tpr was helpful on the phone, looked up my record on the computer and told me what paperwork was complete and what he was still waiting for. I found out that reference checks is one of the last steps in the process through this barracks.

Good letter and a good reply. We just need more legislators who feel this way.

About being too old to hunt: When I was a kid, we used to hunt in my grandfather's woods and would all come up to the farm for lunch. My grandmother made a big meal every day during hunting season for 12 or 15 of the uncles and cousins. My grandmother stopped cooking and took up deer hunting when she was in her late 60's and hunted most of deer season into her mid 70's. All 4'8" of her. She wore an orange hat, coat, pants, and boots so nobody would mistake her for a deer. She passed away several years ago and I wish I had a picture of her dressed in her orange standing next to her gun that was as tall as she was.

It bothers me because it gets news coverage and the implied message is that somebody is finally getting all the dangerous guns off the street. That message being pushed by all networks for the last 30 years is why we are where we are now. If somebody really wanted to reduce violent crime, they would hand them out instead of collect them.

Any plumbing supply will have refractory blanket that you can mold to shape and refractory sheets you can cut to size. These are used for the combustion chamber walls of oil fired heaters.

McMaster-Carr has it. Search their site for "refractory insulation". They have everything you will ever need...ever. No need to ever leave the house again.

We all need to contact our State Senators and encourage them not to vote for the 22 upcoming anti-2A bills. We also should contact our assembly members and thank the ones that voted against stricter gun laws and civilly scold those who voted for stricter gun laws. With 22 bills and 80 members of the assembly, it's a confusing task to figure out who to thank and who to scold. And the only way to contact a senator through the state website is using a form that only lets you reach 1 senator and 2 assembly members at one time. We would have to fill out dozens of forms to contact all of your representatives. I searched for an easier way and couldn't find one so I made it myself. Below is a list of email address for all of the NJ Assembly and Senate. These are not available on the state website. I found a few partial lists, and had to make up some of the addresses based on the standard format of the ones I could find. I also researched who in the assembly voted for what bills and divided the list below into pro2A and anti2A. Just so you know, to determine who was pro2A and who was anti2A, I only looked at the roll call voting results for only 4 bills. tallying the votes on 4 bills took enough of my time and should give a pretty good idea of who's with us and who's against us. I chose the following bills for this sort-of-scientific analysis: A1329 - limit magazines to 10 rounds A3510 - require training before issuing an FID card A3645 - requires reporting ammo sales ACR180 - encourage president and congress to enact stricter gun laws To use the following lists, simply cut and paste the list into the BCC line of your email program. By using BCC, the recipient will only see their address and it won't be as obvious that you're sending a bulk email. Spam filters are also less likely to reject the email. The List of email addresses can be found here: http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=06075054959026615186 Once you get to that page, you can download the list from the green link on the bottom right that says: NJGunVoteEmails - Clean.docx I emailed about an hour ago and have had no bounced emails so far.

I haven't hunted in a long time. I hunted as a teenager but lost my deer stand when I went to college (cousin took it over) and just never bothered to get back into it. (hunting, not the deer stand) My son's getting close to hunting age and is interested. I'll probably end up taking him. I used to use last year's hunting license as proof to get this year's hunting license. My last hunting license is from 1989!. Am I still able to get a hunting license with this?

I believe this means: "this federal law supersedes state law provided that (unless) state law prohibits the sale of bb guns. I don't think it says that states can't prohibit the sale of bb guns. And there is a difference between prohibit and regulate - as we have seen with the 2A, there is a difference between infringe and regulate - according to the courts.

We weren't even on most other countries radar until WWII. During WWII, we both gained military clout world wide and more importantly, our workforce became a well oiled machine and was more productive than it had ever been before helping the war effort. That level of productivity continued for several more years making the US prosper. We became the greatest country in the world, in the eyes of much of the world, because ALL of America worked our collective bottoms off to achieve something. Today, we don't. Everyone wants a 35 hour work week, retirement at 65, an office job, a 1 hour lunch break. The number of Americans who work for the government and produce nothing has gone through the roof. America shifted from producing tangible things with value and creating value out of none to just moving money around. As long as we continue to pay people to not work - through dozens of government programs, America can not be the greatest country in the world. We were set up to be and we probably could be but we no longer follow our guiding principles. But it's survived 237 years. It's been a pretty good run. And we'll get to build something good again from the ashes someday.

The engineer in me can't stand it anymore...I can open one into the fully deployed position using centrifugal force (probably more accurately centripetal force but that probably depends on whether you're the person opening the knife or the knife). "flip" the knife to open it with centrifugal force and I've put enough energy into the handles that when I stop moving, the inertia of the handles keeps it moving the rest of the way to the deployed position. I am confident that a butterfly knife can be opened completely by using only centrifugal force. But facts in law and facts aren't always the same.

Works even better in practice. Being out of debt is so much easier than being in debt. And, since I'll never borrow again, my credit score isn't that important.

You will never get into trouble with debt if you don't have any. We cut up our credit cards 15 years ago when we finally paid off the credit cards, cars, and student loans. We have never borrowed since. If I don't have cash for it, I live without it...which means I live without stuff sometimes. It's just as easy to put $300 away every month to buy a car as it is to make a $300 car payment every month. It can be hard to live within your means, especially when you're just starting out. I now realize that for us, part of the reason we felt we "deserved" more lifestyle than we could afford was that we grew up with a lifestyle that took our parents 20 years to achieve. We just assumed that was the way we were supposed to live. It wasn't - not yet. Sorry, I can't help answer your question. I get my credit report every year and it's blank. Without any debt, I assume my credit score must be pretty low. By the way, If you still owe money to the old credit card companies - you need to pay them what you owe them before you borrow from somebody else.

I'm genuinely interested in understanding other people's points of view. Usually, even when I disagree with someone, I am able to understand why they believe what they believe. But assault weapon bans bewilder me. I could understand why someone would want a handgun ban. I would oppose it but every night the news reports one somebody who was shot or shot at with a handgun and if you're not good at statistics, it makes handguns seem dangerous. I believe more guns = more safety but I can understand why someone would believe the opposite. But there is no logic in an assault weapons' ban. Assault weapons are so rarely used in crimes. They're never involved in accidental shootings. They're just not a safety issue at all. So there must be more to this - something I'm missing. I expect the masses to be easily swayed. Masses don't seem to be very smart sometimes. But, as much as I don't like most politicians, most of them are pretty smart. Maybe evil - but still smart. Diane Feinstein is a lot of bad things but she's not dumb. She can do simple math and certainly has seen the statistics - so why focus on assault weapons?

Curious about these rounds. 15 years or more ago, a friend - who certainly lives in another state - once purchased a several old military surplus ammo boxes from a catalog. The weren't demilled very well because one of the boxes was delivered with these rounds still in the box. I've done a little research and if the M25 on the box means they're for a M25 sniper rifle, these are probably 7.62x51mm_NATO -.308 Winchester. But I'm really just guessing here. so I've got two questions: What round are these really? and What's the legality of these in NJ, either to own or to shoot?

There are still a few places left in the state where you can do that. I am fortunate enough to have grown up and to still live in one of them.

Congratulations. The next 12 or 13 years are a lot of fun and the teen years aren't so bad..on alternating Thursdays. I don't know what happens after that yet.