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There's a gun that NEEDS a flash suppressor. Get some more zip ties...

When he should be headed to the orthodontist...

Look a few posts further up in this thread for a suggestion.

Don’t just discard those old/partly depressurized/questionable fire extinguishers. After you have bought new ones, find a safe place to build fires outdoors and have everyone in your household practice putting them out with the old ones. The first time you need a fire extinguisher should not be the first time you use one!

The email was intriguing, so I went, but it was kind of a non-event. Not at all as advertised. No pistols, no free lunch, no NJ Devils hockey legend, and after hanging out awhile without getting a chance to demo one of their shotguns, I left.

Nice work, and good advice!

Costco sells a number of spices in bulk.

I've got a couple of the window-box sized planters that fit over a porch rail. Keeps them high enough that the deer can't get to them, and they're right outside the kitchen door. Basil, parsley and cilantro are my must-haves. Chives (gotta have 'em in you like baked potatoes), thyme, rosemary, and oregano are perennial herbs, so that box goes in the basement in late fall, and comes back out in the spring, and the herbs come back to life. Same for mint, but that gets it's own pot; it spreads so fast, it's almost an invasive species.

So a link shows up in my Inbox today, with this headline: This seven-year-old was the sole student at her school to take part in a national US walkout It recounts the story of the brave girl who was the only person in her entire school to walk out in protest Friday. She spoke of how very alone she felt, and how she couldn't understand why no one else was with her. That is, apart from a photographer, and someone live tweeting the event, but they weren't mentioned in the narrative, only what a brave little activist she is. OK, maybe she believed in the walkout, and if so, kudos to her for speaking her mind by voting with her feet. But, shouldn't the headline have read: "Students at DC school overwhelmingly reject National School Walkout"? It says a lot that there was no mention of the 99.9%+ who didn't support the walkout.

Good for them. The manufacturers are hurting, with the post-election downturn in sales. This way, the manufacturers of all those guns sold to Dicks get to make and sell them a second time. The same number of guns end up with the happy sportsmen, but the sales figures double for the manufacturers. It's a win-win, even though Dicks management was too stupid to realize it.

One gotcha to look out for--hopefully it is an uncommon one, but it bit me in the butt. I made an in-state move some years ago. i don't even remember what company I used. Well in advance of the move, I asked about moving firearms. Yes, you can argue that asking is never a good idea when guns are involved, but I wanted to be sure there wouldn't be an issue if a claim needed to be made (and I've rarely made a move that didn't result in a claim). The home office was great, said there wouldn't be any problem at all, I needed to make sure they were unloaded, of course, but they moved firearms all the time. The move either happened on a weekend, or late in the day and by the time they got to the guns, the home office was closed. And the driver insisted that no way, no how, were they allowed to move guns. Not if they packed them, not if I packed them, they couldn't have them on the truck. And the home office wasn't reachable... And so very late one evening, I found myself making an unplanned road trip with a trunkload of loose guns (because I'd been left no packing materials in the empty home). So if the movers are planning to move the guns, get something in writing up front. Because your driver just might be an idiot.

Recess is the only time the kids aren't packed into a confined space, like fish in a barrel.

That's how I view it. It's useful for educating the public on how very, very restrictive our gun laws are, and how easy it is to be in violation for something so trivial.

I enjoyed the shop, and was sad to see it go...but a good range? Really? I had a few free passes to the range at Rays, and after shooting there once I never used the rest of them.

Are these postings archived somewhere for all to see?

I can't attend, but I did contact the Senators on the committee and made my position abundantly clear. I hope everyone reading this has done the same!

It'll probably do ok; even on the base model Victory, the trigger is amazing--as good as found on guns going for 2X-3X the price. I haven't seen the target model in person, so I don't know how good the sights are--they certainly needed an upgrade over what was on the base model. The grip will be an issue--a lot of people will find it too short, leaving the pinkie largely unsupported. If they sell enough of these, aftermarket grips will fill the void. Of course, the 41 is a much, much prettier gun with a great track record.

Good for her. If she's reasonably articulate and doesn't have a post-graduation job already lined up, the NRA should definitely get her out on the speaking circuit, at or near every venue that hands Hogg a microphone.

I can’t wrap my mind around why Gov Murphy has such a hard on for enacting universal background checks. You’d think he would want to pick universal dental care as his pet issue.

It doesn't make sense to worry about whether the guns are imported or not, as long as NJ remains so very, very good at producing criminals domestically.

Hey, maybe we'll finally find out what happened to some of the 'Fast and Furious' guns released into the wild by former Attorney General Eric Holder?

Here's one source of guns used in crimes: Married detectives accused in thefts, pawning of state guns

So all this hullabaloo is about NJ taking the bold, progressive step of publishing guns-used-in-crimes data? The guns-used-in-crimes links Zeke and Bob posted are 1-2 years old...and there are lots of similar ones already on the web. Way to get out in front of the issue, Gov SMurph! If only I was politically connected to the Democratic machine in this state, I could easily pull down a six-figure grant to perform exhaustive research into the issue and publish a comprehensive report to comply with the terms of this EO. Because you're my friends, I'll share (without charge!) my proposal. Comprehensive Research Proposal for Gov Murphy Sadly, some Democratic donor will instead be paid a crap ton of money to perform exactly those steps.

Also, Governor Overbite.

I searched to see if I could find a time for the announcement--nothing is posted. However, he's signing the order at a middle school, so the announcement will come before the end of the school day--they'll be packing as many kids as possible into the background of the photo op. Speaking of brain-dead executive orders, did anyone see this one from Hudson County last month? The County Executive signed an EO severing ties with FedEx for any county shipping needs, all because FedEx sometimes ships guns and ammo. Hudson County won't use Fedex because they sometimes ship guns and ammo