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No, it does not. NJ insists on treating them like firearms, but that does not make them firearms. Not any more than calling all semi-automatics 'assault weapons' makes them assault weapons, nor any more than calling all factory standard magazines 'high capacity' makes them high capacity magazines.

Do this. End of discussion. It's the right solution. And no, the kids won't stumble upon the right access code, unless you pick a blindingly simple access code. So don't do that.

Don't develop a flinch, because it's hard to unlearn that. It's one of the many reasons to get proficient with a .22 before moving up to progressively larger calibers, but if a larger caliber is what you have, keep the shooting sessions short at first. They'll naturally get longer as you get used to the gun. Just don't push yourself into shooting until you're tired early on.

Someone signed off on 90% reliability as 'good enough' for a parachute? That's alarming. If it happened, it could only have been signed by someone who knew they would never, ever be in a position to deploy a chute.

Still in stock as of this posting. Shipping adds almost $13 for twenty boxes, $15 or so for 30 boxes, but still cheaper than I've seen for a long time.

I feel your pain. When we first moved onto our very large, very old, very drafty house when fuel prices were high we approached $1500/mo in the cold months. Gas company wanted $15k to run a gas line back to us, so we've relied on aggressively insulating and weatherstripping while keeping oil as the fuel source.

Welcome to NJ. I lived in Terre Haute for a few years, but that was so long ago I was able to keep guns and a reloading press in my dorm room. Searching the NJ FID/PP Compliancy Project thread here will give you an idea of which towns are better or worse about issuing permits in a timely fashion. It's a little north of where you are looking, but I recall Montville as being particularly good, at least under their current police chief.

This ^^ The requirements spelled out in the first post are best met by any watch, plus a smart phone.

Is the council required to have a public comment period before passing an ordinance or changing a tax rate? If so, did they meet that requirement? Did they meet every detail of that requirement? Occasionally, something like this gets thrown out over a procedural issue. It's worth looking into.

What features are useful on the range, besides 'tells time' and a stopwatch function for things like bullseye slow fire, or the slow fire international events? A watch that tells time, plus a shot timer, will be more useful for most anything else, plus voice command strings for timed and rapid fire strings recorded on a smartphone--you can listen through earbuds under your hearing protectors if others are shooting on the range with you.

Don't worry... ...they don't need a reason. :-)

I live in NJ. I'll be your friend, you can transfer the rifle to me with a simple COE form, and avoid a whole lot of potential legal pitfalls. Just trying to be helpful...

Perhaps karma has already caught up with him.

It's commonly called pig candy on the smoker sites. Nothing I make on the smoker disappears as fast as the pig candy. It's incredibly good

Can you revoke mine? Or is there somewhere I can voluntarily surrender it?

As Scott Carpenter so eloquently put it at about T-11 on that February day in 1962... Godspeed, John Glenn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5soUes2-LrU How brave were the Mercury astronauts? Half of the Atlas rockets that were ever launched failed, usually in a spectacular explosion.

I said: "GMOs have not been implicated in bee die-offs." Which is to say, GMOs do not kill bees. And to correct your follow-up post, applying an insecticide to the seed does not a GMO make. You're describing a systemic insecticide, one that can move through plant tissues (as opposed to a topical insecticide, which stays on the plant surface. A Genetically-Modified Organism is one in which the genome, that is to say the DNA sequence, has been altered, whether by cross-breeding or genetic manipulation in the lab. Application of an insecticide does NOT modify the genome.

Applying a pesticide to a plant is most emphatically NOT a genetic modification. Neonicotinoids have their issues, but they are quite incapable of modifying DNA.

GMOs have not been implicated in bee die-offs. Those were caused by a combination of neonicotinoid insecticides (now finally getting phased out in the US), and the varroa and tracheal mites, all of which hit colonies at about the same time, with devastating effects. Individual state labeling for GMO content would be less impractical if food didn't cross state lines, but that's hardly the case. If every state can impose their own labeling requirements, you would quickly end up with dozens of state-specific labels on every food item. That's an unnecessary regulatory burden, since there is zero evidence that there are any human health implications to GMO food. And as Capt 14K stated, it's not about science anyway, it's about people hating Monsanto. But there are ways to express that without driving up the cost of food. Some European countries do it? Doesn't mean it makes sense. California labels everything made of any combination of protons, neutrons, and electrons as 'known to the state of California to cause cancer'. Equally dumb. Think about the headaches state-specific firearms laws cause. Every time you cross a state line you need to worry about what poorly thought-out laws might exist to jam you up. Now imagine that problem expanded to the whole damn food supply. Lots of downside, no benefits. It's much like the schemes that get proposed every year to serial number all bullets. You can make superficial arguments about what a great idea it is, but with a little reflection, one realizes it is both a) impossible, and b) useless.

It's not that simple. Pollen moves genetic material around. Genes mutate spontaneously, genes transpose, nucleotides get added or deleted (sometimes affecting transcription into protein, sometimes not), engineered traits may also arise spontaneously or they may be spontaneously be removed from the germ line. And of course the plant and animal cross breeding humans have practiced since the dawn of agriculture is as much genetic engineering as anything done in the lab. Consider all of the grains in a silo. Sequence them (go ahead, I'll wait)... nearly every grain has a different genetic sequence. What exactly do you want to label?

Because there is no scientific rationale for doing so, but the compliance costs would be huge?

Probably...but Clinton's margin in NJ was almost 4% lower than Obama's was.

You can always add the grenade launcher. :-)

Gawd, that's ugly. But I respect your right to covet one!

Another bit of instruction to pass along, as it's a pet peeve of mine when I see disabled vehicles, particularly on highways...don't set the reflective triangles/emergency flashers/highway flares just a couple of steps behind your car. That's only useful if you want to give an approaching Amish buggy enough warning to pull to the left and give you some room. Put those markers far enough back to alert cars traveling at highway speeds!