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They shouldn't need to change the rate, the revenue goes up automatically. There are a LOT more drivers than there were decades ago, and a LOT more gas is being sold. If there is a shortfall, it means they are doing something wrong, which I think the 'cost per mile paved' post captured

Actually, that's speciesism, and the answer is that brightly colored animals tend to either be toxic/venomous, or they mimic animals that are. Not that anyone asked for the scientific explanation. :-)

Do it for the children!

It's true. No one reloads for very long without needing to buy a bullet puller...

Westbound ('northbound' in turnpike lingo) is the bad direction on Friday afternoons. I've only done it between about 5:30-6:30 pm, so I don't know it varies with time. By contrast, eastbound on Friday mornings is always very light, lightest traffic of the week.

Sucks for me. I work just on the other side.

If any of you were planning to cross the tappan zee later today, find an alternate route. A crane collapse closed all lanes, both directions. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/19/crane-collapses-onto-tappan-zee-bridge-all-lanes-blocked.html

Years ago, I was moving to a new home...closed that morning, headed to the house later that day with my car loaded to the gills with all of the irreplaceable or need-it-the-first-night stuff that I couldn't let the movers move. No shooting stuff in that load, fortunately. I stopped for Chinese take-out at the Echo Plaza Mall on Rt 22 in Springfield. In the time it took me to pick up my order, my car was stolen. It turned up 4 days later on the outskirts of Newark, empty and partly stripped. NJM paid the claim without question--it couldn't have been easier. I'd had my policy with them for only about 7 hours at the time of the theft. I was impressed--I figured I'd at least get the third degree and a runaround for a couple of months until they were sure it wasn't an insurance scam.

I'm just back from a week there. The second time in 5 years the family picked that as a destination. I'm not a fan of the area in general, but the park is nice. The drives are beautiful, and there are some nice hikes. It is extremely crowded this time of year--you'll be waiting or circling for parking at the popular trailheads, and on the shorter hikes to the various waterfalls near the park entrance you will never be out of sight of other hikers before and behind you. But, the further you get into the park, and the longer the hike you select, the better you'll like it. Clingman's Dome is probably worthwhile despite the crowds. It's a paved 'trail' to a big spiral concrete structure, but pretend that isn't there, and enjoy the views. The drive around Cades Cove is cool as well. If your destination is the park, be sure and use the bypass around Gatlinburg coming and going, or you'll lose half an hour to traffic. The Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge/Sevierville strip is without a doubt the tackiest tourist destination in America. It makes Wildwood look like the museum district in Paris. Mile after mile of tourist traps. Last night we went out for dinner, and driving 4 miles on the main drag took 45 minutes. That said, we enjoyed a couple of good BBQ restaurants while we were there, 7 wineries with free tastings, and I think 5 moonshine distilleries also doing free tastings...of 10 to 14 flavors, depending on the destination. I didn't encounter anything I wanted to buy to bring home, but the tastings were fun. The kids enjoyed Dollywood, and said the lines weren't bad at all, midweek. A few years ago we went to Dollwood's nearby waterpark, and while it looked like a good park, it was also massively overcrowded. Like, 40 minute lines for any slide. We avoided all other tourist attractions, though I'm sure some are probably entertaining. The area has a lot of stuff related to the Hatfields and McCoys, Dukes of Hazzard, and Mark Twain's views of life on the Mississippi, even though none have anything to do with Tennessee. There are some interesting stores to wander around. There is a Bass Pro Shop in Kodak, TN, as you exit I40 a few miles north of Sevierville. I enjoy browsing there, but every item I was keeping my eye out for was more expensive there than at the Cabelas in Hamburg (which we fortunately stopped at on the drive down). Halfway between there and Sevierville, you'll find Smoky Mountain Knive Works (which now has an attached gun shop), which shares a parking lot with Buds Gun Shop, and The Lodge Cast Iron cookware outlet, and a big tool outlet. Smokey Mountain Knifeworks is huge, and mostly filled with cheap crap for the tourists. I do believe there must be higher-end stuff in there as well; I didn't take a lot of time to look around. The attached gun shop had quite a bit of .22 and some powder and primers, but prices were high. The tool store advertises name brand power tools heavily, but inside it's a lot like a Harbor Freight, with a small selection of Dewalt tools. The Lodge makes a lot of low-grade cast iron cookware--nothing I wanted to take home. Bud's gun shop and range is cool; less merchandise than I expected, but a great selection of guns, and most of the long guns are in racks in the store proper, so you can browse and fondle without having to find a clerk. And the clerks were more than happy to show you all the handguns they had behind the counter. No reloading supplies, some .22, but prices for ammo were high.

Electric engraving pen, or black sharpie on SS mags (reapplied every year or two). I just give each one a number, and track failure to feeds in a notebook to see if a problem is developing

How is borax chemical free?

Ammo for the indecisive. I've never understood those. If you think buckshot is the right solution, buy buckshot. If you think a slug is appropriate, buy slugs. If you can't decide, go off and think about it some more, and by all means do some patterning.

Glocks do it. But the serial number is always "1"

Probably not his type. Oh, that may not be what you meant. :-)

Price to build up a standard Glock starting from an 80% Frame: $400 Being able to pick 'ScrewNJ' as your serial number and engrave it on the frame: Priceless. (OK, I didn't bother to look up parts cost, so $400 is a guess)

Any decent bullseye shooter can fire all 10's to finish out a string of timed or rapid fire with a hot casing resting in the crook of their elbow...because that's happened to us all a time or three. No reason to lose focus. Fortunately, pistol cases don't have much thermal mass. They cool fast.

I'd imagine everything coming from Federal does, so American Eagle would be the less expensive option that should still use the same primers.

I've never considered myself an ammunition owner. More of a short-term renter.

What happens to the repair books when a business closes? Are they typically destroyed, or do they have to be turned over to the state? Or does NJ get a record of the transaction in real time, or in an annual report or something?

Just shoot it with one of these, out of a barrel with a high rate of twist.

"Breaker, Breaker, 1974. C'mon back." :-)

Tragic, certainly. Initial response by law enforcement seems appropriate. From the link above, "The victim's mother, Itiyanah Spruill, 22, has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child and a weapons violation." Bail set at $310,000, which I'm guessing means she won't be getting out soon. But yes, as the thread title says, 'Here we go' again.

Yep, that's what I meant.

While I approve of the sentiment, it would be a lot more compelling if it were spelled correctly.

What part of their plan appeared legal and why?