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^^^^^ WHY is this so difficult to understand? If it's illegal in NJ; it's illegal in NJ. If you're caught with it at a range, you go to jail under NJ Law. The only "loophole" is the FOPA (Federal Law), which trumps NJ State Law, based upon the interstate commerce clause in the US Constitution. Now, if you're volunteering to be a "Test Case", and want to make the case that the Second Amendment should also trump state law, by all means, have at it......

Beautiful.......!

Um...no. The gripe I have (and still have) and the rest of us in Camden County have is that we end-up subsidizing Camden City's continued existence. We'd be better-off paving Camden over and making it a parking lot to go visit the USS New Jersey.

Very possibly. I moved to Medford in 1986. Oldsters talked about walking down the street, heading to the fields with their shotguns, and the cops telling them to "go get 'em, boys!" as they passed. Sad, its not like that now.........

Just occurred to me...why is the Cumberland County Sheriff patrolling Millville? According to their web page, the Millville PD has about 100 officers and support personnel, so its not in need of any help from the county. In NJ, most of the County Sheriffs are involved with the county jail and court system, not with patrolling the county. Even here in Camden Co, where the Co is trying to get away from municipal police and form a single county system, they are known as the county police, not the county sheriff. Whats going on?

Route 70, the strip mall across from Cherry Valley Tractor, just east of the (then) 70/73 Circle.

Did you read the rebuttal from Nappen and Co, LT...? Used bags....if there was residue, where's the charges? I used to use the same bags to package Boy Scout awards. Seedy part of town....seedy describes half of Millville! If they were buying, where's the charges? If he was selling, he's doing a lousy job, with a broken scale. (And we haven't seen the scale, either....is this a drug scale? Bathroom scale? Considering they sent a flint less flintlock out for testing, I would wanna know what scale we're talking The kid had drugs....two pills, for which he had a prescription....My question is why we're they going for pre trial intervention over two prescribed pills?

http://www.thedailyjournal.com/story/news/crime/2015/02/20/ex-teacher-gun-case-trying-buy-drugs-sheriff/23749005/ My take on this?.....This whole thing screams "move out of NJ!" A "failure to appear" warrant that turns-out to be a screw-up by the Vineland court? Two pills - for which he HAS a prescription - but not in their "pharmacy container" - and the kid takes a pre-trial intervention (for a charge that SHOULD have been thrown-out) rather than gamble with going to trial? (Which makes the Millville court look like its more concerned with getting another "successful" prosecution rather than administration of justice...this charge should have been thrown out when he presented a valid prescription!) And now...."um, he was trying to buy drugs" from the Cumberland County Sheriff....but we're not going to charge him with that...Unbelievable!

Same place I was talking about.

Nick! You've got me walking down memory lane! Stratton's was way cool when they moved to Marlton, but I think that move overextended and eventually put them out of business. I got a really nice Dan Wesson Pistol Pack from them. Mike's...I really miss that place! I used to be in there all the time. I had yearly membership #1 when they ran the indoor pistol range in Shamong.

Dstar - I've not used it, but it sounds fun!

The best I have seen........ "Never Talk to the Police" = perspective from both a Law Professor and a Police Detective (Who is also studying to be a Lawyer). Please note that I am not a lawyer...I only found that this advice was extremely useful, and pointed-out what's REALLY going on "behind the scenes". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

Even back when it was Harry's....I would stop and look at stuff there, but I bought at Sportsman's Center. I'm not quite sure why...years ago it was the attitude. Now; I don't know....I just don't like the place. These days, I don't even bother stopping at Cheyenne (Harry's)...When I'm in the area, I go to Sportsman's Center.

I had some repair work done at Mike's years ago. From what I have heard, Mike recently had a bout with cancer, and that's the reason for the reduction in hours of operation (and also the 'for sale' sign in front).

WTF!

Ah Edelman's....bought several from them when they were around. It was sad to see them go...

What's more of a shame is how many shops have closed their doors (for many reasons) in the past 20 years. Once upon a time, every other hamlet had a gun shop.

No idea...never used Ham Call I have it tied into QRZ.com and do uploads with it to LOTW

I have used N3FJP's loggers for years; both the general log program and many of the contest-specific. http://n3fjp.com/

Ah, so that explains the two tables of rusty guns...that's a shame, really, as some of them would have been nice (if not so rusty). A good soaking in oil or ATF would probably free them up, but their collector value is finished. I was at the show, and was VERY tempted by several items (a Beretta A300, Browning .22, and a Browning superposed, particularly), but didn't buy any of them. The whole place was busy - the shop downstairs was hopping, too, as was the range. If I was a PA resident, I might have bought one of the rusty S&W's to try and free-up as a fun shooter... I had my eye out for other participants; and I even had my 'W2MC' hat on, but didn't see any.

Hello Cinn-City! Glad to hear someone else from my home town. Jon - CHS Class of '81

http://www.cabelas.com/product/Beretta-AL391-URIKA/1993369.uts?Ntk=GunLibrary&searchPath=%2Fcatalog%2Fsearch.cmd%3Fform_state%3DsearchForm%26N%3D0%26Ntk%3DGunLibrary%26Ntt%3Dal391%26x%3D0%26y%3D0&Ntt=al391

To get started in HF at the house ... other than the radio itself, you would need: - 20 amp 12 volt power supply (very common used-usually about $40) Power supplies are the 'lead pipes' of amateur radio - particularly the heavy linear supplies - they just keep going and going and going and going... - Antenna of some sort. Start with copper wire and create some sort of dipole outside in the trees, or put up a pole, or something like that. Feed it with coax. Of course the size of the dipole is governed by what bands you want to operate, and how much room you have to put them up. Simple rules are: - Higher is better. If you can't get the whole thing up high, put the center feed up as high as you can and let the ends droop down, but keep it where someone won't accidently touch it when you're transmitting. - Resonant is better (easier to deal with) but not required...if you have a tuner - Something that looks like this: http://www.arrl.org/images/view/Licensing__Education_/Getting_on_the_Air/ARRL0113.jpg - Detail and help with how long it should be: http://w2so.org/projects/antennas/dipole-antenna - Tuner - manual or automatic. Transmitters are picky things....they only want to see a 50 ohm load when they are transmitting. Its what they are designed to do, and if they don't get what they want, they will either cut back their power or eventually heat-up and burn out a transistor. The "tuner" just adds inductance and capacitance to the antenna system to make it look like a 50 ohm load, which can also allow the antenna you just made for one band to work on another. (Just remember, there is no free lunch...heat losses will add-up, and some antennas just wont tune where you want them.) Tons can be found here: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=antenna+tuners Some things about Tuners: - MFJs are cheap and they work, though some are quirky. MFJ 941's or 949's work fine and last a long time. - LDG autotuners are also cheap and they work, but many sound like a box of rocks while they're tuning. This is ok... - A manual tuner with an swr meter on it is an immense help. you can tune one via the radio's meter, but its a pain. - A tuner with a switch that can switch between antennas and/or bypass the tuner is also an immense help as you progress

I seriously WANT to get Navassa...back in the 70's, my local club (South Jersey Radio Assn, or SJRA) sponsored a DXpedition to Navassa, but that was before my (ham radio) time. My problem is I dropped my tower just before the January VHF QSO Party, and found that I had some serious problems with the rotor and antennas.....so the tower is down. I am going to try to get it back to some semblance of functional this weekend specifically to work Navassa.

Yup - welcome to 10 Meters. That's the way that band goes. For "local" states, your best bet is to shift to 40 Meters.