Mr.Stu

I just got an email from Hunterdon Superior Court. They have re-issued my court order listing the additional handguns I sent in. It is now almost 3 full pages instead of the page and a half it was before. It is exactly the same, except the list of guns is more than 3 times as long.

I'm carrying a G19 these days. When the weather warms up again and I'm wearing T-shirt and shorts I'll switch to my G26. When the mag limit case gets resolved, I'm thinking I'll get a Hellcat.

The instructor was right, but for the wrong reason. A head lamp will illuminate your arm, hand and gun the brightest making it much harder to see the less brightly lit target beyond. You want your light in front of your sights.

Yep. I goofed. I meant working days are a subset of all days.

You can't buy skill. RDS are no more precise or accurate than iron sights on a handgun. They also have the limitation, that if you don't have a vice like grip, you will lose sight of the dot during recoil. Also, if you set the dot bright enough for sunlight, it's going to be way too bright in low light. Can you still shoot with an overly bright dot? Sure, you can, but your sight picture is not going to be as precise as normal lighting because of the flare coming off the dot, obliterating your view of the target.

My court order states that I just needed to write to the court and supply proof of quals. I sent them a letter last Thursday and they accepted it immediately. I'm going to wait until I receive the stamped copy of my letter before I risk getting stopped with my additional guns.

You just need to read the statute. It says '60 days' 'days' are all days. 'calendar days' are a subset of days and would have to stated explicitly. It is the same as the 2A applies to 'the people'. That means all the people, not just the white, male, or any other subset of 'the people'.

Here's a pro tip - If you get to it before the surface melts and refreezes and the snow is not the really heavy water laden stuff, you can use your leaf blower instead of a snow blower. I have a gravel driveway so a snow blower is not an option for me, but my backpack leaf blower did the business last winter.

I would have submitted sooner, but they changed the form the morning of the day I was going to submit it. It took me another couple of days to collect my references' signatures again. I did have a conversation with a DSFC in the FIU and I feel we had a very frank discussion. He was not happy about delays, but explained that the FIU only has 7 staff to cover the entire State. Since Bruen, the volume of calls and emails has skyrocketed and they have been given no more staff to handle the huge amount of additional work. He did say that it was important for people to apply because without exercising the system, the pitfalls and problems would not be identified and therefore never fixed. One of the reasons I submitted early is that I suspected that TPTB would soon start making up new rules to make the process harder. At each step I made contact with the people handling my permit and have had nothing but cooperation. This includes NJSP Washington, NJSP FIU and the Hunterdon Superior Court. The mistake on where my approved permit was sent was just a simple screw up. I used to get my permits through Sussex, but then I moved and now I'm under Washington. I suspect something wasn't updated in my file at the FIU properly which resulted in the mistake. Stuff happens. It doesn't mean it is endemic unless it becomes apparent there is a pattern of screwing up.

Echo or Stihl. Buy once, cry once.

I did post in the monster thread that I have my permit. I applied through NJSP Washington. County: Hunterdon Fingerprinted: 6/30 - Easton, PA Applied via: NJSP Washington 6/30 Approved by NJSP Washington: Approx 8/9 Approved by NJSP FIU: 8/15 Received by court: 8/18 Docketed by court: 8/19 Approved by court: 9/14 Received by NJSP FIU: 9/16 Sent from NJSP FIU to NJSP Sussex (by mistake): 9/16 Located at NJSP Sussex: 9/27 Delivered to NJSP Washington: 9/28 Picked up by me: 9/29 Letter to court to add more (all remaining) handguns: 10/6 Addition of handguns accepted by court: 10/6 Unless I get any more handguns, I'm all set until renewal time and can possess any handgun I own right now, although I'll wait until I get the officially stamped receipt from the court before carrying anything that wasn't on my original court order. ETA: Mine was one of the one of first that NJSP Washington handled, and the first 1 they received back as approved, I was told. I was also told that mine was one of the first 10 that NJSP FIU handled that was approved anywhere in the State.

Hunterdon County update: My court order says that my permit is limited to the list of handguns that I submitted quals for - they are listed in the court order. It also said to add more I just needed to notify them of the make, model and serial numbers of the guns and send quals for them. The guy I use agreed to an abbreviated qualification course to save time and ammo as I had already proven safe handling in the full course previously. I emailed a letter to the court this afternoon and they have accepted it already. They will be sending me a receipted copy of the letter as proof. I can now possess any of the handguns I own.

For me, dots on the rear sight serve only to distract me from the dot on the front sight. Lining up 3 dots never worked for me so if it were my gun, at the very least I would black out the rear dots completely. As for practicing for low light the best thing you could do would be to shoot in low light. However, having access to a range where you can do that is problematic. What you can do is low light dryfire. You training objective for this is to activate your WML and acquire a sight picture under low light. What follows from that - firing a shot - is no different whether the lights are on or not.

I am not a big fan of night sights. Do they let you align the front a rear sights better in low/no light situations? Sure. However, they do nothing to help with the 3rd element of a sight picture - the target. If you can't positively identify your target, should you really be shooting at it? This is a crappy picture of a set of Ameriglo sights in low light - sorry I just don't know how to take a good picture with no light. However, as you can see the front and rear sights are visible. When I add a flashlight the dots on the sights start to get washed out and sight alignment is most easily achieved using the outline of the sights. The flashlight is a Fenix PD40R set to 350 lumens. Turning the light up to 1000 lumens the Ameriglo dots are completely washed out. Is there really any point in having them at all? The final picture is a set of Dawson Precision sights with a red fiber optic on the front and a plain black rear with the flashlight set to 350 lumens. As you can see, there is no discernable difference between the two sight pictures with the light set to 350 lumens. I run the Dawson Precision red fiber front & plain black rear on all my match guns. It is a consistent sight set that I am very used to. Using the same set up on the guns I carry works best for me. A familiar, consistent sight picture can be argued as bringing some value. Glowing sights that don't do anything functionally at the time of being used are pointless IMO. Additionally, the front sight, in order to be able to accommodate the tritium vial, is typically never less than 140-150 thousandths of an inch wide. I much prefer a narrower front sight and ditching the tritium and going with a fiber front allows the front sight to be 100-105 thou wide.

There is arguably a position that longer shots for self defense can be found unreasonable because the option of retreat in complete safety is more likely. However, don't forget that you may also find yourself in the position of defending another person. Maybe that person is someone you feel deeply for, a wife, husband, mother, father, son, daughter, grandfather, grandmother, etc. and they are being attacked outside of your typical 7-10 yard personal self defense distance. Would you rather decline to take that shot, risk flubbing the shot, or have confidence that you can make that shot, without undue risk to the victim that you care deeply about?

Springs wear through exercise. Maybe just sit watching your show of choice and continuously rack the slide.

Some cops will welcome knowing that you've passed one of the most stringent background checks the State prescribes and will be able to turn down their expectation of SHTF as a result. Some cops will have the opposite reaction because they have been programmed to work with the assumption, "has gun - must be bad guy". You never know which type of officer you will be dealing with, so why take a chance? N.B. I realize there are shades of gray between these two extremes, of course.

There are lots of factors to consider, some if which you won't know in advance. Just a couple of years ago a permit holder was arrested on his way to/from work and charged with possession of hollow points for having critical defense ammo. All charges were eventually dropped, but the whole thing could have been avoided if the cop didn't even know the guy was in possession of his gun. I don't know if the cop drew down on him. Concealed is concealed. If they ask, I won't lie, but I'm not going to volunteer anything to draw scrutiny for anything unrelated to the stop.

It varies from PD to PD. Some will give it a case number ahead of time, some provide it when you have in your application, and some have a formula like NJSP that you can use to predict it.

That would have been HNQC, not HQC2.

Plus a PBA card and a donut?

That goes for all handgun rounds. The one shot stop is mostly a myth.

All the symptoms do seem to cast suspicion on the recoil spring. Keep working it and see if you continue to see improvements. The mags could also be part of the problem if the recoil spring isn't too blame.

Assuming they gave you a case number and you put in the correct ORI, they will get the results automatically and be able to match them up with your app.

Watch this and revisit your decision. https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE