Mr.Stu

Doesn't the high power range go out to 300 yards at Cherry Ridge? If you can't zero at 25, why not do it at 200?

It's a matter of choosing the right tool for the job at hand. If you need to move around to gather your kids, a handgun is the better option. In a fixed defensible location a long gun is preferable. Do you have an action plan for the whole family? My kids know to stay low in their room until I come and get them. The last thing I want is for them to be moving around and getting between me and the intruder. Hopefully my GSD is engaging the bad guy and buying me time too.

@sagosto as you have mentioned you have kids, get a handgun for home defense. A shotgun needs 2 hands to operate which leaves you none to manage a nearby kid, or open a door, operate a light switch, hold a flashlight or anything else. A handgun is maneuverable, and manageable with one hand while you leave the other free to take care of other tasks. Once you have gathered the family together, then grab the shotgun and guard the entrance to the room you are occupying. A shotgun is not very practical for moving around in a confined space, especially if you have no backup.

Just food for thought, but it is perfectly legal to mail a firearm to yourself at another address in the US. I have a vague recollection that handguns must go via common carrier other than USPS - basically UPS or Fedex and I think Fedex recently decided to stop carrying firearms unless sent from an FFL.

There is no limit on the number of pistol purchase permits you can apply for in one go. If you do not apply for an exemption, you cannot use more than 60 in the 180 days that they are valid. There is no point in applying for just 1 permit. You have to pay for the background check to apply for 1 plus $2 for the permit. If you apply for 6 you pay the same fee for one background check and $12 for the permits.

When I bought the house I'm in now 3 years ago the mortgage company went off of comps - never even came to look. It was the same when I remortgaged earlier this year.

A homeowner's inspection and a mortgage company appraisal are two completely different things. A home inspection is far more detailed and will help protect the buyer from unexpected repair costs down the road. The appraisal is just for the mortgage company to assess the loan to value ratio. There is a wider acceptable margin of error on the appraisal if the buyer is putting 20% down. The appraisal would have to be really inaccurate for the bank to lose.

I would start the list of essentials as follows: Safety instruction Hearing protection Eye protection Cleaning supplies Targets

Because you accidentally didn't have a boat?

I have a Benelli Nova in 20g that I could be persuaded to part company with. It is the youth model so may fit you if you have short arms. It has a magazine extension installed to make it 9+1 capacity, but that can be removed. I still have the original magazine spring.

I have never shot anyone. I reckon I'm owed 588 months of back pay.

I heard about people with brown water sewage backing up into their basements around North Arlington. That takes a lot of clean up.

Long Valley isn't very far from me. If you want to check out mine, send me a PM.

The thing about freedom is everybody has it. They were free to go too, but also free to stay where they were.

Do you want magnification? If you don't look at the Vortex UH-1. It is a great holographic sight that works with my astigmatism. On my non-NFA other I mated it with a 3x magnifier.

Whenever you change address your FID becomes invalid 30 days later. Applying for a new FID, or a replacement because you moved, it was lost or destroyed is the same process nomatter the circumstances. The only difference is the first time you need to be fingerprinted for the background check. For subsequent applications the fingerprinting is unnecessary unless your previous FID was obtained before they started doing the fingerprints electronically. However, in some towns police chief is anti 2A and makes people get fingerprinted again just to make the process harder and more expensive to dissuade people from applying.

Why do you need a whole new upper? If you want to mount a light you have several options. There are mounts that clamp onto the barrel. Probably not the best idea for you as it will effect the harmonics of the barrel and probably make your varminter less accurate. Replace the gas block with one that has a picatinny rail on it and attach a pic mount to that. I would still not recommend that for the same reason as the clamp on mount. Replace the handguard with one that has m-lok or picatinny rails built in. One thing that puzzles me though. The Varminter is a rifle set up for long range accuracy. What flashlight would you mount that can illuminate that far out? If you're thinking home defense maybe a 16" upper would be a good idea as it is way more maneuverable than a 24" would be.

Good to go.

I'm not sure those are M-lok. They look a bit big. I think they are called cooling vents.

You can just pull it out of the slot in the receiver extension and you're back to the regular, adjustable configuration. I have one on my Kriss Vector CRB. It is quite nose heavy with the stock fully extended, but when I visit free America I can whip the stock stop out and it's much nicer to shoot. I just have to remember to put it back before crossing back into NJ. It only allows the stock to be set at the longest position which is a shame, but it's better than pinning the stock IMO.

Welding steel to steel is far easier than welding anything else to steel, right? I guess you could braze or silver solder something else. Hopefully you have a TiG or something as mag bodies tend to be pretty thin gauge steel. They still haven't delivered the wood welder I ordered from Etsy The issue I see with you proposal is the bar is going to interfere with the mag spring. You would be better off installing a vertical block/bar that fits inside the spring and limits how far down the mag the follower can go.

So long as you stay within the exemptions for transportation you're legal. Your FID became invalid after you changed address.

If you're not concerned about recoil mitigation, your cheapest option is to have a thread protector pinned on.

The police do not issue carry permits. They get the first stab at denying you, but then it always goes to the Superior Court for your county and they will deny you. If by some miracle you are issued a permit, the court does that too, I believe.

NJ wrote NJ's rules. NY wrote NY's rules. Nobody said they have to be the same. NJ's Sheriffs are powerless compared to most other states. Their deputies are mostly limited to county jail duties, county court security, prisoner transport and serving court papers. In other states the Sheriffs are elected officials with much more power to make decisions. e.g. Sheriff Haggar in Perry Co., PA