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Just to update on the timing - yesterday (02/19) status tracking on FL licensing website changed to "Your license was issued. Please allow 2-4 weeks for printing and mailing". I sent documents in to Florida on 01/10, based on USPS tracking they received them on 01/13, so it took them only a little bit more than a month to approve my CCW license despite my status (Green Card holder, not a citizen), huge backlog (as they state on their website), paper-based fingerprints and literally the whole country applying for their CCW license. Seem to be great job by Florida officials so far! Let's see how quickly it arrives... (...sadly looking at my P2P app already being processed for 3+ months already... )

It can play out in different ways, LOL :-))) My wife grew up in NJ, her parents live here and THIS is actually one of the reasons SHE wants to move out as freaking far as possible from NJ :-)))...

Good price They are often for sale @ PSA for $50 + $7 shipping, so this one is cheaper + probably faster than PSA to ship. Nice find!

I absolutely love Mighty Quinn's in East Village (I think it's at 6th St & 2nd Ave). It can be very crowded during evenings, but that's really the only place in Manhattan I can easily go from NJ just to eat. It's completely worth it IMO. Simply the best brisket I've ever tried. BTW, they are opening another Mighty Quinn's in Clifton pretty soon. If it is at least 70% as good as in Manhattan, I'll definitely frequent there.

Curious if Blue Label Glocks are eligible...

Has anyone checked with Heritage Guild Easton? Every time (no, let me say it this way - EVERY TIME) I've been there lately on Saturdays, I picked up a box of 525 22lrs for ~$28. They seemed to have those in stock every single time. They have 1 box per customer limit though, so maybe that's the trick why they normally have it.

Quick? :-) They are there for at least a month for the very same price. I bought 100 of those ZVS rounds (2 boxes) mid-January, but was not really impressed. If I had a choice "ZVS vs inexpensive 115gr Federal / Winchester", I'd personally prefer the latter.

No disrespect to Bugsy732 and the idea as a whole, but I agree with tj462nj. As long as the idea is to help spotting each other at public ranges etc., it should bear something related to "NJGunForums.com". Just keep in mind that not everyone visits forums every day and even less people go through each and every thread. Unless it is posted on all pages that "GS Shooters" = "Guys from njgunforums.com", 99% of people will not even know about that. I would not have known about that if I don't open this thread today and would have just probably thought that GS Shooters is some kind of a club / hunting organization. If "njgunforums.com" can't be used (though I don't really know why Maksim or whoever else might be against free advertisement for this board), then I am afraid anything else will be just plain dead from the very beginning. Just my IMO

I am surprised nobody raised a question about how your office generally looks like. I would personally make any decisions about taking a firearm to the office based on that. If it is a huge "classic" office building with dozens of different companies inside, open space environment and hundreds or even thousands of people working inside with independent security guards at the entrance - I would probably NOT bring anything questionable to such a place. You can't have a chance to know even a small fraction of guys around, some people may be nuts, others might just not like you for the color of your hair or the length of your sleeves. If it is a small building in a middle of nowhere with 10-15 people (who you know well) sitting in the back room with no formal security at the entrance, no access to the room for general public and good friendly environment among people - seriously, why not? I remember one of my colleagues in Russia bringing several of his steel BB handguns to our office. I worked at a small software company at that point, there were only 6 or 7 guys in our room and I was surprised to know that there are other fans of BB guns out there, so next day I brought mine to show him, LOL :-) We were all absolutely confident that nobody in our room would ever run away screaming "Men with guns, call the police". If you are confident about this as well, go ahead. If not - see above about the range :-) P.S. But I would still personally NOT do this.

Scammers-scammers, some of them are so funny... I get calls from "Microsoft Technical Support Department" almost every week or even more frequently. First I just hung up, now I am trolling callers for 10 minutes or more while doing usual stuff to waste as much of their time as possible, LOL. The only thing I was wondering if anyone really falls into this (I mean, this Microsoft scam) as all guys and gals calling me had SOOOO heavy middle-Eastern accent and it was so obvious that they were reading this from paper, that it just screamed "SCAM SCAM SCAM" :-)) BTW, scammers are actually quite creative. Here people are afraid of IRS so they impersonate IRS. In Russia many people are afraid of road police / traffic enforcement and LEOs in general, so scammers call and tell that "your wife / son / daughter just got in a very serious accident, another party is in a critical condition and it is most likely your loved one is at fault... unless you pay us $$$$ immediately, we will start proceedings and put your relative in jail for a long time". But I have always been really impressed by how many people really pay. According to one of newspapers one lady was really hard to beat - someone called her and told that her son had been in an accident etc... She transferred several thousand $$ to the caller and only after that she remembered, that she has a DAUGHTER, not a SON, LOL :-)))

While not arguing with the latter, I am still not sure if consumers are really the losers here. Any specific example of a customer in US to be on the hook for fraudulent credit card charges? I personally see US Credit card market to be so extremely competitive and client centric that this client centricity can even backfire sometimes. I don't know what kind of credit card losses you actually talk about - I forgot when was the last time I actually paid for domestic air ticket, LOL...

Anyone has any updates on if this match is happening this Saturday or if it is to be cancelled due to weather? Just trying to make certain backup arrangements if it doesn't fly this time...

Chase Sapphire Preferred is quite hard to forge - metal with embossed (not flat at least, not sure how they do this) letters and numbers in a non-standard location, so that this card can theoretically not be copied with a usual imprinter. (Edit: By saying "copied" I meant the situation, when you have a usual embossed card - one (especially in a restaurant) can secretly make an "imprint" of all card data using a simple imprinter, or even sheet of thin paper and a pencil in a matter of seconds. It's harder for cards without embossed numbers, so I actually think new Discover IT is safer than most of imprinted cards). On the other hand - you write its data to another card (flat etc.) and you are mostly good to go - nobody really checks cards now, especially if they are swiped by a customer himself/herself on a POS-terminal (like in all Walmarts etc.) But in fact (while I don't have a ready-to-use and ready-to-share statistics to back this up) I suppose that most of the cards are compromised in much easier ways than copying them per se in stores/restaurants. I was actually more than surprised to read about how many people provide all their credit card details to famous Indian guys calling from "Microsoft Technical Support Department" to "clean your computer from viruses", LOL :-)))

45Doll, If I understand it right, when you sign up in November 2013, you get the first coupon in November 2013 and the second coupon - in November 2014, not earlier. If yes, then this is exactly how I thought the whole GSSF membership works (so in my case I will get my second coupon no earlier than in September 2014) However, suggests that this was not the case (again, if I interpreted it the right way). TheBEARD, if you join in November, how would you obtain a second coupon to be used in January? Have you actually tried this (in fact, this would be fantastic if it really works :-) )

LOL I suspected both responses :-) That's why I wrote that this was a purely HYPOTHETICAL situation ... Okay, okay, I'll edit locations to make it easier :-)

So I am right then to assume that with a properly timed 2-year GSSF membership you can actually have THREE discount coupons? (i.e. for 2013, 2014 and 2015 calendar years?) I thought that at some point they had a clear rule that the second coupon could have been obtained only when 12 months have passed from the start of your membership (which would frankly speaking make some sense in my view), but I might be wrong here...

From your experience, does it make sense to come to this show on a weekday (let's say, on Feb 4) instead of going Saturday or Sunday? (I think I might have such an opportunity next week) On a plus side I guess it will be less crowded than on weekends, but how about certain expositions / participants? I am just asking because lots of different venues like that I visited or planned to visit in the past (not firearms related mostly) usually had very different sets of participants / schedule of events on weekdays compared to weekends, so that you would normally lose coming weekday if you go there for entertainment and not for business. Similar considerations here?

Was thinking about this for quite some time, but can't find any specific info on this. Sorry if it has been discussed already, just point me out where :-) I almost had a chance to try this on myself a couple of months ago (buying a handgun evening before a long trip out of state), but got lucky then. So, hypothetical situation: 1a) You come to the store with your P2P, choose a handgun, commit to buy it (e.g. pay the whole price right away). Store associate runs your NICS (Day 1) and gets a "delayed" response (seems not that uncommon, especially for Green Card holders). You fly out to Dallas Montreal the next morning for 2-weeks project. Next afternoon (when you are already enjoying Texas sun Montreal cold and French-speaking crowd everywhere sitting in an small office) you get a call that NICS returned "approved" (Day 2). You can't take the gun that day, you actually can do it only on Day 15 or so. It is fine as long as NICS results are valid for 30 days AFAIK. (another version of this situation - 1b) - might be a friendly FFL running NICS for you a little bit in advance, let's say, on Day 1 with you coming to pick guns up on Day 6 after that) Result is basically the same. While NJ NICS writes the date of request as Day 1, you actually take a possession of a gun on Day 15 (or Day 6 etc.). Question: when can you buy the next gun? a) On Day 31 (or 32 to be sure) b) On Day 45 (or Day 36 respectively for 1b) for 30 days to pass from the moment you actually took possession of the gun c) You can again run NICS on Day 31, and it will be approved, but you will be unable to legally take a possession of a handgun until Day 45 (or 36). Question 2: in such scenarios, what dates go where in your papers? As I remember, FFL can NOT put Day 1 in your P2P if you actually come on Day 15, because in this case it would look like he failed to return other copies of P2P to authorities on time. Still back to OGAM, how NJ NICS system will know about the actual date of transfer? Thanks a lot in advance! Locations edited not to hit a raw nerve :-))))

Seems I am not going to be alone to say "both" :-) If you are on a VERY tight budget than you might be better building it from PSA / PTAC parts. I can't say anything specific about those yet, I have just received my PTAC upper from them, still need to saw off all unnecessary parts etc., but I doubt you can really beat the price. If you are willing to wait, you can get PTAC upper with BCG and CH for $290, Anderson/PSA lower for ~$50, LPK kit with stock for around $80, sights (at least $30, I think) and mag for $20-30. Add a transfer fee of, let's say, $25, and you come up with around $505 and a rifle that still needs compliance work to be done on it. I made those calculations before I decided to dive into it, but my reason is simple - from my early childhood I love LEGO, LOL :-) I doubt no other explanation would work better for me. Also, have you looked into recent DPMS deal from GrabAGun with AR for $500 after rebate? It will still require some compliance work (pinning stock etc.), but overall this might well be a better deal than MP15 sport even if a little bit more expensive. Nonetheless I still like my MP15 Sport and definitely don't regret buying it.

45Doll, I joined in September and they sent me a coupon right away with the welcome package. I suspect the idea here is the following (but I might be wrong) - only those who stay with GSSF at least 12 months + 1 day are entitled to discount coupons. That said, when you initially became a member, they sent you nothing because they were not sure you would stay for 1 more day after your membership expires (aka if you renew). When you renewed your membership before the end of the first year, they sent you the coupon right away. In case if somebody becomes a member for several years right away, they are sure that this person will stay for longer than 12 months, so they send the first coupon with welcome package. I might be wrong in details, but it seems that this is how it works.

1) Go to GSSF website, download a PDF form, fill it in together with your credit card details and send it out by email to the address listed on the form. You have to join for at least 2 years (I think, it was ~$60 in September). Do it as soon as you can when you actually made a decision to buy a Glock... because... 2) ...you need to allow several weeks for a welcome package to come to your specified address. Mine took ~2-3 weeks to arrive. Before this package arrives, you CAN NOT buy a discounted "blue label" Glock - there is no "online confirmation" etc. - you HAVE to have a paper card coupon arriving together with this welcome package. 3) Decide on what Glock you would like to buy. I personally think $425 for Gen4 "standard" Glock (17, 19, 22, 23) is a bargain given that even used Glocks are sometimes sold for the price closer to $500. 4) You will then need to call several NJ stores that are Glock dealers and ask them for "blue label" priced Glock in your desired version. Mind that AFAIK dealers can NOT sell you a "usual" Glock (while being completely identical) with a "white" label for "blue label" price, so if a model you want to buy is not in stock in "blue label" you need to look for it somewhere else. I personally found RTSP to be extremely helpful - they seemed to have a decent selection of blue label Glocks both times I visited them. I didn't really understand the comment above about "Glock not setting one national price..." - as far as I know, Blue Label Glock 19 will cost you $425 in any store participating in this program. If it is offered for a higher base price, I would call Glock support and ask them what to do. Ottomanelli's Sporting Arms also seem to participate in this Blue Label program. A piece of advice: When inquiring about those Glocks in stock with different stores over the phone don't use "GSSF" acronyms etc. - it will just lead to confusion in most instances. Ask only for "blue label" Glocks. Originally "Blue Label" pricing was for primarily for sales to LEO, and some stores either do not know that this program extends on GSSF members as well, or pretend not to know it :-) (so if you ask for "GSSF priced Glock" you might well hear that they never carried such) If you get a 2-year GSSF membership you will be able to get another coupon in 1 year time. Thus you will have a chance to buy 2 Glocks for discounted price for $60 once in two years. Even not counting in other nice freebies (GSSF baseball cap, magazines, ability to take Glock Armorer course and participate in GSSF matches etc.) this still seems to be a very good deal. ====== EDITED: Hmm, I just read the GSSF paper again and it seems that those prices are officially "Suggested pricing" not necessarily restricting dealers to go up or even down if they wish so. I might have actually been wrong with the statement underlined above, my fault... Nonetheless, I got mine off RTSP exactly for $425 + taxes + NICS EDITED 2: Found my old thread on basically the same question that I asked several months ago. Might be some useful answers there. http://njgunforums.com/forum/index.php/topic/60883-practical-use-of-gssf-membership-in-nj/

siderman, I guess you need this http://gunforhire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/11-27-13.pdf It's a PDF file from http://gunforhire.com/firearm-rentals/ Not sure if it is up to date though, as GFH rental collection seems to grow really fast :-)

How many of your cards actually have RFID inserts in them? I only have one - and I specifically asked Amex for RFID chip to be embedded in it - it was offered without it by default. I seriously doubt you can get any info with contactless scanner from cards without those RFID chips (speaking frankly, I doubt you can get a lot even from RFID-embedded chips, but with how fast criminal minds develop innovations I'd be careful stating that something is "impossible", LOL)

Well, yes and no. Depending on the way how your CC info leaks and how it is used by a criminal. Simple mag stripe reader costs 20 bucks (I have one, for example, just bought it off ebay out of curiosity). Stripe writer costs another 200-300. Then you take your clone card to a friendly store associate (or even unfriendly one who does not care) and buy whatever you want. Profit. My only guess would be that doing things "right way" and eliminating card fraud will a) be too expensive compared to potential losses and b) end up as a huge hassle for a legit customer. I don't know all details, but AFAIK Target issue was partially about mag stripe data leak. If it was processing transactions using EMV, this might have not happened (or happened to a smaller extent given current state of technology). But who knows...

Good. I can only shake your hand as well for going that far. Absolutely not related to firearms, I can only remember once dealing with T-Mo around 2 years ago, when I thought I was treated unfairly. I spent 8 (eight!) hours in total speaking to dozens of people over the phone (mostly with some front-line "know nothing" guys, but also with some senior people who apparently solved the issue), but in retrospect I don't think I'd ever go this route again. Will I be happy if they finally somehow allow me to buy a firearm in PA store after speaking with 10 people and wasting almost a whole day on this? I frankly doubt so :-) But your course of action was nonetheless good.