mikka1

Seriously, I think this whole discussion around "permanent / non-permanent" modification of mags is plain useless. Recent example - there are 15rd Mec-Gar mags for CZ75 that lots of people here bought either from Greg Cote LLC or from CZ Custom. There are also 17rd "standard" Mec-Gar mags for CZ75 that are technically illegal in NJ. I had a chance to look closely at both (let's say, in my friend's house in PA). The only difference between 15rd and 17rd mags is that 15rders have a part of the spring close to the baseplate that is actually a depressed spring that acts like a block preventing follower to go "too much" down and letting you put extra two rounds. All other parts, including the follower, are absolutely identical and interchangeable between those 2 mags. Do I need to tell you that with such a mag making it to hold 17rds instead of 15: 1) will take roughly 10 seconds 2) will require only pliers or cutters and most importantly - 3) will not damage the mag or require any additional parts to be installed Yet those mags are easily sold and used by many people in NJ / CO...

May I ask you: 1) what kind of response are you expecting from the state police? 2) if you get an email response from NJSP, how do you plan to use it? (or, in other words, it will prove exactly what and how?)

Glock 19

Well but clearly there should be a clear incentive for someone to commit a pretty serious crime. And as I mentioned before there should be the whole machinery to analyze/mine vital records, cross-check registries of voters etc. I guess it would be an epic fail if, let's say, Asian-looking guy in his 30s would come to a polling place and tries to vote for Mr Guillermo Lopez, 81 years old... Just a stupid example, but if that is true and happening on a large scale I am really impressed by the depth of corruption in the whole voting system. This all can't be run by a couple of individuals even from a technical standpoint...

But I don't get how that dirty campaign officer might place dozens of illegals to the registry of voters in the first place without it catching someone's attention? I know that back in Russia there were well-developed ways to cheat during the voting process often involving so called "ghost voters" (e.g., an elderly person is actually dead for many years or someone else moved out a long ago, but still in the registry - someone comes to the polling place, claims that he is actually Mr X, signs on his behalf and votes) - but this actually requires the whole corrupted chain (people who can check vital records in advance, people who close their eyes on strange guys coming without IDs and so on) - not just one dirty campaign official...

Sorry for interfering to this discussion but can someone explain me why people often speak about "no ID requirement to vote" thing? I am not a US citizen, my wife is. When she was registering herself as a voter there were questions about her citizenship. Every time she comes to a polling place she hands her ID over to the officer, he/she finds her in a large register, where there is already an imprint of her signature placed. I am obviously not in this register at all. That said I am quite lost: 1) How, let's say, can I technically vote (if I somehow wish to do this in a violation of the law) if I would most likely not be able even to register as a voter? (unless I falsify information on me)... and the most important thing 2) Why would I want to vote being legally unable to vote and technically seriously violating the law that can potentially severely backfire on me in the future? I just simply don't get #2 from any standpoint...

Thanks for the coupon, just returned from the store - picked a couple of shotgun cases and some gun oil, saved $20 in total off their price (in 2 separate transactions with the help from my wife). As mentioned before, no guns or ammo - "NJ license in theory can come any day..."

I have to admit I am in the game for less than a year, but I have not yet encountered any _outright negative_ reaction to what I do. I post pics and videos from USPSA matches on Facebook, I sometimes discuss it openly at work - several people honestly told me that they have "never been really into guns" and one of the guys just mentioned that he had always been "anti-gun" and that he believed in "guns only for army and police" idea - nonetheless I never heard any direct or indirect criticism from him or from anyone else at work. Some of my colleagues are avid tennis players, there's also a guy who used to be a pro musician - I don't yet see my "hobby" treated differently from any other ones... Still my most remarkable example is not at my workplace, but with one of my neighbors. She is pretty much the only person in the whole building I talk to on a regular basis, so when I was looking for references for my initial FID I carefully approached her asking if she could be my reference - and she politely declined also telling me something like "well, it's NJ, you'll NEVER get it with or without references, forget about it, _they_ hate guns in NJ". This was more than a year ago. Fast forward ~10 months and I invite her to the local range on "my guns, my ammo, my everything - you just try it" conditions... and she's apparently thrilled! Some time later she asks me if I could bring her forms to fill in and tell her more about getting FID. I obviously don't want to generalize based on only one case, but apparently "I don't have guns" does not necessarily mean "I am against guns at all costs" - it is sometimes "I know nothing about guns, how to get them, but if someone tells me about that and shows me everything I might well consider getting one at least for HD..."

I know this has been mentioned here before, but just to reiterate - as long as NJ Hunter Ed is free (!) and lots of guys here already have their hunting licenses - NJ Hunter Ed card is apparently a sufficient proof of firearms training on its own for a FL CCW Permit, so if you have your yellow Hunter Ed card, you are pretty much good to go with FL permit. What you still need to do: 1) Request a fingerprint card from FL - they send it for free - and get fingerprinted at LEO (either your local PD or County Sheriff's office - doesn't really matter) 2) While you are waiting for the fingerprint card - download an application, fill it in and get it notarized with a notary public (I normally go to PNC Bank - they (as well as most of other banks) provide notary services for free for its clients) 3) Take a 2" by 2" picture (for $10 "professionally" at CVS/Walgreens or for ~$0.50 after taking a pic on your smartphone against a white wall and printing it out in a kiosk anywhere) I'd say it's longer to explain this than to do this I am actually preparing all this stuff for my wife right now and it is VERY easy.

IANAL and IANA_FFLdealer, but I have a strong feeling that you should not have any issues at all. As far as I understand the process, the actual point in time when you are taking a possession of a firearm is a moment when you sign 4473 form / your dealer runs NICS on you and you walk away with your firearm. Everything that happened before that (i.e. how that firearm ended up at your dealer's place) is not of anyone's business / interest (I guess our FFLs would correct me if I'm wrong). At least I remember paying once for a firearm online with my wife's credit card and then getting it shipped to the FFL address where I took possession of it. I can also imagine a scenario in which I run out of permits (or my permits expire) and we use my wife's permits to take possession of a handgun I paid for and which is now at FFL. I might be totally wrong and completely stupid, but I don't see anything that even remotely resembles a straw purchase here...

Congrats, Glock 19 is probably the best gun I have overall. It's not the smallest, it's not the most accurate, it's not the cheapest one in the market, but as I honestly mentioned numerous times, if SHTF tomorrow, Glock 19 will be my ultimate weapon of choice. And I seriously think that you can't just have ONE Glock I recently purchased Glock 26 and now looking for full-size 17/22 or longer 34/35 (and I am almost sure I'll get both at some point).

Looks like a coincidence, but today I tried my new Bersa Thunder in 380 for the first time. Hell it hurts! I like the gun itself, it's really inexpensive (I got it for ~$260 + transfer fees), nice looking, but it kicks quite... unusual compared to all other guns I shot before, despite being in smaller cal. I need to try it once again to either confirm my worst expectations or to realize that it was not that bad at all... Bottom line - try before you buy

I'd say Momondo and Skyscanner are absolutely the best at least when it comes to international flights. Mind thought that those are not operating like Expedia and Orbitz - Momondo does not sell tickets by itself, it finds where they are sold the cheapest. I would highly NOT recommend Travelocity - they customer support is basically the worst I've ever encountered with (but maybe I was just unlucky with them), so should you have any issues with your booking and / or flight there will literally be nobody to assist you (or to say correctly - willing to assist you)...

If you are in a market for a new HK handgun it might be well worth waiting a couple of weeks! Starting Nov 1 there is a $200 rebate for many HK firearms (unfortunately, NOT including VP9 as per comments on HKPro - would be very happy if it turns wrong in the end). Spotted it initially on Slickguns looking for VP9 prices :-) Hope it helps someone! http://www.hkpro.com/forum/attachments/hk-heads-up/25658d1413479634-hk-200-rebate-hk-days-rebate-offer-2014-tear-sheet.pdf

When I seriously don't know what to buy next (in terms of guns), I open slickguns.com and look for deals. I'd say 98% of stuff there can be hardly considered "deals" (price difference from normal price may be $10-20-30 or so), but from time to time you can run into real things (e.g. Remington 1911R1 for ~$420 + transfer with a normal price of $550+). Good deals normally don't last long, so might make sense to check slickguns quite often if you in a market for a new gun...

>>The mikka1 yea it's about $1300 and some change for paint job that's needed. Well, I am obviously not a car repair expert, but when I bought my car off the public auction I kind of looked into an option of full repaint job (because I didn't know at that point what color the car will be and there was a great chance of color being too wrong to drive )) ) and everyone was talking about roughly $700 max for FULL repaint of the whole car. I don't really know the details and I'm sure you did your homework, so most likely my comment is totally irrelevant. I guess oneshot summarized it all nicely above, LOL.

Don't forget about deductible on your car insurance - I don't know how much shops quoted you for this work but even with $250-ish (or $500-is) deductible you'll still end up paying a huge part out of pocket, probably NOT having "straight cash" rate from the shop and most likely having your insurance rates jacked up in the next period... Unless it is a paint job for several thousand $$ (which is quite unlikely, I guess), I would absolutely go for cash out of pocket not even for ethical reasons (who cares about ethics these days, sigh...), but for pure economical reasons...

Igor, congratulations! I hope to follow the same route in 2015

I am not familiar with how you can list limitations on Ebay, but can you just list shipping conditions as "Contiguous states only"? I guess you can also state "Shipping to confirmed Paypal addresses only" - my address is unconfirmed, but out of 30+ ebay transactions as a buyer over last ~2 years I've never encountered any issues with that - I guess it is there mostly as an excuse not to ship items in specific circumstances. 2OP: BTW, is there any proper way to ship primers to PR or, for example, HI? Or is it just plain impossible / too expensive? I mean, if the receiving party is willing to pay extra for shipping, why not do this?

What bothers me most is that apparently factors like geographic proximity, county, median household income etc. etc. almost play no role in the process timing (at least I don't see it yet) As I mentioned before, Belleville, Bloomfield and, for example, West Caldwell are all in Essex County and are 10-15 minutes max from each other - nonetheless difference in processing times is tremendous - I heard West Caldwell is even worse than Bloomfield at times...

He lives in Belleville :-) Well, given I am close to 4th month milestone in my wait for P2Ps I guess this is not relevant to me at least while I live in Bloomfield )

1. They could have f**ked up mental health check process - e.g. forgot to send a request to a county adjuster's office, lost paperwork from the adjuster's office, adjuster's office itself could have lost something (this happened to me when I applied for FID for the first time) 2. They could have never received a letter from one of the references (or both) despite it being sent in a timely manner ... or they can pretend they never received it (happened to me the second time) 3. They could have been unable to reach references over the phone (this should be actually read as "We tried once, they didn't answer... and we never really tried again") ... well, this is happening to me now with my P2Ps )) 4. (come up with any reasonable or even extraordinary excuse here - more unrealistic it will be - the better) I learned my lesson the hard way - never "abandon" the process for more than a month (two months max if you somehow feel uncomfortable / too busy to check it every month) - if something got stuck there is a great chance you will never know about this unless you specifically follow your case up... *** P.S. A couple of days ago a resident of a town 2 miles from me told me that their PD issues P2Ps in less than a week and never contacts references for P2Ps if this person already has a FID. Last permit took this person THREE DAYS to get it and apparently it is a NORM there, not some exception. And he is not a LEO / Military / Government etc., just a usual guy with his own small business... I wanted to smash him hard in an outbreak of severe jealousy and butthurt, but he's a very big guy )))

Got my tech license in May, mostly to feel more comfortable using my walkie-talkies in the woods and when we drive somewhere with my friends in multiple cars together. I found tech exam to be extremely easy - I seriously spent only 2 evenings going through all questions and passed the exam with 35/35 answers right. Exam coordinators suggested me to try General exam right away, but I failed this one with only ~20 answers right... I used some nice materials in a form of PPT presentations (they are on my other laptop, I can look them up if it is of someone's interest) with a dark blue background. It had all questions from the pool with brief explanations of the most difficult topics + some Word doc summary of ~10 pages with main statements. My real issue is that despite having a piece of paper I have no practical HAM skills at all, LOL )

Thanks a lot for the info, I was thinking about getting there on Saturday as well if I go at all. I only have stock Glock 19 now as my only Glock without any modifications at all, so I guess category will not be an issue.

Just realized this weekend (Aug 16-17, 2014) there will be a Glock GSSF match in Topton, PA. I missed the one in Central Jersey this June, so was tempting to give this one a try - I've never been to GSSF matches before. On the other hand, driving ~90 miles each way does not sound fun really. So I am apparently looking for excuses to go or not to go, LOL. Anyone from here going to this match this weekend? How GSSF matches are usually run? Are they very much different from USPSA matches? Something particular I need to know about if I finally decide to give it a try (apart from not forgetting to take my Glock instead of CZ)? What's the usual round count? Greatly appreciate any insights!