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Happened to me recently with a PSA factory reload 9mm at one of the ranges. I'm glad I checked it through before just ejecting the casing and trying to shoot another round... Could've had a really big BANG.

I am NOT suggesting to do anything illegal here, but over years I noticed that some of the drugs that are considered to be Rx-only in Country A are sold OTC without any issues and pretty much without any limitations in Country B. This clearly does not hold true for potent drugs that are usually sold as injectable solutions and normally used in a hospital that are pretty much Rx-only everywhere, but here are just some examples I personally ran into last years: 1) I've been using specific type of OTC nasal drops in Russia that suddenly got banned by Russian healthcare authorities. On my occasional trips to neighboring Lithuania I found exactly the same nasal drops sold everywhere OTC and even cheaper than in Russia. 2) Benadryl equivalents are STRICTLY prohibited in Russia due to counter-effects of this specific drug and its use as a component in shady .. mmm... chemical experiments. At the same time it is sold OTC in the US in pretty much any quantities you'd like to have it. 3) Epipen and other autoinjectors with Epinephrine (which is an essential life-saving tool for those having anaphylaxis in their medical history) are quite expensive in the US and Rx only. Epinephrine itself is also strictly controlled in Russia - I honestly tried to buy it in numerous pharmacies around the country with no luck. Surprise - in Canada it seems to be an OTC thing and costs much less than in the US... 4) Even the "most simple" antibiotics like doxy or amoxicillin are Rx in the US. In Russia and in several EU countries they are pretty much OTC and 10+ times less expensive than here. Talking specifically about your situation, I guess one of the drugs of interest might be metformin or its equivalents. It is definitely OTC as one of my relatives in Russia uses it regularly and I used to buy it several times when in Russia. So, I'm clearly not suggesting you to start actively shopping for medicine around the world, but just keep this in mind when and if you travel abroad... P.S. I am not a healthcare professional and I am not a lawyer and/or LEO or customs official. Importing restricted drugs from abroad, even if it is perfectly legal in other jurisdictions, can potentially lead to unpleasant consequences.

BTW, I think it is NOT okay with any permit and in any state, but I might be wrong...

Quick update - I was trying to get hold of detective every day last week, I visited PD twice basically to hear that "He is on the road, maybe will be later today...", "Normally he doesn't set appointments for firearm-related matters with applicants..." and, finally, "You'd better do it fast as he goes for a vacation next week" (so, he is likely off already). This is kind of funny now. It is the third time I'm getting firearm papers from my PD and despite all my efforts to check, double check and push everything I could, it seems that I can't make it in less than 3 months. First time it took ~4 months due to "lost papers on mental", second time it took almost 4 months due to "replace the reference, haven't received a questionnaire from him" and now it is again past 3 months already with "can't talk to your reference over the phone". I start thinking that there's a kind of a "rule" or whatever in this PD that no firearm papers are to be issued quickly, LOL....

"Walmart" and "consistent with their corporate policies"? Those are not used in one sentence together. Even at some point when Walmarts in other states were selling long guns to NJ residents (I checked with one of NC Walmarts at that point), Walmart near Easton, PA had a shady piece of paper printed out from one of their internal email exchange in their sporting goods department. I don't remember exact wording now, but it said something like "As long as we had an issue somewhere with CA residents, we stop selling firearms to NJ residents in PA.". Period. I tried to contact their corporate, spoke with one lady over the phone (it seems she was just gathering details on the complaint) and never heard back from them later.

Thanks, glad I noticed this.

Is that 100%? I have not registered for the match on ShootnScore this time, so have no other information :-( Thanks for posting this here.

Welcome to the forum IMO, this ^^^ is a complete waste of time. 1) NJSP is not obliged to provide you with legal advice. 2) Frankly speaking, NJSP is not always on top of all laws to provide you with _correct_ legal advice 3) (probably, most important) Imagine you get a _wrong_ advice. It will not be on paper with someones seal / stamp / endorsement, it will be not official. If you are busted and found in violation of something due to this wrong advice, explanation "Detective XXX from YYY told me that" will not really work. *** As far as I know, you don't need to have FID to transport firearms directly to/from exempted locations. In simple terms, if I were you, I would have transported my long gun (after, of course, making sure it is not banned by name in addition to being compliant with all "evil features" regulations etc) unloaded in a trunk, in a separate case from ammo, directly to / from range without "unreasonable deviations". If not trying to over-complicate things, I'd say that is pretty much it what you need to know... Maybe someone else will chime in with better advice.

Looks like half-scam (or, saying politely, misrepresentation of certain facts). Utah, as far as I remember, requires actual *in-person* training by Utah-certified instructor. If this website sends certificates saying that you passed a course without actually conducting this training with you present there, that might be a ground at least for revocation of this instructor's status by Utah BCI. I am also fairly sure that at least some of the states have "live fire" requirement. I also think that getting Texas CHL requires having a course physically in Texas (at least there were discussions around that here after we lost PA with UT permits). That said, I am very skeptical about this "training". My skepticism goes through the roof when I see that they sell their services through groupon... It does not mean this certificate would necessarily not work for you thought. EDIT - I wrote complete BS above. *** Apparently they offer a course to get AZ permit. Looking at AZ PDS website, particularly requirements to get a permit, I see the following So, in other words, if you took literally ANY firearm course (even non-NRA endorsed, just if instructor is NRA certified) (1,8) and/or if you went through Hunter Education in NJ (2) and / or if you took NRA First Steps or similar course (3) and/or if you have pretty much any other permit (FL, UT etc.), then you don't need any other courses to get AZ permit... That's at least how I see it.

I thought about this, but my friend is ~700 miles from NJ I guess that would be too high of a price for pieces of paper with a maximum of 6 moths validity even extended

Well, I seriously see it quite hard to prove my point in such a conversation - if I were a mayor and/or detective or chief of PD, I would've totally played a dumb card - "No! We are not doing anything illegal, we need to have 2 references by law, we couldn't reach one _after numerous attempts_ (and I would never be able to prove otherwise) so we had to kindly suggest you to provide us with another reference that we could contact. End of story." The problem is that I don't yet see what levers to push. When I had another issue 8 months ago with my mental health records lost somewhere, I clearly knew who to push / blame / demand to comply. This time round I don't see how to beat this "we were unable to contact your reference" card. Do you think it makes sense if my friend writes a letter to the PD stating that he was calling them numerous times without any luck?

...and here I am again with another round of permits that I am still waiting and already built plans for, LOL. But the issue this time seems to be the one I have not been ready for. Apparently my PD religiously sends out questionnaires to both references every time I apply for permits even though the very same detective spoke to both of those guys TWICE over the last year. Moreover, after getting questionnaires back he feels he needs to TALK to BOTH of references again on the phone. And here comes an interesting part... Roughly 2 months into the wait I get a polite letter from PD telling me that none of my references could be contacted over the phone and so that I should replace them with someone else. I came to the lady at my local PD the very same day I got this letter and she explained me that both references returned their questionnaires, but the detective was unable to reach either of them. I immediately called both of my friends (and reached both from the very first call...) and they told me that indeed there had been ONE call to each of them from NJ number (they are both out of state and don't receive calls from NJ often, so they would've noticed for sure) and it happened that one of them was in the meeting and another had a cell on silent in the car. The lady in the PD gave me a phone number of the detective, and both of my friends started to call him. One of them succeeded only after calling him every day for a week and always being forwarded straight to his voicemail. He left a couple of messages, but never heard back. Finally he reached the detective, spoke to him briefly and apparently he ticked this box out. My other friend though can not reach this detective AT ALL. I would have probably thought of my friend being lazy or not pushy enough, but that's not the case as I spent the whole last week staying at his place, and he tried to call detective 2-3 times a day even with me present and he always ended up in a voicemail. He still keeps trying... I frankly don't see what I can realistically do. If I try to push it too harsh, I could see the detective just denying my application with a reason of "reference unreachable" or something around that and it will be very hard (if not impossible at all) to prove he was wrong... I guess if I do nothing he will wait for another month or two... and deny me for the very same reason as above. If I change the reference, it will first definitely slow down a process for at least another 2-3 weeks AND there will be no guarantee that the detective does not call my new reference while he is in a meeting / shower etc., and he'll end up in a same position. So, I am not really asking for any *legal* advice or so, more like a practical question - what would YOU do in such a weird situation? Write this detective a letter? Ask my friend to write him a letter? If so, what exactly you would write? I am puzzled, to say at least. Thanks for any suggestions!

What?! 3 days for permits?! Damn. I'm jealous I am waiting for my permits since the beginning of May, and it all halted because the detective can't reach one of my references over the phone, and my reference (despite trying numerous times even with me being with him and leaving messages on a voicemail) can't reach the detective...

I might have too little experience or just be plain wrong, but so far I came to the following conclusion - if I want to shoot for pleasure, I'd go with SIG; if I want to run USPSA, it is most likely going to be CZ-75... but if God forbids I need to go to a gun fight tomorrow, I'll take my Glock without thinking even for a second. Period. That's the only gun in my (yet small) collection, that I never had a single malfunction or even a slightest problem - it just goes bang every single time it should. (I am clearly not trying to start a war "Glock vs HK vs Walther vs M&P vs..." as well as I am not (probably?) under some stereotypes that Glock is good, all the rest is bad, but its ease of use and reliability just impress me...)

These two links seem quite useful http://www.knifeup.com/massachusetts-knife-law/ http://www.thetruthaboutknives.com/2013/04/know-your-knife-laws-massachusetts/ Apparently some municipalities (e.g., Boston - surprise-surprise ) impose more restrictions, e.g. on the blade length

Does the zip code listed in your FID match the one in the DL? I'd use it as a very strong argument that two names basically point to the very same location. On a side note - I ran into issues with Dick's in NJ once because I have a "change of address" sticker on the back of my DL with my new address on it (same as on my FID). Mind that as per DMV (and all other authorities) "change of address sticker" is a perfectly acceptable way of updating address without replacing the license. Apparently not for some dicks @ Dick's, LOL

I guess all Dick's. I am in NC for a vacation now and already stocked with ammo from 2 Dick's in the area - they sell Winchester White box for $21.59+tax for 100rds and 45 for $40 per 100 (that's closer to the usual price, but still good). Plenty in stock at least here, reps looked at me like an idiot when I asked "What's the purchase limit" - "As mush as you can carry, ha-ha...". I love Carolina more and more :-)))

I guess it's called CREE Q5 flashlight - I have two of those (took a picture of one of them in front of my screen with this page open) - for me they look nearly identical. Without the charger (which, I guess, is a normal AA charger) it costs around $3 with free shipping all over Amazon Marketplace and Ebay. Flashlight itself? For 3 bucks, I LOVE it (it's really bright) and will order maybe a dozen more to put a couple of those everywhere - in a car, in a garage, to my range bag etc...

I have 4 or 5 Samsung tablets in total (along with 3 or 4 Samsung smartphones) in my family... and after using this "fleet" I can only say one thing absolutely confidently ... DO. NOT. GO. WITH. SAMSUNG. EVER. Period. I am slowly replacing this crap with LG, Nexus'es and other high quality stuff, but my mistake and nearly religious preference to Samsung over those years will bite me for some more time for sure. Buying first Nexus 5 smartphone was actually an eye-opener and a kind of a moment of truth - "Really??! This can work so great???!!!! I wanna ditch this crap NOW..."

I am in Essex county and TMo here is close to perfect (but it's a very densely populated area...), much-much better than AT&T. I had AT&T for more than a year starting in 2010 when I moved to the US, but then I switched to TMo and can't really be happier from the technical standpoint (customer service is a different story though...). In less populated areas I often have zero signal at all, but in all fairness my friend with AT&T doesn't have a signal there either... Never tried Verizon etc. I am GSM guy

Why-why-why-why it's not only the same day, but even exactly the same time with CJUSPSA match... Well, maybe next time, LOL

I looked into similar compounds for my old Crown Vic before, but then I checked aftermarket headlights on ebay, did the math and realized that in the end of the day I'd be better off just replacing the headlights. Yes, you can spend just $20-30 on compounds / polishing stuff, but you'll have to spend a decent amount of time and efforts polishing without any guaranteed result. I did the similar thing on my other Hyundai getting aftermarket lights for ~$40 each and I was very happy with the results (~2 years so far with no issues). Clearly if you have Infinity / Mercedes with exorbitant prices for genuine parts and low availability of aftermarket ones polishing might be the only option, but if you have a more common car make and cheap parts are available, I'd personally go this route.

Steve, thanks, I was thinking about P01 as well (91199), but I am still hesitating... I'll probably give you a call some time when I finally have a new set of permits :-)

Steve, on a slightly related topic, by any chance do you happen to have access to CZ 75 Compact (SKU 91190, UPC 806703911908) ? It has been on my radar for quite some time (though I am not convinced that I'll get it right away), but I can't literally find it anywhere in stock since February. I saw a couple of those in B&M stores in NJ in PA, but they were somehow going for $650+ there. Given that they were easily going for $470 and even less beginning this year online (and I remember they were available pretty much everywhere when I was looking for SP01) $650 sounds a bit much for it... Or maybe you know what happened to this specific model? Has CZ stopped manufacturing it at all?

I don't even know what is better LOL - my super / landlord employees are hard to catch even when your ceiling is literally falling down after the rain I seriously can't imagine this guy to come VOLUNTARILY (I mean, not because of my repeated requests to the management office) to my apartment for any inspection. Maybe that's good - who knows...