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Thanks, HBecwithFn7 Just tried to google it, seems there is no common opinion on this. Apparently, the only set in stone thing that I managed to find is that in MN landlords cannot restrict tenants to have firearms - that's a state law. It also seems that there more or less common opinion among landlords / rental property owners that even with such a restriction in place in their agreement it is almost impossible to enforce it unless a tenant is running around with his AR in hands, LOL, as most of the states are very serious about privacy of tenants and specifically restrict unannounced dwelling inspections etc.... Anyways, glad I don't have such a cause in my lease (just double checked)

Just curious - can a landlord really have a "no firearms in the apartment" clause? I mean, I rent in NJ and the only remotely firearm-related clause I remember in my rental agreement was about the garage, something like "Storing any flammable liquids, oils, explosives incl. firearm ammo, firearms etc (...) is prohibited in the garage", but I clearly haven't heard anything about such a restriction for an apartment itself... I was kind of under impression that tenants have so many rights in the state of NJ that it can really be the pain in the neck for a landlord to evict anyone even if there is a good reason to do so. I think I still have a neighbor that already set his kitchen on fire three or four times this year being drunk as hell and apparently nobody can do anything with it. I'd be surprised to know if someone really had such a clause in the rental agreement in NJ...

On a completely unrelated topic ... I have a neighbor in my apartment building that complains on pretty much everything (I guess I'm lucky she has not seen me with a SCARY BIG ASSAULT GUN CASE and SCARY BIG AMMO BOX going down the stairs yet). So far the reason #1 she calls the police is... dogs. Apparently she is a dog hater and if she had a chance to eliminate all dogs altogether she would've done this in a blink of an eye. ... And to the interesting part - our building already has restrictions on dog weight - it is 35 lbs - and probably on specific breeds even if they are below 35 lbs, so you guess she does not see any German shepherds or Pit-bulls or anything like that. She keeps complaining that neighbors' dogs try to bite her (sure, my neighbor's 8lbs puddle that my 5yr old son really enjoys to play with), jump on her face (yeah, sure, probably another neighbor's chihuahua), poop everywhere etc. etc. She is annoying to the degree that our building TRIED to implement a no-dogs-at-all policy after dozens of her complaints, but after all dog owners stood up and notified a landlord that they would be leaving the building rather than getting rid of their beloved pets ("good luck finding tenants for 5 or 6 more dwellings in addition to several others that are empty for almost half a year already") that all stopped... Just some food for thought

(those two specific dudes are f*****g morons, no questions asked) But what I feel more and more uncomfortable with is the extent to which "public opinion" and "public attitude" start to strongly influence even those activities that are not illegal and potentially not even wrong. Again, I don't defend those dudes and personally I would have never done anything even close to that, but I am personally seriously scared by arguments like "that scares people" or "people feel uncomfortable". I see that it is not beyond possible that 10...20...30 years later some people (products of the Great Pussification) will start to getting freaked out by baseball players with baits in their hands, people with golf clubs, a carpenter with a huge hammer on his belt stopped at McD on his way to work, a guy walking his huge (and veeeery scaaary!!) dog or anyone having a long beard and supposedly looking like Bin Laden and so on so forth. There is no limit to what other phobias people might have or develop. I hope I am overreacting and/or plain wrong, but I definitely don't like where it can be heading to...

After reading things like that I start to be a little sorry for badmouthing about my local PD before... I had an issue earlier this year with one of my references being "lost" (apparently he went to his relatives abroad for a long vacation in between jobs and refrained from answering calls and emails at all) and it was almost a no-brainer to come to my PD and ask them to replace him with another guy. Yes, it delayed the process for another month or so, but at that point I haven't even thought about "being denied for not being able to reach a reference"...

From the time I started this thread in January I actually acquired 2 handguns in 22lr - Ruger SR22 and Sig Sauer P226 Classic. After putting ~200-300 rds through each of them I think I can share my personal opinion. 1) Ruger SR22 I just LOVE it. I never thought I would ever love any handgun that small, but surprisingly that's the case. It is very accurate, eats pretty much any ammo I load into it (including cheap 36gr HPs sold in boxes of 333 or 525 rounds) and has an extremely nice feel in my hand. On a negative side I still can't form a proper grip so that the hammer in a cocked position sometimes burns my hand, especially after shooting for quite a long time. I can seriously say that if you want to start with something truly inexpensive in 22 (and still looking like "real" handgun), SR22 might well be the perfect choice. 2) SIG P226 Classic I consciously bought it together with 9mm X-Change kit right away making a mental decision that 9mm will be my MAIN caliber for this gun with 22 being an inexpensive substitute for practice. If you want to eventually have P226 in 9mm or .40, this is definitely the way to go, because buying P226 in 22 AND X-Change kit might be even cheaper than buying P226 in a "big bore" caliber from the very beginning alone, so you essentially get 2 guns for the price of 1 (and with 1 permit which is also a serious consideration here in NJ). Unfortunately I can't yet say too much good about it in 22lr. I admit I haven't tried it too much with 22 barrel and slide mostly using 9mm kit with it, but even with those 150-200 rounds I was not too impressed. It is very (no, _VERY_) picky with ammo (maybe because of the weight of the slide or because it is brand new and needs some time to break in), but the fact is I had MULTIPLE FTEs and FTLs all the way. It is better with CCI Minimags, but still with some hickups. I still don't want to say that it is a bad gun, non at all, especially given that SIG states in the manual that "rounds with lighter loads and lower velocities might have issues cycling through semi-auto handguns" (or something like this), but just for pure plinking with 22 I'd go with SR22 without any doubt... Hope it helps

Frankly speaking, I was shocked! The thing is that two weeks ago the very same lady was telling me how complicated the process was, how perfectly it should be timed ("come on that day... no and not a week earlier - that would be too early ... and not a week later - would be too late...") etc. etc. I really don't have any reasonable explanation...

Surprisingly just got extension @ Bloomfield PD. Took literally 20 seconds... Go figure.

I guess that obviously nobody carries illegally. I also guess nobody makes a stop at Walmart en route from the range home, nobody drives with a full trunk of handguns from one store to another, especially with a brick of HP 22s. I am also absolutely sure nobody has 30 round mags for AR ditched somewhere and everyone has their muzzle brakes pinned and well welded. Something like that ... Or they just don't tell anyone... especially online )

Vlad, thanks a lot! It was a great match. Sorry, seriously, I was not thinking about rushing you with scores, just really thought maybe it was published on Practiscore/Makeready first and goes to CJUSPSA website only some time after that.

And it is $800 again. Not $774 as it was a month ago, but still a good deal!

I am just spoiled by several matches that published scores literally minutes after the end of the match, LOL I just thought maybe there was a secret place I am unaware of where scores are up already

Scores...? I still see April results in "Recent match" section on http://www.cjuspsa.org/ Are May scores published already on Practiscore or somewhere else? Thanks!

What I don't really get is who PA is really fighting against by doing this first to FL and now to UT permit holders... 1) Criminals with illegal firearms - (sarcasm mode on) sure, they will definitely stop carrying now (if they haven't stopped already after losing FL) (sarcasm mode off) 2) Locals somehow ineligible to get PA CCW permit - UT had a requirement to provide them with a copy of home state permit, so does not apply 3) Locals just choosing the easiest way instead of applying for PA CCW - probably, the most logically realistic option... It might bring some dinero to local authorities in a form of CCW application fees... but still hard to believe 4) Residents of neighboring states like NJ and NY carrying in PA - also looks true... but the question then why such an attack on neighbors? Are we not welcome in PA anymore, LOL? What I can say for sure is that my personal opinion of PA in general went down significantly after this - I was sure it was much-much gun-friendlier... And I actually WAS in PA Sunday evening and was thinking about carrying a gun around, but later decided to leave it in the trunk and not bother. Apparently, it was a right decision (even not knowing about it).

My situation was not at all representative, but the car I bought off a public auction had a squeaky clean Carfax history, nonetheless my mechanic found (and showed me) _obvious_ signs of accident(s) and subsequent repair(s). Not that I am unhappy with the car (quite opposite in fact), but my 2cents is that you need to look at Carfax report only as *one* of the ways to know more about a car. Clean report guarantees pretty much nothing...

Scrap, glad this thread helped I've also been struggling with making a choice between MK25 and "normal" version and finally decided on .22 classic and 9mm X-Change kit a week ago. With or without an anchor, it is still a great gun, congratulations. Hopefully I'll move geographically closer to you one day (well, everyone should have a dream, LOL)...

I have just realized that over around a year (after I got into shooting) I bought... 0 (zero!) rounds from NJ businesses. All my attempts to buy anything in NJ failed - it was either outrageously expensive (like $25 or so per box of 50rds 115gr 9mm) or always OOS. I either buy ammo online or while traveling - in NC, PA, VA and last weekend for the first time in CT. BTW, CT Walmart shelves were full of cheap 9mm a couple of days ago, don't really know why, because in PA (at least in the areas close to NJ) they are normally close to empty on weekends. Maybe I am the only one who do this, who knows, LOL

Didn't want to start a new thread on somewhat similar topic, so will post it here. Had a "funny" conversation recently in my PD Storyline: got 3 permits in February, failed to use any until the end of March, used 2 now, but the remaining one expires before my OGAM ends after the most recent handgun purchase. So I went to my PD to ask if and how I can extend it. The dialogue was something like that: - Oh, yes, sure, it expires on the 21st... Yes, of course you can extend, just drop it here ... let's say... on the 19th or the 20th... - Umm... can I drop it NOW? I can't use it anyway... - No, now it is too early, come on the 19th. - Ooops, I think I MIGHT probably not be here that week at all because of job-related trips... Can I just drop it 2 weeks later, let's say, on June 2nd? - NO, it will be too late already. - Oookay, thanks, I *got* it... The problem is that I didn't really get it )))) You can't drop it too early, you can't drop it too late and we are really talking not even weeks, but days here. I know it's entirely up to the Chief, but that sounds at least quite illogical for me... (or maybe I should stop looking for logic in local firearm regulations, LOL)

I guess they did it the other way - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf-DGKUNffI

Yes, Rockwell Arms. I also ordered one for $280, woke up the next day thinking about getting another one in .40... and realized that 9mm one was already ~$330 or so. But still I would not be too upset. Those SIGs seem not to be rare now, so if one store (actually, not the biggest one) managed to sell them for 775, at some point others will follow. Just wait and turn on your radar On a side note, I am still waiting for CZ 75 Compact with Safety http://www.slickguns.com/search/apachesolr_search/?keys=91190&op= At some point (when I was looking for SP-01) there was a plenty of them everywhere, but I didn't need it. Now they are OOS everywhere. Sometimes decocker model (91194) appears here and there, but is also in a very scarce supply... That one I will definitely jump on a minute I see it in stock for less than $500 )

And just got back home from Remixer with it in a box... ) (very first pic taken by my phone) It's not MK25, but I think I am already in love :-) SRT kit next

I noticed most of Bloomfield officers carry Glocks... I think there was an "Autumn Fest" last October with lots of cops patrolling the area, so I had a chance to have a pretty good look at what was in their holsters... I think it was mostly G17, but I can't say 100% for the exact model.

2 months ago during the Olympics in Russia Delta was seizing ALL liquids (let me say it again - ALL, means all nasal / eye drops, literally everything) off passengers flying to Russia. They established a secondary inspection TSA post right before entering the aircraft where they manually searched everything. So no surprise some countries go crazy about carry-on luggage. I once forgot a bottle opener in my backpack and had 2 or 3 flights from Russia, Lithuania and Germany before it finally got seized in Paris-Orly airport in France It's a lottery, sometimes they just don't notice even a knife (that happened to me as well), but sometimes they can go crazy because of nail clippers. That just makes me think again about reliability of all these security measures...

How much is shipping there? I also saw this on Slickguns, but haven't tried to put them to the cart yet...

Totally wrong comparison - most of "ethnic Russians" living in ex-USSR countries are not _illegals_ there! The majority of them gathered respective passports almost automatically after the collapse of USSR, so they are technically citizens of those countries (there is one notable exception to this with Latvia and its "Non-Citizen Passports", but that's another story). Over last 10 or 20 years Russia had a so-called "Relocation program for ethnic Russians" (as many other countries did, like Germany for ethnic Germans in Kazakhstan) according to which those who wanted to relocate from literally any country in the world back to Russia (and had Russian ethnic roots) could have done so on rather favorable conditions (moving all personal belongings without any customs duties, immediate citizenship etc. etc.). Needless to say that those programs have been used maybe by hundreds or at most thousands of people (so, in other words, were complete fiasco) while millions of Russians abroad kept their residence in all other countries, most likely, because they were happy with their lives, right? So all of a sudden now everyone needs to believe that ethnic Russians somehow had a bad life in Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia? If it was THAT bad, why haven't they moved a long time ago? A more proper example (though a funny and obviously unrealistic one AND absolutely not historically precise) would be calling Brighton Beach in Brooklyn a Russian territory just because the majority of its residents are supposedly ethnic Russians regardless of their legal status here (though, on my second thought I realized your example with Texas and Mexicans is not totally wrong if we don't mention that they might be illegals). Things in Crimea and many Ukrainian territories are even more complex, so it's absolutely no surprise that those tensions are almost inevitable...