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In theory, it seems like its supposed to be health care providers, family members, or people close enough to you to have an intimate knowledge of your mental health status and behavior patterns. Those people would be assumed to have "credibility" should they decide to voice a concern to law enforcement in the event they see a pattern of behavior changes or hear you outright express threats, thoughts or desires to harm them, yourself or others members of the Peoples Republic of NJ. In practice so far, the hear-say can easily be whispered into the ear of half a dozen people before making it to the police and they will still come to your house at 1:00am, several days after the original words were spoken, and demand you immediately forfeit your firearms with no probable cause and due process. Based on this practice, it is clear that anyone could report you for any completely unfounded reason, and should the cops be willing to do so, would have the backing of the law and the left wing judges and prosecutors who uphold them, and come seize your property. Anyone could see a NRA bumper sticker on a vehicle, call the cops and say "that car cut me off and waived a gun at me, here is the plate number" and totally cause that person an unthinkable amount of long lasting problems. The scenario sounds extreme, but look at what's already been happening and you'll see its not that far-fetched to think this scenario could happen. BOTTOM LINE: As a firearms owner we are now second class citizens with less rights and less protection granted to us. As a firearms owner, the 2nd amendment right to bear arms is being more severely infringed and the 4th amendment right no longer protects you from search and seizure the same way it protects everyone else. Your 1st amendment right to free speech is also being stifled as you now run the risk of swift and severe retribution by simply sharing photos of legal firearms activities via social media. As a firearms owner, someone else automatically has more credibility than you so what they say must be true and you automatically lose and get punished.

I love the statue idea but I would not want to put it in Trenton because it looks too cool to give to the communist asshats running this state. As far as 15+ round mags,

I've talked to my kids about not talking at school about going to the range with me or even talking at school about shooting on video games because I don't want DFYS, the PD, or any other alphabet soup agencies at the house trying to take my property.

It is that easy. Guns will be taken, investigation will happen later at the leisure of a government that is on record stating that firearms are a danger in the hands of law-abiding citizens and a track record of continuously inventing new ways to violate the 2nd amendment rights of citizens while making exception after exception for the "elite class" of politicians and law enforcement. Just this year, children have been suspended from schools for participating in shooting sports at legal, sanctioned, supervised shooting ranges on the weekend with their parents. Cops have come to the homes of a student to confiscate the parents guns because someone overheard that student and a friend criticizing the ineffectiveness of the school lock down drills. The eavesdropping student told his mom, who told a teacher, who called the cops, who went on complete hearsay to seize weapons. We are at war. Our 2nd amendment rights are under direct attack.

From my experience with tire rack, it's not worth it $$$ wise. I've seen places match or beat their prices and those who don't will be relatively close but that's just the price of the tires. It seems like the shops around me charge you extra per tire to mount it on the rim and balance it if you did not buy it from them. So even if Tire Rack sells a tire a little cheaper than they do, in the end you'll pay more to get it on the vehicle if you did not buy it from them. Ymmv.

Has anyone made a 3D gun that actually worked? I'm not up on 3D printing technology, but from what I've seen my kid bring home from high school science class, it doesn't seem that you could make something to reliably withstand the pressure of repeatedly firing bullets. I would think 80% lower receivers would be a much more viable avenue to the DIY firearm just based on reliability factor alone.

Pics or it didn't happen.

I carry a SOG Escape. It has a glass breaker point and and seat belt cutter. Those features make it more easy to explain the knife as a tool. If I'm asked to provide an explanation, that's another valid reason besides the fact I live in the woods and use it daily as a tool. I have 15 years of military experience and 7 years of law enforcement experience (in a free state, not NJ) and I've been the first person to many accidents in my life, both on and off duty. I've actually had to cut seat belts and break windows multiple times to help people out of vehicles.

https://www.johnzarych.com/does-new-jersey-have-stand-your-ground-laws/ This is from an attorney's web site in Atlantic City. Near the bottom it talks specifically about home defense and what elements have to be present to legally use of force or retreating from the residence.

According to the state v. Blaine reference, the burden is on the PRNJ to prove that you are carrying the knife with criminal intentions. If you have a specifically listed knife "gravity knife, dirk, dagger, stiletto, etc" then you would need a reason for carrying a listed "dangerous weapon." Otherwise, if you carry any other knife, you are a law abiding citizen. I'm on my way to the grocery store. I will leave my house with a knife (SOG Escape) and no intent to use it to commit a crime so it's legal. Should the need arise where I must defend myself, I would choose to use it because I am not breaking a law by defending myself; there is not a law that says I cannot defend myself (if there is, please post it). If I happen to be in contact with law enforcement for some other reason and they inquire as to why I have a knife, I would simply answer "I live in the woods, it's just a tool". Should said law enforcement officer decide that I should be charged as a criminal simply for possessing a knife not listed on the "dangerous knife weapon list", I'm willing to let the lawyers do their research and come to the correct conclusion that my knife is not listed, I had no criminal intent, case closed. The legal documents uses a lot of double negatives and excess words which I think confuses things, but the Blaine case set a precedent for applying the law after the Brown case by clarifying the definition of "Dangerous Knife" to be those specifically listed like a dagger or stiletto and it established the fact that the state has a burden to prove criminal intent. That's huge. It means you can legally possess the knife as long as you don't have the intent to commit a crime with it.

I buy from them. had them ship a handgun to a local FFL. Also bought ammo from them as well as other miscellaneous gear. No problems at all. A co-worker of mine also uses them for camping and hunting gear. With membership discount, they log your savings on your profile so its easy to see if you save enough to overcome the cost of the membership.

So technically, a Slung Shot still legal?

Like mentioned above, they make mags for a lot of major gun manufacturers. Only difference is the stamp. Buy a MecGar mag by itself and they will just say MecGar where as the ones issued with a gun will have the gun manufacturer logo stamp on it. I have a Taurus 1911. It came with MecGar mags and I bought a bunch of extra MecGar mags to have for shooting steel matches and USPSA. I've put hundreds of rounds through it with the MecGar mags. Mags fit perfect and have no problems with feeding. I've never considered trying another brand. The 1911 uses single stack mags so I have no experience with their double stack mags. I've never heard of any complaints about the brand but YMMV.

I think it was merged with another thread on the same topic. Thanks for the explanation.

I've never been to SJSC, but I live 4 miles from the Quinton Sportsmen's Club and it's definitely worth a look. www.quintonsportsmensclub.com Membership is $100/yr ($300 the first year for membership + background check). Events schedule is on their website, but there's something different just about every weekend. With your membership, you can bring family members + 2 guest with you. Family and guest don't have to pay to shoot during free range time but you must be present with guest and family when they are there. Events are open to the public and have entry fees, members get a discount. Events have ROs, but open range time rules are set up for shooters to police themselves. In my opinion the only thing someone could say negative about the whole facility is that the big rifle range longest distance is 200m. But it has target backers at 50, 75, 100, 150 and 200 and a TON of benches. I'd say check the schedule for an event, come participate and have a member show you around.

Several times throughout this thread (and from time to time, other threads on this forum) I see the term Fudd and I don't know what that means. Please enlighten me.

So have they ever reacted to the interest shown in online petitions and generated a real petition? Or is this just a feel-good measure for us to think something is being done?

NICE! I thought we had a chance before and now it seems the odds are getting better

I think the injunction should have been granted, but I'm glad this is at least being given a chance to be heard and I think we have a chance to win. I think the state fails to prove its case. This is just my 3 cents on why (I'm no lawyer). 1. Law abiding citizens, by definition, abide by the law and therefore pose no danger. 2. The shooter at the Parkland school in Florida (and several other past active shooter incidents) used 10 round magazines. So wtf is the state of NJ really achieving here by limiting us to the same devices? 3. 42 states do not have magazine restrictions, so the demand for standard capacity magazines is much higher than demand for reduced capacity magazines. Therefore, there is nothing dangerous or unusual about standard capacity magazines. They come with every firearm sold. The reduced capacity (15 or 10 round) magazines are more unusual because there are less of them sold due to only 8 states and Washington DC having magazine bans.

Ok. I'll get my gear together and come out. $17 for members right?

Never done it before so I'd like to give it a shot. Not sure how to sign up using the link you posted. I created a Practiscore account but it says the match for tomorrow is closed.

I've wondered about the employer question too. I don't see how the employer question is relevant on anything firearm related. I'm military and my employer has let me play with guns that the state won't let me sniff when I'm off duty so I never fussed about it. But I agree it, should not even be asked.

Isn't murder already illegal? Didn't the shooter at the Parkland School have mags that were all 10 round capacity? At some point they have to realize that no matter how many laws they write, they will never be able to legislate the evil out of people.

M1A is legal. The attorney generals office published a document exempting it from the assault weapon ban because there is enough difference between it and "assault weapons" listed by name on the banned weapons list. Here's a copy of the document published by the AG office. Exemption for Springfield M1A.docx

If I had access to his info, I would have done the guy a solid and called him directly to come back to get his piece and let him know its not kosher to conceal carry or transport a firearm in that manner in the PRNJ.