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I wonder if Efingers suffered in part due to Bass Pro more or less taking over the industry. Bass Pro now seems to run the show in terms of outfitter stores and as I understand they now own Cabela's. Im not sure but why Gander Mountain went under might have something to do with Bass Pro. I do know they have a Bass Pro shop in Atlantic City, NJ but I've yet to visit it. I also know at one time they were planning to open a Cabela's in NJ but they never followed through with it. Efingers was very expensive with guns but if you wanted to buy guns in NJ Meltzer's had the best prices that I knew of. Sadly Meltzers is closed too. Bass Pro will of course be very expensive.

Yeah its a bummer. Ray's was pricy with their guns, they were perhaps even more pricy, or at least just as pricy with guns as Cabela's in Hamburg PA but they had a really good range and it was a good place to buy other supplies. From what I understand the owner was in his 90s and decided it was time to retire and he didn't have anybody to pass the store on to. The place definitely had character.

Many of the really good gun shops in NJ have unfortunately closed down. There used to be Ray's Sport Shop, Meltzer's, and Effingers to name a few. Now there's Middlebrook Firearms in Green Brook and the Heritage Guild in Branchburg but neither shop from what I've seen has the huge selection of Ray's or the really good prices of Meltzer's. That's just life I guess.

Well for everybody who likes guns and who lives in NJ and for whatever reason is going to stay in NJ than I would recommend this, work to make NJ more like PA in terms of gun friendliness.

Anybody who likes guns who lives in NJ, I would like to ask what are you doing in NJ? NJ is way too gun phobic for anybody who is into guns if you ask me and that's mostly why I became a PA resident. PA and NJ are as different as night and day when it comes to guns, they are polar opposites. So anybody who likes guns and lives in NJ I would like to ask you to come to PA you will be more than welcome there. The air there is much better, the state is much more beautiful, property taxes are much lower, auto insurance is much less expensive, and of course most of all the gun laws are much better. I've been through the process of getting guns in NJ, I waited about nine months to finally be contacted by my local police station to come pick up my handgun purchasing permits and my FID but in PA with just a state driver's license I can buy all the handguns and long guns I want (or to put it more accurately, that I can afford.) Although from what I've heard you do have to be a state resident in PA for at least 30 days before you can buy handguns. But the fact of the matter is, west of the Delaware its much more free, that's where the USA truly begins as it says on the road sign when you drive into PA.