At my day job, the idea behind “Take A Newbie Shooting Day” has really taken hold. Even in the more remote offices of the company I work for, plans are afoot to take some of the new hires and younger people out to the range and let them fire their first shots. We’ve been talking about how the gun control advocates are using an emotional argument to cloud the judgement of legislators, but I think we can use their own tools against them. I know I was hooked after firing my first rounds, and the emotional argument for our side becomes a whole lot easier to make if you’re talking to a newly minted enthusiast. That’s the idea behind the March 9th National Take A Newbie Shooting Day being organized by yours truly and promoted by people such as the Firearms Policy Coalition. But the question remains: are you ready? Have you made plans?
“Require that firearms purchaser ID cards display a picture and be renewed every five years.”
Right now if you need a change of address for an already existing FID card it can take 3-4 months to get that done. What happens when every current FID card needs to be renewed at once?
JOIN KNIFE RIGHTS, http://www.kniferights.org
The NJ Assembly is trying to keep us from self-defense not only with our guns, but even with our knives. We will be helpless – and our children especially will be helpless – against any madman who wants to make headlines.
From the latest Knife Rights email update:
New Jersey Assembly bill A1387, which would permit municipalities to establish huge swaths of “weapons free zones” around schools, parks and “public facilities” within which possession of “any dangerous knife” would be prohibited, under penalty of fine and imprisonment, was passed by the full Assembly, along with a package of 19 other anti-gun bills, by decidedly partisan votes. We do know that your emails and calls were heard, but the steamroller in the Assembly was unstoppable. HOWEVER, THIS BILL HAS NOT YET BECOME LAW.
The bill now moves to the NJ Senate, a somewhat more deliberative body where all indications are that there is no desire to steamroll the bill package that passed in the Assembly. A1387will face brand new scrutiny and a full committee hearing in the Senate, if it is even moved forward there at all. Not all the bills passed by the Assembly yesterday will even get a hearing in the Senate. In any case, we will have a better chance to remove the “any dangerous knife” language during a hearing process, which was bypassed in the Assembly.
Was the throw lever included with the scope or did you have to buy separately. I have read some forum posts that say it comes inthebox and other say it does not… Thank you!
I try to take a newbie shooting every weekend here in Central PA.
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OK can yall read they said the LEO’s that support the.2A. Now regarding the ammo companies and make gun manufacturers they do need to stand up to the government and quit selling all ammo to them. Law abiding citizens will definitely will make up the sales they don’t make to the governmenT. Done of the crap I read on here is BS. The people who voted for Obama had no say so in this Erhard do ever. You wanted the big Dr’s in office you get what you asked for and have no right to whineabout out n now. If republicans were in office I’m pretty damn sure we wouldn’t be watching our damn rights being stripped from us. Quit bitching and stand up for your God given rights!!!!
I am still a newbie myself! I might just take myself out to the range, and sweep myself off my own feet!
I signed up, but have not seen anyone contact me
I found a used (but hardly, muzzle is still at ‘0’ with muzzle gauge) Ruger Frontier Scout (their gen 1 gun) with scope on gunbroker for less than 500 bucks. Light, handy and with the scout scope (a Burris) it is a dream to shoot. I free floated the stock (1 hour of careful sanding the barrel channel). Whether I use it on whitetails or the Chinese hordes coming over the hills, the .308 is a sure bet for manageable knock down power. So I second the post’s recommendation. Everyone needs a Scout rifle, and by doing so you pay homage to Cooper.
Nice write-up. “Because I like it” is my favorite reason for owning a particular gun.
That being said…
Is it more accurate or handier than a 16″ bbl AR-10? I have seen DPMS (who snobs like to run-down) do ~ 1 moa, and AR ergos are AR ergos.
Legislators should be concerned about the survival of our rights. Just because you say it doesn’t make it true; the American people are NOT with you.
This advice is from the same Joe Biden (and family) who has 24/7 protection from Secret Service agents, armed with submachineguns? Or have they all gone to dbl-bbl shotguns? Or is Joe a hypocritical POS?
I don’t see what “we” did as being dysfunctional. Unless I completely misunderstood the article, your comparison was to some spoiled-brat kids who threw tantrums to get what they wanted and hadn’t necessarily earned.
What we’re doing is saying “I don’t like the way CTD did/does business, I’m going to let others know about it, and I’m going to do business elsewhere”. The Information Age is a two-edged sword; if your business model is good, people hear about it quickly and support you, if it’s bad they hear about it quickly and don’t support you.
I’d like to see CTD go out of business, liquidate their inventory for pennies on the dollar, and see another company (existing or startup) buy it and sell it at what they believe is the market value. If they get it wrong, oh well. If they get it right, good for them and we have another supplier. If one company goes away, another will move in to take it’s place. If one company is attempting to sell for high profits, another will come in and offer it for less. That’s the way a free market works. The companies that demonstrate consistently good business practices will reap the rewards, especially if they hit on the magic formula of price, service, ethics, etc.
March 9th? Can’t we have it when it’s warm? It’s 25 degrees at my range today.
The “evidence” could have well been a plant. Not saying, just raising the issue.
Some may have forgotten the pristine, unscorched ID of Mohammad Atta, found ATOP the 911 rubble, the very same day. Miraculously, it survived a fireball and ended up with nothing on top of it.
But then, there were DOZENS, maybe hundreds, of such miracles on 9/11/2001.
This is awesome. To everyone who says “it’s their fault for electing these people”, fuck you. Politicians don’t win in landslide votes, they lie and pander during their campaigns, and flip flop on issues whenever it is beneficial to their immediate popularity to the most butthurt segment of their constituents, in the hope that it will help secure their reelection. I don’t think anyone from Colorado “saw this coming” when they elected these people.
We will suffer in the slave states. But we will continue the struggle. And just like the issue of slavery in the old south, those of us that live in the new slave states need to be able to count on help from the outside. Do you folks in the modern free states have the back bone shown by your ancestors in the fight against slavery? What are you willing to risk to defeat this evil once and for all and proclaim America to finally be a free land?
Keep on keepin on SAF! Got a call from one of your fundraisers this week and was happy to donate again. Was a pleasure to tell the lady what a great job they were doing. Go get ’em!
But if the OP had been watching the latest Borne or Bond flick, there would have never been a problem… 🙁
Don’t waste your time kid. That bullet would never penetrate deep enough.
Baker lady refuses to give back childs shotgun so joe bidens great niece has a plan, Randy
I know it’s a toy… I’m trying to get kicked outta this damn school.
Cheesiest. Fake. Russian. Accent. E V E R!!!
Self defense guns are bad & killer criminals are good, just so I know. I couldn’t find the part where mary mary was sick & tired of nice people being murdered, I must have just missed it./// Thats ok mary, we will save you from you, like the sheriff in Blazing Saddles said, nobody move or the sheriff gets it, Randy