I was taken aback when Mr. Fancy Schmancy shouted "A pox on both your houses!" as I was unaware that he knew of my summer home. Founding member of the Hogtown Irregulars, and former indentured short order cook still on the run. Professional Zamboni racer and bronze medal recipient in the 2010 All-Miami Outdoor Zamboni Championships.
Saturday, March 04, 2006
We get letters...
This might be just the ticket as far as having a loading station. Or two. Or a dozen. Lotta head room, too.
The gentleman who has this setup has an opening going from one wall to the great outdoors where there's a chronograph awaiting. He loads, walks to the side of the room and fires, checks the velocity, then goes back to tinker. Seems like a nice enough fellow. It's a passion with him more than a hobby.
One of my fantasy's that has yet to be made real. A nice sized piece of property, away from nosy neighbors, in a gun-friendly state. Had a few acres in NJ and it turned into one of the worst places imaginable. Have a lot of acres in Australia, and they went and banned most of the gns I enjoy.
My oldest friend lives there. You know that they are very close to banning all handguns. You will be able to buy one or keep the ones you have if the Chief of Police or State's Attorney thinks you have a legitmate reason to have one. Even police may have to give up all but the one their department issues. If the law passes you'll have 90 days to get permission to keep what you have or dispose of them out of state. Or you can turn them in to the state. Part of the law is a fund to pay the owners for them.
Un-frickin real. Was at the Jersey house one day working in the backyard. Had the garage door open, and it was a big old barn-looking thing that served to house a car or two plus some workbenches, etc. A road crew was working in the street a hundred yards or so away and it was a killer hot day. They kept bringing drinks for the workers but this poor cop was standing there sweating his ass off.
So I went out and told him that when he had a break coming he was more than welcome to stop by for a pitcher of lemonade to wet his whistle. Couple hours later he took me up on it and we sat around back in the shade. He was looking at this one bench where I had some speedloaders, shotgun shells, old rounds, you name it, and asked if he could take a closer look.
No good deed goes unpunished, so I said sure, knock yourself out. Figured him to be a gun guy, and was stunned when he picked up an old .44 magnum hollowpoint...a Super-Vel if you can remember back that far...and proceeded to tell me that I'd broken the law by owning a hollowpoint bullet.
Now, the law says no such thing and I told him that, but he didn't believe me and actually went to call it in. 15-20 minutes later there are 3 cruisers in my driveway and half a dozen cops arguing over the legality of owning a hollowpoint in Jersey.
Bottom line was that one of them finally got the law right and they begrudgingly let me go about my business.
New Jersey sucks. I was still in the service at the time or otherwise I do believe they'd have taken me for a ride to the station. The cops are anti-gun, the politicians are anti-gun, and the prosecutors will try to fry you for the least reason.
The benefit to the criminal element will be huge if Jersey passes such a law. The sales of illegal guns will skyrocket and as usual instead of honest businessmen making money it'll be gangsters.
Or two. Or a dozen. Lotta head room, too.
8 comments:
Looks a little like my shop back when I was a commercial reloader, but we used 1050 and didn't have quite so many of them.
Thought you'd get a kick out of it.
The gentleman who has this setup has an opening going from one wall to the great outdoors where there's a chronograph awaiting. He loads, walks to the side of the room and fires, checks the velocity, then goes back to tinker. Seems like a nice enough fellow. It's a passion with him more than a hobby.
All we had to do was open the back door. It's great being out in the country.
One of my fantasy's that has yet to be made real. A nice sized piece of property, away from nosy neighbors, in a gun-friendly state. Had a few acres in NJ and it turned into one of the worst places imaginable. Have a lot of acres in Australia, and they went and banned most of the gns I enjoy.
"Had a few acres in NJ"
My oldest friend lives there. You know that they are very close to banning all handguns. You will be able to buy one or keep the ones you have if the Chief of Police or State's Attorney thinks you have a legitmate reason to have one. Even police may have to give up all but the one their department issues. If the law passes you'll have 90 days to get permission to keep what you have or dispose of them out of state. Or you can turn them in to the state. Part of the law is a fund to pay the owners for them.
Un-frickin real. Was at the Jersey house one day working in the backyard. Had the garage door open, and it was a big old barn-looking thing that served to house a car or two plus some workbenches, etc. A road crew was working in the street a hundred yards or so away and it was a killer hot day. They kept bringing drinks for the workers but this poor cop was standing there sweating his ass off.
So I went out and told him that when he had a break coming he was more than welcome to stop by for a pitcher of lemonade to wet his whistle. Couple hours later he took me up on it and we sat around back in the shade. He was looking at this one bench where I had some speedloaders, shotgun shells, old rounds, you name it, and asked if he could take a closer look.
No good deed goes unpunished, so I said sure, knock yourself out. Figured him to be a gun guy, and was stunned when he picked up an old .44 magnum hollowpoint...a Super-Vel if you can remember back that far...and proceeded to tell me that I'd broken the law by owning a hollowpoint bullet.
Now, the law says no such thing and I told him that, but he didn't believe me and actually went to call it in. 15-20 minutes later there are 3 cruisers in my driveway and half a dozen cops arguing over the legality of owning a hollowpoint in Jersey.
Bottom line was that one of them finally got the law right and they begrudgingly let me go about my business.
New Jersey sucks. I was still in the service at the time or otherwise I do believe they'd have taken me for a ride to the station. The cops are anti-gun, the politicians are anti-gun, and the prosecutors will try to fry you for the least reason.
The benefit to the criminal element will be huge if Jersey passes such a law. The sales of illegal guns will skyrocket and as usual instead of honest businessmen making money it'll be gangsters.
There will be a lot of used guns suddenly available in PA gun stores.
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