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Don't sell yourself short - you probably spent about 1 minute writing it, whereas I wasted a bunch of time composing mine. Also, being a lawyer, I wanted to chime in with something that had no loopholes that any future judge could possibly use to deny us the RKBA. Oh, and my proposed amendment will pass Congress and 3/4 of the states at about the same time as the sun is blotted out by flocks of flying pigs.

Regarding the PRNJ, I did live in W. Orange, Essex Cty, for 5 years ('92-'97), though I grew up in Freehold (Monmouth) and also lived in Middlesex & Mercer. While I miss the familiarity of the place where I was raised, many friends & relatives and some good food (you can't get decent deli, Italian or Chinese food in San Antonio, to say nothing of a good bagel), I'm glad to be out of there. I felt like an escaped felon and was, in fact, an unindicted felon...let me explain:

As you probably know, Florio's version of the AWB made/makes it a crime to own any magazine that can hold > 15 rounds. It is punishable by up to 5 years in prison and is a felony. When leaving NJ in 12/2000, I took all of my guns, ammo and related equipment with me in my vehicle. Upon passing the "Welcome to Delaware" sign on the Delaware Memorial Bridge, I turned to my wife and said, "now you won't have to bail me out of prison." I got the desired wide eyes and slack jaw, followed by "What! What are you talking about?" I explained NJ's law to her, political novice that she WAS (I've fixed that), and that somewhere around 200 years of prison was sitting less than 3 feet from her (not including the time that several hundred rounds of verboten hollowpoint and AP ammo would have earned me, which I didn't mention to her). It brought a smile to my lips when she said, "Well, I'm glad we're leaving. Who'd want to live there?"

The NJ of my youth, where the liberal NY'ers hadn't ruined the state and where you could by handguns and rifles in almost any department store, is gone. It has turned into a crowded, over-taxed, over-regulated, anti-gun liberal $hithole - and I'm glad not to live there anymore.

By the way, are you also a PRNJ refugee?