Originally Posted by
Alex V
I don't go to gun stores as much as you guys... but I was in a store because my father was looking for his first firearm lol. As he is buying his new-to-him Russian SKS from the 50's I walk over to the AR display just to see if the prices have come down since I bought mine... Started talking to one of the sales people who told me amungs other things that 5.56mm is just the European designation for the american .223" beacause they use the metrick system in Europe... I told him that the case is slightly different in size to which he said "No" then I said the pressures are different and you should not shoot 5.56 ammo out of .223 chamber to which he said "no its the same thing so you're okay"
My GF asked me to stop because she hates when I get into arguments... lol So I stoped and walked back to the other counter where my dad was.
Mind you this was the same guy who would not let my GF hold a M&P9 because she did not have an NJ Firearms ID card. He would let me hold it, but would not her her touch it... when 3 other gun shops in NJ let her handle the weapon without even asking. Mind you one of the ones that let her handle the firearm which is also where we shoot at, and had about 3 uniformed police officers in the shop at the time who said nothing. So its not against the law to let her hold it as that tard said. Needless to say I bough the G19 that she will be using from the store that let her hold it. lol.
The first thing doesn't really constitute stupid. 5.56 is the metric standard NATO. It's a metric load. It may differ from the .223 but someone not knowing this doesn't win them the award of "stupidist things heard at a gun shop".
Second, just because an officer is in the room and decides to not address something, doesn't mean that what they aren't addressing is legal. If NJ is anything like NY it IS illegal for your girlfriend to hold/fire/or be in any form of possession of a firearm without the NJ card. Just because three or fifty officers at a gun range enjoying some time away from work decided not to address this doesn't change the law.
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