Moved from East-Massachussetts to the Free World!

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Hi all, I know it has been quite a while since I checked in, but things have been busy lately. I just graduated from college in Boston about a month ago, and accepted a job in Hillsboro, OR (just outside of Portland). I ended up moving into eastern Hillsboro (Tannasbourne area, near 185th and Cornell) into a nice little rental place.

Now that I am in a free state, I ran right out to the Expo Center Gun Show, and picked up a Rock Island Armory 1911 (from reviews here, it sounded like a good starter 1911). I've oiled the crap out of it, but have not had the chance to shoot it yet!

A few questions I would like help with from the locals if you could:

1- What is the BEST gun shop within a short distance form here? Al's Gun Shop seems like the place from posts here. I walked into BeaverCreek Armory (about a mile from my place), but was very unimpressed with both prices and the shop in general.

2- Where is the best place to shoot around me? I am looking for the quarry type area, but all the ones that are recommended here are either a bit away, or worse, require a 4wd type vehicle. The difficulty here is that I am driving a RWD sports car that has a hard time making it through the streets of portland, let alone dirt roads! Even if there is a place to park, that I can walk a short distance to the range portion would be awesome.

Today I have the Dish Network guy coming in a few minutes, but after that, I would LOVE to go shooting! I have no ammo, and roughly $40 in my pocket, so anyone have any good ideas of what to do?

Thanks in advance, and Hola to all of you in the area!
 
Massachusetts...

Once the Cradle of the Revolution, now reduced to a state of Sheeple. Have visited there several times in recent years, and it is really sad.

There are all these monuments and Historic Places to visit, commemorating civilian armed resistance to tyranny..."By the rude bridge that arched the flood, their Flag to April's breeze unfurled, here once embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard 'round the world...."

My #1 Son studied and worked in Boston for a number of years. The response when locals learned that he was qualified with a rifle, and hunted, and had a gun "back home," was usually along the lines of, "But Evan, you're such a NICE guy!" Not that he hunted, but simply that he owned a firearm, was what set them off.

Keaner, I'm glad you're out of there. I just don't know what the cure will be.
 
I know it, it is sad to see a state how bad the East coast got.

For anyone's update, I just now got back from some time shooting off of rt 26 after picking up ammo at Al's. Great place btw!

Only 2 failures, both fairly odd, it stripped off a round, had it half way into the chamber, and was attempting to pull the next round off of the magazine!

Good times, and I love the 1911 ;)
 
congrats at escaping. iv tried many a times. but always get caught by that blob thing they send after you. :p
 
MA isn't that bad. More red tape, but aside from the AG rejecting specific firearms for no good reason, it's not that bad.

I wasn't aware bashing the state that practically started this country was taking the high road.

Oh well, we still have the highest average IQ out of all states in the country.

Off-topic question to the OP: I'm graduating in a couple of years, and am aware I may have to accept a job out of state. How did you arrange a place to live and a job? It seems like you need proof of income to secure an apartment, and it's a good idea to actually see the apartment before you want to move in. Maybe I'm missing something?
 
I ended up just using rent.com to find a place, and didn't see it first. I knew a few people in the area through my car club that did a few drive-by's for me, and checked out the area and stuff. As for proof of income, all they needed was my managers phone # (i came out with a job already lined up), and they understood that it was a first job, so perhaps that is it?

As for the MA bashing, it is all a little tongue in cheek joking for the most part.

As for MA being 'not so bad', it really is in comparison to most other states (though not as bad as NJ where my parents are, yek).

And try to get a gun permit in Suffolk county, or even an FID, and tell me that 'its not that bad'. Boston is only 2nd because NYC is 3x worse as far as gun rights.
 
Living in MA I can say it is NOT a free state and I am lucky to live in a gun friendly town but many do not, that along with the AG, AWB, and general feeling towards guns make MA a whole different world then many other states. Congrats on moving I hope to do the same ASAP.
 
MA isn't that bad. More red tape, but aside from the AG rejecting specific firearms for no good reason, it's not that bad.
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Yes it is that bad. Granted some parts of the state are worse than others but overall this state is very anti gun. Worse than majority of other states. Only a handful of states have equal or worse gun laws.
 
I agree that the laws are restrictive, but I don't see what's so bad about them. Unless you're dead set on a P220 Carry or something, you can still get reasonable items.

If you want suppressed automatic rifles, that's a different story.

Edit: I should say I personally see little problem with most of the laws because they don't cause me any problems.
 
Hi Keaner; Welcome to the wonderful Pacific Northwest. TriCounty Gun Club in Sherwood is the best range near you. If you need info on the range send me a PM. There's a lot of 1911 shooting out here so glad to have you in our neighborhood. I'd like to try and get you involved in some BE pistol shooting. Do you have a .22?? Roddy
 
I agree that the laws are restrictive, but I don't see what's so bad about them. Unless you're dead set on a P220 Carry or something, you can still get reasonable items.

If you want suppressed automatic rifles, that's a different story.
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Reasonable to me is any d*mn firearm I can afford. And I don't like begging some socialist vote buyer for the right to carry a firearm in public. Fortunately I live in a free state that allows law abiding citizens to carry, or doesn't tell me what I can and can't buy (though the D.C. scum still impose some stupid rules).
 
Hi Rob87, What's so bad about a P220 and a carry permit? Out here in the real world it's almost as easy to buy a 220 and then get a carry permit as it is to get a drivers license. Funny thing is that unlike what the liberal idiots in MA tell you, out here there are no more problems than you have because we have "shall issue laws" when it concerns CCW permits. I'm curious why you are trying to defend your state gun laws???? No flames intended, just curious. Roddy
 
In the state of MA, you are required to have a permit (FID card) to OWN ANY gun. Thats right, to OWN anything. And FID is MAY issue. Which means, the Chief of Police in boston denied my claim without any reason or purpose other than he didn't want me to have one.

THAT is what was so bad about MA.
 
Sorry for the confusion.

The Sig P220 Carry model does not meet the AG's requirements for a firearm, and therefore is not available for sale in MA.

The great thing is that the town I live in and almost all of the other towns in MA have very high rates of issuing licenses to applicants. There's a forum that keeps track of how many applications are accepted and rejected, and there's a color coded chart.

I defend the MA gun laws to a point simply because I don't know anything else. It's not that there's something wrong with the laws, it's that I haven't had any trouble with them personally.

Edit: FINE! I lied a little. I can't get a Springfield 1911, which I really would have liked in the future, or a P220 Carry, which I also would have liked, or a Glock, just so I could bury it in all sorts of substances just to see if it'll fire with peanut butter in it.

:D
 
For comparisons sake, where I live in Oregon.

To buy a gun: Have a drivers license, and pass a background check

To Open Carry in OR: No problem outside of a few small towns

CCW: Shall issue, have an NRA class (same one for the FID/Class A or B in MA), and be given one

To find somewhere to shoot: Drive 20 miles, pull off to the side of the road, and shoot at any old berm.

Also, in OR, I can own any firearm I please, be it a P220, 1911, or a fully auto, silenced BFG.

As far as states go, Mass has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. AFAIK, the only states worse are NJ, parts of NY, and perhaps CA.

This is why I keep getting the 'congrats' from everyone.
 
Fair enough. I just hate having everyone on here bashing a state in the same country they live in just because they don't like a law.

I don't like some of the laws, but they haven't really caused me any problems.

I never saw getting my FID card to be an issue; I need a license to carry; what's the difference? :p

However, I really do not like that the chief can modify or reject an application.
 
The only thing I miss about MA is decent restaurants esp Chinese. I lived there for many years. The state I grew up in does not exist anymore and I mourn its passing.
 
I agree that the laws are restrictive, but I don't see what's so bad about them. Unless you're dead set on a P220 Carry or something, you can still get reasonable items.

Edit: I should say I personally see little problem with most of the laws because they don't cause me any problems.
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And there we see how Mass. and California became as bad as they are. "I don't care about the P220 Carry, let somebody else fight for it; doesn't bother me."
 
no the AG is rediculous with its probibly illegal restriction of free trade and open market. i cant stress that enough. the FID's and may issue LTC's i can deal with as liberal beuracracy but the restrictions on what those of us who prove ourselves can buy is rediculous
 
Telperion said:
And there we see how Mass. and California became as bad as they are. "I don't care about the P220 Carry, let somebody else fight for it; doesn't bother me."
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Yup; it's all my fault. Oops.

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no the AG is rediculous with its probibly illegal restriction of free trade and open market. i cant stress that enough. the FID's and may issue LTC's i can deal with as liberal beuracracy but the restrictions on what those of us who prove ourselves can buy is rediculous
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I agree; I've been considering writing a letter to the AG to express my concerns as to how the AG's policies are ludicrous.
 
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