Received My XR9-S

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Permalink Reply by Arne Boberg on November 29, 2011 at 2:20pm

Thanks!  And our Filtermist is still cleaning up our air extremely well as the Haas mill makes our slides and frames - excellent product!

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Permalink Reply by Larry on November 29, 2011 at 2:26pm

Ditto Arnie... Great job... nice fit and finish...tight .... I'm just afraid to ruin the "brand newness" by shooting it.... I'm sure I'll get over it after I fondle it awile.... :)

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Permalink Reply by Arne Boberg on November 29, 2011 at 3:36pm

Don't worry - it has already been shot and loosened up.

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Permalink Reply by Lurch on November 30, 2011 at 8:36am

The FFL here told me the pistol came with a spent shell casing for COBUS. That saved me time and added cost. I hope he is correct or I'm a fugitive. If you sent it, how did you know about this odd law?

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Permalink Reply by Arne Boberg on November 30, 2011 at 10:45am

All I know is that NY sales require two fired shell casings from that gun sealed in a printed envelope.  I didn't know that it cost you more on your end.

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Permalink Reply by BretShooter on November 30, 2011 at 11:07am

He would probably have to pay the dealer to do it at his end...

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Permalink Reply by Arne Boberg on November 30, 2011 at 11:16am

Oh, I get it - saved added cost too!  Our first NY order mistakingly went out without any casings, forcing the FFL to produce his own, which apparently had to be done by state police. 

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Permalink Reply by Lurch on November 30, 2011 at 11:48am

Exactly. The FFL has to take the pistol or also, I believe, a revolver to the State Police COBIS ( Combined Ballistic Identification System) center nearest to them, and a trooper fires the weapon and collects the casings. So the FFL charges $50.00 to $100.00 extra for the trip (depending on amount of weapons) and the two cartriges.

NY State then keeps the casings so that when a crime is committed with a pistol and the casings are at the scene the casings are picked up and somehow compared to casings held by NY State. This program costs millions of dollars a year.

Until recently, COBUS has never solved a crime. The recent case was when a nut job held up a pharmacy for Oxycoton and executed four people in the store. The police solved the crime quickly and a while later, COBUS came up with the information (maybe) identifying the pistol owner/criminal.

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Permalink Reply by Brokedoc on November 30, 2011 at 1:58pm

FYI -

I live in NY and just bought a Boberg that was originally shipped to Ohio.  BA did not include spent rounds for COBIS but if the intermediate sells you the gun as a USED gun instead of NEW (even firing one round would make it used), then the intermediate can officially mark the sale as a USED gun and then legally the gun is not subject to the idiotic COBIS requirement for NY.

 

My FFL would have charged me another $75 and then only God knows how much longer it would have taken for the extra process.  HUGE Thanks to Lurch for the heads up.  Your info saved me tremendous grief and a few bucks also.

 

I HATE NY politicians.  They are so bass ackward with their crazy laws.

 

Conan

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Permalink Reply by Robert K. Stoddard on November 30, 2011 at 2:20pm

New York's CoBIS seems to be spectacularly unsuccessful: http://readme.readmedia.com/New-York-State-Rifle-Pistol-Association...

Let's hope that it gets repealed there and isn't copied by any other state.  RKS

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Permalink Reply by BretShooter on November 30, 2011 at 3:24pm

MD is worse.  With their system (IBIS) , the casing has to be provided by the manufacturer, and the gun has to be on the approved handgun roster.  To get on the roster, the manufacturer (or a citizen wishing to donate one for the cause) must provide the Roster Board with a sample pistol, and it is not a quick process.

 

I am SO glad I left!

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Permalink Reply by Jose A. Montalvo on December 1, 2011 at 6:59pm

Well, aint that something. I thought there was all of 3 registered guns in the state of NY...

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