Mountain House has some really great sales throughout the year, especially black Friday through New Year. Get on their mailing list and watch for sales. https://mountainhouse.com/
@Doug2255 , Transporting them as properly checked firearms with you on a round trip southwest airlines flight will maybe be cheaper and easier than two FFL mail/receive and final FFL transfer/MD fees all combined. You can do the transfer in person with your son here in MD.
Also, the ad may be there, but since you've already seen it, it doesn't display. If you see this "Unread" button atop the classified section, click to disable it and then stuff you've already seen will show back up.
Mickey's Iron Works in Hyattsville did a real nice outdoor custom steel railing recently for someone I know. Here's the website: https://www.mickeysironworks.com
Update your DL # on your MDSP licensing portal profiles. It's all linked together in their system so you don't have to worry about it.
It is pretty common with the new Real ID DL number updates.
FYI,
As of Friday 12/9 @ 5pm, I can confirm York is still providing 2 day application approval, with pickup options at the Courthouse starting Tuesday 12/13, and at the Satellite office as soon as Thursday 12/15. Days between now and then are listed as full for each location.
Congratulations on the win. Backorders and substitutions do happen. Similar to you, I won a raffle for a camo Mossberg 535 with 3 barrels, super excited, but it was backordered. After 6 months of waiting, the raffle FFL substituted a plain Remington 870 Express with extra barrel. It wasn't as...
For those have carry insurance (USCCA, CCWSAFE, etc), perhaps also review what your policy states regarding BAC.
Some folks do instead wear a non-lethal Taser Pulse or similar for defensive options when knowingly out for drinks.