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  They couldn't make us buy something either, but they did. Couldn't ban guns because of 2A, but they did.   - OS

I know you said you can't pay me, but I tell you what. You send me the money you would spend on your trip from New York to my home in Memphis (flight, hotel, food, ect) and I will email you a pic of me and my guns

Am I the only one trying to take notes on who I wouldn't do business with later on because of their actions during this mess?  Between ammo gougers and these people selling multiple "New in box!" firearms, I've gathered quite a list.  And that's only the a-holes who post their phone number or email address in their ad, and the occasional member on here.

A full auto weapon is no more dangerous than a semi auto.  Libtards have been watching too many movies.

Confiscating our property can't be done without the consent of congress. If they start to talk about it, it's torches and pitchforks time.

If there were not 4 tax stamps...one on each box, I'd report them to the state of TN.

The government has been looking at IRAs in the past. http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/now-obama-wants-your-401k/ I am torn between cash and "stuff" as we all are, I have never trusted banks. Years ago the banks that an past governor was part of here in TN went  bad, a lot of people lost money, me as well. That burned me on banks, so I have it spreed around in diff places, banks, lawyers, and "hard stuff".

the pilgrims only chose to land at Plymouth because they ran out of beer.  If they had more beer they may have kept on sailing.   There might be something better than beer but I am not sure what.

Then let’s start here….   I voluntarily answered my country’s call during the Vietnam War. I have two honorable discharges and served my country as a cop after I got out. I don’t think that gives me any state mandated special privileges and certainly not more gun rights that any citizen. I also don’t think that just because someone hung out for 20 years they get some special treatment that combat veterans don’t get. (I am not a military combat veteran) I have an HCP because I am lucky enough to be able to afford it. I certainly wish all citizens of the state of Tennessee could enjoy their gun rights; and maybe someday they can. If the state is going to start reducing the price of gun privileges; I would suggest they do it with those that can’t afford a permit.

That wouldn’t concern me. Who memorizes the lists of reciprocity states or keeps up on it? It’s a non-issue unless he is going to arrest you; then he would find out.

Revolvers are in short supply because stupid people elected obama.

I'm driving like I'm shooting... Less than I'd like.

I put it in a little, or big pile, and set it on fire. Makes for a big flame.   Dolomite

Please understand that your request will be met with skepticism, since most common sense folk know that a simple photo can be made to project good or bad, depending on the photographer.  I'm no professional photographer, but if Ghandi was still alive I could take seemingly innocent photographs of him during a set which could make him look like a saint or make him look menacing.  Now, you're talking about photographing gun owners in their homes for the purpose of a private project of yours.  I assume you understand how easily one could make us responsible gun owners who believe in the right to use force to protect ourselves and our families look like gun toting lunatic vigilantees.    The fact that you're from New York doesn't help your cause.  I know that not all New Yorkers are pants wetting hoplophobes, but it is one of the big 3 states that believes in removing weaponry from the hands of law abiding citizens.  I can only assume that the majority of your citizens fit the category of pants wetting hoplophobes since they keep getting elected there.  So again, forgive our skepticism; it is only because, in the south, common sense is still pretty common.

Dianne...Harry....Is that you?

Of course this is not the answer for everyone, my justication for having my personal ammo depot paid off this year.  I have not needed any ammo whatsoever, none.   I do still shoot the same frequency as before.  For you guys that live hand to mouth on ammo, it pays to have a little ammo inventory on site.  My didn't come over night, my recipe for years was if I shoot 2 boxes of 9mm, I replaced my stash with 3 boxes within 48 hours.  I did this over a course of years, and it slowly built my inventory.   Actually this is the same recipe that I got me so overweight, that is anothet story.  While I was building, I didn't know why I was doing it.  I didn't have clear plan.  Come to think of it, my aquisition of guns is similiar, do not know why I just keep adding, and adding.  I have no clear plan with that either.    My suggestion, IF and WHEN this crap is over, not all at once unless you are flushed with disposible income, start building your ammo depot, slowly.  Then if you do not reload, you may just want to have supplies on hand.  I can assure you if you have no desire to reload, you will when the ammo cubbard is dry.

I don't really care where the money goes or where it comes from. Anyone profiting from laws that protect their business at the expense of the voting populace can just figure out a new business plan. If they lose some business, so folks can pick up a bottle of wine when they shop for groceries, so be it. If I had my way, I'd take away their exclusive rights to sell liquor too. At the same time, I think it's ridiculous to tell liquor stores they can't sell smokes, beer, corn dog, or whatever, too.

I was always a proponent of Don't Ask Don't Tell. If you wanted to search my car, get a warrant.

Tennessee is on high moral grounds when it comes to sins.Always has. That said, this bill did not make it because someone's pocket got lined. That's pretty obvious.

I have been through so many different handguns. The last 8 (?) years or so, it's just been Glock. They just made sense.   Well, the grass IS greener, and it's not necesarily over a septic tank. Between the return of the CZ 75 Compact to my stable (ah, the heft of a real gun... man, I missed that), and the light in the polymer tunnel with "Walther PPQ" on it...   There are better choices. I know; I can't even believe I'm sayin' that.

So let me preface this with how much I hate a damn walmart anyway.   So I am in a damn walmart tonight because we got a gift card as a, well, gift so my wife was just going to get house hold stuff with it. I went back to check ammo because there was nothing else to do. Of course there was nothing in the case. I did find the 100 round boxes of federal 12ga. bird shot so I grabbed one. When it rang up, I noticed a .40 cent fee came up, not .10 cents like every other box. I ask why. She tells me it is becasue it is really 4 boxes of 25. I said it was sold as one box and priced as one box, she even "reminded " me that I could only buy three of them. So why am i being taxed on four if it counts as one in every other aspect. I know in the grand sceme of things with all that is going on, it's only .40 cents but it just pissed the hell off.

Meh, Glock shmok. If I'm going somewhere expecting trouble my carry piece would be my AR, hands down. "Taking a rifle to a gun fight is like taking a chainsaw to a knife fight"

Play nice, boys. This is only the internet.

Nope, you're not the only one. I've made my "naughty list". It irritates the piss out of me, especially here. I imagine a lot of the carpetbaggers will disappear soon enough but the ones who stay will never sell to or buy from me at any price.

It's GONNA happen here...but in a different way.  Obama is going to tax everyone's retirement accounts, and probably much more than 10%.  Retirement accounts in this country are HUGE and the most available money in the USA.  And Obama has them in his sights:   http://www.wnd.com/2010/01/123024/

    Retirement accounts are the largest part of Obama's "spread the wealth around" target. Socialism....it's what Obama has for breakfast.

I am no economist, but I do think having large sums of "cash" is dangerous. I think owning something other than cash is wise. Property, goods, stocks, metals, etc. is more wise than having cash. Think for a moment, if cash was worthless, those other items will be worth something, maybe not cash, but something.

That made my nether region queasy. :rofl: :rofl:

After living in Arizona for three years I had forgotten how far behind the times Tennessee is compared to other places. This was just one reminder.

Jeez man, next thing ya know you'll be tellin us how you gave up that lap banjo and took up a real guitar. What's got in to you? LOL

There are many guns. Each is not ideal for every man.

I think that the very very idea that Gov agency's would plan an all out assault on the heaviest armed civilian population in history using hollow point pistols caliber ammunition is absurd. People need to start paying attention to the real threats to their freedoms and stop jumping at their own shadows.

This ammo paranoia just doesn't make sense. It reminds me of the Libtard paranoia when they found that the Aurora shooter had thousands of rounds of .223 stockpiled. Our retarded friends didn't bother to ask themseves how many rounds he actually discharged, or how many more he could have discharged before the cops turned him into a human rattle. All he needed was one trip to Walmart.   I'm certainly not worried about them loading up on pistol ammo. If I was going to do an all out attack on civilians, it would be with full auto rifles.

I remember being in Iraq sometime around 04-05 and getting letters from an elementary school class from anywhere, US.  Some of them had drawn pictures of Soldiers holding weapons and such.  Makes me wonder how 10 years later that is an offense worthy of suspension or expulsion.  Americans are losing their minds.

  I did a little bit of searching to see if I could dig up that info, but didn't have any luck.  I did read that these contracts, like the ones being the subject of the current hoopla, are authorizations to purchase ammunition and other items that can cover several years.  If that is the case, it may be a little more challenging to find these random requisitions out there.  I know through friends who work for the federal government that they go through massive amounts of ammo for training.  I've never had a need to ask how many they fired so I don't know for sure, but my sense was that thousands of rounds in a year was not uncommon.  One of my friends is a retired firearms instructor and he always talked like they had basically unlimited ammo at their disposal and they made full use of it.  He now teaches the classes for the federal flight deck officer program and talks as if they go through cases of ammo each class and they teach it every couple of months.  His training site is just one of many across the United States.  Like the original article I posted says, it's a matter of scale.  Knoxville Police Department may go through a few thousand rounds per year, but when you compare that to all of the federal agencies and multiply that by five years, it makes much more sense why they are going through so much ammo.  Seriously, we all expect the men and women who we task with protecting us and our interests to be able to shoot and have access to ammo right?   In full disclosure, I also was a little concerned when I first read about these ammo purchases, but I am not a Kool Aid drinker and immediately began to do some research and thinking on the issue instead of simply taking someone else's word for it.  As soon as I saw Alex Jones jump into the mix, I knew it definitely deserved even more diligence and research because that guy is a conspiracy merchant.  He plays off of people's concerns and makes good money doing it even though none of his doomsday predictions ever seem to come true.

I just shipped 1000 308 cal 175 SMKs for exactly what I paid for them. I'm sending off 2000 more next week for the same price. Not everyone is gouging. I do have a mutually beneficial arrangement with the people I send bullets and brass to. I'll send you 1000 SMKs for $*** + S&H , but if I need a barrel, gun smith work, or a car part I would like to have the favor returned. I don't believe I've paid for smith work for about two years and I have offered to pay every time. Take care of your friends and they'll take care of you. 

Just had to have one..

  Just like some students might misuse their brains when they are allowed to think for themselves.   Really, I was never this stupid at that age.  I can only assume children are just being lobotomized as they come out of the womb since they are incapable of thinking critically.  Kids might misuse guns?  Of course they would, but would the type of person who would misuse that firearm for crime be the same person who would obey any laws regarding the possession of said firearm in the first place?  Jesus, these people act as if the penalty for carrying a weapon would prevent someone from committing a murder, when the penalty for murder is far greater than the crime of illegally carrying/possessing a firearm.  Why are there so many stupid people?  Why is it so difficult to understand that anyone intending to misuse a firearm will not obey the laws in the first place, therefore making any concerns about safety against armed attackers moot?  How many more mass shootings in "gun free zones" do we need before they get it through their thick skulls?.... Gun free zones mean only criminals will carry guns in those zones. 

meh, I am not so sure how unsafe it is.   His hand is nowhere near the trigger   Last I heard they just don't go bang all by themselves.

Remember, guns don't suddenly "go off" on their own accord. It's not what I would consider the smartest thing to do but still IMO safe enough. Having said that, the model does in fact have a dual purpose safety. Primary function is keeping the instances of unplanned discharge to a negligible level. Secondary function is to keep the wind from whistling between the owners ears.

I can see it Now... " Earls Ammo and Ethanol, Protect What You Burn" would be my slogan.. 

  Of course. Even 39-17-1307 states that "a person commits an offense who carries with the intent to go armed a firearm". One would logically assume that is really intended to mean "on the person".   So is the carry permit process, since the state cannot empirically show that it reduces crime. It could be logically argued that it creates crime, since it makes a criminal out of the any of the other 95% of Tennesseans who might need to carry a firearm even once to protect themselves from a known and imminent threat.   - OS

Its because 1911s have soul most other handguns dont.

Sure. It is the perfect handgun, just as John Browning intended. As evidenced by it's popularity today, after being in production for over 100 years, there just isn't anything better.

Methinks the forum doth protest too much. 1. I'd stand in front of a loaded revolver if I wanted an exact head-on pic showing loaded chamber. 2. Gun is question is angled to one side, so looks like a kidney shot at worst. :) - OS

It has a safety, it's at the other end :)

It does help lower the pricing of guns when Fox news is reporting that Assault weapons ban appears to be dead.  Still may have some risk of high capacity magainzes, but the bill killing the so called assult weapons is dead as per commentary on Fox news this week.  I look for the ARs and the alike to be plentiful real soon.

It's a crying shame, no doubt. But at least there are a few folks left in Colorado with some integrity.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj2VbhuICeY&feature=youtu.be       As with any unjust law, there is in fact a Duty to disobedience.

So you want to come into my house and take pictures of me and my guns? Dream on Alice. And if your a photographer I'd think you could take the time to upload an Avatar at least.

  Too bad I guess?    It's not that I'm trying to be insensitive, it's just that I don't see how the private interests of those businesses should dictate law.  I don't care if it's a big company or small mom & pop business.  That argument is like the argument about shrinking the TSA and how it would put so many people out of work despite their existence being pointless and obsolete.