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      Yep. If someone is going to illegally sell weapons to criminals, it's going to be the damn ATF, not you.

  Yep. The mass killers are switching over since Biden recommended them.

This was on my Facebook today.

I've packed everything from a .22 revolver to a 870 with slugs and buckshot while camping and hiking.  It depends a lot on what part of the state you are in and what your intent is.  (i.e. if I'm carrying a .22 it's going to be for plinking or small game if that scenario allows.)  For the purpose of this post I will assume that whatever you are carrying is purely for protection and not recreation or a chance at harvesting game.  If you are West of the Smokey Mountains bears are not normally an issue, though they have occasionally been spotted as far east as Cookeville they are rarely ever seen out of the mountains.  Disclaimer: I live just at the edge of the mountains, I can see them out my back door, I've never seen a bear within 10 miles or so from here but see them often closer to the mountain.  I would estimate that I see a dozen or so per year, but I do spend quite a bit of time in the woods.  That said, they are generally not a problem as long as you are smart about your interaction with them.  Still I carry a gun in bear country for the same reason that I carry a gun to Walmart.   So, for activities west of the Smokey Mountains I'd just carry what ever you normally carry.  Pigs are about all you may run into that will give you any problems.  Feral dogs perhaps as well.  Snakes are no bother, if you have time to take aim at a snake you have time to turn around and walk the other way, they won't chase you.  As the others have said the two legged critters are the ones you need to worry about the most.  Don't know what it is about nature that brings out the methheads and pillbillies.

I'll go Molon one better:   Caseless ammunition, meter-able liquid propellent.    Imagine a compact, integrally suppressed rifle firing a low-drag, high BC projectile (say for example, 140gr 6.5MM)  now imagine being able to, with the turn of a switch, launch that bullet at just under the speed of sound for maximum sound suppression, 2,000 FPS for medium range general purpose use, or 3,000+ FPS to shoot out to 1,200M or more.  

I'm not telling anybody to quit their job...  I'm saying we're all adults here, and as an adult you have to make choices...  and the choice to stay in a job where they prohibit you from having a firearm in your car.. is still your choice.   The 2nd amendment prohibits the government (both state and federal) from infringing on your rights to own and carry a firearm...  and the State of TN as well as the Federal government are still doing a lot to infringe of those rights.     The 2nd amendment does not control interactions between consenting adults, which is what the employer/employee relationship is....   As a community we should be focusing on interactions with government and how they infringe on our 2nd amendment rights...  such as prohibiting carry at the capital, in city and county parks, places where we vote, universities and colleges, schools, and other government buildings not housing prisoners....     Instead we're focused on dividing the conservative community over controlling the scope of government...  by trying to increase the scope of government to include a new protected class of worker.   It's not inline with the principles most of us believe in, and it hurts us getting other legislation through which would limit the size and scope of government, and have better support among other conservatives.  

Castle Doctrine does not extend to lockers, it does to vehicles.

  Like we'd take advise from you!

You're right; why do we need a government at all?

Tornadoes are just a fact of life in the South.  If you move down here don't live in a trailer, they are magnets for twisters.

I'd love to know what the grounds of arrest would be, and if they could make it stick without getting themselves in trouble of arresting without cause

In all of the excitement of having to use a handgun to defend yourself, you may only get one chance. I do not want to screw it up by forgetting to rack the slide. I always keep one in the chamber. I would carry two in the chamber if I could.

I have seen a ton of posts on bug out bag contents. I have someone on pinterest that pins a bunch about B.O.B and EDC and I have noticed one thing I think is missing in all of these. Due to storm season popping up I have gone through my "tornado kit" as I do every year. I was testing and replacing the stuff, when I came across the airhorn I put in the box. I tested it and it worked fine but was a little quieter than it was new. I was thinking about throwing it away but then thought maybe I should throw it in my B.O.B. I figure it would be a little hard to hear under a pile of rubble but it would still be loud enough if lost or hurt in the wild. I was wondering if I was out of my mind to put this in my bag. I keep these badboys in my car, house, camping gear etc but never occurred to me to put in my B.O.B. I know that your bag is used if you are trying to get away but what if you are just trying to get home after a natural disaster, I would think that this might come in handy.

Sunday May 4th Steel Challenge @ Music City Tactical Shooters http://www.mctsclub.com/~mctscl5/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/05042014_SCSA.pdf  

Been looking for over a year for a 9mm replacement of my .40 Xd and narrowed my selection down to a CZ 75 compact model pretty quickly. But I could not find one in stock for the life of me. After searching high and low and being screwed over by a couple of online vendors who claimed to have one I finally ran into my unicorn this past weekend at the Murfreesboro show. A big thanks to the guys at the Nashville Gun Shop who had great prices and a huge selection of CZ pistols. Even in its stock config this is the softest shooting 9mm I have fired thus far. Can't wait to see how it performs after some custom work..

Don't mind my lousy shooting. (click the picture for the video to work)

nicest trailer ive seen in a long time, complete for part time and full time OCD'ers: http://www.break.com/video/the-coolest-trailer-you-ll-ever-see-2603444

Fire in the hole.

To be fair, there is no picture of a shotgun. If there had been, the shooting would have been prevented.

  Ain't so easy to hit  targets from distance, and especially moving one, and double especially right where you are trying to. That's why 32 who were hit lived.   - OS

This is what the resellers have been doing.  One of the ways they just happen to get to the right store at the right time.   Notice, I shared this as I hope it takes a bite out of the resellers.    note, by reseller I mean people that buy at walmart and mark up 3,4,and 5 times.  Not legit people that are in the business like some we have on this board.

It can spy on the NSA, but it transmits it's data directly to them letting them spy on you spying on them while they spy on you. * *joking.

FYI there's at least one less than stellar review of Frog Lube on here. http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/77039-frog-lube-killed-my-guns/?hl=%2Bfrog+%2Blube   It also seems to be temperature adverse when it's cold. FWIW

A compact gauss rifle. Nothing like firing a magnetized slab of metal at something. Would try to keep it rifle sized. Would have to find a way to make it "cartridge"  fed tho.

Love the Uzi. I'd really like to get another one.

    Forgive me if I'm nit picking...   If that's the case, then why were a number of areas under a tornado warning for an hour or more last night when this morning I read "no confirmed tornadoes" in the news?  In my mind (and particularly in my wife's mind), there's a big difference between a "watch" and a "warning". 

Savage makes a new version of that but it's only in "youth size."  I've been wanting to build a similar version though in .22/.45 Colt but haven't ever gotten around to anything past drawings.

  You may have picked a winner. S30V blade steel is good stuff. Of course, there's more to an auto than that.    After watching the video, I wouldn't be afraid to buy that one at all.

NICE!    One of the good thing about shooting with a suppressor is that you can easily hear if you hit the steel plates or not.      

Here's a fairly lengthy article on the case:   http://www.johndaylegal.com/lawyer-attorney-1804037.html   As a general matter, a business is not considered the "insurer of the safety of its customers" and has no "absolute duty to implement security measures."  However, a business does have a duty to take "reasonable steps" to protect customers if it is "reasonably foreseeable" that criminal acts against its customers may occur.  The idea is that "reasonableness" is the standard.  In an carry situation, the business would argue that its prohibition on carry was intended to protect customers, so the case would probably swing one way or the other upon the jury's belief in the effects of carrying a gun (i.e.:  business wins if jury believes prohibition is the right way to protect customers;  business loses if the jury believes individual carry is the way to protect customers).   As far as workers' comp goes, it is a little different.  The reason is that workers' comp is essentially a compromise between the business and the employee.  The employee does not have to prove that the business was at fault (as opposed to the criminal who injured the employee) and the business does not face uncertain amounts of damages.  

  Yeah that cracked me up for sure. Obviously he was mad at something/someone. Maybe its their wording trying to say people with guns just go crazy and shoot other people even if they are not made or disgruntled…    Wording, its the little things that make a dramatic statement.

From the article:   "Her opposition that summer was a campaign novice whose only previous involvement in politics had been leading prayers and role-playing historical figures at tea party events."   This statement is patently dishonest, as even the most cursory google search would prove for the most casual reader. Can this ERROR be explained by the reporters naive and dishonest ideological bent? Or by current or former employ by the Maggart campaign?   "Her opposition" and now successor is Lieutenant Colonel Courtney Rogers, United States Air Force, Retired, a 28-year veteran with all the interpersonal and political skills you would expect of such an experienced person.    Representative Rogers holds a B.A., University of Southern California in International Relations, Certification in Soviet Studies; an M.S., University of Central Michigan in Administration; has attended U.S.A.F. Squadron Officers School, Maxwell AFB Alabama; the U.S.A.F. Air Command and Staff College; and the U.S.A.F. Air War College. This is hardly the academic credentials of a "Novice." I daresay she has more knowledge and experience than her predecessor or the child that wrote this report.   "Campaign novice" might not get you convicted in a court of law, but the court of public opinon where we all reside on a daily basis knows this is dishonest. Unfortunately, the truth of Roger's experience does not jive with an ideological ridicule of Second Amendment supporters.    This demonstrated and serious ideological bent of a reporter, not an opinionist, in a news story, not an editorial, is such a serious misrepresentation that it should effect Chas Sisk's continued employment, a call his editor should make, if he even has an editor.

I want something like a Calico submachine gun chambered in .45acp or a p90 in .45acp. Would also like a bullpup in .300blk.

Stahp!

No AC?  No way ...

Awesome, but not $35,000 worth of  awesome.  :eek:

Problem solved.

By my estimation, it would take at least a 6ft barrel to burn an appreciable amount of that powder...

I'm shooting for the 4.5 LB range. The MagTac AIR-15 is 4.8, I wanna think my build is going to beat em. I am also now going to use the same brake that KelTec puts on their PLR16, it weighs nothing and is HIGHLY effective, best of all, it's $27 directly from KelTec. We used it on a 16" Saber-stein that a bud put together and it actually pushed the rifle down, albeit slightly but still...

I respectfully disagree. Loser pays (in the true sense) protects wrongdoers far more than it helps the wrongly accused. Tennessee adopted a watered down "loser pays" rule that went into effect last year. However, if you do the research, Tennessee has not had a problem of any significance with unmerited lawsuits. If a lawsuit is filed that has virtually no chance to win, it is much more likely to get dismissed VERY early in the case than it is to get to settlement. And under current Tennesssee, could require the plaintiff to pay for costs, attorneys fees, and loss of income for the defendant. The "loser pays" statute only applies in certain cases and only if the case is dismissed within a short time. Now, with the current discussion, I do think it is possible to bring a lawsuit against a business owner that prohibits carry in some very limited circumstances. Tennessee case law has recognized a limited duty for businesses to take measures to protect patrons when there is a known threat. Walmart got hit years ago in Memphis for failing to protect patrons because Walmart was well aware of some violent criminal activity in its parking lot. The case law is pretty clear, though, that the business must be aware of an "unreasonable risk" of violent activity on the premises under control of the business. If someone could show that violent crime was known to business (and probably not know to the patron) and that the prohibition contributed to death or injury, then there's a chance that liability would occur.

The "good" is that those who can otherwise legally possess and transport arms for their protection (or any other reason) can do so and not have to travel without the protection such arms offer.  Contrast that "good" with the absolute lack of any demonstrable infringement to the entity that owns the parking lot and the logic of laws that protect the contents of a person's vehicle is obvious.  Further, in many states a person's vehicle IS considered as much their "home" as the physical structure they call "home".   As to the "lockers"; there is a difference and an obvious one between a person's vehicle and the vehicle's contents sitting in a public parking lot and vs a "locker" that is both not the individual's property and situated not in a parking lot but (presumably) inside of the business's physical building(s).  The government telling the parking lot owner that they cannot dictate what can be in a person's vehicle is in no way an infringement on the parking lot owner's "right" (which is what the courts have held). The bottom line is that none of the businesses that have sued over this issue of firearms in vehicles in parking lots have ever been able to demonstrate how they are harmed and/or their rights infringed by these laws - I would suggest that is because there simply is no real infringement and if there is no infringement then all the angst about the parking lot owner's "rights" is what my Dad used to call "cat's fur".   That said, I fear this thread is getting far off course...these laws don't even effect those in Tennessee...have a nice day!

I got a chain saw, "yall just watch this".

We got the current design in 2007 during the Bredesen administration. Don SUNdquist had these made up in 2001. His term ended in 2003. I'm surprised he didn't find a way to put his picture on them.

On several occasions I've seen employers hide flat-out racial discrimination behind "At Will" employment, so not the best of points with me.

Last year, while I was putting in some hours behind the counter at the gun shop we had a Canadian youth baseball team wander into the store. I talked for a bit with the coaches and answered their questions. They asked several questions about the use of firearms in self defense, such as "What do you do if someone breaks into your home?" I was very forthright in my answers. "You shoot them." I got told they came back through again a couple of weeks ago and asked about me.   "Is that redheaded guy with glasses working?"  "No, not today." "Oh, that's good, eh. He kinda scared us."  :rofl:

I think suggesting that someone just get a different job is really rather ridiculous. We have more people out of work in this country today than any other time in the country's history - anyone who currently has a job had damn well better keep it. There is nothing wrong with looking around and keeping options open but there is more to a career and finding the right position than whether a company allows firearms on their property.

some times it just takes a certain little push from an outsider to create that little spark of curiosity and once it happens they take to it like a duck to water and then you realize you created a monster......... :rofl:   My second wife hated football because her first husband watched it but would never explain the game to her. When I was watching a game one day she came and sat down beside me and every time she would ask a question I would answer it. Here first question was what is a 1st down and I told her and the more she learned the more she wanted to know. Soon my house interior was turning orange here and orange there and I had a full blown UT NUT. I lost her in 1997 but I did fill one of her biggest dreams not knowing I was going to lose her but I got a buddy to loan me his season tickets he bought every year and even got to borrow his Chalet in Gatlinburg  for the weekend. She was excited that we were going to the mountains. I sprung the game on her after we got there. It was the same year Needem Stadium did their seat addition and when every began stomping their feet the whole place shook and you thought it was an earthquake. Sorry for going on so long but glad you got your wife included in your interests and hope she continues to enjoy it...... :up:  :up:  :up:  

Astroglide

      An unsecured firearm around children, it should be unloaded not just minus one in the chamber.   When my kids were younger that is the main reasoned I carried on my person even at home.

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