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This may be a minority opinion; but i don't care what happens in Baltimore... A quick check of the history of Baltimore will tell ya that it has been under Democrat control since 1967... That means that for 48 years the "best and brightest" including the one they have now have been in firm control of this cesspool... I think it's interestin that since 2007, they have had two black women mayors...   I thought that this bunch would have turned Baltimore into a paradise by now... I guess not...     There have always been two Baltimores; the one downtown around Fort McHenry and the harbor basin, and everywhere else... It looks pretty dangerous to me in both Baltimores...   Looks ta me like the citizens of Baltimore deserve better than this; but they are gonna have to change their attitudes and votin habits...   non carin leroy

I like bacon but I think that it has become more a fad that has been overdone than something that really needs to be in/on everything.  I tried a bacon chocolate chip cookie from a bakery/coffee shop in Gatlinburg last year.  It was pretty good but, honestly, the bacon didn't add anything.  The cookie and the chocolate were by far the prevalent flavors.   I will not add to the donut/cop jokes.  Instead, I will relate an absolutely true story told to me by a friend who used to work at Krispy Kreme as a driver (and who, himself, sometimes still works events as an auxiliary deputy or whatever they are called with Knox County.)  When he worked there, my friend could get all the glazed donuts he wanted at no charge.  Yep, as many as he wanted absolutely free.  This was even if he wasn't working that, particular day (I went with him to pick up a couple of dozen on more than one occasion.)  So, one morning after his route - which was a third shift gig, more or less - he had a couple of dozen hot, fresh donuts in his passenger seat.  He was also in a hurry to get home and was, by his own admission, speeding.  Well, he saw blue lights and got pulled over.  He said that the officer walked up to his driver's side window and said, "Sir, do you know why I stopped you this mor...oooh, donuts!"  At which point, my friend said, "I just came from work at Krispy Kreme.  They are fresh and still warm.  Would you like a dozen?"  The officer accepted, told my friend to take it easy on the rest of his trip home and let him go.

I got pulled over last week. The cop said, "Your eyes look red. Have you been drinking?" I said, "Your eyes look glazed. Have you been eating donuts?" :D

Lets not call any undue(and likely unpopular) attention to ourselves by slapping silly little stickers on govt signs...Best thing we can do is simply enjoy our freedom to finally carry our handguns in our local parks...:)

A friend sent this to me this morning. I know it's wrong, but I can't stop laughing. That aside, he/she can do what ever he/she wants. None of us would know anything about this if it weren't for the TV show.

  I know a fair number of gay folks, and you're right. We're not all flaming liberals, in fact a lot of us just want to live our lives, protect our families, and be left alone the same as anyone else. I've introduced a number of gay friends to firearms and shooting because as they say, "armed gays don't get bashed". We're just like everyone else.    The right has traditionally bet on the hard line traditionalists to be a larger number of voters than right leaning gay folks, and by the numbers they're right. The most optimistic estimates say that gay/ trans people make up 10-14% of the US population, and some surveys are as low as 2-3%. When you break that group down further into active voters, then conservative active voters, the right has had a much larger well to tap by toeing the traditionalist line. They can bark about how 'the gays' are trying to destroy marriage and hate Jesus, and it's easy to motivate everyone that claims to be a Christian to the polls because they think Jesus may not love them as much if they extend some grace to the evil gays.    The left is just as bad- they scream about how the right is just out to get gay people at all costs, and they make it sound like we're about to be the victims of some type of horrible ethnic cleansing which drives every Subaru driving, tree hugging, granola munching liberal gay or not out to the polls to 'protect' us poor, stupid queers that can't stand up for ourselves. It's insulting, but this is the place modern gay people find themselves. We're a convenient political football that neither party really wants to take care of, they're both too busy kicking us back and forth to pump up their own fans. 

Folks, every please keep in mind the source of all the information we are getting on this...I take every single piece of news reported nowadays with a grain of salt, and stories like these with a dump truck load of salt...The media reporting this is the same media that reported on the Ferguson mess, and we all know how accurate that all turned out to be in the end :) Good ole Mark Twain said it best...

  Prob is, it's tough to win the GOP primaries without the religious fundamentalist vote.   - OS

I have a few gay friends that are pretty hard core right wingers. They're just too smart to buy into the unicorn bull####. But, even though all Republicans aren't homophobes, it might be safe to assume that all homophobes are Republican :). Lot's of gay folks just won't hang out where they're not wanted.   The Repubs need to get out of the social crap, and focus on running the damn government. I've told them that more than once. 

It's tribalism man...!!! Nothin else; and its fueled from the White House... The regime in power now would like for America to turn into South Africa... They have got a little bit of it in Baltimore... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

  Honestly never been to one.  My point, however, was that there is a difference in being an activist and, maybe, carrying long guns in public areas to bring awareness to a cause and taking your protest - be it carrying long guns in a Chipotle's or open carry of a handgun in Starbucks - into a private establishment.  Putting private businesses in the middle of a debate that they likely want no part of - often resulting in everyone being banned from carrying in businesses that were not, previously, posted - is cutting one's  own nose (and the nose of every other member of the firearm carry community) off to spite one's face.   This is the same reason I hope folks don't go overboard with park carry and act like Voldemort when carry in state parks became legal and he went walking around Radnor Lake park with an openly carried Drako.  Just because we can doesn't always mean we should.  Getting carried away and not exercising a little common sense (real common sense, not the 'common sense' that anti's refer to when trying to stifle our rights) is not the way to gain future advances in the restoration of firearm and carry rights.

I wouldn't take part in this thread with a fake account and a proxy server.

  I have a number of both types of friends. The real shame is the otherwise intelligent gays that wind up being Democrats because of the way Republicans deal with gay marriage and similar issues.

all I ever have used Wheaties for is to make balls for fishing bait.   As for Bruce,  I don't care what he does.  I do know life is too short and if this makes him happy then good for him.  People are allowed to be happy.   You can't change that he is arguably the greatest Olympian ever.

You can add Hispanics and blacks to that list.

  Seems that racial tensions have gotten worse all over the country in the last 7 years, funny how a black Democrat President was elected, a black AG appointed and it's alot worse than when a white Texan Republican was President.

  Context can be subjective but being truthful in saying a particular model gun fails to excite you is simply expressing that. Striker fired plastic pistols aren't the tools of machine wonderment such as a Browning High Power, German Lugar or SIG 210, instead they are functional tool like pistols. In looks and handling they tend to blur and become boring, even the newest of the new. Early 20th century Colt & S&W fixed sight revolvers were equally boring prior to the 1960's. They too were looked upon more as everyday tools and were everyday items. Now of course we look upon those old revolvers in wonderment, or at least I do. But what we now have with the Shield and 43 are very lightweight near pocket-sized that are technical marvels and still a bit boring.  

This is a story about an AR build project that turned out really well. First, here's the culprit, my plain as mud "A2.5" Click here to view the original image of 640x480px. For a number of years I’ve been stuck on the idea of an AR “short rifle” instead of a carbine. I envisioned a beautifully balanced, proportional little rifle that would have a 16” government contour barrel (not the M4 style) and a conventional fixed butt stock. As far as I know, nobody ever tried to market such an animal, at least I couldn't find one anyway. So I finally got my gumption up and put one together myself. (Actually I only built the lower, Spikes built the upper.) What I did to arrive at my ultimate end, my “short rifle,” was to take a Spike’s Tactical 16” mid length flat top upper receiver assembly and mate it up with a standard, A3 lower receiver assembly. And boy does it mount, point, and swing like a million dollars. I've had the chance to wring it out on the range now and it shoots every bit as good as it looks, coming in at roughly 1.5 MOA with iron sights. Here's another view of it to give a better idea of its proportions. I think it's a pretty handsome rifle, myself. Click here to view the original image of 640x378px. In the hands of a six foot, 190 pound shooter One of my biggest goals was to keep it mechanically clean, simple, and relatively unsophisticated. Mission accomplished. The Spike’s upper receiver assembly came with an M16 bolt carrier group and a 16” government contour CMV/CL barrel with a 1:7 rate of twist, and a MagPul MOE forend. The rear sight is an LMT stand alone unit. The Spike's lower receiver is set up with a Geissele SSA trigger, an Armalite ambi selector and lower parts kit, a MagPul MIAD pistol grip, and a JP Enterprises tuned buffer spring. To preserve the look I was after I topped it off with a (gasp) black M1/M14 sling. So as such things go today, it’s a pretty plain Jane rifle that won't turn a lot of heads at a gadget convention, but then I don't care much for luggage racks and running boards on my cars, either. For my first accuracy tests I fired four 100 yard bench rest groups with Outback and Privi 69 grain and 75 grain target hollow points. They were fired with iron sights and with the rifle resting on my range bag. They all measured right at 1 5/8" per each four shot groups. A 3x scope put them into an inch. I've sat at the bench with common XM193 ammo and, shooting off my elbows without a rest, dinged the 12"X18" dingers at 240 yards with egotistically pleasing regularity. Heck, at my age I'll settle for that! Here is one of the groups I mentioned. [URL=http://s275.photobucket.com/user/jaypee3843/media/e1cbb1ea-13b5-44c9-8607-88b8c63206b4_zps1p7pn5ty.jpg.html][/URL] I've tried several borrowed scopes on it and only one of them worked well and didn't louse up the balance and make the gun want to get "tippy". That was the Burris A332 Prism sight, but I haven't bothered to photograph the gun with a scope on it because I'm still not convinced I'm going to keep it scoped. I just like the balance better with the irons. What's the "A2.5" all about? Well, it looks a bit like a cut down A3, so I just shaved off a half point and called my "A2.5." It's kinda neat having a gun nobody else on the block has, even if it is a little plain, and especially since I got to set it up the way I wanted the rifle to be. Like George Peppard use to say on "The A Team" I love it when a plan comes together. EssOne

I am going to have to get some of that for Rabbi's birthday. 

Just because you can add bacon or bacon flavor to something does not mean you should....

I have always wanted to steal a Krispy-Kream donut truck and have the police chase me.

And that's all that matters in this equation, that the end user, who shelled out their own money to buy the pistol like it. A happy end purchaser will buy another gun from the manufacture or recommend the product to others. Its always been that way and I wouldn't have it otherwise. 

I lost my $hit when I saw a bacon donut.lol too funny. I love how the quasi forbidden treat has made its way to pizza crust and donuts. This could be a valuable tool for law enforcement. Bacon donuts at 3 am will help find Hoffa' s body!

I believe a lot of folks on both sides of the aisle would be surprised at how many gay people are conservative or libertarian.

How about a TN Constitutional amendment that every other session, the legislature can only repeal laws, not enact any new ones?   How about a US Constitutional amendment that does same?   - OS

  That of course is everyone's right and should not be extrapolated to mean he's hiding something.  Civilians are commonly told to say nothing except "I want to speak to my attorney" after a self-defense shooting.  Everything that happens after a fatality is the domain of lawyers.  It's best to let them do what they went to school for and are paid the big bucks for.   That particular cop might just be the smart one.

I was reading up on this last night and found several anecdotal reports of "suspects" being taken on intentionally violent rides in cruisers or transport vans while handcuffed and shackled and summarily receiving spinal injuries as a result.  If that practice is indeed employed by some officers, there might be something to this story.   Like someone else said in this thread, it's rather difficult to logically walk through how a suspect can be subdued and restrained, and then somehow receive an injury that almost completely severs their spinal cord while in custody.  Was there another fight or scuffle with officers?  Some sort of sincere "freak accident"?   This one just looks bad no matter what news source I use to read accounts of what happened.  Baltimore PD may have brought this one upon themselves.

We will be hosting a 6 stage IDPA match this Saturday. Looks to be a beautiful spring day to be on the range. Stages will be posted later. Hope to see everyone there.

It's definitely not safe for work (NSFW) or children's ears, but check this out if you have the chance.  Baltimore needs more mothers to smack their sons like this for their own good. https://instagram.com/p/1_suRjlEmh/?taken-by=simply.ish

  Better stick to the cities, rural folk don't need no National Guard.

  If it comes out that this was all brought on by what amounts to "contempt of cop," Baltimore, and other cities around the country are going to explode even worse than when Ferguson happened.

I can sort of understand the Mayor's decision in this one.  Letting the rage burn itself out is a technique.  I'm not saying it's the right one, but I'm also not saying it's the wrong one.     I'm sure the Baltimore PD and other agencies are being stretched thin with the situation, and I wouldn't be surprised for them to conclude that they simply don't have the numbers to secure every place, and instead need to focus on key infrastructure in the city.  They may also want to keep LEO's from being spread out too much number wise, in light of the current threats being discussed.   I know we see these types of actions and think in terms of action/re-action, but you have to look at the whole board, including how much manpower you have available to meet the threat in the days to come events.       Doubt it.  The Supreme Court has already ruled that police don't have a Constitutional duty to protect individuals from harm, so I'm fairly sure property or business won't be able to carve out a case.

Looks fun, but I guess it always is at MCTS.

  FWIW, Wiki claims joint ownership:   "The Bridgestone Arena is owned by the Sports Authority of Nashville and Davidson County and operated by Powers Management Company, a subsidiary of the Nashville Predators National Hockey League franchise..."   - OS

It's a little more expensive than the $500 you requested, but I've been very happy with my TiRant 9.  Quite pleasant to shoot.

  To achieve full Redneck Deer Hunting status....., we'll need to include the four-wheeler in a night match using a spot-light!   Just something I once hear about, maybe from a story told to me by a cousin - - - or was it an uncle?  :whistle:  

You will find out who your friends are really quick when it is time to move a safe!

My biggest problem with all this is who gives a shit? I could give a damn if some dude wants to be a woman or marry another dude or whatever.  I'm not saying I agree with what they want to do or how they live their lives, but who am I to judge.  We are all sinners.  As others have said, live and let live.    The problem I have with all this junk is, for one, how is this the top news story? You cannot tell me there aren't more important things going on that you have to interview some crazy bastard who wants to be a chick.  Secondly, as far as all the gay stuff and what not, when it comes to the point of forcing people to do things against their beliefs and wrecking their lives over it, that is a problem.    Bottom line is that people need to get over it, put on some big girl panties :cool: and just get on with living rather than making sure everyone knows you're gay or want to be transgendered or whatever other internal affliction with which you struggle. 

TCA 39-17-1307 would be a great start...

  Ah heck it's Tennessee. let's shoot them first.   :)   JK.

I don't think people just up and decide to be different one day. AFAIK he's dealt with this a long time. Ultimately, who cares? He has a right to be happy. As a man who knows multiple people that are like this, including a Fire Department chief, their lifestyle affects none of us except for possibly making some of the homophobic uncomfortable because of their own inadequacies. :)

Jenner's one thing. But pleasepleaseplease don't tell me Tony the Tiger......................................................

  I'm just hoping that they eventually remove the force of law from no-gun signs.  That would be a huge step in the right direction.

That's a lot of plywood and recycled license plates!  ;)

Everybody needs a collection of something.

Yep. That's right up Corriea's alley! Big Wild Guns! And the Buxom Babes! Bring 'em On!!

  That first shotgun blast with 00 buck put 9 rounds of .30 downrange already.   - OS

I have an Ultra Carry II, which is their plane Jane model. Never had any problems with it other than I don't particularly care for the stock mags. I am currently waiting on its return from getting some Cerakote applied. Can't wait to see it.

I have mowed the lawn 3 times so far this year. Haven't spilled a drop. I love these cans. Filling the mower from the 1-gallon can is bliss compared to those stupid communist cans.

As of 7/1/2014 there are no restriction on blade length or method of opening assisted and auto (switchblades) are legal to carry in the state of TN.