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In SERE school you have x minutes to boil water, rain or shine, wouldn't you know it, it was rain. Same a couple weekends ago, had to go do some chores on my new land, rained the morning of so everything was soaked but got it done, which was great because it went to 29 degrees that night.

No one has even mentioned the 2 Senator's bill they introduced in Washington. They want congress to pass the law, they introduced last week, where schools can hire retired military veterans for SRO's nationwide. I am still a fan of training volunteer teachers to carry.

Possibly it was bent by someone trying to disassemble the weapon AFTER the failure. It is hard for me to visualize the mechanics of a squib failure bending that part of the frame.

WE HAVE TO GET PAST THE MONEY!!!

Nope-the top end suffered no damage-nope- Thats the dust cover and there actually is no force on that during any cycle- If this were in fact a real incident the force would have blown the magazine out of the gun and ruptured the barrel and hood- Someone my guess is trying to orchestrate a response from the Kimber haters- I have seen first hand damage from such and can attest there is way more damage on the top end- PS-A .40S&W round drops right thru the barrel getting stuck nowhere-

I grew up in a camping family. When my sons were younger I spent 12 years as a Boy Scout leader. You bet your azz I can start a fire! One should always carry a pocket knife and a lighter. With these two most basic of tools, a smart man can survive darned near anything.

I I try to eat here when I'm in Fort Louden.

You mean that it's not a convenient comparison. Those kids are all children of taxpayers. You're just choosing to draw the line where you want to draw it. I'm emphasizing how narrow-minded that is.

I’m not even sure how to be “Politically Correct “ anymore. All the stupidity in the word and the new titles people are giving them selves just turned 58. (I )

When that grand jury is from New York City I am not sure this benefit of the doubt applies. Had it been in a conservative area, maybe, but I suspect it's also very reasonable to expect a NYC grand jury to be just as anti Trump as the DA.

Two centuries later, we're still spinning around in circles it seems.

I would hope that the larger, more affluent private schools that have big donors and can afford private security will do the right thing and turn down the offered money. This will leave more for the public schools and smaller private schools that run on a much tighter budget.

Bridgestone Arena is a private facility owned by a private company and has massive Metro PD presence at each Predators game.

Giving away our sovereignty should be a treason violation punishable by the treason laws- Just sayin-

I will turn 70 on Saturday the 4/8/23. The mind is still young, but the body tells me a different story.

I check it out every few days this time of year and just now the banks are pretty crowded. They are running and seen quite a few on stringers. One guy told me they were biting yesterday better and bigger,so digging out my gear tonight. I was just above the Dam,dont know about the rest of the lake.

Marlin 336CS 30-30. Pics tell the story. U can text me for up close video down each side and the scope and sling as the pics are too high quality for publishing on TGO. Available is just the rifle, or you can add the nice leather sling and a like new Crossfire II scope and scope rings. Pricing depends on what all you want. It is not new and has been used. Buts it’s a nice looking, good shooting rifle for target shooting or hunting. Must be legal to own a rifle and meet close by. It’s for sale or trade. Text is best. 615-504-1491.

Game plan is the same as always - outlaw guns at every opportunity. Never let a mass shooting go by w/o taking more rights away. @BigK has it correct; the AR bans = low hanging fruit. They won't stop there. Look @ Great Britain, Australia, & now New Zealand for the playbook end goal results. And once everything is banned & crime is worse than ever, to include murder, it's too late. You'll never get your rights back. You can vote yourself into Socialism/Communism/Dictatorship but you can only escape from that by shooting your way back out of it. Gun control is really just "control"...period. History shows that giving up rights for 'safety' leaves you with neither. Sadly the masses have been sold an easy fix to stop mass murderers in the siren call of gun control. By the time it dawns on the average person that it was all a lie, it's too late. The NYT is just rough toilet paper. It's good for lining a bird cage. Sadly people are reading it thinking there is still something of value there.

With all due respect to every one on TGO that have school age children. Can you honestly put a price on how much money should be provided to their school to protect them while they are in school? I don't really care if a child can afford to attend a private school or is in a public they both deserve the same amount of protection which right now many don't get. We have a Governor that is working on fixing that and I am behind him 100%. If I was 10 or 15 years younger and in better health I would volunteer too be an SRO person at the Gordonsville school that is 7 miles from my home. As far as the action the Metro officers a week ago. I am very glad they were there and did the job needed. I agree with David that waiting on a public security team would have been a grave mistake. It would have been a ULVADE all over again.....JMHO on last statement.

We used to be diehard Fox news consumers. We left Comcast and went with a couple different streaming providers, and the ONE deal breaker was they had to have Fox. We got tired of paying for the streamers too, but couldn't quit them because there was no other way to get Fox. Sadly, that was the ONE and ONLY reason we wouldn't cut them. Then they just started going off the deep end. Every prime time talking head repeated the same exact stories and events as the one that came on before them. It was mind numbing. Then Hannity, with his drama queen delivery got to be too much, so we stopped watching him. Tucker just seemed to be off the rails, so we stopped watching him. More and more we just stopped watching it. Now-a-days, if I need to see wall to wall reporting on something of a national scale, I'll watch NewsMax. They have a free app and you don't need a carrier to log into it, like Fox does. All the contributors that left Fox, or got fired, are all working for NewsMax. But NewsMax is also very unappologetically slanted to the right. The good thing is, we pretty much stopped watching Fox alltogether, which allowed us to just cut cable and all the streamers. I put up an antenna. I bought an HDHomerun tuner device and connected it to my Plex server, so now I have full DVR capability of anything I can pull in over the air. Our evenings consist of watching some local news, and the wife has to watch wheel of fortune. Our TV is free now, and we are saving a ton of money on subscriptions. Oh, and life without constant news running in the background is SO MUCH BETTER.

Funny and I love the sentiment, but they got it all wrong, nobody is allowed in the man cave w/out permission. This floor plan allows WAY too much foot traffic through the fortress of solitude. LOL

agreed! someone in another thread suggested that old farts like me need to accept all the stupidity or be left in the dust...as if I stand to lose something by not playing into someone else's fantasy, LOL

I don't carry a lighter in my pocket, but there's one easily accessible for sure. I have a knife handy everywhere I go though.

Ruger 10/22 Carbine .22 LR 18.5" 10rd w/Scope & Case - $329.99 shipped w/code "GAGSHIPOFF22" Don't know if it helps or not, but it's a pretty good deal.

I don't smoke, used too, but quit several years ago. I still carry a Bic lighter in my pocket and still periodically test and/or replace as needed. I also keep one, along with tinder and an old fashioned road flare in my GHB. I have started many, many a campfire using a road flare, even with damp materials when camping as a youth in the Mississippi piney woods. I have started a few fires using steel and flint, but could never conquer starting a fire using friction. But certainly admire the skill and patience it requires. Looking forward to reading about our members skills.

70 years old ...I still have one good fight left in me. https://youtu.be/RG2K2jmFfsk

Watch out for dirty tricks, back-stabbing Rinos, and libs. Such a coup would be the ideal method to achieve the gun grabbers' wish for total bans.

Found your answer. Someone screencaped it from FB A .40 S&W cartridge detonated by a fired .45 from the chamber.... Super Sqib I guess....

Governor Lee is asking for public funds to put SROs in all schools, public and private. I for one will not have an issue with it. https://www.wdef.com/governor-lee-announces-school-safety-plan/ The Governor is proposing $140 million dollars go towards placing an armed guard in every school in Tennessee. Governor Lee said, “With this funding we’re taking the burden off of teachers and school and districts. There is no excuse to not have a guard at every school.” He wants to establish a grant fund totaling nearly $30 million dollars that he says would help both public and private schools make security upgrades. Additionally, the Governor is proposing $8 million dollars to go towards mental health resources to schools across the state.

I guess Metro PD should have stayed off of Covenant's property and waited for a private Blackwater-type security force to show up and handle the situation. Publicly funded police departments should stay the hell out of protecting rich private school kids, right @btq96r? If their tuition doesn't cover private security, then #### 'em.

I do not trust lawyers, politicians, news folks or much of anything else!

You and I CLEARLY have a different opinion of what woke is then. Otherwise you'd know that the individuals you call anti-woke don't want to be pandered to at all. In fact, the whole point is that companies have successfully peddled their wares without being political for 100 years. Unnecessarily injecting woke politics into their ads is hurting their bottom line and they have even admitted it.

They say that with age comes wisdom. However, I've found that quite often age comes all alone.

I think there are probably liberal, agnostic, gun owning, non military, pro-choice, non NRA folks here as well. Or Moderate, Christian, gun owning, pro-choice indifferent on the NRA folks. That is what makes this a great forum. we have members of differing opinion, but I feel we all understand the importance of the Second Amendment to the Constitution. For the most part we respect (some maybe tolerate) each other’s differing viewpoints.

But to what extent do CNN, MSNBC, and Fox truly only shill for themselves? Their main goal is to get you outraged about something, which in turn means you come back for more, same bat time, same bat channel. It's not about red vs blue but rather green, green, green baby.

I agree in that there is a number, but we flush way more down the green new deal toilet than what it would cost to place 10 SROs in each TN school from kindergarten to med school, hell, maybe even the entire US, that discussing the cost seems disingenuous at best. Many of the security systems and other safeguards we've discussed on this very thread can be implemented very quickly, including allowing qualified veterans the ability to volunteer their time at their local schools, we have a wide distribution of vets that finding one or more for each school shouldn't be a problem. This could be a temporary solution while more trained and licensed SROs are made available.

I will turn 56 Friday.

Just to clarify Wilco Tactical’s $30 transfer includes the TICS. Not only is he local to me but he’s the lowest transfer I’ve found around. This isn’t his full time gig so he’s not open every day with normal hours but it hasn’t been an issue for me, he lets me know by text when he is there and I can pick up.

A legal penalty for carrying past a sign is something I could never stomach. The idea that someone can post a sign that makes me a criminal vs making me unwelcome just doesn't sit right.

I stopped watching the news, with rare exceptions for major events, nearly 20 years ago. I'm still an angry individual, but at least I'm angry about things of my own accord now.

I'll be 69 next Monday. I am genuinely surprised I've made it this far. God, fate, destiny or whatever powers control our lives have tried to bump me off twice. I guess I'm just too stupid and ugly to die. It ain't the years, its the mileage. My odometer has rolled over at least twice.

Oh. Look. Entertainers who only care that you send them your money are signing on to a popular cause in order to create the illusion that they give a #### about you. How brave. How stunning. How bold.

For the record, I will be 60 next month. Not sure where the time went...

The Governor just announced they are making funds available to put SRO in "all," public and private, Tn Schools and a couple other things which he is setting in motion. Another thing is it is TN law now that all school doors must be locked at all times. Plus they are doubling the Mental health staffa in all schools and some districts will have multiple mental healt professionals in them. Aklso every county will have a Homeland Security officer with duty specifically for school safty. Tn Senator Marsha Blackburn and the other TN Senator has introduced a bill in congress to fund hiring Veterans to be trained as school guards for all schools also. Edited to add; This will not be enough to satisfy the protesters IMO>.

On average parents of kids in private school probably pay far more in taxes than the rest of us. So your comment about them helping pay for our kids education is very true. Property tax is just like income tax. The least affluent use the most services and pay the least in taxes. The most well-off pay the most in taxes and use the least gov't services.

My brother just retired and his favorite saying is "I just got out of prison, and I'm not afraid to go back". He was a Warden of a state prison in NC. He is very glad he moved to Morristown

For used vinyl you need to go to Alison's Record Shop in West Nashville. Definitely visit Grimey's, and while you're there The Groove isn't far away. Visit Vinyl Tap while you're at it for a frosty beverage and some more record shopping. Riverside Grill Shack is close to there if you want a fantastic burger.

The weapons crime for the no guns signs needs to be removed all together or at least not apply for people with enhanced carry permits. People with enhanced permits should be able to also carry in other locations such as college campuses that are already legal in most states surrounding TN for people with carry permits.