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YES!!! What an ass he was!

I have a couple of bricks of shorts in my stash!

As long as it's reliable for you, what anyone else thinks doesn't matter. And it didn't break the bank to purchase it.

That’s a ridiculous price. Buds and SMGW are showing them at $360+.

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Good morning! I've been following this for the last couple of days! When you get to Tennessee, WELCOME!!! We live in Knoxville, and I belong to a gun range about 10 minutes away at the local Moose Lodge. I just joined and so far, the range has been nice. I've only been on the pistol range, but spent a good two hours there, with only one other person showing up for a couple of hours. They also have a Rifle Range that goes out to 100 yards, I believe. I have not shot on it yet. There is a closer range, run by TWRA, but I've not been impressed with the way it's run and check-in takes too long. But it is open to anyone. and the facilities were very good the last time I shot there. They were upgraded, by the Tennessee National Guard in the 80's. Internet around Knoxville is mostly made up of COMCAST Xfinity at 500 and 1000 Mbps, but you pay more for the higher speed and it's shared. Depending on where you live in Knoxville there are other options available. A friend of mine that lives out on West Knoxville, has three choices and gets much better deals than we have here. Recently, AT&T strung fiber up in our area and I jumped on it. I'm getting 995Mbps now, dedicated and couldn't be happier! No more buffering when streaming movies or shows. I also work from home, in the Engineering world and it seems to be much more dependable and faster than Xfinity and it's $40 cheaper. My parents live out in a rural part of Anderson County and the do not have any service available except AT&T DSL. They use DirectTV and their AT&T mobile hotspot for their service. They only live 20 drive minutes from me, but only about 8 miles as the crow flies, just across the Knox County line. COMCAST had a strangle hold over most of this area, up until the last decade or so, but things are beginning to change. If you like doing outdoor things, like hiking, camping, slow water or fast water kayaking, boating, and skiing, then East Tennessee is your Shangri-la! We got it all, up and down the Tennessee Valley, with the Smoky Mountains on one side and the Cumberland Plateau on the other and the Tennessee River between the two. Even if you move to a bigger city like Chattanooga (SUPER FANTASTIC INTERNET SERVICE BTW and home to UTC), or Knoxville (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge) or the Tri-Cities area (Bristol, Kingsport & Johnson City and home to ETSU), you are no more than 30 minutes away from a lake, river, or the Mountains and closer than that most of the time! Of course, Internet access will be best the closer you are to a bigger city. The cable internet companies have been very slow to expand coverage out to the rural areas. I have a friend and colleague that lives between Maryville and Lenior City, along 321, in Blount County and the best she can get is AT&T DSL and it drops for her all the time. She also works from home and is in Zoom meeting constantly. She checked into AT&T fiber last week and it's still not available in her area. That's a fairly developed area, too. Long and short of it, check on the services available to you. Sounds like you will depend on that internet service more than anything else. The other trade-off for this part of the State is a higher population density for the whole region, though Middle Tennessee is starting to catch up. Nashville, is one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S. and the area is really feeling it right now. Home and land prices in the surrounding communities are skyrocketing! Construction is booming, even an hour out of downtown Nashville. And the Nashville politics are moving more left every day. That's a frightening situation for a lot of people in this state. Other little cities/towns/communities to check out are, from South to North, Ooltewah, Cleveland. Athens. Dayton, Spring City, Loudon. Lenior City, Clinton. Oak Ridge, Maryville, Sevierville. Kingston/Rockwood, Lafollette, Crossville, Harragate/Cumberland Gap, Jefferson City, Morristown, Greenville, and Mountain City. A lot of these are small college towns or they are bigger manufacturing centers and may have better internet service. All of them will have land available, at a price of course. I will say weather wise, the higher you go, the more pleasant the weather is in the summer, but the colder it gets in the Winter. Upper East Tennessee is higher in elevation, so the tri-cities area gets more snow than Knoxville, or Chattanooga, but less humidity and heat in the summer. On average, I'd say they are 5 to 10 degrees cooler than Knoxville. Anyway, sorry for the rambling narrative. I look forward to following your journey here to Tennessee!

My thanks also for the clarification @Worriedman. I wish this bill were worded more clearly. at least it's name and summary. I never thought in a million years that it was meant to give someone like me, law enforcement powers, above what any normal citizen would have. That was drummed up by Gun Control Advocates as a scare tactic, just like how the streets were going to turn red with blood, when the HCP was first purposed here in Tennessee. Something that is said whenever a Concealed Carry friendly bill is brought up in any state. As for additional training, I would not be opposed to that either, but at a much cheaper rate than would presently apply. The cost of additional ammunition alone, right now, would set one back a bunch! Throw in "Joe Expert's" training class (how the HCP System is currently carried out, in the private sector) and I could see the cost of getting a EHCP getting out of hand very quickly! That being said, additional training is never a bad thing to my way of thinking.

That was a hit piece, if I've ever read one. Loved out they went out of state to get "expert" opinions from Gun Control groups, about what the law is about. No doubt where the writer's bias is at all! Dollars to donuts Mr. Scottie LeMashmit never saw a Handgun Carry Bill he liked either. Seems like most of those police union groups always oppose them, while their members embrace them. Also loved the hyperbole about "the Old West" and "blood in the streets". Good God, we've been hearing that same BS since before Florida revamped their Handgun Carry Laws back in the 80's. Same old argument that has never been proven to be true!

Look online. Otherwise, it’s just plain hard to find.

Signage can be a problem down there too, but it's not as disconcerting as the lack of street lights. Back on topic. I said that I carried a S&W 442 down there, but I didn't call out the load. I carried my favorite .38 SD load, which is a bit out of the norm. I still have a box of the old Federal Nyclad 125gr HP. I'd love to find some more of it, but it's nonobtainium since Federal stopped making it some years ago.

We look forward to a range report.

We stayed in Mt. Pleasant. Really nice place, though the street lighting or lack of street lighting takes some getting use too.

I carried my S&W 442 all weekend down in Charleston, SC.

Truly sorry for all the lives lost, that were spoken of here. While COVID has touched my family and friends, no one has died. I feel fortunate in this. Though, I have a 78 year Uncle who has had all the boosters, just get over his second bout in the last 6 months. He's wife, who is the same age, and is vaccinated, never got it. Just found out minutes ago, that my unvaccinated Son-in-Law has been diagnosed with COVID.

I agree with the above summary. I would add that the vaccines do work, somewhat. I think at least half the respondents of the previous umpteen thousand posts about this, would agree that those that had them, are less prone to have severe COVID symtoms. Do they keep you from getting COVID, like the vaccines we all grew up with? They do not. Our Healthcare system has revised the definition of what a vaccine should be.

I have P-Mags for a Gen 2 Glock 17. They work fine! Cheaper than Glock too. I would not hestitate to buy more.

Shot my SDS U.S. Army model 1911. To be honest, my Walther PPK/s wears my hand out more than that big ole 1911a1. The Walther is not a fun range gun. I see some rubber wrap-around grips in my future for that one.

Do not own a Colt revolver, but have owned three in the past. I do own several Rugers. Two semi-autos and one Blackhawk convertible. Their semi-autos are reliable and affordable. The revolvers are out of the range I want to pay anymore, though. If any of you hear of me paying more than six bills for anything firearms related, y’all better call the guys in those little white jackets, cause I done lost my marbles. Two many good firearms out there for under that, price figure.

Glad I got my Saiga when they were cheap!

Why couldn't Ruger not have made it a 9 shot?

Will someone explain to me why AKs are so much more than a decent AR?

Honestly see S&W going the way of Colt soon. They seem to be on the same trajectory. High prices. shoddy workmanship, high opinion of themselves. But you all know, I've not been a S&W M&P fan boy for a long time. Since I bought a S&W Compact M&P 9mm. There are other makers of semi-autos that I think are better, both foreign and domestic. Give me a Ruger or an FN any day, over anything S&W makes. Love their revolvers, but I was priced out of that market a long time ago, by them. I'm a purveyor of working firearms, not expensive ones.

This sounds like it would be a very good bill to pass!

You will be much happier with the G2, G3 or G4, which ever one they replace it with. I've had two PT111, G2s and both are very good pistols. Some hate the trigger, but it never bothered me.

I figure it will go like the bump stock ban, imposed under Trump. A big bunch of nothing. You just won't see them anymore. I never did see how this got around the NFA of 1934, in the first place, not that I agree with it. I don't see what it matters, if a rifle is 10" or 16". It's all stupid.