Oh Shoot

  Yeah, I've never seen any paint come off of them myself. The brake cleaner evaporates PDQ really. I use on most all my firearms now and then too.   - OS

  Such old news, figgered everybody knows. Got any updates on how that War of Northern Aggression thang is going? ;) :)   - OS

  Yeah, NRA grades him D-minus, so could be a bit worse.   - OS

  http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2015/oct/08/loudon-tenn-resident-sues-knoxville-gun-bfair/329329/   "City spokesman Eric Vreeland, no relation to the plaintiff...."   - OS

  Just pop by a CVS that has the Minute Clinic. Minute Clinic hours at my local one at 5511 K.P.   M-F 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM Sat 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM Sun 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM   Never mind. Rereading, I see you meant taking time off to be with sick kids, not just to get a shot.   - OS

Disassemble, douche with brake cleaner, wipe: works for me.   And unlike any other mags, I coat them with CLP and wipe afterwards.   - OS

  Further, "may issue", has not been struck down for the states. Which of course in  five states or more generally means "fat chance".   It looked like the San Diego case was gonna work it's way up, but it's just been sitting, dunno exactly what the story is there.   - OS

  Dunno is it was "disapproving" as much as "wow, serious stuff"? I mean, nobody would exactly grin at such, even our battle hardened TWD cadre.   - OS

  Same situation if they don't hear it. Means lower court decision stands as case law for any local jurisdiction to be essentially as restrictive as they want as long as they don't ban every type firearm completely.   The "degree of infringement" on something that is not to be infringed at all will be ongoing -- neither Heller nor McDonald was definitive about that at all.   - OS

  Well, I dare say I've probably seen most everything that walks or slithers killed on the road at some time or other except bear, though they are somewhat frequently too here and there. Grew up on edge of boonies, lived in them half my life, only been a townie since I was like 50.   Interstate slaughter was really something back when they were new cutting though all that previously wild acreage and farmland. Yep, I was already driving before they were done, wasn't even complete between Nooga and Knoxville when I started college, ya have to remember I knew Adam's housecat and all.   Have hit my share of this and that too, especially due to my proclivity for roaring around on small roads in my younger days. One I really felt bad about was a whopper snapping turtle. Took him home and ate him as atonement. :)  I only mention that one because I saw one of the biggest ones ever right here in a creek off the greeenway a couple years ago -- a rivulet really, it doesn't even have a year round flow, amazing.   I'm sure some of the highway dept guys could elucidate us on the variety of roadkill per annum, which probably includes damn near anything that walks, crawls, or slithers. And yeah, could probably find some guy who says he scraped a black painter into the ditch too. ;)   - OS

  I'm cheap, but I ain't free.

I carry every day. I've been lots of guns shows at both Chilhowee and the Expo. I check in any gun I'm bringing to sell. ;)   Where's the "them signs ain't got legal wording on them" crowd? :) :)   - OS    

  Well, I guess you're right -- since you are 1/6,000,000th of the state population and all, you should be a plenty wide enough sample. ;)     Ironically, I myself,  as also that huge 1/6,000,000th sample of the state population, have seen both foxes and a coyote dead on the road, right here in the middle of Knoxville no less - the coyote only about six months ago, likely the same one I've seen alive nearby a number of times, and more than one fox (I used to have any number of them right behind my condo, along with possums, coons, and whatnot in a small remaining urban wildlife cul de sac).   Then again, I walk the streets. A lot. Easier to notice what the road kill is.  Might have something to do with it, dunno. Or that foxes and coyotes are primarily urbanites these days. ;)   - OS

De Wolves were brought into the mix two seasons ago, have had little snippets of them, perhaps high time they figure in big time.   On the other hand, maybe it was Gabriel blowing his Horn. Heh heh. Bringing down the "divine retribution" or whatever. Seriously though, he's nuts and has only gotten nuttier over time, and now has been rebuffed by the head cheese.   - OS

They don't need to be acknowledged by TWRA for that to happen now. Which is simply more evidence how rare they are, if extant at all in any real sense here, meaning breeding populations compared to a once in blue moon lost wanderer. No shortage of bubbas to whack one and publicize it. Forget just hunters -- if you can go 100 years and not have an extant species of mammal killed by a car in TN, that's about as rare as it gets. Yet hundreds, maybe thousands, of people have "seen" them here. Right. And even given those odds with "normal" ones, what are the odds of all the BLACK ones really being seen when nobody since the advent of photography has documented one dead or alive. NOBODY. EVER. ANYWHERE. In it's entire range, of which TN would compare to like 1% or something of just its current known extent. Yet lots of people have "seen" "black painters" in TN too. Riiiggghhhttt. - OS

Btw, Morgan (Lennie James), if you haven't heard him talk as himself, is yet another Brit in the series.   So, Rick, The Gov,  Morgan and Maggie (sort of - has the Brit accent). Any others?   - OS

  Seems like the gun faux pas would have to be on purpose by now. Surely enough folks' have hooted that the producers/writers would know better, if they cared to be realistic about it.   Started with almost the first scene in whole series regarding the Glock safety -- and the "ejected revolver casing" from Andrea's demise was surely a classic too.   Lest we forget:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyRk24aIXdw   - OS

  Yeah, I get it .. now. But took me over 30 min. :) In fairness, was cooking a late dinner during. I always count on watching each one twice anyway!   - OS

  As previously mentioned, he never even beat Florida either.   - OS

Well, I must say say right off the bat that the black and white vs color scenes seem somewhat confusing.   "A mix between color and black-and-white scenes explain to viewers what happened in the Alexandria Safe-Zone following the deaths of Reg (Steve Coulter) and Pete (Corey Brill), as well as how the group of survivors got to face their latest threat … the biggest horde of walkers yet."   Maybe it is consistent with b/w = past and color=present, but hasn't been totally clear thus far at least to me. I guess because it's a "past" we didn't see, and we've lived the whole series pretty much in "real time" till now.   Even some of the ones already shown in b/w were in color in the preview for "First Time Again".   https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=30&v=s5dAxjZpnrY   - OS

  As you surely know, felonies are often pled down to 'meanors, along with more than the average slap if the 'meanor had been the original charge.   And of course repeat convictions of the same 'meanor often get a proportionally bigger slap, or similar for multiple counts of the same or different 'meanors all pled into one. We just don't know the facts.   -  OS

  I'd say you are, since unlike federal law,  all felons are not banned from possession of long guns in TN, only one who:   - Has been convicted of a felony involving the use or attempted use of force, violence, or a deadly weapon; or - Has been convicted of a felony drug offense.   Only handguns are verboten for all felons.   And btw, we don't know for sure the lady in question here was indeed convicted of a felony?   - OS

Wow, a state would have to be insane to implement that. Thank gawd Tennesssee .. oh wait.   - OS

  Homo sapiens has largely always believed all sorts of stuff for which there is no evidence, and perception is altered to fit what we already "want to believe". From fanciful creatures all the way to the conceit of one's eternal consciousness. Largely due to our ongoing progression of attempting to explain the natural universe without adequate information, and resistance to that information once available when it conflicts with preexisting beliefs.   Not to mention the psychology of the simple tall tale within our ongoing folklore. A bear is ho-hum, "dog bites man" is not news, even a cougar where highly unlikely isn't enough, better to make it a black one. ;)   Perhaps melanistic cougars exist. But there's never been any evidence in the hundreds of years of the cougar being identified as a species, so if they do they must be exceedingly rare indeed, and hence the number of "sightings" logically totally out of proportion to any basis in fact. So pick your own motive for folks saying so. I choose "people - they're the worst". :)   - OS