Oh Shoot

  As far as the new law, that's wrong. ANY person with a carry permit (from any state) may now store their loaded weapons in their privately owned vehicles.   The existing exception for "non student adults" seems almost certainly to only cover unloaded firearms, though I've never seen even an AG opinion on that.   - OS

  Maybe it's what's his name's idea (his aide) check the progress of zed babies or something. ;)   - OS

  When I was still FedExing down there 'round '06 or '07, there was a fire on the Smokies side of lower Wears Valley that burned over a two mile area for frigging two weeks or more, and don't remember conditions being bone dry or anything. Remember several good rains during it, everybody would say, "that'll get it under control". Didn't. Amazingly little loss of housing though.   Bluff Mountain has had a scarey one or two in the last decade too.   - OS

  Oh, okay, that 'splains it.   Keeping my fingers crossed for ya buddy.   - OS

  That makes no sense at all, unless Dollywood owns the resort that went up. DW is way the hell back up on the other side of parkway.   Lost Branch Rd is south of town off Wear's Valley Rd. They're easily 5 miles apart.   Some weird disconnect with that story.   - OS

  Forgot about that little ditty. That's gotta be 4 miles or more, even as crow flies.   - OS

  There's no train line anywhere near that area, can't even think where the nearest one would be...maybe back along 441 near Sevierville I guess, that's like 10 miles at the least via Goose Gap.   And Smoky Mtn. Railway donesn't go anywhere near there either, can't think of any other tracks around there.   - OS

  They couldn't make us buy something either, but they did. Couldn't ban guns because of 2A, but they did.   - OS

Btw, it's "Cyprus", unless we're talking about trees in the soil banks, ah ha.   - OS

Good Lord. It started at that Black Bear Cub Way spread?  I used to deliver there.   edit:  yeah just that short vid in later link gotta be it. I think Black Bear Cove Way is an error in the report.   - OS

How long before O eats it would the guy have to do it?   Meaning, not all lethal doses of various poisons act quickly.   I guess they check for radiation now, though, after that Russian guy got his fatal dose at a lunch.   - OS

  It's federal law that nixes the out of state pistol sale, ya know -- though the other two circumstances are both pretty crummy.   - OS

  Yes,  if they have a valid carry permit (from any state).   - OS

  I have several knock offs and two real ones. But all have 2.5 to 2.75" blades, whippersnapper. ;)   'Bout only thing I've got under the limit are a few small neckers, but they're not folders, so wouldn't pass either. Probably have a cheopo in a junk drawer somewhere that might pass, but as I said, have no "good" knives that would.   - OS

  Vertical shoulder holster has a chance  to get outside of buttock or foot, or both. A more creative way to accomplish Glock Butt.   - OS

  Just read whole statute, seems quite the leap to me, unless they're quartering prisoners in the parking lot.   - OS

  And the colors aren't as saturated/contrasty, at least on mine.

  Of course. Even 39-17-1307 states that "a person commits an offense who carries with the intent to go armed a firearm". One would logically assume that is really intended to mean "on the person".   So is the carry permit process, since the state cannot empirically show that it reduces crime. It could be logically argued that it creates crime, since it makes a criminal out of the any of the other 95% of Tennesseans who might need to carry a firearm even once to protect themselves from a known and imminent threat.   - OS

  I don't have a "good knife" that doesn't lock, doesn't have a molded handle, isn't a fixed blade, and has a blade that's not over 2.36" in length and/or more than 1/2" wide.   - OS

  No. The only thing that prevents anyone having guns on school property is 39-17-1309 and/or if they wanted to post the property, 39-17-1359.   The new "parking lot carry" law specifically negates both of those statutes by naming them as no longer binding as far as guns in personally owned vehicles.   - OS

Methinks the forum doth protest too much. 1. I'd stand in front of a loaded revolver if I wanted an exact head-on pic showing loaded chamber. 2. Gun is question is angled to one side, so looks like a kidney shot at worst. :) - OS

  So will they have been killing for thousands of years by 2030? Just trying to understand the math, 'cause I'm not as good at it as you. ;) Anyway, back to the Pope, eh?   - OS

  Old vid. Wisconsin does now, too. And honors TN permits.   - OS

  Don't see how that will prove to be other than idle bravado. What other state laws would he like to violate while he's at it?   And I'd further opine that expelling students for doing it would cost them big time too,  so they'd have to back off on that PDQ also should they try it.   Of course the practical absurdity of his statement is that unless some HCPer has to use his heater, no one will ever know anyway without a search, which will bring on its own set of problems if they want to try that.   - OS

  Um, Islam is only about 1400 years old.   Course historically, they're still relative amateurs compared to the Catholics and other Christians who killed more heretics and pagans, even managing to eradicate many entire cultures in the New World.   - OS