Oh Shoot

  They're legal to tote here - unloaded. Like really unloaded, not a round on you anywhere.   - OS

  Well, unlike TN, OR is considered "open carry friendly" state. I don't know their laws, but that may extend to rifles too.   Here, of course, you are subject to be legally stopped and interrogated for open carrying any firearm.   - OS

  In a bureaucracy, always assume there's more than the immediate logic would suggest, and always assume whoever makes the action has strings to compel it. You may not always be right, but assuming otherwise, you'll generally be wrong.   - OS

  By the way, that's not a bad epitaph to sum me up. Been meaning to make a will, hmm....thanks!   Actually, better, just smart man and wise guy  ... even age hasn't necessarily bestowed wisdom, I'm afraid.   Or even better, cut to the chase: smart ass and wise guy! That's it!

  Conspiracy? You gotta be kiddin. Seems obvious to me. It's simply ...     That's the word.   I've actually dealt with them a bit even in this incarnation. For money, even. But I think I'd recognize this one even if I hadn't. Sticks out like a hanging curve ball.   - OS

I'm crackin up here

  Nah, they said they pulled it for that. They pulled it to quell more anti-gun bad press from it, as the legislature will have it's own firearms PR battles to weather during all this.   If ya'll can get off the Spartacus-esque "rights and freedom" issue for a bit, you'll see that this is a good thing.   Seems obvious to me that the TN political conservative majority, such as it is, is trying to help us keep our frigging guns.   - OS

  I wouldn't enjoy the part about being stopped and inspected by every cop that saw me, though. And you know half of them would take a half hour to call it in to find out the law on it.   - OS

  You can't legally walk around in public with a rifle and ammo at the same time in TN anyway, so what would really be the point?   - OS

  You've run out of adjectives, so how can you possibly describe MSNBC, which is waaaaayyyy left of CNN?   - OS

  No, number of firearms doesn't really apply, and is as we already know plenty vague enough for leeway on their part but not so much yours if charged.   I believe this would be the pertinent part from USC 18, 921, Definitions:   "The term “engaged in the business” means—   (for selling):   as applied to a dealer in firearms, as defined in section 921 (a)(11)(A), a person who devotes time, attention, and labor to dealing in firearms as a regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit through the repetitive purchase and resale of firearms, but such term shall not include a person who makes occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection or for a hobby, or who sells all or part of his personal collection of firearms;   (for gunsmithing):   as applied to a dealer in firearms, as defined in section 921 (a)(11)( b ) a person who devotes time, attention, and labor to engaging in such activity as a regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit, but such term shall not include a person who makes occasional repairs of firearms, or who occasionally fits special barrels, stocks, or trigger mechanisms to firearms;"   - OS

  Maybe they'll just be open on race days or something. ;)

  Why they gonna stick it up there in middle of nowhere? ;)

  Probably. GOP super-majority here -- this ain't Cuomo and NYS, where he'd probably get life or something.   Oh, I forgot, this wasn't political at all, only about rights.  Right.   - OS

Nothin' gets by ol' Charlie...

  Starts?   We overthrew a government over a frigging tax on paper and tea a while back. :)   We sure have come a long way from those days, eh?   - OS

  Nah.     Is a license required to engage in the business of selling small arms ammunition? No. A license is not required for a dealer in ammunition only, but a manufacturer or an importer of ammunition must be licensed. [18 U.S.C. 922 (a)(1)( B )] http://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/licensees-conduct-of-business.html#interchangeable-ammo-sales   - OS

  Only the earthlings.       Yup, sun's down, out of the crypt!   - OS

  Well, I edited post, as first Bush didn't do it, wasn't thinking.

Might not be much prob banning all those firearms and ammo coming in from outside the US, just like Slick Willie and  Bush The Elder Dubya did with the Chinese stuff.   Obviously, further crashing the economy seems to be the least of his worries.   - OS

I'm fine "currently". I don't know if I'll be currently fine in three months though,  as I ain't touching my billion round stash (heh heh, everybody thinks DHS bought that).   - OS

  I believe any illegality is on the seller's end only, to be precise?   - OS

Pretty tenuous to opine about a narrow nuance within a larger possibly unprecedented legal quagmire, so I won't.   No need to thank me for this content-free post. :)   - OS    

BATF can file charges anytime they like, for one gun if they want.   It's a burden of proof thing, preponderance of evidence, so I've never seen news on anyone actually charged where it wasn't pert durn obvious what they were doing, at least to me.   Not looking for the link right now, but heck, that guy in Cleveland they finally busted recently was damn near on the Fortune 500 list. And they had even given him a free warning a year before. ('course, he bought a full auto from an undercover agent to add icing to his cake, too).   - OS

  Probably not just yet. Things don't happen in a flash, and it's the weekend.   From 39-17-1352:   "...the permit holder has thirty (30) days from the date appearing on the notice of suspension or revocation to request a hearing on the suspension or revocation."   "The applicant shall have a right to petition the general sessions court of the applicant's county of residence for judicial review of departmental denial, suspension or revocation of a permit. At the review by the general sessions court, the department shall be represented by the district attorney general."   Doesn't seem to say anything about an appeal beyond that, so dunno if normal court procedures allow it or what.   - OS