dawgdoc

The vote is supposed to be on Tuesday.

This probably does not affect many people here, but it could be important for a few of you (or your friends or family). Under current Georgia law, if you move to Georgia, you cannot carry a weapon (handgun or knife with a blade over 5 inches) until you receive a Georgia Weapons Carry License, even if you already have a reciprocating permit. So in other words, as long as you live in Tennessee, you can carry your handgun here in public just like a resident. As soon as you move to Georgia, then the State no longer recognizes your HCP. If you move to Catoosa County and establish residency, you might only have to wait 2 weeks before you can legally carry outside your home, work, or car. If, on the other hand, you move to one of the Atlanta Metro counties, you might wait as long as 2-3 months (which is illegal by the way, but they still do it). HB 292 is a bill that will address this issue as well as others. If the law were to change, then you would have 90 days in which you could carry on your old HCP before having to get a GWCL. There are some other important things in the bill, some major (decreasing the time limit to do the background checks, providing ways to appeal mental health rulings) and some minor (clarifying definitions in the current law), but the new resident issue is one of the most important things. The new resident change was part of a similar law that turncoat Governor Deal vetoed last year because it decriminalized church carry (the horror!). The church language has been removed, so there should be no reason this shouldn't pass. I was prompted to write this post after reading the recent post about a TN resident going to school in Alabama. If a grad student (over 21) from TN wanted to establish residency in GA and carry a gun, this type of quirk in the law could affect them. Right now HB 292 is waiting to be voted out of the Senate Rules Committee so it can get a full vote in the Senate. I don't think there were any amendments, so if passed, it would be sent to the Governor.

I thought for sure that I saw a few of the Heapsters with both long guns and a handgun. Maybe 1 out of every 10 had what I thought was a firearm. As for the junk cars, I figured that within the show's story, it was due to easier maintenance. The real reason is that by leaving out modern vehicles, they might get more options for car advertisements. Also, they notably used a product placement Hyundai SUV in the second or third season that wasn't in production at the time the scenes were set. With old cars, I don't consciously register the year or model like with a new car, so it doesn't really date the scenes.

Those Heapsters would be more at home in a 70s dystopia sci-fi movie. I can suspend my disbelief about zombies, but why are these people acting so weird? Bath salts?

I just assumed that Father Gabriel was entrusted to bury various caches of stuff. In other words, if Rick were to hold back stuff from Negan, he wouldn't tell everyone his plans, as someone like Spencer would have ratted him out. Other than Michonne and Carl, Rick seems to be putting the most trust in Father Gabriel lately. He trusts Gabriel with the life of his infant daughter, so it stands to reason that he might have given Gabriel a mission to gradually hide some stuff. Didn't Gabriel back up Rick when Rick told Negan that Maggie was dead? I think he showed the graves to Negan. I assumed that they had buried some supplies in a false grave (maybe even under an old Walker corpse) as some insurance against Negan. In the latest episode, Gabriel had some type of map with circles on it, which I assumed to be his caches. If I am right that Rick and Gabriel have a secret mission, then it would make sense for Rick to play dumb and give Gabriel the benefit of the doubt when everyone else assumed that Gabriel had abandoned them.

The original reason why people had to go to the Probate Judge to apply for a license was so that the white judge could determine if the applicant was an undesirable character (meaning black). In fact, just about every gun control law in Georgia has its roots in racism with the goal to keep blacks disarmed After seeing that report about the Floridian who was hassled up north (Maryland, I think), I think it is a good idea to have a fragmented system to prevent a central database. In his case, it appeared that the LEO had some way to access the fact that the guy had a CC license even though the guy was not carrying and did not tell the LEO. In the case of Dekalb county (where I was born, FWIW), I think the legislature needs to put in severe, enforceable penalties for the Probate judges who violate the time constraints of the law. I remember seeing someone comment that Dekalb Probate gives excuses like paperwork backlog as to why they can't get Georgia Weapons Carry License issued in the required amount of time, yet once gay marriage was legalized, they were ready and eager to issue those marriage licenses.

Sounds like you must have been somewhere like Dekalb County. Outside the Atlanta area, we have more normal times (2 weeks or so in Catoosa).

Must be Georgia. Although it is true that Georgia does not have a codified sign law like Tennessee, I have seen legal advice that you should not admit to ignoring such a sign because it could be argued that it would be equivalent to ignoring a trespassing notice. So "signs carry weight" is not codified in Georgia law, but there are ways the wrong LEO and DA could charge you as such. Doesn't actually happen a lot, but it is a possibility. Here is a good reference for Georgia: http://www.georgiapacking.org/law.php To add to TennDawg's list of prohibited places: any courthouse (even if it has no security screening); within 150 ft of a polling place with active voting; in a jail or prison; in a mental health facility; in a house of worship unless permission is given by the governing authority. In the case of churches, it means they are prohibited places unless they have "opted in" to allowing carrying, but you won't necessarily know that unless you ask, and the penalty for carrying in a prohibited church is $100 fine with no arrest, unlike the other prohibited places. You can carry on school property "when the license holder carries or picks up a student.." Notice it does not specify while in a vehicle. Also allows keeping the gun in a vehicle while in a school zone..

I hate finding murmurs on puppies. Best case scenario, it goes away. Worst case, it is pathological and will lead to premature heart failure. Unfortunately, the only way to know is by doing moderately expensive diagnostics. It is really sad when an owner has already become attached to a puppy. It also really sucks having to euthanize a 3-year old dog for congestive heart failure.

Technically, they are just outside Chattanooga in Rossville, GA.

I have seen reports from this summer about random screenings at WDW. At that time, they were only having some people go through metal detectors. They may have some type of screening at Downtown Disney. For the resort hotels themselves, I would imagine it would be difficult to screen at those properties. When I stayed at Port Orleans, there was no way to screen anything other than excluding non-guests at the entrance to the parking lot. You could easily CC anywhere else in that area.

It gets worse--the knife-wielding evil clown in Ft. Oglethorpe turns out to be 7-years old. His father let him go play outside dressed like that.

We've had clowns in NW Georgia. One actually chased some children with a (hopefully) fake knife. They got a picture of it. A kid in my neighborhood saw someone in a clown mask. Some teenager is going to get themselves shot. What a dumb way to die.

I had a boxer charge me and my dog at full speed as we walked down the road. Besides a gun and knife, I also had an ultrasonic pet deterrent device. I shot the sound gun at that dog--he yelped and ran back the way he came. My dog also cowed, but it was better than getting in a fight. The dog also remembered us on subsequent walks and stayed on his deck. One thing I worry about if you had to shoot a dog is the pavement. Can't bullets ricochet off concrete or asphalt and go in weird directions? I recall a LEO who tried to shoot a woman's dog (who wasn't actually aggressive anyway), missed, and the bullet hit the woman in the leg. I think I would have a hard time shooting down at a running dog and hitting it. I would feel much more comfortable if it was on a lawn or dirt.

I pocket carried an LCP a lot because I was paranoid that an untucked shirt might ride up. Their law allows for brief, accidental exposure like that, but who gets to determine what "brief" is? I still carried IWB with an untucked shirt, but not as much as I do here. As far as I know, printing does not count as exposed, so I did not worry what the gun in my pocket looked like. Every time I cross the border from FL into my home state, I am relieved to switch to OWB with no worries. Heat + humidity + Remora against bare skin gets irritating after awhile.

How many of those cleaning accidents were actual negligence vs. suicides that were being covered up? Also, the local news reports this story as "accidental" shootings rather than "unintentional" or "negligent." That irritates me.

Georgia had this same problem when our laws changed. Atlanta and other places had to be sued to get them to comply. After that, the other municipalities started following the law or face their own lawsuits. Now, we have idiot judges who decided the law allows private entities who rent public parks and other places to ban guns, even though the law specifies that can only happen on private property. I use this analogy in regards to a private entity renting a park: since the government cannot ban blacks from a park, they cannot give that power to a renter of a park either, even if the KKK wanted to have a whites only event in a rented park. Likewise, the government can't give the ability to ban guns to a private entity since it does not possess that power. It makes sense to me, but I'm not a lawyer.

MAD King, I would write a polite email asking them about this rule. I would phrase it in a way as if I thought they were inadvertently operating under the old law, and point out the change in the law. I would suggest they change the rule to "no illegal carrying of guns" so that they could save face, keep their security theater, and acknowledge that they can't ban permitted carry. I used this method when I wrote to the Riverbend festival, and it worked.

You would think the head trauma to that one zombie that fell head first would have had some effect. As for the other ones, it seems like quite an oversight to have them stand on what should be multiple broken bones. They could have at least had them dragging themselves. The walkers almost seem like an afterthought at this point.

I've wondered about a person carrying on their own property but then checking their mail. When I check my mail, I am typically standing in the street, and the mail box itself is on the right-of-way. Here in Georgia, they apparently consider a school bus stop to be something ridiculous (like 12 feet from the curb, which would put a kid halfway into my yard). If your house was next to a school zone, how would that affect you? I know realistically that someone is probably not going to be arrested checking their mail, but if the perfect storm arose (an open carrier checking their mail which happens to be right next to a school combined with a nervous nellie and an anti-gun DA), there could be trouble.

I forgot the mag holders which Jct1911 mentioned. They seem to send them free with a lot of orders, and I have found that with a little stretching, I can fit two Lc9 magazines or two 9mm 1911 magazines side-by-side. I use them to pocket carry the extra magazines.

I have been using a Remora for an LC9 almost daily for 5 years. I started with the plain Remora, then I got the tuckable option. It is nearly invisible unless you know exactly for what to look. The reason I got the tuckable one was that the original grips so well that sometimes my shirt would pull on the holster as I moved from sitting to standing, and I would have to stick it back down. The tuckable kind also has a snap on belt clip that can be used to position it. I recently got a new generation Ulti clip, added my own snap at the bottom, and use the Ulti Clip to keep the holster exactly where I want it to be. The Ulti clip hides behind a belt, mostly. I use that configuration with a T-shirt/dress shirt combo; T-####/untucked button up shirt; and bare skin/untucked T-shirt combo. It does get a little sweaty when directly against the skin. I used the regular Remora for a variety of uses; it can hold my LC9 in place where loose, elastic-band gym shorts; it holds even better in beltless khakis. I also have Remoras for an LCP (with and without the sweatshield). In my opinion, the extra material of the sweatshield may protect the gun, but it contributes to more sweating. An LCP in a regular Remora is invisible, and is easy to use for pocket carry (which I used in Florida). I also have a reinforced top version for a full-size 1911. Unlike with LC9, I don't forget it is there, but I was able to tolerate but not enjoy wearing that big of a gun IWB for a full work-day. One advantage of the Remora is that when using the toilet, it is easy to remove, put in a pocket, and then put back IWB with minimal fuss. I used to use a Remora to holster a gun between the seat and the center console of our cars; I suspect it would have stayed put in a crash like the guy doing cartwheels. Now we have a car with airbags in that area, so I have erred on the side of caution and don't do that anymore.

If you do online chat, save a copy of the chat transcript. Charter told me one thing in the chat but tried to add on fees before the install. I declined the install, but I could have made them honor the deal.

I'm going to put my educator hat on briefly. If you want to be precise, pit vipers and coral snakes are venomous, whereas toads are poisonous. Venomous animals usually inject a toxin into another animal's body. Poisonous animals introduce a toxin passively, such as by being eaten or touching the skin of the other animal. Some would consider it pedantic, but it is a difference used by many scientists. To herpetology-minded folks, venomous vs poisonous is akin to clip vs magazine for gun people. We know what you are talking about, but we choose to use the more correct terminology.

I agree. There is plenty of sand below the fall line in south Georgia, and the number of snake species only get more numerous. At the science museum and wildlife center at which I worked (taking care of the herps), we regularly used sand as a substrate.