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If the gun shop was negligent in following the law with regards to background checks and straw purchases, by all means, crucify them.  But why was this established in a civil case and not a criminal one first?

Safelite is awesome if you're in a pinch and don't have much time to schedule around, but if you want to help out a local business, those small glass shops sometimes live and die by the auto glass repairs they do.  I know the one I worked for as a kid was very dependent on that type of work.  They may even came to your location as well.

  Huh?

  How would this be "absolutely horrible for gun owners" if SCOTUS upholds the lower courts decision?  If they don't take the case, the lower courts decisions would still stand, and nothing would change.    If it gets put on the docket at SCOTUS, this case is either going to be a huge victory, or an oh-well-we-tried moment for gun rights.  If we lose, the bans already in place from the usual suspects stay and everything is the same as it was before.  But if we win, dependent on the ruling, it could strike down any AWB in the country and prevent others from being enacted.    Now, it's not a given that the court will take this case.  I would put the odds at 50/50.  One thing that makes me think we have a decent chance if the court wants this case is that they would be looking to review something that has already been upheld at the district and appeals level.  Take this point: A federal district judge upheld the law, and so did a federal appeals court panel by a 2-1 vote.   That's how they did it with Heller, and again in McDonald.  Both times, the circuit courts and the appeals courts had ruled against gun owners, but SCOTUS took the case anyway, and we got two huge wins.   Contrast that with the gay marriage case where they specifically waited for a conflict form appeals courts before taking the case, almost because they had to, and I like our chances in this can't really lose more than we have even if we lose scenario.

Another link for comparisons sake. http://www.ibtimes.com/bill-banning-religious-doctrine-tennessee-public-schools-called-islamophobic-muslim-2139692   Key point to realize in all this...the talk of religion in question is in a history class.  Kind of hard to discuss the development of the Middle East without dwelling on what they believe and why.  At some point you have to talk about what you're talking about.  I'd expect similar analysis of religious beliefs for the establishment of the Catholic church within the Roman Empire, and the Reformation.

Never did it for pistols, but shooting steel is the best way to practice once you have a gun dialed in. Way more fun and confidence building than paper targets. One shooting class I took in the Army, we used LaRue targets that came up a few seconds after you knocked them down, and they were awesome. But they sure are pricey. We were shooting at them with ball 5.56mm, and our instructors had us shoot from at least 75-100m back for safety purposes. This is one setup I saw at an infantry company's COP in Afghanistan. Simple enough design to steal if you know someone who has the materials and tools. Pfft...five years is nothing. I've seen threads from 2000-2001 brought back to life on some sites so a new member can add in a "oh yeah, I was there when this happened" to a back-in-the-day story.

This is the most gun friendly SCOTUS we're likely to see for a generation.  If good things can't come from this court, imagine how much luck we might have with a few Hillary appointed Justices added to the mix.   I say taking well placed legal shots (no pun intended) now is an acceptable risk.

I don't see anything past three more wins on the Titans schedule.  Miami is next week, and they're a mess, but they are coming off the bye with a lot to prove, so it's no gimmie.  They might take one each from Jacksonville and Houston...but that's it.  Everybody else is playing better than the Titans.    If the Titans are picking past the top 5 in the 2016 draft, it's because they traded down for some reason.  Marcus is a good start to rebuilding, but the o-line is still sub par for the NFL...which is also why the run game is lacking.  That should be the focus for the next draft.

For my $0.02, I would talk to a child psychologist, and maybe even have your daughter attend a session with one first to gauge if she's ready.  The part where you mention she is making jokes about this has me wondering if the reality of it all has sunk in yet to her.    Depending on how much she's been shielded from the visuals of all this, having it hit like a dropkick when she see's her mother in a prison uniform would be impactful to her, to your wife on the other end, and to you in the middle of it all.  I'd seek to avoid that first and foremost.  If your wife was away for longer it would be an issue you would have to deal with, but six months is very manageable to hold off on the visitation if that's best for your daughter.  Hell, Soldiers go longer than that on overseas tours before they get leave or their unit comes home, so this is something you family can recover from when the time comes to welcome your wife back home.   Best of luck with it all.

Sweet setup.  Perfect for shooting in the backwoods.       Good luck with that in Tennessee from about April until the end of October.

This guy is lucky I've never had a winning lottery ticket and too much time to waste.  I'd be in there with a dishdasha, a shemagh, and my cell phone camera recording to see how far he is willing to trust someone's word.

  I had the shot or the mist (which I truly hated) every year in the Army, and I was able to get it as a contractor as well.  Maybe I felt a little off for a day or two later, but I never got the flu.  End of 2013, I come home from Afghanistan, move to Murfreesboro and enrolled at MTSU.  Had the flu twice that year, one of those times coming at mid-term time for spring semester and making me miserable while writing papers and taking exams.    Lesson learned.  Needless to say I'm getting it on my own every year from here on out.

The student clinic at my school has them already.  I'm just going to knock it out when I go in for my annual checkup & blood work next week.   If nothing else, I have to protect myself from all of you who don't get a shot.

  Europe is still way ahead of us in that regard.

I own two Surefire's. One I got in 2007, the other in 2008, so, that should say something about their reliability and longevity. The only groans I have from them come from the price of CR123 batteries.

  Since they all work for agencies with plenty of other work to be done, I can't think of any state employee that wouldn't have a job if the HCP went away, and I'm even thinking about things like server maintenance and janitorial staff at all the facilities that have some piece of the process.  To the best of my knowledge, there is no special job just for carry permits and nothing else.   Renewals should be a buck and some change to cover the cost of the card and ink for the machine.  Everything else is padding the coffers.

  "They" were the Republican Congress at the time and had the Constitutional authority to impeach President Clinton.  All this current Republican Congress can do is pull her before panels, and that's had limited success so far.  Then you have Kevin McCarthy with his blurb of truth declaring the benefit of the Benghazi panel has been politically, not accountability based.   Your opinion of the current Democratic party isn't what the party cases about.  It's the image of the party in the media that reaches moderates, undecideds, and people registering to vote before an election.  The "very close adviser telling her to lawyer up" story is being pushed by a political gossip writer who is promoting a book he wrote that was released last week.  He's had issues with unnamed sources, and playing loose with quotes, and other hack journalism episodes, so I'm not taking anything Ed Klein says seriously.

We all knew a gun control plan from Hillary was coming, she just waited for a tragedy to roll it out after for timing effect.  How else was it ready to go out of the box like that?   She's losing too much momentum to Bernie, and needs this issue to try and get herself back into the graces of the far left.       You guys think Hillary has a chance to go to jail...that's cute.  The Obama administration may let her fall on her sword by quietly dropping out of the race (paging Joe Biden) and fading from public view, but no way do they let her drag the party down with an arrest and a trial that will own the headlines worse than Casey Anthony.

  Never shot the scout, but I'd imagine the quality of the build is up there with the 16" SOCOM, which I couldn't get enough time behind when my two of my friends each had one.    Also think the .308 meets the OP's needs.  Just too universally available at market rates in these crazy times to pass up. 

  I don't think that a Russia/US engagement will kick off anything, but I do worry about any incident between Russia and another NATO country escalating quickly.  Case in point, Russian jets acting in Syria appear to have "accidentally" strayed into Turkish airspace, and the Turks are hardly the kind of people to turn the other cheek to those kinds of insults.    Theoretically, we're a mistake away from wondering if Article V of NATO is worth going to war over.

  Sorry, Ramsey and his cohort are the problem in the legislative sense.   Colleges, especially public ones like TBR schools are completely dependent on state money for their day to day operations from direct funding, and the way the state helps to subsidize tuition for students from scholarships.  If the legislature voted to force these schools that take direct state funding to allow carry with a valid HCP, they would bitch and moan for a news cycle, then go on cashing the checks.  Nothing matters more to the higher education lobby than keeping the spigot flowing with cash to the schools.

  That's the exception for us...the Russians do it alarmingly often.   

They forgot to show all that Russian firepower missing the target, hitting civilians, and the Russians claiming they got what they wanted anyway.

Pete and I were out at the TWRA Stones River Range. Very well kept facility, and the staff there are great guys who obviously take a lot of pride in the services they provide. The rain kept people away but it wasn't bad at all, mostly a hard drizzle for the few hours we were there. We even had the range to ourselves until about 4pm when three other people showed up. Also, Pete's SKS shoots as great as it looks, and that 1903 is a beast, but pulling the trigger on a part of military history like that wasn't something I was about to pass up. Pete was even gracious enough to let a guy who came over to check it out get a few shots in with it. As stated above, that was at 50yds, and for those of you not familiar with my target of choice, the 10-ring is a 2" diameter...which puts me at 4MOA from that distance if I can do math correctly. I had a scope, and it was set to 6x for my shooting since my eyes are the weakest link when it comes to employing my weapons system at any distance past HCP qual range, and I don't take my glasses to the range. I was sitting at the benches they have there, using a sandbag on top of an ammo can for support. I had a standard mil-spec AR, complete with regular trigger, 16" barrel, and I was shooting PMC X-TAC 5.56mm, 62gr M855. I'm sure someone on YouTube can do better but I like the way that 10-ring looks. I'll push out to 100 next time I take that gun to the range. It had some cycling issues, so I need to check into that first. Those five shots at the bottom of the paper were me trying ammo in different mags, from different support setups to troubleshoot the problem after firing the 20 rounds in the middle.

Screenshot of the top of The Washington Post's website as view from a mobile device.