56FordGuy

I went through this very thing. Where we live there are no utilities other than electricity within 15 miles. Everything has to be wireless/ satellite. Verizon has a product called 4GLTE, they mount an antenna on the side of your house and it connects to a super cell signal. It worked very well and was as reliable as cable, but expensive. They had a 30 gig data limit and I believe it was $120 a month. Speed was good, but not great. It was fine, but we couldn't stream anything, watch YouTube, or download much. We were with them for a year, then got hooked up with a local company called Millhouse. Same type of system with an antenna on the house and a wireless signal, but there is no data cap and it's $50/ month. I'd suggest trying to find a local provider, but that may be tough to do because a lot of TN is close enough to other services that the market may not be very big. If you decide to go with the Verizon setup let me know. We had to buy all the equipment, the antenna, router, etc and now it's all sitting in the closet...well, the antenna is still on the house but I need to take it down. It's about the size of a coffee can.

All out of state transfers must go through an FFL. I believe there are some exceptions for family members, but as a general rule if it's not a TN resident you must go through an FFL. I don't know if you can buy a handgun out of state, he may have to go through a MN FFL which would mean having to ship the pistol up there regardless of his visit.

It was $379 up until a month or two ago. [emoji53] I ordered one this past weekend, hasn't arrived yet. Election or not that's still a pretty good deal.

Brass case .223 has been right around .32-.34 a round for a while now. I doubt it will get much better in the near future.

PSA has been running a deal pretty regularly, $399 for 1k .223 and 10 30 round PMags.

Agreed, I moved almost two years ago and still visit. Whether you continue to visit TGO or not, I wish you the best in NC. It's a nice place and being near family should make it even better.

He got it! Heck of a night for Ross, and not a bad way to retire. Go Cubs!

Still one out. Just one.

I may have to find out how this one ended in the morning. They just rolled out the tarp and the radar doesn't look good.

I can't believe it. I'm seeing it, but just can't believe it.

Chapman just looks tired. Looked tired when he went in, didn't get any better.

Said he was the oldest player to hit a home run in the World Series.

Went this afternoon, took about 20 minutes. They had about 15 machines set up, the lady said that the lines had been longer last week. Glad I got it done before Election Day, I doubt the wait will be any shorter then.

I'd be willing to try the Arby's venison if it was available here.

Saw this posted on another forum. Can't tell if that's just a TN sticker or a TGO bullet hole sticker?

The Nashville country music industry doesn't want musicians, they just want a f***ot in a hat to prance around. Then again, they also fired Hank from the Opry and wouldn't sign Johnny Cash to a record deal, so maybe this is just more of the same from them? Real country is still out there, but like others have said you have to look for it. Dale Watson, Hank III, Wayne Hancock, Corb Lund, Jamey Johnson, Sturgill Simpson, etc. Go listen to "Jack's Truck Stop and Cafe" by Dale, or the albums High Top Mountain or Metamodern Sounds by Sturgill. Find Wayne Hancock on youtube doing Thunderstorms and Neon Signs, or Cold Lonesome Wind. Country still exists, but you won't find it on the radio.

I was in western Nebraska yesterday, just a little south of Scottsbluff. I didn't realize there were moose in the area, from a distance I thought it was a loose horse.

Doing pretty okay. Got a little lease for the cows to run on, bought some new tires for the plow truck. Probably push the cows down out of the mountains in a couple of weeks to winter them nearer the house. Hoping to rebuild a 1937 model Caterpillar this winter, may start on it as soon as this weekend. I need to grade our 5 miles of dirt road out to the highway though, so the Cat may still be a week or two out. It does become a circular argument. We say these laws shouldn't exist, others say they should because the government made them. It's brought on by different world views, and often leaves me wondering if it's even worth debating. It's not, but sometimes I just can't help it.

I just skimmed back through this thread and didn't see anything about a pilot. I'd be glad to address it though. Without knowing the entire question, I'd just say that airlines are private businesses and should make their own security decisions. I have no idea of that relates to your question, but I'm trying. I'm not anti-laws. I'm anti laws that create criminals out of people who are not harming others. That is not freedom. I would rather live in a world where every dolt and doofus can carry a handgun without a permit than have to jump through hoops to prove to the government that I'm good enough to exercise the rights already guaranteed me by the constitution.

No, this is my whole point. These laws exist for no other reason than to control people solely for the sake of controlling them. People are uncomfortable, instead of accepting that freedom means we may be uncomfortable every so often politicians pass these feel good laws so they can say they did something and look good for the voters at election time. Because these victimless laws exist, the officers in Charlotte escalated a situation and approached an individual who was not harming anyone and that individual is now dead. These officers never should have been in a position to make a shoot/ no shoot decision because they never should have approached him. "But it's the law" is my point, it shouldn't be. Laws creating victimless crimes need to be repealed, and there's no more appropriate time to be making that argument than now, when just such a law has resulted in death.

Show me who is harmed by an individual having weed or alcohol and a gun at the same time. I'm not an expert on rape law, but I believe the scenario you're describing is what we have now. That's why our current system has charges for battery, sexual battery, aggravated sexual battery and I believe either extremely aggravated sexual battery among others. Prosecutors pick the charge that they think fits the crime the best. If you're talking about self defense, then as soon as a person is in reasonable fear for their life they can defend themselves or a third party with deadly force, and with lesser degrees of force before that, right? Everyone likes to say freedom isn't free. Well it's not. Freedom means living in a world where the people around you are allowed to do things that might make you uncomfortable. If you don't like the activity, you're free to try and convince them to stop or go elsewhere. Stopping crime before it happens is impossible. After all, if laws worked then there would be no crime. Where do we stop? GPS units on all cars that won't allow you to exceed the speed limit? Your entire income going from your employer to the government, then from the government to you to ensure you can't cheat on your taxes? Seat belt checkpoints at every intersection? I don't know what question you asked that hasn't been answered, but if you'll point it out I'll do my best. I'm still curious how you can say society is harmed by an individual possessing a firearm and marijuana at the same time, and how that makes life harder for those who choose to live in accordance with the laws prohibiting that?

We all get to decide between right and wrong. We are all responsible for the decisions we make. If if you came home and two guys were robbing your house, would you be angry with them? Would you try to stop them? What if they had nice polo shirts with their names on them and Big Jim's Burglary embroidered on the front? "Hey man, we're just doing our jobs. Jim pays us $10/ hour to rob houses. Don't be mad at us, be mad at him!" That's ridiculous, right? The guys doing the robbing know that what they're doing is wrong, even if they are employed to do it. It works the same way for police officers. Enforcing unjust laws is just as wrong as passing unjust laws.

How?

Funny you ask, but just yesterday I had lunch with a group of attorneys to discuss the next steps regarding cannabis legislation here. We're currently getting things in order to make a push to get it on the 2018 ballot. Until you can show me a victim, no crime has been committed. Until a crime has been committed, law enforcement has no reason to get involved. I don't care if the guy has an open beer in one hand, a revolver in the other and is dancing a jig in his yard. Until you can show me a victim that was caused harm by his actions, no crime has been committed. I did #1, and am working on #2. In which case, a person simply possessing a firearm and marijuana/ alcohol/ whatever has not broken any laws and law enforcement has no reason to get involved. Be that as it may, even the police department's own account of events did not mention brandishing or threatening. They simply said they observed him in possession of a firearm and what they believed to be marijuana. I haven't seen any evidence that he threatened anyone, either verbally or by aiming a weapon at them. If that could be proven, it would certainly make a difference.

Show me the victim of this crime. I still struggle with how people who generally claim to be conservative, fans of small government and freedom are so willing to say "Well, you just can't break the law" regardless of what that law is or why it exists. When those laws cause problems, like they did in this situation everyone wants to ignore that and focus on "Well, he knew what he was doing." Here's an unnecessary law that resulted in a man being killed, and we're all supposed to just go along with the idea that this unnecessary law should exist? Maybe I am, because I really don't understand how we're all just supposed to accept "Well, the government made a rule so that's all there is to it."