TGO David

TGO is definitely going to have a table at this event. If you're interested in sitting as a group, post up a reply and we'll make it happen.

Ahahahah... excellent pic, JHatmaker. And I concur; that 1911 is dead sexy.

I want to hear more about the Salt Flats!

Welcome! And thank you guys for showing up tonight. Always good to see new folks joining the group!

Congrats! Every time a story like this is posted, another anti-gun chicken little loses his wings.

It's a great feeling isn't it?

Sounds like you guys had a great time. Thanks for making it happen! And just think... all of those lawfully carried firearms in one place and not one of them went off on a rampage by itself!

Great photo, guys! Glad everyone had a good time and thanks to all of you for putting this together.

Real quick post... here are the photos from tonight: Present: Bigdaddy (and companion), Cory25 (and companion), Creeky, Daniel, Hexhead (and wife), Hornet Handler, IWI.BabyEagle.40, Jhatmaker (and son), Lagerhead, Moose, Mrs. Shima, Mrs. TGO David, Ngoeser59, Oakey (and wife), Shima, TGO David, TheMark712 (and son), Trekbike, Volzfan (Nikki with a couple of the best behaved members of our group tonight!) Thanks to all of you who came out tonight to celebrate with us. It was great to meet a lot of new folks and as always a pleasure to see old friends. Nikki did an excellent job with her interview on NRA Radio's "Cam & Company" and they even showed the two photos (above) on their webcast! I definitely want to give a special note of thanks to the management and staff at Pie In The Sky in Franklin, TN. These folks were extremely gracious and bent over backwards to take care of us. Our waitress, Toni, was a trooper and did an amazing job. If you're ever in the area and are looking for some great food, please stop in and support them! I'll post a list of all the folks who attended in the morning. I'm literally hammering this post out from the laptop before we call it a night, but I wanted to make sure this was posted before it got much later. Thanks again, everyone! I hope to see as many of you as possible this weekend at the Meet & Shoot.

Come on out and join us. I will have us seated under the name "TGO" and we will likely be in their back-room seating area. Just look for TGO hats, shirts and the table where (suspiciously) no one is drinking beer or booze.

Johnson City is more east'er than you are. If they hear that you're trying to muscle in on their east'er'ness... it could get ugly.

Well go eat again and this time vote on it.

If I lived in Knoxville, I'd probably wear one of those shirts too.

Perhaps someone from this gathering can take a camera and snap a group photo at some point this evening, then post it here later for us all to see and enjoy. Be sure to raise your iced-tea high in toast.

Perhaps someone from this gathering can take a camera and snap a group photo at some point this evening, then post it here later for us all to see and enjoy. Be sure to raise your iced-tea high in toast.

Perhaps someone from this gathering can take a camera and snap a group photo at some point this evening, then post it here later for us all to see and enjoy. Be sure to raise your iced-tea high in toast.

Have added a poll in case it will help with the headcount. Also, if someone from the Chattanooga group can take a camera and snap a group photo (raise your iced tea high as a toast!) then maybe post it later, that would rock.

Added a poll in case it would help with the headcount.

I'm going to add a poll to the thread just in case it would help you guys get a headcount.

Thanks for sharing. I just ordered a few thousand small and large pistol primers.

If your head isn't hex shaped for real...

Purely from the outside looking in, it seems to me that commissioned officers view private security as those who want to be commissioned but aren't, hence the term "wannabe cops" and such. I know you know that, I'm just answering the rhetorical question posed. I'm sure there are private security personnel who have no desire to be cops, just as there are private security personnel who used to be cops and got tired of the crap hours, retired, etc. My grandfather was career LEO, retired from the public sector and went to work in the private sector as chief of security for a nuclear refinement plant. Better pay, better hours, better benefits and less bull****.

Clearly someone with a TFA avatar and TFA plug in their signature wouldn't have an agenda here, but the bottom line regarding what you've stated is that you guys have tried numerous times to recruit for your organization here and I've grown tired of it. TFA has it's own web site, they should stick to recruiting there. TGO is an accurate source of information, regardless of what you or your group like to claim. And again, as I've stated, copying and pasting is preferred because other sites can and do go away as organizations, companies, entities, etc. fade out of existence. I'm not saying TFA is in danger of that, I'm just saying that I can't guarantee it won't ever happen and a bunch of broken links aren't going to do anyone here any good if it ever does.

Yep, that's part of the plan.

I hope that we can have a good percentage of success in that as well, but ultimately we must be respectful of their right to post if they so desire. My own thinking on this has obviously evolved a bit over the past month. Does that mean to accept defeat? No. But it does mean that we can be gentle in the way that we apply peer pressure. If I owned a restaurant, I'd be more willing to listen to a reasonable request than a foaming at the mouth demand or a card left on my counter, threatening that some nameless, faceless coward was going to take his business elsewhere (and good riddance to him or her). Face-time with the managers and wait staff is important, as is the impression that you make on them. Let it be a good impression. Leave a healthy tip. Don't resort to maniacal spit-infused rantings. We all see what sort of impression it left on Nikki and the rest of us when Randy Rayburn lost his cool with her. Why would we want to leave that sort of impression on anyone else?