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I promise I'm not being argumentative, though. Maybe you can "tweak" a Blackberry's browser so that pages actually look right on them. If that's possible, I'd stick with Verizon instead of moving to an iPhone with AT&T. Anyone?

I don't know where you saw a Storm that had a browser even remotely comparable to Safari on the iPhone. I've been living with the Curve for about a year now and demo'd a Storm recently just to see if it would work for me and keep me from having to leave Verizon. From what I saw, it still choked bad on sites that use common CSS tricks, DHTML and Ajax. Safari presents a web page closer to the way the page's author intended. Blackberry's browser presents the page to you the way that RIM thinks it should look. The two are night and day apart.

I've messed with a WAP "theme" (that is what vBulletin calls them) before on another forum and it was a huge mess to maintain. The vBulletin developers claim that version 4.x of the software will include a native WAP theme. If they do, I'll implement it here. As others have said, the iPhone's browser is hands down the best mobile browser out there. Nothing that Blackberry offers even comes close. I'm switching to an iPhone from a Blackberry 8330 Curve very soon for that exact reason. I need the browser more than anything else for work now.

Those huge smilies are, frankly, hideous. But to each their own.

I use that on my Mossberg. Works great.

I'm looking to pick up an iPhone 8gb for work related purposes within the next week or two. When I do, I'll be sure to add this to my list of cool things to check out.

Eventually, yes. All things in due time.

CGun... keep it civil. Only warning. Thanks.

Practically every officer I've spoken with about the issue agrees that the law is silly. The more savvy officers realize that the restriction technically applies to them also, when not in the execution of official police duties. Any time you spot a uniformed officer sitting at a booth in Chilis eating lunch, he's technically breaking the letter of the law if he is carrying. It's a really absurd restriction and something we can all thank Jimmy Naifeh for keeping in place for so long. Hell, if Kentucky allows it then you know that Tennessee is really behind the times. They don't even let you buy beer up there on Sundays.

As a matter of fact, I do know someone on a very close level that did a few years in a state penitentiary. They lost their right to ever own a firearm again as well as certain other rights. But you know what? At the end of their incarceration they walked out of the minimum security work facility a free live man. Given the choice between maybe getting sent to prison for defending my life or the lives of my family members but seeing them kept safe because of my actions or any of my family taking the eternal dirt nap because some crazed jackass killed one or all of us... I'll take my chances with the justice system. Frankly, this decision needs to be made before a person ever commits to carrying a handgun for self defense in the state of Tennessee. There are a myriad of ways that an otherwise good shoot could be spun as a bad shoot by an overzealous District Attorney looking to make a name for himself and an example out of a gun owner. Don't fool yourself. If you think it's all going to be roses because you were justified in shooting the guy who held a knife to your face in a darkened alley, you're seriously misguided. You might do jail time even then. As someone who is interested in becoming a certified carry permit instructor, you really owe it to yourself and to your future students to acknowledge that possibility and teach it. People need to make an informed decision when they choose to strap a firearm to their hip. A lot could go bad with it, but it's ultimately a choice of whether you will live or the bad guy will live. I've had the fortune of sitting under the instruction of several gifted trainers who made absolutely no bones about this fact. It was an eye opener for a lot of people in our classes, myself included. Just my $0.02 on the matter as a father, a husband and someone who values his life and the lives of his family over the lives of anyone who would dare do us mortal harm.

No, the leather is fairly stiff (stiffer than most belts) and doesn't overlap the top of the slide or the beavertail. I suppose that might cause some fatter folks some consternation as the slide would still dig into soft rolls of skin since it's not covered by the leather backing, but that's why God made gymnasiums.

True. BUTt.... [sic] it just boils down to which alternative you feel is best for you. Taking the chance that you will end up having to protect your anus in prison, but alive... or taking the chance that the coked up jealous ex-husband who just walked into Chilis to shoot the hell out of his estranged wife / waitress is just going to shoot her and not shoot you and your family. Because that is essentially the decision that the Tennessee legislators have left you to make. Break the law and go armed, or obey the law and risk becoming a statistic. Obviously I would never encourage a person to break the law, but I feel that sometimes we need to push the legalese aside and read the statutes for what they really mean when the S hits the F.

Do it.

I'd kill for a shop building like that.

The Rock Island 1911s are proof that you don't have to break the bank to own a nicely equipped 1911. Nicely done.

Massad Ayoob says it best... "It's better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6"

I'm looking for a Certified Public Accountant in the Smyrna / Murfreesboro area. If we have a CPA here on the forum I would be more inclined to use them than just some truly random stranger. Thanks.

Sorry; in this sense think of bandwidth as being the odometer on your car. The more data we send from our server, the more the odometer rolls forward. Previously it didn't matter what our odometer read because no one was policing it. These days we are paying monthly for an allocation of "miles driven" and if we go over, then we have to pay a penalty or buy a larger allotment of miles. The chat feature shoves a lot of data back and forth to the various members using it, so it really makes that odometer spin when it's in use. Hope that makes it a little clearer.

I really don't think body shape has anything to do with it. I've used both and the MTAC is infinitely more comfortable no matter if we're talking about wearing it in summer, winter, fat or thin months. I tend to wear an undershirt no matter whether I am wearing a t-shirt or a polo over it, so maybe that's why my leather MTAC has never gotten slimy or sweaty or whatever. You couldn't give me a CTAC if an MTAC was available for the same firearm.

Highly unlikely, at least for the first few months while I gauge our bandwidth usage on the new server. I don't think people really understood how much that thing ate up bandwidth when we used it before.

It's already been posted.

I've sworn by Comp-Tacs products for years. In my opinion and as a long time user of both, the MTAC has rendered the CTAC obsolete. I don't understand why they keep selling the CTAC save for the fact that they are wary of producing the MTAC for firearms having manual thumb safeties.

That's very slick.

Sounds cumbersome to draw if it's your first line of defense.

Let me be clear about this... TGO does not "support" PayPal. We use them as a service that makes it convenient for our members to contribute to the site. If a more "gun friendly" alternative were available that provided the same convenience and the same level of service that PayPal does, we would certainly investigate using it. This whole argument is silly. Those of you who don't wish to use PayPal are more than free to do so. If your dissent is based on a fear of them losing your money or compromising your financial security somehow... that's a matter that is personal to you and involves a decision that only you can make. But if your dissent is based on the notion that they are staunchly anti-gun, you should look closer at what their regulations really are before making a knee jerk decision. As others have pointed out, they are not anti-gun. They do, however, have restrictions on what may be sold based on the fact that their service crosses countless jurisdictions with conflicting laws. I don't blame them one bit for following the advice of their attorneys and setting the restrictions to the tightest level that provides them maximum legal protection. My rights as a gun owner end where their rights as a business begin. They are well within their rights to impose whatever restrictions they want. I either accept those terms and use their service in accordance to their bylaws or I sit around and moan about how I won't use Paypal because they aren't as gun friendly as I am. Which of those two is more productive? Which of those two teaches someone a lesson? That said, this thread is done. The few voices of reason in it have once again been overshadowed by the specter of FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt).