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[quote name="dcloudy777" post="1184172" timestamp="1409266424"]Lenny ain't gonna get a dime. All he had to do was pop the "case" open, show the cops his NFA paperwork and that the rifle was unloaded, and go home, and he would have been fine.[/quote] He could have, but he didn't [b]have[/b] to. That's the basis of the wrongdoing by the officers, and they were in the wrong. Make no mistake about it.

Neither am I. How much payroll was wasted on prosecuting this case instead of actual crimes? I would venture that this case has already cost the citizens of Nasvhille thousands, if not tens of thousands, of dollars. That's not including the costs to defend against the eventual lawsuit that we all know will be brought.

Yep. Imagine how much time, effort and money would have been saved by the city if the officers on the scene would have had the sense to say that.

I would agree with you 100% on the bolded portion. Yet it is precisely because of that Metro needs to be sanctioned harshly. The reason is that they knew who he was and their actions were different because of that. It is a clear cut case of a selective and malicious application of the law against someone who was a disfavored person. Is he a douchebag and a giant pain in the ass? Abso-friggin-lutely. That does not grant the police the right to treat him any differently than anyone else or to maliciously pursue charges against him for a crime he did not commit. The cops & the DA don't get to prosecute someone to "teach them a lesson" as this case so clearly appears to be.  I don't live in Nashville and I am pissed at Metro because the assholes are making me have to defend that douchenozzle. Do you know how ####ing much that annoys the #### out of me?When dealing with a dickhead, don't act in such a manner as to put the dickhead in the right.

You know, this makes the ex going to a different parish make a little more sense. The first go around, she very well could have run into "You're saying Will did what? I just don't believe it. I've known him for years." After all, we are talking about a celebrity with a lot of local LE contacts.

As much as I dislike the asshat, I think odds are good he may have finally found the payday he has been after.

The post got disappeared.

That definitely thickens the plot quite a bit.   I saw the post before he disappeared it. It was in the form of poetry, but he straight up stated that Will abused Stephanie when she was younger as well.

“Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.” Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

I'm curious, don't folks have to have a sponsoring agency to maintain their POST certifications?

Actually, I think it isn't wood. I believe it probably is a colored polymer furniture set to designate a shotgun that is to only be loaded with less lethal rounds (sandbags, blocks) probably orange but the lights are making it appear pink.

[quote name="gregintenn" post="1178099" timestamp="1407716795"]I missed them.[/quote] Me too. I hate it when I miss a good fireworks show.

[quote name="Dolomite_supafly" post="1175804" timestamp="1407245371"]How funny would it be to place against some high end rigs. BTW, there is nothing wrong with Highpoints as far as reliability goes. They are a blowback, not locked breech, gun so they are going to be safe with any ammo you shoot out of them. And because they are blowback they are so much more reliable. I dare anyone to find someone who has actually owned a highpoint that says theirs wasn't reliable. Yes they are ugly as sin and cheap as hell but they are reliable.[/quote] The reliability issues don't stem from the blowback design, but from the magazine construction. My first handgun was a Hi-Point. It was not reliable at first. Then I purchased new magazines for it. At one time there was (and still may be) a thread devoted to the tweaking of the magazine feed lips to increase reliability as they had a tendency to spread over time when left loaded. The metal used to make the magazines is a bit thin & weak. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

Though I have always been a customer of RangeUSA, I know the local market will be much poorer without them.

[quote name="Dustbuster" post="1172430" timestamp="1406434034"]Now hopefully they'll pass a concealed howitzer law, and flamethrower permit law. Perfect for that filthy nasty disgusting town....dc, ptooie Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.[/quote] Your post does make me wonder if DC has a local flamethrower law. Federally (& in TN) they are unregulated and I have been thinking about building one. It would be amusing to see if they overlooked that particular device in DC as well.

[quote name="ab28" post="1167091" timestamp="1404951518"]Yeah I hate at will firing states, because you are a slave to greedy corporations. I was fired a couple of times over the years over crap someone accused me of, and at will opens the door to all kinds of discriminatory firings, or being fired simply because they don't like you. I wish the at will thing would just die, you should have a good concrete reason for being fired at a job. Corporations only care about money and would grind their employees into dust to save a few pennies. Look at Wal Mart, many of their employees are on food stamps and welfare while they made billions in profit. With that said, I worked at a gas station, and carried when I worked there. My right to self defense trumps an employer's property rights. If I would have gotten fired for using it, I would have just found another job, at least I would be alive to. [/quote] I have the opposite view. I would much rather work in an at will state.

[quote name="DaveTN" post="1165588" timestamp="1404577758"]Most of our machine tool manufactures are already overseas which would cause us major problems in a large scale war. Do we really want our guns manufactured in a foreign country? American gun manufactures are still the best in the world.[/quote] I think you are talking about now, I was talking about the initial issue of the M14 and its replacement by the M16. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

[quote name="mikegideon" post="1165580" timestamp="1404576751"]I knew about that. Didn't have anything to do with sand. Had to do with longer engagement ranges. [/quote] I didn't say it did. I was just answering the question of M14 reissue. To be honest, I don't think we should have ever issued the M14. The FAL is/was a superior rifle that was available at the time and in wide use amongst ally nations. The M14 was a poor offering and it was well replaced by its successor. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

[quote name="mikegideon" post="1165568" timestamp="1404575854"]I think you are getting the M14 and the M4 mixed up. AFIK, the M14 hasn't been issued in any significant quantity since the early Vietnam years. Did I miss something?[/quote] Yeah. M14s were dusted off, upgraded and reissued to troops in 2010 for use as a DMR. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

I specIfically designated a particular type of training in reply to the references to the explosion of "tactical" trainers. For the vast majority of participants that's exactly what they are, a fantasy camp. If you are LEO and using this in your daily job, I'm not talking about you, in this thread. (See threads on militarization of LE for my words for that!) If your rifle is part of your home defense setup and you attend class using your gear in the same manner you would at home (like me) I'm not talking to you. If you are .mil and using these classes to increase your skill set for combat, obviously not talking to you. If you are someone who gets all dolled up in tac vests, plate carriers and camo that only comes out for class. You are who I am talking about.

I know you'll be really happy to get back here Earline. Hope it happens for ya.

[quote name="Sam1" post="1165246" timestamp="1404486628"]Shouldn't take any kind of training serious because any kind of a self-defense situation will end up with both parties out on the lawn with dueling pistols, right?[/quote] That's not at all what I wrote. Try again. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

Let's be honest here. Carbine classes, tactical training, etc. arefor the vast majority of participants nothing more than a fantasy camp for the gun crowd. Very much in the same vein as a football fantasy camp where you get to spend a weekend working out and scrimmaging with a couple of over the hill NFL second stringers.

Now, take that treadmill speed it up to a full run and hop on, get the heart rate up. Hop off engage a set of targets, holster & repeat. I can see that. But I am not going to be on a treadmill with gun in hand where I run the risk of a trip on the moving treadmill. That would be some bad juju. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

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