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A point of clarification on my comments here. Regardless of this, whether the girls are reversed, and it's a white on black situation; NO ONE should be treated this way. My feelings won't change because of the skin color. I have, and probably you too, seen videos of teens and young people just going crazy and beating someone. For unknown reasons, this seems to be increasingly seen. I don't want to say "common" but it sure seem to happen with some regularity.

You got only 2 right...BACON and chocolate! These are #1 & #2!

Just saw this and ordered 2 cases. LockedLoaded.Com has some good ammo prices going today. I found this Blazer Brass 115 gr or 124gr for $219 per case of 1000. Good Price, but they will hit you on Shipping. 2 cases was 499 shipped. Not too bad for these days. Not great. But I went for it. As of now, the ad is still live and says Still In Stock. Hope this helps someone. I don't shoot a lot of PD ammo, the prices are just too much for my budget. A mag or 2 in each I think I might carry, a few more in favorite carry piece. Anyway, other brands available, both in range and PD, but I didn't really look at them. Blazer is one of about 4 favorites, so I stick with those.

At least.

Ok, another side to this from me. a worse beating, maybe. But at this point, if I physically can...one or more of the street punks is hurting with me. Bad attitude? Maybe. But with what I've seen across this county, what I've seen and experienced personally here in Nashville, I'd feel in fear of my life here and be pulling at this point. Look, I'm old, physically impaired, and can't move quickly. I don't have handicapped tag on my car because I think it puts a target on me and my wife. How easy is it for thugs to watch for a handicapped tag and see who gets into it? Someone with a cane, walker, or a wheelchair sure can look like and easy target. I'd like to know how many parking lot attack victims had a handicapped tag? It sure doesn't seem to be mentioned on the news reports. I, and my wife, use the hang tags. They are a pita. Blowing off when your door opens, and at sometimes you/me/we, forget to hang them up. I'm a good looking enough target now, I don't need more invitation. I joke around quite a bit. I know it. But I really feel this way about parking lots. And I DO NOT walk on open streets anymore. I don't care if it is my neighborhood. I am very serious when I say this next thing. I have been targeted in lots. Several times. When someone eyeballs me, and follows even when I turn to look at them, and even as I change course...I feel threatened and react so. Next action on my part is to stop. Maybe move my shirt to get to my pocket. Fake a hanky pull. Whatever. but I will espose the fact that I'm armed. Might even lay a hand on whatever is there. I've done this twice. One got to within 20 feet or so before stopping and looking hard and nasty at me. Another didn't come as close. Still to close for me.

While I like you, and respect you and your comments...buddy you aint wrong!

I did comment on that not knowing, but, at what point does walking away and then being accosted, hit and threatened, become a situation for an agressive show of force at least, and then self defense measures.

Almost got me with this one! I had one and just didn't feel right to me. Still, you got me thinking about another try. So go sell this already!

Nothing wrong with that. You got a quality piece(s) you like and trust. Backups are good. I might have a spare of certain items myself.

Ok, we don't know what started all this. However, the young redhead is being followed, verball abused, and threatened. The first attack was, for me, the beginning of a life threatening situation. After the second attack, I'm pretty sure I'd have drawn my weapon and told them to stop. When it continued...that's the end of being nice for me. Maybe a shot into the ground first. Maybe not. But after the head banging and that young punk body slamming...someone besides me is going to be bleeding. Opinions?

Let's wait until a model for LEO use is built and succeeds in the real world. then I might buy one.

I got an old Single Six at a gun shop I stopped at one day. Finish reall bad, and rear sight almost look like it was beaten with a hammer. Hammer and trigger were good, and the cyclinder was tight. It just looked like crap. Since the guy had several nice Rugers there, I said you need to get that one out. It makes the others look bad. He laughed at that and said make me an offer. Well, I just threw out a low offer, and to my surprise he said yes. 150 OTD. I walked away happy. Still have it somewhere around here. It was so smooth I gave it to my wife. She hid it for emergency use. Haven't seen it since!

This is one sweet pistol! I've fired them and like it, but...not enough to buy it. My first move would be to put a CT Lasergrip on it! Someone take this! Please?

Perhaps it is a laudable idea. But for now, the only places that guns like this work are in the movies or in books. Mostly SyFy at that. I think we'd see a rash of fingers and hands removed to get prints and rings that make it function. Maybe hackers getting proficient in blocking the signals to the gun. Disable it and you got a club again. Much needs to be overcome before I would trust my life to such a weapon.

Lying on a 4473? NO. Never have I. Except for that weight question. LOL I did have a copy of the newest 4473, but can't locate it at the moment; so I'm just spitballin' from memory here. I saw a new question about our purchase and purpose for the item. Do you intend to keep it or resell it? That throws a whole 'nother monkey into the barrel. Can we be gotten for lying on the form if we don't like the purchase and then sell it. Seems like Question 22a or 23a. I was taalking to Phil at Bellshire and he showed it to me.

Changed my comment on this. Re-read several times and I really like what you say and how you said it. A good. concise statetment on what's happening today. I usuall comment to my wife about how they/police know how and when something is purchased. Isn't it strange?

Ditto! I missed the ad and don't have a clue here. Normal for me.

Yep! The appearance of doing something. The key to a long, successful political career! Uncle Joe has done this all his life...and look where it got him!

LOL. So would I. My wife asked last month if I was going this year. She can be so cruel sometimes. I'm a bit of a lone wolf, have been all my life. Regretting it more and more these days. Perhaps when I get a few things done...we can get together. Right now, got a major UTI...again. And a kidney stone that gives a few pains. Blessedly, it is captured in the folds of the kidney. It causes a bit of bleeding sometimes, but hasn't and can't move without something like a bad hit on the kidney. Doc says the only options are leave it alone or surgical removal of part or all of the kidney. I voted to leave it alone.

I caught the promo on 5 with Phil talking about the interview. I was a bit agitatted over it. So I decided that I knew enough about Phil Williams that I'd not watch the full interview. Your description of PW is accurate, btw. John Harris and the TFA are know to us. Need I say more?

All the talking heads throw this line out. So do the politicians on both sides. I don't think any of them understand what a "background check/ TICS" really is. Most of them are still thinking we just walk into an FFL(and that's another thing the majority of the population don't understand) and pick out a 50 Caliber, 100 round pistol, and walk out with it. I cannot say how many times I've gone thru the TICS process, and not sure I really want to know, but in close to 45 years, I've never been denied or had a question arise. Guess I've led a boring life. I get so frustrated, and I'm sure all of us do when we hear all this again and again. It's absolutely the fault of that "evil black rifle" that these children, those nightclub goers, and office workers were killed. Usually the story leads with "So and so killed today by an AR15!" The person holding the rifle and pulling the trigger comes later in the story. Like others, I can say in 63 years of gun use, I, or anything I have been holding/shooting, has killed or even jumped up and shot at anyone. Now I will admit that at 15, my Dad's Remington 12 guage did shoot some chickens in our garden, but I warned them beforehand!

Referring to Gov. Lee's coments on "strengthening background checks." How would this be done? We are already screened by TBI/HomeLand Security, and I understand in some cases, sent up the line for FBI checks as well. What more can be done? Interview school teachers, friends and neighbors(hope not in this), go into family history? Is TN in for a waiting perion to purchase? Just where does this get stronger?

Defender, I've only attended 2 NRA Conventions...Louisville and Nashville. In both cases I found that chairs were virtually non-existant. In Louisville, there were a few in the entrance area, and several hundred I think, in the concessions area. Otherwise, it seems that chairs were removed from almost all the show areas. I guess to speed up the cattle flow thru the aisles. In Nashville, it was worse. Very few chairs anywhere. Very small food area with chairs; but they were "policed" to make sure you were eating, not just sitting and resting. In both shows, I walked the floor and the aisles multiple times. My feet were miserable. Old fat men with back/feet issues should think carefully before attending. Lounging around is really something I'd suggest when attending any convention, but especially those of the NRA. LOL. Louisville was my first convention. Went with my late brother-in-law, Tad Stratton. We usually stayed close when going somewhere...but this time...no. As we were going in, I asked him for a little patience with me being able to keep up with him. He promptly told me he had "people...old friends and business contacts" from FT. Campbell and several companies he was angling for a Rep position with. At this point I was own my own. It did allow me time to look and talk with anyone I chose for as long as I wanted. So it wasn't all bad. Except for when my wife found out. LOL! She was HOT! Seems Tad had been given instructions to "watch over me". I was just beginning to have mobility and balance issues. My wife really didn't like it. We'd meet up at my car at the end of the day, or he'd go out with "friends and contacts" and be brought back to the hotel later. At the Nashville Convention, I went alone. LOL. In hindsight, and even back then, I tried not to hold any animosity over it. As from his point of view, I was holding him back, just dead weight to be lugged around and introduced to his people.

Re: Sexton and his comment about red flag laws. "ButRep. Sexton, during that time, shot down the idea of adopting red flag laws unless they had a mental health treatment tied to it." So was he saying that gun owners who had weapons taken should have mental health treatment, or that mental heath screenings should be a prerequisite in the process to remove these weapons from lawful owners?

Wanted to go again this year, but couldn't walk that much now. Wheelchair? LOL! No. Never make it down an aisle.