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Thee Tint Shop, Mt. Juliet Call Jason at (615) 669-1501 I have an appointment to see him next week for a retint, because the dog scratched up the 7 year old stuff.

I was somewhat worried about this because I travel a lot through numerous states and counties, many of which are rumored to be highly strict and ticket happy for lots of things including tint. And I rarely drive the speed limit, usually 5-15 over depending on roads and conditions. But I have now gone 7 years and nearly 150,000 miles all over the US, and been pulled over about a half dozen times, yet I was only ticketed once for speed and I appealed and won that case, so tint never came up. I also have a lot of LEO friends and family, and I've parked in or around a lot of police and government areas, yet nary a second glance from anyone on tint. I figured that even if I do get a tint ticket someday, the total charge for that is likely to be less than $100-$150, so I'd just happily pay the fine and keep on driving with the tint in place. The small cost is well worth the benefit of reducing glare and keeping the heat out. I also make sure to always fully roll down both front windows if I'm ever stopped, before the officer approaches the car, so tint isn't even noticeable during the window chat. Tint away and enjoy!

No, the back windshield and rear doors are dark from the factory, maybe 5-15%?, front windows were not tinted at all. I had them tint the front to match the rear, and it was an exact match. Been stopped many times for other reasons (including LEO friends and family) but nobody ever checked or mentioned the tint.

This is correct. I have a 4 door truck and had it professionally tinted, and this is exactly what they said. But then I picked out what I wanted and they did it anyway, 7 years ago and not even so much as a glance from any LEO.

I purchased a full 9mm kit from PSA a few months ago. Haven't built it yet but everything looks to be very high quality. I got the assembled MOE upper, the MOE lower parts kit, and a few mags. I already have a lower for it, just haven't gotten around to building it yet. But I've built, worked on, and cleaned literally hundreds of AR guns including many PSA and I've never seen a problem so I'm sure it will run well.

Guys,   I am totally neutral on this issue as I have never shot with any of your clubs, groups, or public matches of any kind. I have no affiliation with any of you nor with Nashville Armory. So far in my life I have done all of my shooting on private land, private clubs, and setup my own matches and games for friends. As a veteran instructor with 7 certifications, I have taught hundreds of new shooters including folks from age 8 to 82, different ethnic backgrounds, races, countries, and varying skill levels from physically handicapped to advanced military and LEO shooters.   When I saw the first post in this thread I subscribed to it, intending only to watch it and perhaps learn a bit more about the types of competitive shooting which are going on locally, and in particular at the Nashville Armory, primarily because I have been mentoring a few teens for several years and they are just now graduating from my program and shipping out to special forces careers in the Air Force and Navy. So while I have done a lot to teach them to shoot, gunsmith, compete, and even become some of the youngest certified instructors in the nation, I was considering bringing them down to Nashville Armory or a similar local club to get the experience of shooting and competing with a wider audience of the general public, much like they will soon be doing in the service.   After seeing some of the responses in this thread, I want to let you know that this bickering does not reflect positively on any of the participants, their clubs, or the facility as a whole, so I will avoid bringing those kids down (or referring my other students) if this is the kind of atmosphere they can expect at such events.   I am sure everyone in this thread (and every TGO member) is a nice, decent person with good intent, yet none of us are perfect either. For anyone with grievances, complaints, or issues: my suggestion would be for you to meet with each other and/or Nashville Armory in person to discuss and resolve, ideally in private, and to be professional and supportive, also flexible and open to bend a little. That would go a long way to preserving and growing our shooting sports, rather than turning folks off and encouraging them to continue shooting elsewhere.   Just my $0.02 which I know was unnecessary and likely unwanted, but as a person that had been looking to invest and steer others to your cause, I felt compelled to let you know how it looks from the sidelines. Best of luck to all of you in finding a resolution and continuing to enjoy what you are passionate about.

Glad to hear that you got the gun without a lot of administrative red tape. Since your son is involved in a highly emotional situation filled with conflict, and many more tough times ahead before it's resolved, I would highly recommend that you take possession of all his firearms and other weapons, and lock them up at your place or another secure facility where he (and the wife) can't get to them. The last thing any of you need is another bad decision made impulsively that could result in significant fines, imprisonment, or death. While I'm sure nobody expects themselves or their relatives to react in such a manner, the fact that he's already been arrested means that he is not always able to avoid those types of circumstances. I know what he's going through, and will pray for a safe and healthy outcome for all parties.

+10 on prayers, for a super guy that deserves a break. If your family needs anything just pm me and I'm glad to help.

You are already wrong, as there are still some stores and online retailers selling it for $0.05-$0.06 per round, but they are still selling out quickly. The other guys asking much more have inventory sitting on the shelves, so it's just a matter of time. Look at the AR15 prices which had gone up to $2000-$3000 per rifle just a year or two ago, and now they are back at normal price and even cheaper due to oversupply.

Yes, the demand curve is slowly dropping, and many of the online retailers and local dealers have some in stock, usually because they are asking $0.08-$0.10 per round or more. A month ago I was at a pretty small remote gun shop in PA, only 3 small rooms for a storefront, but I was shocked to see 1.5 rooms literally filled with pallets of ammo stacked almost to the ceiling, wall to wall. This included almost 2 full pallets of 22 lr and several pallets of 5.56 M855, all major brands and freshly made. There was so much ammo in that part of the store that I wasn't comfortable walking in there because you could feel the floor flexing with every step. I'm sure he had it reinforced somehow but it was still on the verge of collapse from the extreme weight. As I shopped the gun side I noticed his business was mostly done online, and the funny thing was that the UPS truck spent about an hour unloading more ammo only to then spend another hour reloading different ammo that had just been sold to ship out to customers. And the crazy part was that his 22 lr wasn't terribly overpriced, just a little high at $32-$35 per brick for the good stuff, but I didn't buy any as I'm good for now until normal prices return. So the ammo is out there, stock is rising, demand is slowing, and prices dropping. My advice: don't buy any unless you are nearly out, and wait until we see $0.04-$0.05 per round... The good old days!

Damn dude. Just excellent. Superior skills and dedication, makes me proud to be an American. Nice work.

My brother and I both had a similar situation happen with a high volume wholesale auction seller on ebay. We buy a lot of stuff from him, hundreds of things, and we watch his ads on a daily basis. We even have software that helps us track the items and bids. We found irrefutable evidence of shill bidding, and had several examples of it in less than a few weeks. He always immediately reposted the same items for sale after he won with his shill bids, and we had technical evidence to show the bids came from the same account, and we both reported it to eBay several times over a few months. In each case they closed the cases with a generic response that they would "look into it" but they never did anything or follow up. He was a high volume power seller, so eBay was making a lot of money from him, thus they were content to ignore it and let it ride, despite his also having a steady string of 5% negative feedback every month. I'm sure gunbroker would do the same, and it's my word against his for what happened in the shop, so it's not worth it. These auction places can easily detect bids coming in from the same IP address via multiple accounts, and automatically match those with seller accounts and flag patterns, but they choose not to do it because it would cost them money to kick high volume sellers out, and they both benefit from higher final sales prices. I'm not too upset though because I got a good fair deal on a 238, and I later found an even better deal on a 938, so it all worked out for me. I just feel bad for my LEO friends that got burned, and they drove me up in their car so they wasted gas and time off work too. But we had a great dinner together afterwards, and I took them to the range several times to shoot the 238 and other guns.

I had been thinking of getting a 938 a few weeks ago, when a LEO friend of mine wanted me to help find her one. Then I saw this thread and checked out the gunbroker dealer, and I happened to be in PA at the time, so I looked at all of his auctions. Sure enough, he had more than 30 of the 938 guns up for sale at the time, all with various bidders and different ending times, none had a reserve price. So I found an auction that ended soon and placed a $485 bid at the last minute and I won it. I couldn't believe my luck. Then I emailed the dealer and asked if he would sell me 3 of the same 938 at the same price to help out my LEO friends that also wanted it, and he said yes. So we made a special trip up to his shop in person, driving 2 hours round-trip. When I got there he pulls out an identical 238 and says that was the gun that I had won. I checked the auction and sure enough he had just one 238 listing hidden amongst all the 938 auctions and the ad and photos looked identical on my phone, so I must have bid on the wrong one by mistake. I asked if he would let me trade it on the 938 and he said no because they are more expensive, so I pointed out that many of his current 938 auctions were ending soon for around the same price, so if I needed to I would just bid on his 938 from my phone while I was standing there and wait for it to end. He went in the office for a while the came out and said sorry, the owner said no trades, so I pulled up my phone and now every single one of his 30+ 938 auctions were all bid up to exactly $700. So they apparently used shill bidding accounts to prevent the 938 from selling for less. I pointed out the coincidence of all 30+ auctions with different bidders and ending times all being bid up to $700 at the exact same time, and they had no comment. They were considering whether to let me trade the 238 for a cheaper gun, but I told them to go ahead and ship it since it was still a fair deal and I liked the 238 anyway. Then the LEO with me both asked to buy a 938, but he declined to sell any of those unless they bid $700+ on the auctions. The one LEO went ahead and purchased a fancy 238 from him, but he didn't give her a good price (it was over $700) and he didn't offer them any discounts either. So we left with 2 guns, only one fair deal, and wouldn't ever go back.

Lol. I participate in the shooting sports more than most, but usually by teaching classes at private venues and shooting in my backyard, so if random TGO folks start popping up on my land I'm going to start wearing tinfoil hats and looking for the black helicopters. :D

It's a bolt action 50 bmg, I believe a custom build used for competition. I found it on a blog and don't know too much about it but I did ask the owner for more info.

Is this for a specific range, group, or geographic area? I'm in middle TN and have met a few dozen folks from TGO, but the chances of me running into them again or other random members from TGO (especially from other parts of the state) at a particular range at the exact same day and time are pretty remote. Still cool to see what folks look like, but then again I'm not thrilled about a mugshot database and I'm pretty grisly so no pic for me except these... :D

I have been an NRA member for over 30 years. As a young child I actually saved up my allowance earned doing odd jobs and joined, mainly to get the hat which I noticed was being worn by most hunters and shooters which I respected. Then I started getting and reading the magazines, and I learned more about the NRA, so I kept renewing to support our freedoms. It quickly became obvious that they would run several special campaigns each year, usually via mail or inserts in the magazine, and I always waited for those because my budget was really limited and I liked to get the extra shooting hat, range bag, or whatever.   Once I started making more money, I wanted to upgrade to Life but their regular price of $1000 was pretty crazy, and was too big of a step up for a young kid that had only been paying $15-$25 per year. So it was like they were asking me to pre-pay for 40 years of membership, and the only extra benefit was an inexpensive jacket or some other trinket that didn't come close to justifying the huge expense. So I just waited and eventually they offered a discounted upgrade to Life for only $300 and I jumped on it, and I got a nice windbreaker which while thin was actually decent quality and I still wear it today.   After hitting Life, the other levels were more about vanity because they didn't really offer you any tangible benefits beyond supporting the cause, which is certainly the main purpose and highly valuable in itself, but most of the incentive items have become pretty lame since then. Who the heck needs or wants a cheap $10 steel replica knife mounted in the talons of a cheap plastic eagle that was made in China?   Now I was still all for supporting the NRA, but it wasn't realistic for them to expect me (or the average joe) to shell out another $1000 every year just for a vanity title. So I continued to donate in various ways as often as my budget allowed, but I was patient and would only upgrade my levels when they ran the $300 specials which I noticed almost always come via mail, and very strategically around tax refund season - a smart move by the NRA as most of my big donations were funded by my tax refunds.   Now that I am a Benefactor, I don't plan to buy any more vanity titles or join those silly special groups like Golden Eagles or whatever. Not only do those levels offer no new benefits or distinctions, but they don't even come with nice incentive gifts and they are quickly forgotten as soon as the marketing group comes up with some other new group name. Plus those group titles are ridiculously expensive, often $1,500 to $5,000 or more. No thanks.   Now I am not opposed to making large donations, and I have given the NRA much more as I have been blessed by God, but I believe the most efficient way to help the NRA and further our cause is to recruit more members. So I just sign up family, friends, and in particular new shooters and kids whenever I get the chance. Then when they get their hats or range bags in the mail they will be pleased, and they will start reading the magazines just like I did, and before you know it they will be more educated and actively supporting our freedoms just like the rest of us members.   I also attend the Friends of the NRA events, roughly 5-6 of them each year, where I spend quite a bit and take great pleasure in knowing that every cent of the proceeds from those events is donated back to the local gun clubs, schools, and education programs. So my advice is to just watch your junk mail for the annual solicitations from the NRA, upgrade to Life or higher when they run the cheaper and more reasonable specials, and spend any additional money to sign up more members and attend NRA events. Or better yet, take some of those new members out to shoot, and spend the money on ammo and targets.

I've always only paid $300 to upgrade from regular to life, then to each of the next highest life levels. I'm at Benefactor now, their highest, but of course they keep asking for more money to join special clubs, groups, or whatever. I send them money often, and donate to the NRA events often, and I sign up new members at my expense. I prefer doing that than to pay the NRA more for base level upgrades. They typically have the sales once or twice a year.

I have more than 30 years experience dealing with guns as well as ample retail management and loss prevention experience. I have spent literally hundreds if not thousands of hours at gun shows, gun stores, and pawn shops. I have also assisted several FFLs with their businesses and worked for them on numerous occasions. In all this time I have never once witnessed a straw sale or an attempt at such, and I have only met one private seller that seemed a little shaky with a deal that was too good to be true, so I declined to purchase that gun although I had no proof of anything being wrong.   My view is that it is FAR more common for customers to be shopping with relatives or friends, and commenting on the products or giving each other advice, and possibly loaning each other money or buying each other gifts. And that it is quite rare for criminals to attempt straw sales in most FFL shops, except possibly for those located in or near high crime areas with a low median income population. I can't tell you how many times I have personally gone to a gun store with a friend or family member to help them pick something out, often checking the guns, features, and prices and then giving them advice, with them making the purchase in the end. This might have appeared to be a straw sale to some observers but it was nothing illegal, just normal adult behavior. The same happens for other retail goods including electronics, jewelry, cars, etc. and we don't think anything of it.   I think the true straw sale attempts (those done by criminals with criminal intent) are much more obvious, and any responsible FFL would and should decline such transactions, but even then the rejected buyers are most likely to just go to another shop and repeat the purchase in a different manner so as not to be accused or detected. If you look at most of the actual crime studies and reports that have been done over the years, you will see that most crimes are committed with guns that were stolen or illegally obtained via other means, and that true "straw sales" are a very small percentage of the problem.   So I agree that the background checks and many restrictive firearms laws are not really protecting us from anything or doing any real good, other than to give the average citizen (who is most often totally ignorant of gun features, issues, crime stats, and laws) a false sense of security. Many of the current BATFE / GCA laws and restrictions did not exist prior to 1968, and yet the world was not a criminal hell on earth, and there was not a blood bath in the streets on a daily basis, and crime was not significantly impacted either way before or since. I also believe that most people are inherently honest, law abiding citizens with good intent, and that they wouldn't deliberately or knowingly provide a criminal with a firearm or other weapon regardless of the legality of doing so, so I wish we could just repeal all gun laws and restrictions. This would ultimately lower the price and increase the availability of firearms for the masses, who are mostly good folk, so the net benefit would by definition be mostly good.

I would be really pissed if I had purchased tickets to see that, and then she cancelled. She knew enough about her schedule and travel times in advance when she agreed to appear, so it's not like Nashville got up and moved further away in the middle of the night. I always liked her and would have considered her a major reason to attend that session. Unfortunately I'm traveling so had to miss this meeting.

I was once pulled over under the guise of my vehicle insurance being lapsed (you could get a fine in that state if driving without insurance). The officer said he ran my plate while following me on a routine check, and pulled me over because the computer said I was not insured. Long story short, I had my legally concealed gun in the car and my permit in my wallet, and proof of insurance as well. But the officer took my gun, ammo, and permit, then threatened to arrest me even though I was polite and cooperating the entire time. When I explained the situation to his partner, who was much calmer, she used my cell phone to call and verify everything, which checked out fine, and she told her partner they had nothing to keep me on or ticket me for. But he would not relent, I think because a crowd had gathered and he was embarrassed, and he called a tow truck. When the tow truck arrived, he was finally convinced by his partner that he needed to let me go, but he insisted that I not be allowed to drive, so he told the tow driver to tow me and my car to my home, which he did. I called his boss (County Sheriff) the next morning to file a complaint and get my gun, ammo, and permit back. I got no help at all until I called a relative who happens to be a high ranking official, and within minutes we had an appointment to meet the sherrif in his office, which we did the next day. The sherrif admitted they had no reason to run my plate or pull me over, and that I was fully in the right, and that the calmer officer verified I was polite and cooperative, so he apologized and gave me my gun, ammo and permit back. I asked them to also pay the tow bill, which was north of $200 and totally unnecessary, but he said he couldn't do that without writing up the incident and that could get some of them in trouble, so he asked my relative to get me to overlook it out of professional courtesy, which I grudgingly did. I'm sure I wouldn't have gotten my gun or permit back, or any explanation or apology, if it weren't for my relative.

I already have the same gun in black, raspberry, grape, and now tan. I still need the teal blue frame, and I am not sure what other factory colors they made.

My cost for 3 with shipping was $651, plus $55 for my local FFL and TICS, so my total cost will be $706 out the door, or $235 per gun.

If I get gen 1 I'll pm you to request a full refund. ;-)

Nice nuts. I would love to see a diy outline or video, as I mentor teens and they would love to make these.