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  I'm not a lawyer, don't play one on TV, and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express(R) last night, so I'm not going to say anything you said is wrong, but I am sure as heck not going to be the test case. ;)

Once you have been asked to leave, neither law nor opinion matter because you are now trespassing.

I see post #17 perfectly fine. Are you sure it isn't your glasses?               Just kidding. It's blank.

  That's weird. When I was looking for a truck I was comparing the 4 door F150 to the 4 door Tundra. I couldn't find a 4 door F150 in MY price range. Crazy, huh? I guess we were looking at different times.

  Not many truck owners tow the truck's fully capacity on anything resembling a regular basis anyway, so it's all mostly marketing hype. Most truck owners use their trucks as transportation and to haul lumber and crap from Lowe's. So what it comes down to for me is reliability and features at a reasonable price. Toyota is always tops for reliability and when I was searching for a truck Ford couldn't touch the features for the price. I wouldn't buy a GM or a Chrysler vehicle on a bet. And the Tundra is the best looking truck out there, in my not so humble opinion. The Ram runs a close second, followed by Ford and GM in a very distant fourth.   If towing is the yardstick by which you measure a truck, you have no business buying one with a gas engine. You could pull my house of its blocks with a PowerStroke. If I was going to buy a diesel, I think it would have to be a Ford since Toyota dropped its plans to supply us with what we have all been wanting. But I never tow anything over a few thousand pounds, so it's Toyota all the way for me.

It's really simple to explain. Neither can match a Toyota, so they gotta pick at each other. :stir:

  Understood. I choose not to deny rights to someone just because they didn't volunteer. I prefer a much more permissive environment over a restrictive one.

I'll take the Lotus. ;)

  I'm not sure how an oath makes you more qualified to carry a gun than someone else. Perhaps you could clarify.   It's funny how we always say that we want constitutional carry, but the support ideas that are 100% the opposite. Why is that?

Sometimes I just wish that "common sense" was just a little less common.

  No, it's not available to everyone. People who have disqualifying medical conditions, for example. Sorry, I just don't believe that some people should be given rights and then deny them to others. That's how our Congress works. I'm just not down with it.    And not everyone in the military ever touches machine guns or claymores. Some people went their entire career without touching one. How exactly does that make them more qualified than the average civilian? 

Call me quirky, but I'm not for placing all kinds of conditions on rights. That's not how rights work. Rights are only to be restricted under certain circumstances, such as when you are in prison for committing a felony. Either 18 is old enough to carry a gun or it's not. If you've been in the military you know there are 18 - or for that matter 38 - year olds you wouldn't trust carrying your groceries, let alone a gun. It's no different than the civilian population in that respect. I don't think the military should have more rights than civilians simply because of the career field they chose.

  Unfortunately, even though it has been clearly stated by the AG, this is exactly what it will take. Same with Bridgestone Arena, LP field, etc. etc. etc. etc.

  To be fair, they asked the AG's opinion. It's obvious they were looking for a loophole (like, "Can we sublet this to someone who sublets it to someone who sublets it someone else's uncle's cousin's former roommate, and then can that person ban guns"), but they went about it the right way. And the AG put the kibosh on that and said, "NO!"

  Is an 18 year old finance clerk in the Air Force Reserves more qualified to carry a pistol than someone who has been hunting and shooting with his dad since he was a kid? I don't think so.     If you're old enough to be tried as an adult in a court of law, then the government should treat you like a damn adult. Otherwise, change the legal age of adulthood.   What I'd like to see: Constitutional Carry. The Tennessee Constitution clearly states that the legislature may pass gun laws with a clear aim to preventing crime. None of our laws do that.

Good news man. Good on ya for stickin' it out and makin' it work.

  Government agencies have to do something to justify their existence. It really doesn't matter if that something needed to be done in the first place. Action is what is important, not justification or results.

  Doesn't tell me anything I didn't already know. ;)

BATFE is just one of many government agencies that need to go away sooner rather than later.

Good person story. Very uplifting.

The same knife is $43.94 on Amazon right now. Not exactly the deal of the century.

Wish I could have gone and been one of the riders. I saw videos though. It was impressive. You don't see that many PGR riders at most rides.

If they send someone out, ask to see the test results. When mine was installed it failed 7 tests and they left with it like that. 2 dispatches later a tech pointed that out and fixed all of them. It's been mostly problem free since then.

I think you probably dodged a bullet on this one. I recently read a report in Forbes about the top 15 vehicles to avoid. They ratings were based on resale value, owner reviews, and reliability reports compiled from Forbes, Consumer Reports and JD Powers (I believe those were the three). Jeep made numbers 7, 6, and 5. Chrysler made at least one more (a minivan and possibly their 200 or 300?). Anyway, with the way that car manufacturers reuse engines/chassis/transmissions across platforms, it's a decent bet that you were buying a repackaged one of the other models. Get a Toyota. Be done with it. ;)