RobertNashville

Aren't background checks supposed to solve the problems of criminals getting guns? Do robberies of gun stores not present a "gun store loophole"?

Puerile responses (such as in post 121) are not an effective substitute for substantive discussion. EDIT: While you and I are obviously never going agree on "unions", I'm sure we would agree on many other issues...sorry if I offended you in any way.

Here is the link: Tennessee Region Sports Car Club of America : home : 2010 Just take a look at the events schedule tab - all the events for 2011 area already there...just pick a Sunday when you think you can come up and I'll try to meet up with you. Most events are on the parking lot at the Nashville Superspeedway - they are long and usually fast courses.

^ Really intelligent response. When it comes to unions, 6.8AR probably said it best... "You work for who pays your paycheck. If you don't like the arrangement between you and your employer, find another job". That pretty well sums up free enterprise as well as personal liberty and responsibility and precisely what a union, whether purposely or unintentionally, will ultimately undermine.

You are free to your opinion, even thought it's wrong and assuming you know anything about me or my family and how we have or haven't benefited from unions is what is truly a bunch of crap IMHO. Businesses have "free reign" only so long as their employees are willing to put up with it and if employees are willing to put up with it then they deserve exactly what they get.

It needs all that tq to move all that weight around =-but I'd be surprised (maybe unpleasantly surprised) if it could best the Z 0-60 which is in the 4.7 second range I don't think the SCCA in Memphis does much autocrossing...in Nashville we have two a month on average.

I've never taken any of my Zs to the drag strip but I do autocross regularly. I would put some money down if we were betting 0-60 times; quarter mile I would assume you would win as the 370 only pulls around 13 seconds (at least to what I've watched myself and/or read). Anyway; if a road doesn't have any curves in it I tend to avoid it not matter what I'm driving.

Well...I'm sure they will never give us the option of getting out out of the trap which is why it will have to be privatized or so severely means-tested that you would have to be nearly dying of hunger and living on the streets before you could qualify for "benefits". Those who have already paid into this worthless system all of their lives and are now approaching retirement MUST be allowed to collect what they were promised but those who are young enough to start saving for themselves will have to be shifted to a private (although likely mandated) sort of 401(K) type system. There is no way SS can survive long term without going private/semi-private. Of course, SS is only part of the overall monstrous overspending the government is doing and projected to do.

Even at 56; I would probably be willing to forgo ALL future SS benefit if they would simply let me never have to contribute another penny again. As Dave Ramsey likes to say, they can keep the cheese, just let me out of the trap. The only thing that can save SS in any form is for it to be privatized - the only function that government should serve is, perhaps, a legal mandate that people must contribute into the system but otherwise it needs to operate much like any 401(K) type of plan.

I generally don't converse with Mustang guys but I'll make an exception. I have two passions in life the involve inanimate objects...firearms and cars. More importantly, I combine the two whenever I can (see the link in my sig line for more info)

For someone who claims to not like unions you are certainly making a lot of posts in defense of them. I know what you said and while I can't speak for others here, unions have never done anything for me or any member of my family either directly or indirectly...period...you can believe otherwise of you wish; you'll just be wrong. Whatever truly useful purpose they MAY have served a century ago HAS LONG PAST as have the reasons for their existence. Unions are anathema to the very concept of free enterprise; they are, in microcosm, the exact opposite of the very ideals of freedom and liberty and personal responsibility.

I reply because this is a discussion forum. You shouldn't go around making assumptions about people...no one in my family nor have I ever be part of a union and no, I've never been "benefited" by one. Where did I say businesses were "trustworthy"? What does that have to do with anything anyway? A lot of employees aren't "trustworthy" either which is why businesses should be able to fire them and, when a business isn't being trustworthy, a employee can and should quit and go somewhere else; that's a major part of how free enterprise works and it works pretty damn well, despite its flaws. So unions ONCE served a purpose 90 years ago; so did the horse and buggy and covered wagons but I have no desire to travel across country in one. Unions are nothing more than communist organizations - I will never voluntarily associate with a organization that espouses communist principles. I believe people should be responsible for themselves and that includes who they work if and under what conditions THEY and only they negotiate with an employer.

I think panic and speculation and outright fear more than political influence is what is currently affecting oil and gasoline prices. The politics that I see is in Washington/Dalai -Bama trying to move us to "green" energy....I have nothing against renewable sources of energy as a general concept but the change to those sources of energy shouldn't be forced on the public; mot especially if the "force" is predicated on ridiculous "global warming" BS.

What is the "right thing" businesses is supposed to do that you don't feel they are doing? I really don't know where you are coming from/what point you are trying to make or what it has to do with what's happening in WI or other states right now. Businesses exist to serve the needs of the business and its owners...peirod...they have no other obligation. The principle is simple, if a person doesn't like the arrangement they have with their current employer they need to either go somewhere else, start their own business or shut up and live with the hand they've been dealt (and usually the hand they've be dealt is 99% a result of their own choices, good or bad)...that's what public and private employees in WI need to do and in every other state for that matter.

What's "easy" have to do with anything? Yes...times are rough right now...they've been rough before and they'll be rough again but a rough economy doesn't suddenly obligate anyone to give someone else a job and that's most especially so when the "someone" has to take money by force from my pocket to pay another person's salary. People have to make choices and live with the consequences of those choices; even if none of the choices they have are what they want and that's true whether you are talking about a job or about life in general.

There is noting wrong with owning plastic guns...they are fun...ugly...dependable...I have three. However, I'll always own more and prefer 1911s to anything else.

Well, as 6.8 AR already stated, collective bargaining isn't a right. In any case, while I haven't studied WI's proposals in detail, I doubt that the changes would forbid the existence of a union; simply that no one can be forced to join one (as is the case in a closed shop) and, such as in the case of teachers, school districts would not be required to recognize the teachers union as having the power to bargain on behalf of teachers. That doesn't mean the union can't exist and do its other "union" stuff.

I believe (but please check me out on this) that you can let someone else use it so long as you are right there with them. Again...there is a section here on just those sorts of questions and it would worth posting your question there for a much more educated answer than I can give.

In both cases, the finishes are far to nice and the damage too small to do a total refinish...both are fairly valuable weapons and I doubt I'd ever do a total refinish on either. How "valuable" either will be in the future is debatable but I don't expect either will lose value.

That's an excellent suggestion...thanks!!!

For a while, I was under the misconception that I had to "declare" what handgun I was going to carry (including SN) and at the time, my only handgun I owned was my first handgun purchased in 1975...a gun I would never want to carry nor will I ever sell it (both because of its actual value and its personal worth to me)...that kept me from taking the permit class for a while until I finally realized I was wrong (although by that time I had already purchased a carry weapon anyway).

If there is no posting IAW TN state law then the word "legal" doesn't apply. In any case, there isn't a single person here who can or should answer that question for you. You are the one who seems to be in fear for his life...You are the one who's job is potentially on the line. No one else will be out of work if you get fired and no one here can know how legitimate your fear is or would be directly impacted if you were killed by a pissed-off customer.

Hello everyone. I apologize if this question has been asked before (I did “search†but didn’t find what I was looking for)…equal apologies if this is the wrong place to post this question! I have two firearms that could use some wood repair/refinishing – I don’t really want to do a total refinish; just an expert repair on some minor damage. One is a Browning Citori O/U that has one nasty nick and a couple of minor scratches on the fore-stock. The other is a Browning A-Bolt with a bad scratch on the main stock (I’m actually just purchasing this one from a forum member). Both of these have fairly high-quality finishes. So…my question is whether we have anyone on the forum that does that kind of work and/or that you can recommend? Ideally I’d like to be someone in the middle Tennessee area but I’m willing to travel a bit to get a good job done. Thanks in advance for any help/advice!

When buying a firearm, I only buy from a local vendor or a private person...I've never and never plan to buy a firearm just "online". However, when it comes to accessories like ammo, holsters, scopes, etc...I'll buy from 1) whoever has it and 2) whoever hast it at the best overall price but I still try to give preference to my local gun shop. Generally if I don't buy from them it's only because they don't have what I'm looking for.

It never ceases to amaze me how wrong a news agency can get a story or how they'll twist a headline until it does or can easily misrepresent what the story actually says - this story got even more outrageously wrong as it was picked up and altered by other news outlets.