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If they show the events leading up to it, I think they should blame Walter White's blue meth. I want to see zombie Saul Goodman.

  How about Sunday, October 12th?   September 21st is out for me, and any earlier and I think we may not be giving everyone enough time.

I'd say if a C&R ever allows us to skip the FFL on non-C&R items, look for every gun owner in America to get a C&R license. :) Not gonna happen, though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I heard back from Ron.   First: The Gallatin Gun Club doesn't have anything to do with this. This is NOT a club sanctioned event. It's just some club members getting together with some guests for a day of shooting.   Second, I think we should try to limit this to no more than 2 or 3 guests per member to keep it manageable. Members are responsible for their guests and we should be respectful of any other members who happen to be there whenever we do it. Right now, we're at 4 members, so we could add in 8-12 additional non-members.   Based on the comments in the above thread, it looks like this may be our group: Members: Hershmeister, D3v0, myself, and a non-TGO buddy Non-Members: Photoguy67, 173rdABN, Lumber_Jack, Hozzie, John Wells, LawEnforcementSalesTN, Verne Maybe: Tooreal << I couldn't tell if it was a definite "in" or not from the above comments. All non-members planning to attend, read the range safety and TVA rules here: http://gallatingun.com/info.asp#miscinfo Note that automatic or bump-fire are not allowed.   I'm assuming we'll need to look at weekends. Saturdays are booked up for rifle matches through October. After November 1st, the calendar is empty. If Sundays work, they're all wide open through the rest of the year. http://gallatingun.com/calendar.asp   I propose Sunday, September 28th, and Saturday, November 1st as our 2 options. Those are sort of randomly chosen. I just need to give us a place to start.   Please reply back here with your intent to attend, and your preference for a date.   Mike has the longest drive, so we'll let him set the start time.   Once we have the attendees and dates finalized, I'll get directions to the non-members and we'll plan on how to get everyone through the gate.

  Including their stock prices.   SWHC normally traded around $4-$6 a few years ago. It started climbing in January 2012 to a high of a little over $15 last June and has been falling ever since. There was nothing that would have caused the value of the company to triple over 18 months. It's at $10.51 now, so I see it further correcting down to the $5-$6 range. Mostly because their financial sheets are pretty flat over this whole time. There's no real reason for the up-tick in the stock price. They saw a decent increase in cash from operations over the last couple of years due to the increased sales, but that's coming back down.   I haven't looked at Ruger, but I suspect a similar pattern.

  Sure there is. We know that he was arrested and charged for DUI. We know that he plead to a lesser charge or reckless driving. We We know that he's calling for action to be taken against the arresting officer. I suspect (because it's unclear in the story) that the arrest was based solely on the officer's sense of smell and FST, without hard evidence.   It's those last two parts that made my mind go to trumped up charges as a possibility. A normal person wouldn't get arrested for something they were actually doing, then plea it down, then try to get the arresting officer fired. The only logical process I can come up with for this is that the charge was trumped, he plead to save money/time/felony conviction and was told that his pilots license would be OK, turned out that was wrong, now he's sorry he took the plea deal to make some bogus charge go away and wants the officer fired.     That's the only way I can logically get from "I was driving drunk" to "fire that officer for arresting me for driving drunk!".   The other possibility is that this guy is loony tunes. Judging by his current protest, I'd say that's a likely possibility and applying logic is pointless.

Would be good to know who, but I'm not holding my breath.

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  That's the ideal, but it's not unheard of for an innocent person to plead to a lesser charge because they don't think they'll win at trial. A plea also avoids/reduces jail time and court/lawyer fees that the innocent person can't afford.   The officer reported that he smelled alcohol and that the guy failed the field sobriety. Assuming that the officer is one of the majority who are good cops, then yes it's a good arrest. If he's a dirty SOB and trumped up the "I smell alcohol" and that even if the guy could cross a tightrope over the Grand Canyon backwards on a unicycle, he was going to fail to complete the FST as instructed, then we have another thing entirely. There's no witness and no objective evidence one way or the other.   If he was DUI, we agree. If he wasn't, then there's a broken criminal law system to blame.       I'm saying that the story as written, introduces more questions about the DUI arrest than it answers. If it was a good stop, then screw this guy. No doubt that his current antics are misguided, at best.

Did you just suggest his logo be KKK? :rofl:

  Maybe. You're assuming that he was indeed driving drunk. If he wasn't, it wouldn't be the first time someone was wrongly arrested. An officer lying about smelling alcohol and failing a field sobriety test would be a pretty easy way to screw someone over, should that officer be so inclined. 100 out of 100 times, the judge is going to believe the officer. Without objective evidence like a blood draw or a breathalyzer reading, there's no way to know for sure. It's Sheriff Weatherford and the DA that make me suspicious. Why would they bend over backwards to work out the lesser charge to try to keep him from losing his job? Was it simply because he's a young man that has a long future and they wanted to help him? Or was it because the officer made a "driving while black" arrest and getting a lesser conviction was the best way to protect the department from a lawsuit while not totally screwing over an innocent victim? Inquiring minds want to know. Add in the fact that he wants the arresting officer fired, and it tells me that he obviously thinks the officer did something wrong. A wrongful arrest in this case is the only thing that comes to mind.   If he was DUI, screw him. I tend to lean towards this but there's some doubt in my mind, based solely on what's presented in the article.

  ...on a horse, with a tiger pelt draped over his shoulder, and a bottle of vodka in the hand not holding the sword.

I hear that the Spy Museum is awesome, but I haven't been yet. The same goes for the bureau of engraving and printing.   Check out the Library of Congress located behind the Capitol. They have a nice exhibit of artifacts, including Lincoln's personal effects from the night he was assasinated. They also have some of George Washington's school textbooks.   Contact your Congressman's or either Senator's office and find out if they have any Capitol tours while you're there. You'll start at their office in the neighboring office buildings and ride their private subway tram over to the Capitol. You'll be with other Tennesseeans and in a smaller group than the regualr tours, and led by an intern. I lucked out and went when Sen. Frist was the Senate Majority Leader so we also got to see the SML's office which is not part of the regular tour. It has the fireplace where the British troops burned books from the Library of Congress which suubsequently burned down the Capitol during the War of 1812.

This can't be real. It's funny, but it just can't be real....can it?

  There is, but first it requires 2 keys and a magic word.

Thanks for this. I had a rather lousy night* and this really helped. :up:             *Admittedly the very definition of 1st world problems, but lousy nonetheless.

Guns & Leather - Greenbrier has a current Groupon for their HCP class. $49. Or $65 if you want to use one of their rental .22 pistolas with their ammo.   https://www.groupon.com/biz/goodlettsville-tn/guns-and-leather

Thanks OS. I went to St. Louis and back yesterday for a Cardinals game (5-4 win over the Pirates. Go Cards!) and left my heater at home because I didn't want to have to deal with IL and its stupid laws. That new change will make the decision to go back for more Cardinals games easier.         Yeah, I know about the left turn at Paducah that only puts me in IL for about a mile at Fort Defiance, but that adds an hour round-trip to an already long day.

Straight from the horse's . . . .mouth?   http://www.isp.state.il.us/docs/transgun0-000.pdf   It's meant to be printed and tri-folded as a pamphlet, so start on the right and work your way through it.   Cliff's Notes version: separate the ammo from the handun (including emtying all magazines). Field strip the handgun and place the parts in a locked container inaccessible to the driver, preferably in the trunk if you have one.   Though this IL pamphlet doesn't say so, a similar one from NJ says don't make any stops that aren't necessary. Get gas, and keep moving.

  BINGO! We have a winner!

Same here. It's a range gun. Much too large and heavy for me to carry daily, although I know some find that it works for them just fine.

I have a Beretta and have owned a Taurus 92 and shot a couple of other Taurus 92s. The decocker/safety on the Taurus can be cocked and locked. On the Beretta, moving from fire to safe passes through the decocker step and lowers the hammer. It's on the frame on the Taurus, making it a little easier to reach, esp for someone with small hands. Not only are the mags not interchangeable, but because of the relocated safety, neither are the grips. The fit/finish on the Beretta is a little better. The gaps are tighter. The biggest difference to me is the trigger pull. It's noticeably smoother on the Beretta. Personally, I don't like the gigantic lettering that Taurus feels the need to emblazon on every slide they produce, so there's that too. I do like the look of the polished stainless Taurus more than the Inox Beretta. Heresy, I know.

I just sent Ron Jackson and e-mail. I'll let you all know what he thinks.   We should be OK on the member-to-guest ratio, assuming Ron and the board think this is OK to do at GGC. Counting Hershmeister, I can just about guarantee that we'll have at least 4 members (Hershmeister, D3VO, myself, and a non-TGO buddy).

When it's not hotter than Satan's balls outside.       Seriously though, Saturdays are usually blocked out with rifle or IDPA matches, but some of those will stop when the weather turns a bit colder. Right now, the November calendar shows Saturdays as all available, but that could just mean that the calendar hasn't been updated. Sundays are good as the only scheduled events are up on the trap stands. Weekdays are of course much quieter. Having the place to ourselves is a crap shoot. Sometimes I go and it's empty. Other times I go and there are a few other shooters. Outside of matches and the annual picnic, I've never seen more than 6 other people there.