monkeylizard

That's a hickory tree.

Try Wilson Bank & Trust. They're good people.

I think there's a better than average chance it will come back. Kim's father and grandfather used it as a PR focal point of how they stuck it to the Americans. Kim can use its return as a strong sign of goodwill that costs him very little.

I don't call ahead and tell the Wal-Mart manager I'll be carrying when I shop in his store and I don't tell my barber I'm carrying when I get a haircut. A charter operator is no different. It's a business operating to the public.

The dead give away for me are the guys dressed in various shades of tan and olive drab. Especially cargo pants/shorts, 5.11 shirt, and a fishing vest when it's a bajillion degrees outside. I just assume anyone dressed like John Goodman in The Big Lebowski is carrying.

I feel like I need to get a "Bill Paxton as Virgil Earp" avatar to participate on this thread. I'm squarely in the camp of keeping it hidden as best I can. I'm glad though that we don't have to in TN so it's not something I really worry about a whole lot. I found a rig that works for me and now I "set it and forget it". The key is finding the gun, holster, and belt that works best for you. I'm thin(ish) so I've given up on concealing a double-stack anything except in winter when I can wear a jacket. I've tried multiple holsters and belts and double-stacks just don't work for me because of their thickness and weight. My medical condition known as noassatall means heavier guns tend to pull on my pants, even with a good gun belt. A Kahr PM9 or M&P Shield in a thin holster works well for me, especially if I can set the depth real low. Currently I'm using Remora holsters. I can keep them riding real low and the clipless design makes it easy to take the gun off and on without unhosltering or fumbling with clips. I've tried Remora holsters with larger (ie. Glock G26) guns and they don't work as well for me. With my build, anything more than the light single-stacks means I need a gun belt and clip holster and even then it's iffy. With the single-stacks I can use pretty much any belt I want and don't have to use a gun belt to prevent a sagging waist band. The gun belts are fine most of the time, but sometimes they're just not the look I'm going for.

I'm just guessing at Raoul's meaning, but the current situation provides a nice steady, albeit small in the big picture, flow of arms and materiel to the South in the forms of both direct US troops and selling them our stuff. That means money in the pockets of certain people who pay a sizeable chunk of it to political war chests. The current stalemate also gives us a pretty good excuse to keep troops deployed on China's doorstep. There's also the short-term pain of reunification. Germany felt it in the 90s when the west had to pay to bring the east forward almost a half-century in infrastructure and education. That hurt the German economy for several years. The south would have to do the same for the north and would feel that economic strain. We do a lot of trade with South Korea these days in technology and industrial products so it would hurt us a little too, but I'd expect that to be rather negligible given the size of our economy.

You'd think having a story about getting shot by a drunk back-flipping break-dancing FBI agent would be enough to get him free drinks for life already.

If you have a SUB-2000 purchased in 2017 or 2018, check your serial number. Some shipped with bad barrels. https://recalls.keltecweapons.com/

Some of the Twitter comments were pure gold.

I opened up a spot. Not renewing my membership.

Here comes the first lawsuit. Probably won't be the last. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2018/05/15/nashville-waffle-house-shooting-family-victim-sues-father-accused-shooter-travis-reinking/611326002/

If you lost it IN the MGB, you're a god amongst men.

You didn't miss much with the Delorean. All the power of a lawn mower none of the handling. I heard the later ones with the larger motors were more respectable.

+1 to what has been said above. I didn't know about either legislative change.

I watched Punky Brewster as a kid where Punky's friend almost died hiding in an old fridge. I want to know how Indy got that door opened from the inside.

I don't know what "mistakes" you're talking about. Reinking never committed any violent crimes before this (that we know of). Illinois revoked his FOID because the FBI told them to after his White House trespassing, but Illinois had no right to seize his property. He wasn't a convicted felon. If anyone dropped the ball on this one it was his father and any psych doctors who determined him sane, but even that's a sticky one because he may have been in his right mind and fully functional during his psych evals. Mental illness is difficult like that.

I saw one of the IL law enforcement folks on the news last night. He said what I was thinking was the case: They had no right to seize the firearms any more than they had the right to enter the home and seize the refrigerator. The son had not been charged (much less convicted) of a crime warranting the seizure of his firearms. But his FOID was revoked so they couldn't give them back so they gave them to a family member. Think about our good buddy Voldemort. He had his HCP suspended because he showed what a judge (or TDOS official, not sure on the specifics) thought to be poor decision making in public with firearms. But his firearms weren't seized because he wasn't charged with or convicted of a felony. What I'm still unsure of is if the father violated any ATF regulations. I think it's going to come down to who actually owned the firearms and where the transfer of possession took place. I'm also not sure the son would qualify as a "prohibited person" under Fed laws. They couldn't give to flips about whether or not Illinois revoked his state FOID card. Form 4473 Question 11.f says: I've not heard any reports saying either of those is true. The civil suits will be brutal though. Negligence is going to be easy to prove in this one.

You would think so, but if they're wealthy, like for-real wealthy, then they'll likely have been smart enough to have assets squirreled away under different corporations and family members. Any wealthy person that has it all in their own name is a moron. Time will tell.

We could bring back Chief Serpas to make the crime stats go down. Crime itself wouldn't go down, but the stats would look awesome again! He had some Cajun voodoo going on with his book-cooking recipes.

I just saw Don Aaron's press conference. He said a neighbor witnessed him shirtless in dark pants behind the apartment building after the shooting. That's how they know he went back and got some pants. That was the last confirmed sighting. 3 long guns are accounted for but not a handgun.

Why not? It worked in Back to the Future pt. III . . .

He went back to his place and got some pants. Exactly how the police know this is still a mystery to me. Perhaps a neighbor witnessed it.

The bathtub protects from both grenades AND falling industrial light fixtures! Good to know. In reality, even an iron one doesn't do much but if it can take some of the energy off the bullet/frag then maybe it might make a hit more survivable? I guess it depends on what the shooter is using. Like most cover I'd guess it might stop or slow a .22 enough, but not going to do a whole lot against a .50 BMG with everything else falling somewhere in between.

I meant loaning them across state lines to his Tennessee-resident son, assuming he's a legal resident of TN. That would not run afoul of any federal laws about interstate transfers. There's still the whole issue of the son being a prohibited person, but that's a different issue than the interstate transfer.