monkeylizard

We bailed early. We planned to stay all weekend, but I've been home since about 4:30 today. As was said above, mostly the same stuff as last year. 2 days was enough...Well, a day and a half with all that %$#*&^$$#$#%$#^^)#!@ Traffic! Overall, I was thoroughly unimpressed. While it's large enough, the KEC is not particularly nice, at least not the South Wing where the exhibit hall was held. Especially when compared to the Music City Center. The main concourses made me feel like I should be trying to get tickets to a RATT concert, circa 1988. Whichever retarded monkey humper thought that a two-lane street is enough to funnel traffic off of a 6-lane Interstate into a facility that can handle north of 100,000 people and co-located with a theme park should be forced to have Caster slam his nuts in a car door....repeatedly.....until Caster decides he'd rather go to Atlanta....which could be a while. Parking at KEC is NOT capable of handling an event that large. I was forced to park in the grass on Friday, but was fortunate enough to get out (4:30'ish) just before the mass exodus began and the grass turned into a mud hole. Tow truck drivers were busy for many hours getting people out. There's NOTHING nearby the KEC. Even the neighboring hotels aren't particularly walkable. Finally, Louisville as a city is kind of boring. There's not a lot downtown, and areas like Bardstown Rd. with good restaurants and bars are so spread out that you have to drive from place to place....where you can't find parking. Several folks at our hotel and more than a few vendors said many of the same things. Nashville was exceedingly better than this one. I hope this is the last one in Louisville. I can promise you it was mine.

I saw several vendors at NRA Louisville with this kind of thing. The only one I saw last year was Tactical Walls. They've greatly expanded their line since last year and added RFID plus their usual magnet lock trick. There was another one with what looked to be a straight up knock off of Tactical Walls' shelves a few spaces down from them. Plus quite a half dozen others selling these kinds of tables and cabinets in various booths. It's definitely an up and coming niche.

In theory, that's correct. In reality, if he wants to walk the floor, I don't think the SS is going to stop him, and they won't be able to clear the room of functional firearms.

It says "area primarily devoted to", so it doesn't have to be a separate room. Think of places like O'Charley's or Logan's. The KY law makes it so you can conceal carry in the restaurant, but not in the bar area of the restaurant. If the KEC has a food and beverage area primarily dedicated to alcohol (let's say there's a Budwieser food stand shucking bratwurst but everyone knows it's primarily a beer stand) then only that area would be off limits for conceal carry. That's the way I understand KY law. Do I recall correctly that KY is an open-carry w/o permit state so the alcohol thing would only apply to concealed carry? One could still open carry in those areas? Don't forget about the Secret Service notice in the NRA announcement. If anyone's attending the NRA-ILA meeting, that will be off limits for carrying because Mr. Trump will be speaking and now has S.S. protection.

That was raised in the article. Kansas allows carry on school grounds, but school buildings can be posted. What exactly is a typical high school football stadium? Is it grounds or is it a building? Looks like the court will give Kansas residents an answer to that.

I have an H&R 940 .22LR revolver and the hammer no longer locks back to shoot it single action. It will work with double-action, and while I haven't tried it, I suspect I could shoot it old cowboy movie style by holding the trigger and repeatedly cycling the hammer. The timing is good on it and locks up tight. It's not worth what a smith would charge me to fix it, so I'd like to try it myself. I've never done any work at all on revolvers (this is the only one I have). Any advice on where to start?

Game 7 begins at 8pm Central. If it goes like Game 4, you'll be done with the upgrade before the game ends.

There are various ones. Some homeowners polices will cover you, but most won't. If you have an umbrella policy, it may cover you, but some don't. Mine does for any civil suits as long as it has been adjudicated as justified, but doesn't cover criminal suits. USCCA seems to be the leader in this area. At $147/year it's really not that expensive, especially compared to paying a lawyer. A good criminal defense lawyer doesn't get out of bed to pick $147 up off the floor.

Yep. The law I cited says you can't be civilly liable if the force is adjudicated as lawful and you can recoup legal fees. But that still doesn't stop an idiot from filing the suit anyway.

I'd say you're right 99.9% of the time though. Most no-knocks where the homeowner fires at the officers ends up dead. It's just not a guaranteed foregone conclusion.

Not always. Ignore the right or left slant of these publications. I only linked them because they covered the issue at hand.   Homeowner survived, charged but not indicted: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/02/08/texas-man-who-killed-police-officer-during-no-knock-raid-will-not-face-murder-charge-grand-jury-refuses-to-indict/   Homeowner survived and charged: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/swat-officer-killed-serving-no-knock-warrant/

Not only the reliability, but if you do find yourself in court, the prosecuting attorney is going to use anything and everything to make you look like a cold-blooded calculating murderer. "You made your own ammunition so that you could make it more lethal didn't you? What? The standard ammunition wasn't deadly enough for you? They wouldn't do enough damage to this fine upstanding citizen who was only trying to ask you for directions in the middle of your living room at 2am? Don't change the subject to the crowbar and bowie knife in the victim's hands! The issue is that you intentionally and maliciously planned to take a person's life with your overpowered bullets, didn't you!"   Same thing goes for modifications to the firearm.   It's a lame argument, but one I'd expect to face if I were using reloads or a modified firearm. Odds of having a "gun person" on the jury are slim, much less 12 of them.

Yeah, me too, but if I could make a small cache for a few hundred bucks, that seems a small price to pay for a "just in case" scenario.

TCA 39-11-622 is what you're looking for.   I'm not certain, but I think for -622 to apply, then the use of force has to have been adjudicated as justified. That just means that a judge or jury has to have said it was a good use of force. If the cops don't arrest you and the DA doesn't charge you, you could face a civil suit. You'd then have to lawyer up and have a judge review the case and make a ruling from the bench that it was justified under one of the 3 statutes listed in a-1 below. Once that's done, the civil suit gets tossed and you can be awarded lawyer fees from the plaintiff, but more often than not that's like getting blood from a stone. It could go the other way I suppose and the judge may rule that the use of force was not justified and the civil suit could continue even if the DA doesn't file criminal charges, but IANAL so I don't really know for sure about that. If the DA does press charges and you are found not guilty, then the use of force has been adjudicated as justified by the jury and no civil suit can proceed. That's the way I understand it, but I could be wrong.   Ignore the colors. That's from using the [ code ] tag instead of the [ quote ] tag. The quote tag turns many of the letters in parenthesis into various smiley faces. 39-11-622.  Justification for use of force -- Exceptions -- Immunity from civil liability.   (a)  (1) A person who uses force as permitted in §§ 39-11-611 -- 39-11-614 or § 29-34-201, is justified in using such force and is immune from civil liability for the use of such force, unless:       (A) The person against whom force was used is a law enforcement officer, as defined in § 39-11-106 who:          (i) Was acting in the performance of the officer's official duties; and          (ii) Identified the officer in accordance with any applicable law; or          (iii) The person using force knew or reasonably should have known that the person was a law enforcement officer; or       (B) The force used by the person resulted in property damage to or the death or injury of an innocent bystander or other person against whom the force used was not justified. (b) The court shall award reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, compensation for loss of income, and all expenses incurred by a person in defense of any civil action brought against the person based upon the person's use of force, if the court finds that the defendant was justified in using such force pursuant to §§ 39-11-611 -- 39-11-614 or § 29-34-201.

I've wondered that too. I also wonder how effective the ground would be. Would burying a cache of sealed containers work? If so, I wonder how deep they'd need to be.

Or for the ladies on church day

Thanks. That's sort of what I was deriving from reading around the web.

Those aren't exactly world-ending EMP level protection and it says so in the description. It's basically an olive drab static bag with a Ziploc strip. Thanks though.

  Even if the backup power system works, it won't do any good if the electronics they're powering are shot. Is that an unreasonable concern? Wouldn't the actual broadcast equipment be damaged?

Forget about the likelihood of an EMP, whether or not a Faraday cage would help, and what you'd put in one. I want to know about building one.   I've done some reading and it seems like for every "expert" who swears up and down to do X, another "expert" says X won't work, you should do Y. For example, one says ground it, another says never ground it and another says it doesn't matter. Some say a microwave works, others say they do no good, and others say they're partly good.   Would it hurt to do multiple "layers" for protection? I'm thinking of something simple like say an ammo can. For simplicity, let's just say I want to protect a radio in my cage.   What if I put the radio in an anti-static bag, wrapped the bag in aluminum foil, placed that in a Ziploc, wrapped that in aluminum foil, placed that in a plastic bag? And then I lined the ammo can with aluminum foil and thin sheets of Styrofoam. Placed the bag in the can, then taped it shut with aluminum foil air duct tape (not rubbery duck tape)?   Is that sufficient or do I need the fancier stuff like brass or copper mesh? Or are those multiple layers somehow hurting the effectiveness?   What if I put the ammo can (or several cans) inside a metal garbage lined with Styrofoam to insulate it and taped the lid shut with aluminum tape?

  If that laptop/tablet/smart phone contains a library of useful documents, and you have a small solar or crank charger to keep the batteries going, it could be VERY useful. How many of us would have access to the university library they had in One Second After complete with every issue of Mother Earth News along with various Army field manuals, small engine repair manuals, etc.? But you could get nearly all of that in electronic form and store it on portable devices/flash drives and keep those small items in a Faraday cage. That old nearly worthless iPod or iPhone currently sitting in a junk drawer at home could become priceless. Plus you could have family photos and a music library on there too. Keeping your mental state up is just as important as anything else.Toss in some walkie-talkies/GMRS/portable HAM radios with rechargeable batteries and you have the makings of a community communication center. EOTWAWKI doesn't have to mean 100% pre-industrial living.

  Speaking of next year.... I booked my Atlanta hotel today. There are still a few with great rates.   April 28-30th 2017 at the Georgia World Congress Center   Hyatt Regency has some good rates and so does the Hilton Home 2 Suites. That one's just a few blocks away and $125.10/night if you're a Hilton Honors member and book through the Hilton site. If not, it's free to join. $28/night for parking but that's pretty normal for everything in downtown Atlanta.

Jade Helm!