monkeylizard

  That will probably be the first person to pee his pants, hunker down behind the first piece of concealment he can find, have a good teary-eyed "Oh God! Oh God! Oh God!" moment, then maybe give himself Glock-butt to top it all off.

  True, as long as they aren't all posted.

  It was about a half-century ago in certain parts of our nation. It was exceedingly difficult for black citizens to travel through much of the South because hotels wouldn't allow them to stay. In a purely academic world, the free market would have corrected that by an enterprising person opening hotels that accepted black guests. But in the real world, he couldn't get the building permits or business license approved by the city/county. Enter the Civil Rights Act of 1964.   What if you found yourself where no grocer would sell to a person of whatever your skin color is, or your religious persuasion, or why not the color of your hair? Not one within 200 miles. No other business will deal with you either. Think you'll move? Hope you have good friends because the U-Haul guy isn't renting a truck to you. Need to stop along the way for gas? Good luck. Going to complain to the local Sheriff? He's the grocer's brother. Besides, it's their right to deny you service, correct? Their property, their rules, and all.   Now change that around to where every business and government owned building is posted with a gunbuster for as far as the eye can see. Do you or do you not then have a 2nd amendment right to carry? On paper, sure...in the real world, no.     All that said, this whole proposed bill about liability if posted is utter crap. Just repeal 39-17-1359 and let's be done with it.

  Except that it's not that plain and simple when it comes to a business open to the public. A business owner can't make his or her own rule that Hispanics aren't permitted, or that Jews aren't permitted, or that wheelchairs aren't permitted. I'm not saying that carrying a firearm should be protected (and I'm not saying it shouldn't be), but it's clearly not as simple as "my ball, my rules".

Why did they have to specifically single out BLACK bears? #PolarBearLivesMatter.

  Did he have you point your gun at his face so he could determine your eye dominance?

You're preaching to the choir and arguing with a stump. machinist91 is no more.

  Not much. Just one new member necromancing this thread, causing a couple of people to crawl out from under their bridges.   The usual.

http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1483&GA=109

  Yes....and Jonah Hill as The Bear at the Golden Globes was quite funny.

4th Street Live....meh   Hard Rock Café, TGI Friday's, a Brazillian steakhouse, and a couple of brewpubs, plus the mandatory fudge/ice cream shop and a sports bar. Toss in a food court and a Foot Locker and call it a day. I suspect they'll have a live music stage setup there during the NRA convention. Maybe that will make it suck less.   It does make me appreciate Nashville and how uncommon a vibrant compact local tourism core really is. Besides Portland, Austin, New Orleans, Savannah, and San Antonio, I can't think of too many others with a wide variety of local stuff in a compact area. Atlanta is spread out and its compact areas like Buckhead have just about become 100% national chains. Boring.

  It's pretty fun. Be sure to open everything you can in the museum area. You'll find little hidden things all over the place if you start opening every drawer and tugging on every handle you can find.   One thing I didn't know is that they were making wooden stocks during WW2 for the M-1 carbine. They also made billy clubs for the Army. I was up there this fall and they were making billy clubs for police. The tour guide said he had been there 10 years and it was the first time he'd seen them being made.

  Indy last had it in 2014 so they're repeating after 5 years. St. Louis had it in 2008 and 2012, 5 years apart Louisville last had it in 2008, 8 years ago. Houston had it in 2005 and 2013, 8 years apart Pittsburgh had it ion 2004 and 2011, 7 years apart.   Anyone see a pattern?   Nashville's show was a big success. I'll be surprised if we don't get on the repeat cycle. I'd expect us to get it again sometime between 2020 and 2023.

FYI - 2017 is Atlanta, 2018 is Dallas.

There are a few hotels on I-65 at exit 121 (Brooks, KY/John Harper Hwy). The usual chain stuff like Hampton Inn, Comfort Inn, Holiday Inn Express, etc.) plus the customary chain restaurants like Cracker Barrel and Tumbleweeds TexMex. I think I may have seen a Lonestar steakhouse there too. It's a quick 12-15 minute drive up I-65 to the fairgrounds for the convention. Rush hour traffic in the mornings will probably add another 10-15 minutes. When I looked several months ago, they all had normal rates, not jacked up "the NRA is coming" rates like the downtown hotels.

+1 to the L.S. factory and museum. Other than that, I don't much care for Louisville. It's just another city. It doesn't have a real tourism area like Nashville or Memphis has. Unless there's an event/concert going on, there's just not a whole lot there. I hear their zoo is pretty good if you like that kind of thing.   I'm going to the NRA show, but I wish it was someplace more interesting.

..Nevermind..

I like Amazon Smile. If anyone here shops on Amazon and isn't using Amazon Smile, then get on it! Just pick a charity and *poof*. No cost to you. Mine goes to the elephant sanctuary in Hohenwald.

    Forget Amazon. I'm pretty sure you're going to need Mason, Inc. to have a few truckloads of jars delivered if you're burying $900,000,000 in $20s and $50s.

    Yep. That's why a smart person gets a lawyer and sets up a blind trust, gives the ticket to the trust, then has their lawyer claim the prize on behalf of the trust. Then there's no mention of your name in public at all.

It's done by EFT. No paper check except the giant cardboard one you'll get to pose with.  :)

The event itself is fishy to me, but the end resolution of it went about as well as can be expected. All sailors and the boats returned to us quickly. No bloodshed, not another war over something this petty, and no prolonged imprisonments. The Iranians ended up with the biggest win though. Their P.R. machine is probably working overtime to show how magnanimous they are and how the Great Satan apologized to them.

This really IS Carter's second term.....

Yes, you can carry it in a scabbard on your bike.   I'm not sure what you mean by "I did get a carry permit - just to be legal if I want to take it off the MC or out of the Car for any reason. Plus, might want to carry at times." Your HCP applies only to handguns. Unless it's in/on your vehicle or incident to other lawful activity (ie hunting, target shooting, educational demonstration, etc.) you can't carry a long gun in TN.

Are you looking for the laws on hunting private land, or are you looking for private land on which to hunt?