TN to MA and back to TN

[C-pher]

Hello everyone, I just found his forum here and wanted to send a hello to the group.  I'm from Germantown, outside of Memphis...ended up in MA outside of Boston for about 18 years with work, and after the divorce, decided I had to move back home.  I'm lucky that my job allows me to pretty much work anywhere....the cost of living was too much up there...

I've been shooting since I was a kid, I still have the Winchester 190 my grandfather passed down to me when I was 6.  

Up in MA, I was on the BOD of my gun club for over 10 years.  I was active with GOAL (the local gun activist group in MA) and the protecting our rights up in MA, and I'm a Life Member of the NRA.  I used to help with our club's Jr Marksmanship program, and got my kids involved when they were young.  You know, our future and all.

I don't really know much about what's going on here in TN anymore....so I figured this would be a good place to figure out laws, rights, issues that are important to us here in TN.  You want to know about gun laws in MA?  I can tell you all about them....here, not so much.  But that was because I taught for the State of MA and UT for ones CCW permits.  Had to take yearly law primers for MA law to keep up with what I needed to teach students to keep them out of trouble.  The laws up there are not friendly as all.  I also used to shoot SASS and have thought about getting into Three Gun or IDPA...but just never made the  jump.  haha

My current wife and I have moved from East Memphis to Germantown to get the little one back into good schools....so I'm going to be looking to sell a few things down the road that are just sitting around and taking up space in the house, garage, and my safes.

I look forward to meeting folks on here....and maybe I can make a few friends that have some good places to shoot.  I've only been out a few times in the few years I've been here...and only to the range in Bartlett.  I miss shooting outside as there just wasn't public ranges in MA...as most of you can imagine.


Anyway, thanks for letting me ramble on and I look forward to meeting a few of you, learning, and getting back into being more active with the culture.

Edited September 21, 2019 by C-pher

[MacGyver]

Welcome back!

[C-pher]

Thank you!

[1911alltheway]

Welcome back to TN.

 

[DWARREN123]

Howdy and Welcome to TGO!!!

And back to Tennessee.

[billyblazes]

I'm another MA transplant, kind of.  Born in Attleboro,  As soon as I graduated high school I moved to Florida.  As soon as I put in another year to three at my current job I plan to relocate in East TN

[Jamie Jackson]

Welcome Home and welcome to TGO!

[C-pher]

1 hour ago, billyblazes said:

I'm another MA transplant, kind of.  Born in Attleboro,  As soon as I graduated high school I moved to Florida.  As soon as I put in another year to three at my current job I plan to relocate in East TN

Nice, I lived in North Attleboro.  I miss Wendell’s and Tex Barry’s.  Haha. Other than my kids, that may be about it.  My office is in Waltham and I sure don’t miss the traffic...2 hours to go 20 miles.  Worse if the Pats were playing or if there was snow. 

I have family our in Knoxville and such...it’s beautiful out there.  Spent a lot of time plinking our in the woods of my Uncle’s land when I was a kid. 

[C-pher]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome.  I’m looking forward to getting to know all y’all. 

[Erich]

Welcome back and thanks for sharing.

Coming from a small mag state when moving, plan for the expense of getting normal size mags

One of the more pleasurable expenses.

[gregintenn]

Welcome, sir.

[C-pher]

5 hours ago, gregintenn said:

Welcome, sir.

Thank you!

[C-pher]

On 9/22/2019 at 1:53 PM, Erich said:

Welcome back and thanks for sharing.

Coming from a small mag state when moving, plan for the expense of getting normal size mags

One of the more pleasurable expenses.

Thank you!  Yes, it's nice to no longer have to worry about a preban magazine...and now I can get standard capacity mags without the "preban" markup!