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So I have a job interview tomorrow with TWRA in Nashville, as a forestry program coordinator. I am qualified, it's just a matter of convincing them of that. I'm pretty much reserved to the fact that if it's not in Gods plan then it won't happen anyhow, but it would be nice, for sure. So if your so inclined, I'd appreciate any prayers y'all can muster.

Just wait till the TGO pro tech group buy knives come in. Expect new pictures on the hour.

Law Enforcement Sales in Oak Ridge.

who cares tn is a great place to live and raise a family

absolutely. If you cannot establish trust or comfort in the deal...back off. 

We need to make a change like this in Tennessee, so that no gun signs do not carry a fine with them.  We need to work with the NRA and make this change to help people with handgun carry permits.  This law in Oklahoma balances the rights of those carrying guns and the property owners.    As of now, we can be fined and have our handgun carry permit suspended for violating the stupid sign law in TN.  Those who say "Don't give the property owner your business" well good luck when you have to go to any Memphis local government office and carrying legally.     Section 1290.22. C. A property owner, tenant, employer, place of worship or business entity may prohibit any person from carrying a concealed or unconcealed firearm on the property. If the building or property is open to the public, the property owner, tenant, employer, place of worship or business entity shall post signs on or about the property stating such prohibition. D. The carrying of a concealed or unconcealed firearm by a person who has been issued a handgun license on property that has signs prohibiting the carrying of firearms shall not be deemed a criminal act but may subject the person to being denied entrance onto the property or removed from the property. If the person refuses to leave the property and a peace officer is summoned, the person may be issued a citation for an amount not to exceed Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00).

You haven't been to Birmingham until you eat at Burger King on Main!

Domino's delivers......

I'm sorry, I couldn't hear the article over the sounds of all the cars, .50cal rifles, astronauts, and nuclear weapons we build here....     :rock:

I finally saw a ruger mark that I liked and bought it at the gun show this weekend.   Bull barrel and oversized wood grips, at a reasonable $350 or so (I forget the exact list price now, but after taxes and tags it was just over 400).     My old one still works but it has the plastic, can't be replaced grip/frame which I dislike and a number of very worn parts.    Having modest experience with the old one (meaning its been stripped totally a bunch of times) I decided to do a cold (no internet research etc) tune up on the new one.   Took a bit of encouragement to get it apart, being new, and I decided I like the way ruger thinks.  Yes, they added a bunch of extra safety crap, but it was all easily fixed.   First I took a strong magnet and pulled the pin for the "loaded chamber indicator".   Out it comes and about 60 seconds later the metal bit that would interact with the bullet was popped off, and the rest put back in, rendered harmless.  I just did not like the look of it from a potential loading, feeding, ejection standpoint.   Next up, I put in my VQ trigger/hammer/sear system.  Easy enough, though it took some time to get the set screws loose from their position for the old gun.  Then I see the magazine disconnect, and tossed that over along with its spring.  I failed to note the new hammer design that accommodates this feature, so I wasted 30 min polishing a washer to replace it only to discover the VQ hammer did not need a spacer as it lacks the cutout.  So I have a highly polished washer for something now.   Rest was pretty smooth, the slide stop spring thingy is hard to get in with this design and the overloaded hammer pin (transfer bar, hammer, safety, slide release and if I had not removed it, disconnect would all be on this one pin) is downright aggravating.  Thankfully the slide release and safety can be put in place and held by the pin, then add the hammer & bar to finish, but that all had to be done while holding the sear out of the way against its spring else the hammer would not fit.   Then the final assembly, took a bit to align the barrel and frame holes for the mainspring upright bar, and the usual swearing to get the mainspring housing to not only go in but to align to the hammer strut (it went it misaligned easily enough, but that is a re-do).    Should test it tonight, it dry fires properly and seems to check out.  Then lock-tite the rail, trigger set screws, and red dot.  Once I do that, pics of course.   Should be all set up for another 50k rounds or something :)      

  Yep, born and raised in a small community over by the Ocoee River. I had an outstanding childhood.

Can't even believe I'm gonna say this... but...   ... everybody wants to be... Glock... just go there and fuggedaboutit...

Seems like every few months there's a thread where someone mangled one of their fingers. Last Friday it was my turn. It was going to be a long weekend so I had a long list of stuff I wanted to get done. First on my list was turn some range lead into ingots. I got my pot on the burner, my molds, and other tools set up and ready. I put my squirrel cage fan in place to blow the smoke away from me and then I was going to put on my gloves. As I turned to get my gloves the fan started to fall back, I grabbed it at the square air outlet without thinking and... The next day. Special thanks to the fine folks at Methodist Medical Center ER, they had me fixed up and out of there in no time. So lets see those messed up fingers!!!!!

I'm so proud of my 14 year old daughter. She attends a private school. Her school requires all 8th grade students to do a 25 hour project and log their hours. I helped her with a couple of difficult cuts on the angle grinder and router but she did most everything on this. She even demonstrated it outside of her school. Her teacher was so excited to give it a try as soon as the teacher shot it she said "Well you'll be getting an A!". Other teachers heard about it and came out to give it a go. This was her project: -Stock is 2x4 pine -Trigger and mechanism is a flat piece of steel cut and bent after she heated it with a blowtorch. -Bow is a piece of 1" PVC heated and flattened then reheated and bent to shape. (People on the interwebs are getting 150lb draw on 1 1/2" PVC so we went with 1" -String is 550 paracord -bolt is an oak dowel rod with a penny ground into an arrow shape and packing tape fletching. ( I actually made this arrow, she made two like it with foam on the tips in case they wouldn't allow her to shoot the sharp one) Yup, my daughter rocks! -southernasylum

I will be at the gunshow in Knoxville that weekend want to use my trailer its 36 feet long

I'm going with tannerite or a similar product

  Here's the thing, we could simply repeal -1359 and have it already like that. I am kinda surprised that the OK law is written this way, because I am betting their trespass laws already cover it.

Thanks all. It's great to know you have a group of good people, some of which I've never met, have your back when you need them. The interview went great (from my perspective), but we'll see what happens. I should know something by tomorrow or Thursday.

There's a great restaurant called Dram. As in a dram of whiskey. If you have time though during the day, the Barber Motorsports Museum is an absolute must see. Four floors of motorcycle and motorsports history.

I picked up a truck from a huge junkyard in Birmingham once that I rebuilt. Huge junkyard, very impressive. Twas the best thing I saw while I was there

A hit with a 9mm beats the crap out of a miss with a .45 cal! I mainly have 9mms for the same reason, my wife if is able to control them.

Guide to changing fan belts.   1. Turn off engine.

  But it is the exercise of a natural right.  The right to be ignorant and egotistical.   The ignorant shall inherit the Earth.  This is just today's example.

I can't even finish watching these. How stupid do you have to be? What incentive does anyone have to carry an ak pistol or whatever openly...? Just to show you have it? I mean come on, there is literally nothing I can think of to make me EVER even consider wanting to do this.

Maybe they need some pistol instruction , I don't see the need for a rifle at dinner unless you want to be the first one shoot by a bad guy. Total douches that want to be on boobtube , whatever. The guy tells his little girl they need to go somewhere safer as he sweeps her with his AK .......

Lol. No, I need to NEVER buy another SIG.

Original SOE for the casual one, Crossbreed for the dress one.

Gus's chicken.

And FedEx just delivered it to my house.  With free 9 round mag.  Not too bad

The majority of the answers you will get for "big name" stores will simply be "company policy".    And most of those won't openly admit to being anti-gun so much as against the negatives that come with guns: they don't want liability when ppl shoot each other on their property, they don't want heroes shooting thugs on their property, they don't want accidents ("It jus' went off, I dunno what happent"), and they don't want morons scaring people with open carry etc (not saying open carry makes you a moron, but I am saying that scaring people unintentionally has consequences and scaring them on purpose is even worse...).   There may also be insurance policy riders for it -- insurance may give em a break for posting the sign; that may only be some states but bigger places span many states and use a common set of rules for all stores.   My advice is to save your time and only hit local stores, not big names.   Which you sort of implied by saying small businesses but I thought I would toss out the primary "excuses" used by nameless faces in charge of big operations.   Some of it is self inflicted by gun people being stupid (take the recent example of chipotle ).   Some of it is guntardedness, which is mostly restating the fear of the above lawsuit causing scenarios.   Some of it is practical:  we don't want them here in this bar that is already in a rough part of town...   and some of it, the vast majority, will be from "the owner don't like guns so much he is willing to give up some business over it".        Here is my take on it.   Its not legal advice, its my opinion only.  IMHO the signs, and the weight of the law, are there to enable charges against criminals.  That is, if you are creating a disturbance, robbing the place, or generally doing something that requires the presence of a LEO, this law allows them to arrest you for something.   If you were doing something non-gun related that got you searched, they get to add charges hoping to put you in jail longer or that something will "stick" when you are prosecuted.   Again, IMHO, the most likely scenario if you are well behaved and "made" is simply being asked to leave by the employees, and if you comply, nothing more.   The employees can't detain you without making a citizen's arrest which few are inclined to do without a) thinking to do it bx) feeling the need due to your behavior and c) willing to deal with the aggravation of doing it (paperwork, possible court date as witness, etc).   So you leave, and it ends there, in the case of an honest, well behaved, law abiding citizen.   

Oh, I forgot to mention the P3-AT is NOT fun to shoot. That's not to imply that it's painful to shoot. It's just not a gun I'd like to put a 100 rounds downrange every weekend. If that's a consideration for your EDC pocket carry, then you'd probably want to stay away from it or the LCP. It's a non-factor for me.

I personally loathe Amazon on so many levels, it cannot be explained on a gun forum. 

YOU made the right call. The federal government made the wrong one. Who the hell cares what state a person is from? How does that affect what you are going to do with the firearms? 

I have lost a few friends over the years but I want to remember one from Tennessee this and every Memorial Day. Army Staff Sgt. Daniel D. Merriweather Died January 13, 2010 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom 25, of Collierville Tenn.; assigned to the 118th Military Police Company (Airborne), 503rd Military Police Battalion (Airborne), 16th Military Police Brigade (Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C.; died Jan. 13 at Combat Outpost McClain, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device. Also killed was Pfc. Geoffrey A. Whitsitt. DoD: Memphis soldier killed in Afghanistan The Associated Press . (http://projects.militarytimes.com/valor/army-staff-sgt-daniel-d-merriweather/4459023)

  Don't really see why ya wouldn't stay with 7.62x39 with AK pistol myself, though. Quite a bit better bite for the bark.   - OS

  - AKs do not need a buffer tube to attach a SIG brace, although that is one method of doing it with an adapter to the trunnion.   - SIG sells a piston 5.56 AR with buffer tube unnecessary for its operation specifically to allow attachment of the SIG brace.   - SIG sells a .22LR AR pistol with buffer tube unnecessary for its operation specifically to allow attachment of the SIG brace.   Methinks you fret about future decisions that have already been circumvented by previous ones. The brace is legal "when attached to a firearm". No limitations on attachment type was specified in the ruling.   - OS

If it does not feel right then don't do it. I think you made the right call.

  Out of state resident would be committing clear cut crime selling the firearm here. However, I know of no prohibition under 18 USC 922 or other federal law,  for KahrMan to have bought the firearms, even if he knew the seller was a Michigan resident.   Pretty sure this is one of those "things that everybody knows" that simply isn't true.   The only thing I know that would have made it illegal for KahrMan is to have bought them if he "knew or had reasonable cause to believe" the firearms were stolen.   I suppose if ultimate push came to shove, there is some other section of federal or TN law that one could be charged with, like abetting a criminal act or something, but it doesn't seem to be illegal per se under federal law to buy firearms in your home state from an out of state resident, even if you know the seller is such.   - OS

My favorite and only pocket carry/ BUG is a Keltec P32.

i have heard many folks say that HollyWood is total anti gun and many of them are but this link shows some that are not.  I have quit watching any movies that have certain actors and actresses in them that are total anti gun yet is almost if not all of their movies guns and violence in involved and they make big bucks off their movies using a tool they say they are totally against. Can we say Hippocrates?!!!!!! as most of us know who those are............ :squint:  :squint:       http://www.usacarry.com/30-influential-pro-gun-rights-advocates/

as said above, if was an undercover sting attempt, that won't make the news that KahrMan didn't take the bait.  Only those that miss the signs would end up on the news and as an example for doomberg.   Edit to correct, I didn't meant It was, but If it was.

Good call.  The other option if you really wanted them was to have him follow you to a dealer and have them do a transfer while he is standing there.

Yes. Otherwise you might still be talking to the fine fellows waiting in the undercover ATF van. Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk

May God Bless and Keep him and all the others who have fallen in service to this nation. And also His Blessing upon all those who severed and continue to serve...past...present...and future. Amen.

When fishing, lanyards are your best friend!

Stupid does as Stupid is.       Just another admitted Democrat showing off his true stupidity to the entire world.................jmho

Oh . . and welcome to TGO bobkoz120 . . . .   I've got a hornet's nest in my yard if you would like to come over and smack it with a stick.

This ain't the great liberal city of New York. Looks like you found out the hard way.

That sucks man, sorry you're going through such a hard time.

Regardless of the high school economics, those who practice their version of "capitalism" by greasing WM employees for intel, buying everything up and then reselling it at 100-300% profit are assholes.