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  1.   I think his practices and his system are maybe not unethical but they are shady.  He goes around the country to other states, places where he is not licensed to practice law, is not associating with local counsel, and I'm betting has never set foot in a courtroom, and teaching the law of that state.  He says it right there on his site: he'll be using cases, jury instructions and statutes from that particular state.  That is, in the words of Sonny Crockett, major uncool.  I go to nationwide CLEs with lawyers from Texas, California, you name it, teaching all kinds of subjects, but these are just general strategies, not state-specific practices.  If you want to learn Tennessee self defense law you better get it from somebody other than the guy spending a couple nights at the Days Inn down the street.   Also I'm not too impressed with his ability to analyze cases.  He apparently thinks the case he started this thread about is a big deal in self defense law.  It is not.  It is hardly about self defense.  It is an extremely common post conviction appeal on the Strickland v. Washington elements of ineffective assistance of counsel.  Thousands of these are heard each year in Tennessee (and other states I'm sure).  It is an unreported decision with little precedential value.  His main argument is that the trial lawyer did a bad job by not knowing the law central to their defense.  When I pointed out that the defendant was facing about 150 years and received a whopping 22, I got...no response.  Yes that little fact was just ignored.  I'm guessing that he's got such an erection for this case because it came out last year and so he can spin it on his unwitting customers as a new (maybe even groundbreaking!) and "important" legal decision on what a lawyer should and shouldn't do in a use of deadly force trial. 
    5 points
  2.    You're not married are you?  :rofl: I ask this for 2 reasons, 1 is that once married, things don't always go exactly as you would wish nor do they happen within the choice timeline that you would choose if your own wants and desires were the only ones to take into consideration.2 is that, and I know everyone has heard this before, weeks go by incredibly fast once you've hit that milestone. I'm sure others will agree but months go by like weeks, it literally seems like Christmas was just 4-5 weeks back.
    5 points
  3. Not to derail the subject but what is the deal with these people that think their gun is worth more in trade than in cash.  For example they will say "Glock 17 $450 cash or $550 in trade."   Could be possible that I'm missing something here, just doesn't make sense to me.  I figure if my gun is worth $450 then I should be able to trade you even for your $450 gun, not your gun plus $100. 
    4 points
  4. My wife has been up until a few minutes ago (3AM) when our dog started tapping on the door. Thank God and I hope every one else's dog comes back too.
    4 points
  5. Tombstone   Oops, forgot the "why". Overall great actors, but Val Kilmer killed it as Doc! I don't think they could have picked anyone better then or now to play that part like he did.
    3 points
  6. [URL=http://s4.photobucket.com/user/robtattoo/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140508_070914_zps33rctfql.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s4.photobucket.com/user/robtattoo/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140512_161111_667_zpstzejpg5n.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s4.photobucket.com/user/robtattoo/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140512_161141_524_zps4xgdxncd.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s4.photobucket.com/user/robtattoo/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140512_162349_zpslczc0kqn.jpg.html][/URL] Yep, all set! Built myself a new bow for this year, plus some matching arrows. Can't wait for it to cool off a little :D
    3 points
  7. We have a new master among us. Rickey congrats buddy
    2 points
  8. Ya beat me to it. Inconceivable!
    2 points
  9. The Princess Bride.   I love a good fairy tale, and it was funny as all get out.   I don't think a day goes by that I don't find at least one line out of that movie to quote in a relevant situation.
    2 points
  10. Off the top of my head some of the top ones are Shooter, Act of Valor, Lone Survivor, and Lord of War.
    2 points
  11. Tommy Boy. About half of my humor is roooted in that movie.
    2 points
  12.   Perhaps that, but basically establishing destructive/invasive/detrimental populations in places where they wouldn't have flourished on their own.   Russian pig always comes to mind first, but can be anything. Ultimately effort to not keep repeating kudzu, Guam tree snake, zebra mussels, silver carp, whatever...   - OS
    2 points
  13. Lonesome Dove.   Nothing else comes close
    2 points
  14. I delieverd for the Papa John's in Lebanon years ago.  There was no policy forbiding customers carrying on the store at that time, drivers were forbidden to carry though.  I did anyway, figured losing my pizza delivery job and keeping my life was an okay tradeoff.
    2 points
  15. DUI on the driver's part?  After he stopped it, he should've pulled the driver out and politely woke him up with closed fisted hugs.
    2 points
  16.   Better than 36 out of 88 LOL
    2 points
  17. Lets see 1 of you was shooting a new division and another was coming back after a long break taking care of a new baby and a new job and the last one is coming down from a big high on his accomplishments at the Carolina Cup. Just what did you boys expect?
    2 points
  18. City is in the title, Murfreesboro
    2 points
  19.    I wasn't aware that making sure to fire a rifle within a certain amount of time was a matter of personal responsibility much less a personal responsibility that takes priority over work, family, etc.. Most of the men and women on TGO LOVE to shoot and spend time at the range or field so i'm going to go out on a limb and assume that leaving the rifle marinating in the safe for 8 months wouldn't have been his move of choice if more important responsibilities hadn't gotten in the way.   Another thing is that the OP has not mentioned Outpost nor CMMG giving him a problem about whether it's been 1 day, 8 months or 2yrs since he bought it so i'm thinking his frustration is stemming from being pushed off on the manufacturer on the first rifle and/or having an issue with the 2nd rifle. Who knows, he may carry it in there Monday and Outpost tell him that they'd be happy to get it taken care or for him.   I can certainly imagine that there are a great number of cases of "buyers remorse" and "my wife wasn't quite as receptive to a new gun as I thought she'd be" and that sucks for the shop and the salesman that may have be paid on commission but a xx day return policy would fix anything like that from happening outside of that time frame. The difference here is that the OP wasn't trying to "return" or "trade" the first CMMG rifle that had sight issues, he just wanted it looked at and fixed and felt whomever he spoke with at Outpost should have had someone look at it rather than brushing him off and telling him that he'd have to send it to CMMG himself. He didn't trade the rifle until after attempting to have the problem remedied. I have seen what you speak of first hand though, A friend of mine had that happen from time to time when he had his FFL and there were a couple of times, after some questioning, the buyer let something slip that made it very evident that he had gone home and found it cheaper on Buds or some other online wholesaler and decided that he would return it claiming it was defective and then turn around and order the gun online to save $30 or 40 bucks. One guy was so dumb that 3 days after returning the "defective" pistol (which my buddy offered to replace with another out of the case) he came in to get FFL info faxed over to have the very same pistol transferred at my buddy's shop.. Needless to say, this guy was the kind of douche you are talking about and he was refused service.  Also, the OP stated that he "took it in the butt to trade it in on a SIG" which tells me that he either indeed told the shop that he traded it to that something was wrong or he wouldn't have had to "take it in the butt" (hypothetically I HOPE), or he traded it for the Sig at Outpost which they would have known of the issue since that's the reason he brought it in.  I certainly am not and will never argue that FACT that there ARE tons of rotten A'holes that will try to manipulate the system to their benefit even if it's wrong, unethical and a show or poor character but i'm inclined to argue against life being busy and not having time to make it to the range in a timely manner makes the OP one of the aforementioned "rotten A'holes"
    2 points
  20. If there was a problem from the factory 8 months later, they should still be liable for fixing it, whether it was brand new or used after 8 months they still put out a faulty product.
    2 points
  21.   Glad I got rid of him when I did or we might have been getting billed for all his "free" legal advice.
    2 points
  22. At least it's confined to the bolt carrier group, and is gonna be a real easy fix.
    2 points
  23. They have been doing this for several years.   Locally, Clinton & Halls
    2 points
  24. Folks, the Hines decision is really nothing more than a run of the mill post conviction case that happens to be about a shooting that the defendant tried to make into self defense.  It is not announcing any new law, and it is not a reported decision (meaning it has little precedential value).  Also, while I'm not going to go as far as TMF in the other thread, I do think there is some misleading information being conveyed by the OP that needs to be cleared up.   The trial lawyer in Hines did not do a bad job.  His client was charged with first degree murder, felony murder (essentially first degree murder) and especially aggravated robbery. He was convicted of the lesser included offenses of second degree murder on the two murder charges, and aggravated assault on the esp. agg. rob.  Guy was facing two life sentences for the murders (and I'm guessing this was a non-capital case) and an additional 15-25 on EAR.  A very, very long time if convicted as charged.   He got a total of 22 years.  That's very good, ok?  That's a great result.    Furthermore, it looks like the failure to understand self defense law was the less important of two issues in this case.  The bigger one was the lawyer's failure to impeach state's witnesses, and the defendant actually got further on that issue.  On a post conviction petition in Tennessee you have to establish two things.  One is deficient performance by your attorney, and two is prejudice resulting from that deficient performance. You can have deficient performance but no prejudice, and that's what happened here with the failure to impeach.  The court said the lawyer should have impeached, but that they didn't was of little consequence to the outcome.   As for not understanding the self defense law, both the trial and appeals court said it wasn't even deficient performance (the trial court maybe not as clearly) so the defendant didn't even get past the first hurdle. In other words, the appeals court didn't think it was that big of a deal. Yes, they did send out a little side note to the lawyer to please read the law before trial next time, but they didn't by any means throw him/her under the bus.  In fact the court commended the attorney for being able to switch tactics like that in the middle of trial.    So I disagree with OP that the trial lawyer was "pretty darn bad."  I think that lawyer did an excellent job with what he/she had to work with.  I think OP has latched onto a relatively minor issue and is trying to make it into the be-all-end-all of bad lawyering within the context of self defense cases.  Even the best lawyers have "oh crap" moments in the middle of trial.  Lawyers joke to each other that what we do is called the practice of law, meaning that we're continuously practicing it and never perfecting it.     Like TMF I do question OP's intentions for coming onto TGO with all of this.  Is it to sell a book?  I don't know.  But I do believe facts are being twisted.  Finally I disagree with his first comment that finding the right lawyer is too long of a topic for a forum post.  It's really quite simple and I can boil it down for everyone in a few words: get the best criminal defense lawyer in your area that you can, period.
    2 points
  25. How about we don't cooperate with these gun grabbing assholes in ANY WAY? They don't want background checks on private sales. They want gun ownership by private citizens to be totally eliminated. Their gun control schemes don't work, even in their anti-gun utopias. Piss on 'em.
    2 points
  26. You keep using that word, but I do not think it means what you think it means.
    1 point
  27. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.   We must protect the American and our bodily fluids.....     ROFLMAO...
    1 point
  28. As I have said many times we don’t have a justice system we have a legal system. If there is a problem you will get as much justice as you can afford. We all give our opinions here based on our experience. Reading the law and understanding it should be easy; but it is not. It was written by lawyers. Law is bound by state boundaries, what is done is one state is something different in another state. My experience in law enforcement is from another state, so I have to try to find out what a particular set of circumstances would mean in Tennessee. When I look at a law or someone asks me about a specific law I don’t try to think about what would win in court; I try to think of what action would keep me from going to court. If I were a law maker in Tennessee and wanted to pass a bill that said someone couldn’t be fired for having a gun in their car; I would understand that I am in an employment at will state and have to address that with the law. That was not done. If I were a student and wanted to know if I could keep a gun in my car I would go straight to the department that would be enforcing that and get an answer. Same with an unloaded firearm. (Although I’m not sure what law you are referring to) What will be prosecuted and how it will be prosecuted can change County to County and Department to Department. We are responsible to find out what the law is where we are. It’s ridiculous that someone would have to pay to listen to some out of state hack on the use of deadly force when it is the local DA that will be calling the shots and they should be putting on those seminars in every County for free. But I don't see that happening. But that’s law. And it’s why in this information age we have these forums. You can ask a question and you will get answers. Some of the responses will be reasonable and informative and some will be completely wrong. It’s up to you to find out what is right. My opinion on guns on traffic stops comes from having done thousands of traffic stops, having guns pulled on me, having been in shootings and having seen citizens and fellow Officers shot. I don’t think an Officer should disarm everyone that has a gun; but if I felt the need to disarm someone I would do it in a heartbeat I really wouldn’t be worried about what anyone else thought about it. So my opinion will probably be different from that of someone that doesn’t really know what cops run into stopping cars. And think because they aren’t a criminal that all HCP holders are living at the foot of the cross. So we all offer our feedback and it is what it is.
    1 point
  29. The M9 isn't as bad as everybody makes it out to be.  I've heard every rumor under the sun as to why the U.S. Army uses it, but at the end of the day, troops aren't assaulting the objective with only a pistol in hand.  Most infantry Soldiers never even get issued one until they become a senior NCO or company commander.  It's main uses are for tankers, MP's, SOF units, and all the field grade staff officers who never leave the FOB (no joke, a pistol has become one of those 'rank has its privileges' item).   As to the which rifle round is best sidebar...a big thing that isn't being discussed is military shooting is different than civilian shooting.  Suppressive fire is used so units can maneuver into place and that means you use a lot of ammo to keep the bad guys heads down while your buddy is exposed and moving.  Loading out 5.56mm rounds means every rifleman can carry more rounds than if they have 7.62mm and the trade off in performance isn't worth the risk of having less ammo on hand, IMO.       Even earlier than 2010.  We saw the first M14's come to our arms room in mid 2005 while I was in 2d BCT at Fort Campbell.  They were in vacuum sealed plastic and still had the wood stock on them.  I was there helping my armorer when we opened them up and it felt like we were curators handling a relic.  Units were issued a great 10x scope that we mounted onto them with a kit and about three months into our Iraq deployment (early 2006 time frame), the first polymer kit came out to give it modern options like adding an IR laser and other trinkets.    It's a great weapon when you have a guy trained how to use it correctly.  The layout of one or two marksmen per squad we had works well, IMO.
    1 point
  30.     Every little breeze feels like A/C through that shirt. Best money I ever spent.  Now if I can find a cap that does the same thing, that matches my shirt I'd be in Comfort Heaven.
    1 point
  31. have 2 used rifles in my safe now working on 2 years and i havent fired them. how ever bought where is as is. will get around to it one of these days.
    1 point
  32. 1 point
  33. Dude never answered my question. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    1 point
  34. Way to go Rickey!
    1 point
  35. Contrary to what some may think, I don't see it to be uncommon for a purchased firearm to sit in a safe that long before being fired. Maybe not the smartest thing for us to do, but it happens for often than many will, or would like to admit. And yes...I have done it as well. Thankfully the worst incident I've had has been with a Chiappa Beretta clone in 22. Put it away, then took it out and found it to be a piece of excrement.
    1 point
  36. Strong work brother!!!
    1 point
  37. http://www.armslist.com/posts/3247591/knoxville-tennessee-ammo-for-sale--2700-rounds--22-lr
    1 point
  38.   academy has been really good IMHO.  Individuals hired by them aside, they have: - made a good policy on .22 to spread it around - not jacked up prices - did not ban anything after sandy hook - will help you mount a scope and bore-sight free - have affordable common firearms and ammo - support hunting, archery, and other related sporting - maintain a positive attitude towards the folks that swing by every other morning in hopes of .22 shipment, even when we rarely buy anything else   and I have no problems buying things from them.  A number of mom & pop shops have price gouged as have other big chains, and some chains removed ARs from their lineups and other negative things.  I feel that supporting academy is as good as supporting a local shop and better than supporting a gouger.
    1 point
  39. [quote name="Law of Self Defense" post="1165506" timestamp="1404536842"]Well, don't pussy foot around, man. Show me where I've promoted links here--or, hey, I'll be generous, where I've promoted links on ANY THREAD I'VE PARTICIPATED IN THIS YEAR--to my work product, and I'll send you a free copy of my book. Autographed, if you like (and many people do). Sure, I'll wait. But seriously, you few people don't have anything better to do than hate on someone trying to inform gun owners about how to not accidentally overstep the bounds of lawful self-defense? The vast majority of which I do for free--including 100% of what I post here? I mean, do you WANT them to go to jail? What kind of monsters ARE you? --Andrew, @LawSelfDefense[/quote] You're being obtuse, and we both know why. People add to the discussion around here all the time. The difference is when you do it you're trying to sell something. Yeah, it's been a while since you came here hocking your crappy book, but it remains a fact that it happened. Now you conveniently mention two seminars you have coming up in Tennessee in the first thread you start since then. We can look at the time stamps to see when you started the other threads, one of which you chose not to mention that part after I called you out here. I have a well calibrated BS meter. It utilizes an algorithm which is likely to get a classification once DARPA cracks it. Sometimes it detects trace amounts of BS. With you, my BS meter is at full tilt. If you had come here to discuss topics without bringing up your "business", I never would have given it a second thought to your ulterior motives. But you did, and this isn't the first time. If your "business" is legit then you can pay to be a vendor like others do. Otherwise, stop mentioning your crappy product. Remove mention of your upcoming side show-- er, seminar from the first entry in this thread and the other thread you posted. Bottom line, you're dishonest and unethical. We both know what you're doing. It is akin to a guy posting here for two seconds, then making mention of an upcoming training event that he's taking reservations for; for a fee. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    1 point
  40. [quote name="Law of Self Defense" post="1165197" timestamp="1404478224"]Well, the trial court disagreed, and it was (always is) fully within the court's discretion to disallow an argument of self-defense if the defendant fails to meet his burden of production. But you knew that, I'm sure. --Andrew, @LawSelfDefense[/quote] Disagreed with what? He was a felon, a gang member and a drug dealer. I don't much care what the court says. You're attempting to parallel the case of this bottom feeder with actual, law abiding citizens. You think his record played no role in his conviction? Of course the defense can make a compelling argument for why this person was illegally in possession of a firearm due to fear for his life. He's a gangbanging drug dealer. Violent death is an occupational hazard. Seriously though, you've only come here in the past to peddle your book and now you're trying to peddle your seminar. Meanwhile, there are vendors here who have to pay for that. Nobody wants your snake oil. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    1 point
  41. its not that it goes away, but that it reverses.... after a bit you feel worried when you don't carry.
    1 point
  42. Yeah. One time at Home Depot, I got made by a teenage girl, who went through a series of pantomimes to tell me she could see my gun. After ignoring her for about 5 rounds, I walked off, with my zipper still down. True story.
    1 point
  43.   Agreed. If our government continues on its current path, it's really only a matter of time before we're all felons.
    1 point
  44. I would not have a problem with background checks but for the fact that they want the serial number and description of the firearms. This is not checking out purchasers records. This is forming the ground work for a gun registry one day.
    1 point
  45. How do background checks of any kind keep felons and the mentally ill from getting firearms?
    1 point
  46.   Yup. Abolish the unneccesary TICS altogether and go with NICS... like just about every other state.
    1 point
  47. Since I carry on the right, I fear of exposing my firearm while reaching for my license. Haven't been pulled over "yet", but I've rehearsed what I'm going to say/do when that happens. I would hate to be reaching for my wallet and another officer from the passenger side spot my firearm and think I was reaching for it instead. So yeah... all windows down, radio off, lights on, hands on the wheel at 10 and 2 until the officer reaches the truck. Then I'm going to mention that I'm legally armed and let him know where my firearm is. He can tell me how to handle it from there.   Not that I'm scared of the police... but if I were in his shoes, that's how I'd want it to happen. They never know who their approaching... and it's my job to make them at ease with me.
    1 point
  48. There is no legal requirement for you to notify but many officers do appreciate it when told.
    1 point
  49. I had never seen this method before and thought I would share for those interested.   http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2ha3h2/9VRq047E:I-oN@KJB/www.primitiveways.com/waterproof_fire_starter.html
    1 point
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