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Some local kids tried to help a student that was getting bullied and ended up on Ellen and getting to meet Will Smith. What Will Smith says in this clip is so important.

That's a good plan, IMO but you left out the critical final step: Call 911 as soon as possible, even if that's after you leave the situation. You want to be the first person reporting the incident and you do NOT want the other person filing a report that you brandished a firearm at them and then drove off.

As Chuck said, your vehicle can move, move. They way I look at is if I can get the hell out of dodge I am. My office in town if off what I call Hobo Highway. We have a couple places that take care of the homeless by us so they all travel up and down church street. I was coming back to the office last winter, it was dark and raining. There was a homeless crazy dude standing in the middle of the road swinging a pipe at cars. He had incoming traffic stopped and was trying to hit a car in front of me. That car eventually got out of his way so he decided to set his sites on my truck. I rolled down the window and yelled at him to move, he decided to swing as I was backing up. When he stumbled out of the way I gassed it and swerved around him. My HK was sitting in the cup holder but I had no intention of pulling it. If I can get out of the situation I will. I called the city as I got around him but someone else beat me to it because the city was already in route. Point of the story I guess is I could have let him bash my truck and windows and shot him I guess.... but there was no need for that. It may sound bad but my first thought was get out of his way because if I shoot him I'm a white guy in a company truck and I just shot a crazy black dude in the road, not going to look good.

The best way to win a fight is to not take part in it. The question should never be “am I allowed to use deadly force in _____ situation.” Thats the wrong way to approach the mental work involved in defensive force, though it is quite common amongst folks when they first start carrying. I myself asked the same questions until others here helped me see that my thinking was misaligned. The question should always be “did I do my best to avoid any situation where I may be compelled by lack of reasonable options to use deadly force?” If the answer is yes and you unfortunately found yourself having to use deadly force, at that point your fate is no longer in your own hands. It’s in the hands of police, a prosecutor and possibly a judge and jury. That reality, ugly as it may be doesn’t stop me from being as prepared as I can be to engage in the necessary (key word) amounts of violence to protect myself or my loved ones because the other options aren’t acceptable. Reading through most of your proposed scenarios, my view is informed by being a truck driver who has dealt with more than one road rager in my career. The main pieces of advice I would give is 1) don’t ever get out of your vehicle and engage with the rager in the first place. 2) if you are in a stationary vehicle with someone approaching you, don’t remain stationary! Leave!

Maybe so but you can also say they needlessly squandered taxpayer and customer dollars in both cases. We all know the result of that. Thankfully, some agencies are more fiscally responsible and are sourcing more appropriately priced AR weaponry.

Is the Colt AR the best at it's price point? I'm not sure, "it's a Colt," has the same impact as it once did.

Awareness, Avoidance. Deterrence, and Deescalation are always excellent advice. A fight you didn't have to fight is the only one you'll win when all is said and done. We carry a higher obligation when we choose to live an armed lifestyle. At any altercation we know there is at least one deadly force tool available. Please seek professional training @mscar111, it's invaluable imho. And thank you for asking the questions. I hope you'll heed the advice.

I heard they were told to stay in the end zone that way they wouldn’t notice if anything was torn up.

Yeah. Pretty much sums it up for me too. Not really worth the time.

For department acquisitions, you can probably apply the old adage, “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM” to the Colt 6920. It’s a fine, you know what you’re getting platform. For the casual user, you’re likely better served from both features and price perspectives - and maybe a quality perspective from any several manufacturers.

No and no.

Yep, and it’s not unusual for the Officer knocking on your door, or showing up at your job to arrest you for felony assault; to not be the Officers that took the initial report.

Very important point... the one who calls it in first is always assumed to be the victim.

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Been a few months, and a few minor travails... The Storm had FTE issues out of the box and later on after cleaning, so I sent it back to Beretta to check out. They adjusted the extractor, tested (26rds worth), and returned it. Took a bit more "exercise" at the range, and some filing touch-up by me on the back rail-embeds but all good now. This Storm doesn't like wimpy loads (has a heavy recoil spring) tho' it's totally reliable with my usual Speer diet (124gr Lawman and GoldDot). Still get'n used to the DA/SA trigger action and the wide trigger itself but really love the size, fit, capacity & quality. I swapped out the skin-shredding bat-wing type F levers for the carry type G's, added Talon-style grips and an Olight Valk M2. Nice little CC package that's big enough to handle night-stand duty too.

I have said this a couple times and I will say it once more. I have never and plan to never open carry a firearm period. I even go out of my way to amke sure I never print when I do carry. I don't want any bad guy/badguys to have a clue I am armed. That is to my advantage, not theirs. As far any stores of any size that chose to stop Open Carry in thier business it is their privledge to do that. I would very much rather see a No Open Carry sign on a business then a Gun Buster sign on a door preventing me from trading there. I honestly think these store and businesses are trying to work with gun owners if you stop and think about it. They are not taking the easy way out and just putting up gun buster signs. People talking about boy cotting certain grocery stores. Ok what happens when the rest of them follow suit and either go No OC or No Guns period. You better hope you live on a farm and can grow all your food!!! Myself, I am will to accept the decision of Krogers. I avoid Walmart like the plague! Would only go there in an emergency!!! I have been doing business with Walgreens most of my adult life and don't plan on changing anytime soon and I wear my gun in there every time I go and no one knows it but me. I think those businesses that have gone to CC only are trying to compromise with gun owners and I respect them for that...............JMHO

See if this helps... And as Oh Shoot pointed out in that thread you don’t need to use the “Insert image” function, you can just copy and paste the “BBCode” link.

I am not sure what you are referring to here. Private business may have employee carry; no law against that. Reciprocity with GA would be in play. My concern would be training and proficiency. If the owner is going down this road, would highly recommend getting with Cruel Hand Luke for instruction, advice, etc.

Are you asking if the cops will know the law on carrying a gun? My experience is; absolutely. But my experience is not in this state; many of this forum have said they don’t think TN cops are very well trained in the law. That hasn’t appeared to be the case in the over 25 years I have been here; but I’m sure someone looking for a case of that happening could either find one or make one up. My experience as a former Police Officer tells me that how any gun law would be enforced would be a question of not only the law, but how and why the gun became an issue. The Officer has discretion. It sounds to me like the owner of your business has a potentially bigger problem than what the cops will do.

Did someone shoot it? that is the easiest way to die of lead poison.

OH! OH! OH!!! And as The Wife just pointed ought, that's assuming that eagles don't actually poop!! Bear in mind that actual lead solid are non digestible, I'm going to go ahead & make the assumption that the stupid eagle actually shat out a good 90% of the lead it ingested!! I would alter my guess to state that I'd bet it consumed less lead in it's life that is contained in 10 gallons of tap water.

Please let me be the first to call bull$hit on that. Bear in mind it's living along the largest concentration of wolves, badgers, bears, lions & corvids in the lower 48, how much carrion containing lead fragments must the thing have had to have eaten in it's life. A bird that is primarily a hunting raptor & not a scavenger, to boot. Over an average lifespan of 30 years (Google) that single bird must've eaten just about every single carcass shot within 30 miles of Yellowstone AND been unlucky enough to have found every trace of lead, from every bullet. I'm sorry, but the math simply doesn't work for me. Further studies have shown that actually consuming the average quantity of lead found in a recovered animal carcass, on a regular basis, has literally ZERO effect on (human) health. Think about it....the average hunting bullet out west (primarily big .30s & 7s) weighs 180gn, give or take. If a recovered bullet retains 50% of it's mass (low estimate) & 50% of shots are passthroughs (SUPER low estimate...) statistically speaking, the average uncovered mule deer, antelope or elk, weighing a (WAG) average of 300lb therefore contains 45gn of bullet. Call 5gn of that jacket & you've got 40gn of lead. The average critter is around 50% edible meat, innards & skin. Therefore the average pound of meat contains 0.0000380952gn of actual lead. The average golden eagle eats ½ to 1lb of meat per day (Google), split the difference & call that ¾lb, so 0.00002857140gn of lead per day. At an average lifespan of 10950 days, that's a total of 0.31285683gn of lead in it's entire life. That's 1.75 No.12 shot, to put it in reasonable terms. A hair under a third of a grain of lead, in it's entire life. I'm calling a hard "BOLLOCKS" on the whole deal.....

You mean it's not real ether?

Man that is some interesting pillow talk at your house. Maybe the tracking device contained lead that seeped into the eagle. Maybe in the batteries. Lmao....