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I'll see what I can do.
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Well, like it or not, how you look will affect how nervous other folks are around you - with or without a gun. It's possible to look "professional" even if you are in shorts and a T-shirt.
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Hi Frank. Welcome. That's good info about ATF visits to your home. Lots of people don't understand that, including a friend who has some NFA weapons and was a cop for years. He's now a local constable. But you can't tell him anything. You going to put up a website anytime soon?
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Doesn't really matter if it makes it out of committee. Remember when Naifeh refused to allow a vote on other gun legislation that had been voted to the floor two or three years ago? He's incredibly arrogant and power hungry. Until he goes, you might as well get used to being a criminal if you want to protect yourself and your family.
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I edited the coordinates to make them more accurate, now that i know where the turnoff is, and also more GPS friendly. 142.67 miles one way from home by road.
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Just turn left after passing K-25.
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Regrettably just a fools' errand. All of my ancestors thought secession was a good idea during the 1860s. They were right but outgunned.
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OK...we need geographic coordinates of the driveway turnoff. Looks about 35°57.550'N; 84°25.108'W I love my GPS unit.
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You know, non-passage of these laws makes two types of people carry illegally in parks. One type is the criminal who wants to use his gun to his advantage to threaten or harm you. The other is the normally law abiding citizen who refuses to allow the first type to succeed in harming them or their family. Naifeh and his ilk are vermin who are more interested in their own power than in the welfare of the people of this state. That's the message we need to spread.
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This could go way off topic about how well some teachers actually teach and how some people innately know how to teach and how some people with decades of training will never be able to teach, but I'll let that go for another time. (I flunked "Avoiding run-on sentences 101.") I occasionally teach at seminars for advanced military and LE folks in certain disciplines. Am I a good teacher? I seem to get the job done. Am I certified to lead them? Nope - and there is no way I'd go through the BS to get certified by people whose level of skill is probably less than mine. I have some real problems with certification. It is frequently meaningless and sometimes mostly a way to make money for the certifying body. It is also a way for some people to inflate their claims to expertise they may not actually have. "Hey, I paid for a worthless class and have another certificate to show for it." Lots of that in the gun training world. I must confess, I wonder if this is the motive of the NRA. It makes me wary of them. Is there no other acceptable certifying body other than the NRA? As I think you know, I'm chairman of the local library board. During my time on the board, we have modified the minimum job qualifications for a number of positions in the system. One thing we have tried to do is have certification for top positions, like the Director of the system. So we require at a minimum a masters degree in an American Library Association accredited course of study. I've never been happy requiring the ALA accreditation to the exclusion of other accrediting bodies. Problem is, I haven't found another way to insure competence in these jobs without specifically linking it to the ALA. These standards help us be one of the best library systems in the state. We consistently outrank much larger systems. I'm proud of that. But, as I say, I would like to have another group whose certification we accept other than just the ALA. That's how I feel about the NRA certification. We need competent people, not necessarily certified people. I just can't accept that you need all these other NRA certificates on your wall in order to teach others to be a good RSO. It sounds like the gun safety teaching equivalent of featherbedding.
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I have a question. I respect some of the firearms' instructors here a great deal. They provide what I'm sure is a valuable service for real-world scenarios. The one I've actually met is a great guy and you can tell about his integrity just by meeting him. But while I'm trained out the wazoo over a 38 year period, I've never had any civilian training except for a Tennessee carry class and some unofficial training by LE agencies. So, I don't know the ropes on what most folks here are teaching or learning. Is all of this extra course time really necessary to get certified to teach RSO? I understand that the more training you have the better, but to teach RSO??? Again, since I'm not up on civilian training, maybe I'm wrong (probably am) but this just seems like overkill.
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I've heard that Skyys have improved, but that still isn't an enforcement considering the huge number of early problems. Hi-Points does not belong in the same category as Jimenez/Jennings/Bryco. I consider them to be big, ugly handguns with horrible field stripping but that are inexpensive and reliable. Decent car gun. It goes boom and if someone steals it, you won't cry much.
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More men in this country should have those.
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Something with a hammer.
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Glad to hear the policy has been changed. I know of someone here who was asked to leave Wal-Mart because of an open gun a couple of years ago. He's now a LEO. Most email responders at companies just parrot the company policy. I wasn't surprised to see errors in the letter.
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Programs! Get your Programs... Can't tell last weeks posters from this weeks posters without a program! I'm going to change my name to
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Found the email from Wal-Mart. This is from a TFA page: From: Letters to the President letters@wal-mart.com To: [deleted] Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 3:03 PM Thank you for contacting Wal-Mart regarding our concealed handgun policy. Wal-mart was founded by Sam Walton on three principles: Strive for Excellence, Service to our Customers, and Respect for the Individual. It is that respect for the individual that led us to create the current policy pertaining to concealed handguns. The following is our policy: if a Wal-mart customer has been aearded a concealed handgun license by the state government, Wal-Mart will follow the direction of the state. However, if at anytime while on Wal-Mart property, that customer's concealed weapon becomes visible to Wal-Mart associates or customers, Wal-Mart reserves the right to ask the customer to either reposition the weapon so that it will not be visible, to remove the weapon completely or to leave Wal-Mart property. With the exception of law enforcement personnel, Wal-Mart does not allow any exposed weapons to be worn or carried in public view on Wal-mart property or in Wal-Mart stores. Customers other than low enforcement personnell wearing or carring a weapon in an exposed manner will be asked to leave the property immediately. We appreciate your concern and trust that this has addressed your concerns regarding this issue.
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Wal-Mart's position is a bit more complicated than that. Generally, they allow concealed carry. That means no signs, although I have know of signs being posted that came down after a complaint to their corporate headquarters. That happened years ago at their new Bristol, Virginia store. I IWB in Wal-Mart all the time. Not concealed but not in-your-face either. Plus, I look like LE or military that should have a handgun. Often I'm in a military T-shirt and/or LE or government cap. I have been know to open carry my USP40 without a problem, but again, I look like someone who should have a gun. Proper demeanor will get you a long way. If, as a member of the public, you open carry in Wally-World, you will probably be asked - per corporate policy - to conceal the gun or take it out to the car. If you don't comply, you will likely have the cops called and be charged with trespassing. Yes, they have every right to do that. So, in summary, be cool and sensible. You have no right to open carry on private property if the owner doesn't want you to do so. You do have a right to carry unless the property is posted or the owner, or his representative, tells you to go away.
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Hi Disney. Tennessee Tech has an excellent reputation in industry for it's Engineering school.
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"History" is always told from the perspective of those in power. For years I've wanted to form a history society to tell the whole history of events. Maybe after I retire again....