[My Addiction, One is Just Not Enough]

Glock makes a nice handgun, check them out

[New AR Before and After]

Close that ejection Port Cover my friend, gorgeous Plinker

[Knoxville Walmart tonight]

Well, I have but one thing to say on this...>Love the outcome,everyone goes home...Breathing

[Wow]

Pretty new myself and I agree, nice to have a pretty local forum. Hearing stories of local Wally World and Parking lots is pretty cool. Good info on upcoming events as well

[Concerned about parking lot confrontation]

Okay, had my laugh, now to the serious part. You should always be prepared for the consequences, and yes, hitting a child, grandma, dog, family member, etc... is a problem, and your responsibility. The terrible part about my job is, I've weighed most those options and 9 times out of 10, i'll take the shot if it means my life's in danger. I can live with the consequences. The key here is knowing that you're trained enough to take the best avenue of approach and do it without hesitating or thinking about it. Take some classes, read, PRACTICE!!!!!!!!!!! Can't emphasize enough, dont care who you are or how Bad A you think you are....PRACTICE for the unthinkable. i don't mean just drawing down, I mean reactions, scenarios, speech, body movements, etc...

[Concerned about parking lot confrontation]

You need to go to Walmart sporting goods and buy one of those mini air horns to keep in your back pocket.

Act like you're getting your wallet and blow it behind your back.

If they don't jump give 'em $2.

This happened to my mom at the Walmart in Oak ridge.

She reached in the bed of her truck and tossed him a 3/4 full can of fix-a-flat.

She said the look on the guys face was priceless as he just kinda mumbled thanks and walked off.

You're the man...Just sayin'

[Best guns to stock up on]

WHen it comes to the necessity of this one, price won't be my deciding factor on ammunition, it will be abundance. SO if Hornady or Remington or omeone is stock piling .17, then by golly, i'm plinkin cans and aiming for the tiny kill spot! SO with that said...It would go like this for me

Handgun: Walther P22 for small caliber, and XD, Glock, or PT series, depending on ammo selection and what's in the safe

Shotgun-This will more than likely be varied since we havereload capabilities, so in case that's not an option we'll save soem time and jsut say 12GA and go with a Benelli M4

Rifle: I'm thinking 30-06 and .556 will be easiest to come by for hunters and military, so prob grab an M4 from work and maybe a Remingotn 700 for the long shots

Sorry, cant' type, spell check takes too long,

[How is this for a fortified home]

YOu've seen the show "Breaking In" with the Contra Security guys? Well, we'd do a new one, " Barreling In!" with the TNGO Raid Team

[What do you have for purifying water?]

A Pot and a Flint, good to go!

[SERE-C in a few months, wish me luck]

Well, its almost time. I have my reservation and will be attending SERE-C(Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape) school this coming fall. Any words of advice? I have the mental fortitude, I guess it's going to be 100% my tolerance for pain that will get me through.

[Secret City Steel Challenge - June 23 at ORSA - CANCELLED]

Sounds like a blast, hope I'm home for this one!

[just some fyi]

MTM? Gotta get up on my non-Army abbreviations

[I am a new member and this thread by itself....]

I totally agree, makes my day just to browse through this one and see what can excite me today. Only problem is, I always want to buy a spare box of ammo once a week or so

[Enter....my new FAVORITE ZOMBIE WEAPON!!!]

Thats pretty sweet, always been a fan of the old school 45 lever actions

[Your Zombie-Killing Soundtrack]

I'm gonna have to stick with Drowning Pool-Bodies hit the floor or something a little more every day like I break everything I touch-Jason Aldean!

[New to the Forum, any friendlies out there?]

Sounds like a plan, QuietDan! Thanks for teh heads up. I plan on becomign a reserve officer for a local PD on weekends once my flight schedules get hashed out. This sounds like a good thing to look in to.

[New to the Forum, any friendlies out there?]

Welcome!

I do not know where you should go if you just WANT to take the class, but I can tell you this:

• Effective July 1, 2005, Tennessee handgun carry permit law will now allow certain applicants already exempt from complying with firing range provisions of the current statute to also be exempt from any classroom requirements. Those current exceptions are applicants who prove to the department that within five (5) years from the date of application for handgun permit, the applicant has:
  
  1. Been certified by the police officer's standards and training commission, or
     
  2. successfully completed training at the law enforcement training academy; or
     
  3. successfully completed the firearms training course required for armed security guards; or
     
  4. successfully completed all handgun training of not less than four (4) hours as required by any branch of the military.
     

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Great info, thanks for the heads up, may just need to apply then. Thanks!

[New to the Forum, any friendlies out there?]

Hello all, just returning from Living out of the country. East TN Resident returning home. Active Army, handgun enthusiast, and looking to find people to shoot with, at, whatever. Who knows where I can find a HCP class not on one of the two Saturdays I'm in town?