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Thanks--good info to consider! I did not carry this evening (didn't get your response until after, but decided until I am confident I have a handle on the regs I won't carry past any sign--too new to this to be the reason case law gets established.)   39-17-1359-c(1) says "It is an offense to possess a weapon in a building or on property that is properly posted in accordance with this section."   To me, the plain reading of the above would suggest there is no offense if the property isn't properly posted, and section b seems pretty clear on the requirements. I'm no lawyer but I don't see how anyone could be successfully prosecuted without the sign meeting those conditions, and this particular sign in no way meets them.   That said, I'm not interested in being the test case either.

Sorry for the second post on this 1+ year old thread, but I really didn't feel comfortable opening a new thread with so many existing threads discussing "properly posted".   However, being new to CC I would like to get some feedback on the above sign. Having read the statute it seems to me it doesn't come close to being properly posted. It should be a gunbuster sign or reference the statute directly or at least mention Tennessee law, and be worded similarly to the example in the statute. Additionally the statute seems to require it be posted at the entrance, and this sign is at the ticket booth inside. There are smoking buster and outside food/drink buster signs on the entrances, but no gun busters.   I've also seen a lawyer here suggest you don't carry past ANY sign, whether properly posted or not.   I figure if a business owner is really serious about not allowing legal CC, he/she should/will figure out how to properly post.   I'm heading to thoroughbred tonight to catch a movie with my daughter, and am trying to decide whether or not to carry.   I sorta agree with some who feel there are businesses which post improperly to discourage hoodlums with weapons, but maybe aren't really trying to prevent legal CC.

Thoroughbred has this posted at the ticket booth. My wife pointed it out this evening. Doesn't seem to meet the requirements but I took my sidearm to the car anyway. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2

Thanks for all the great info! Regarding shooting in my own backyard--the property has 7 acres but the house sits very close to the rear of the property. There is a fenceline and pasture beyond, though I haven't seen any livestock the couple times I've been up there. There aren't any close neighbors, but you can see houses in the distance, probably within earshot of gunfire. Most of the acreage is in front of the house, so I'd either be shooting toward livestock (unless the land behind is unused) or toward traffic (even though it's well beyond the front of the house.)

I live in Franklin currently, but am interested in a property up in the Castalian Springs area, just a few minutes east of Gallatin.   I've been poking around the 'net looking for any reasons to avoid the area. There were the home invasion + rape incidents (2) about a year ago that I came across (I'm sure they made radio/tv across the Nashville area but I don't remember hearing about them.)   Any other positives/negatives about the area? From another thread here it seems Gallatin Gun Club has a membership waiting list, so I may have trouble finding a nearby place for target practice. I live a mile from the Charlie Haffner Memorial Range here ($60/yr) which is really convenient--would miss that for sure.   I'm somewhat familiar with Hendersonville from my son's travel soccer days, less so with Gallatin.   Would also like to know of any good conservative reformed churches in the area--if any.

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I'd rather see a tamer first step like a million people marching on the capital for a non-permit protest to gum up the works. Surround the capital and senate/congress office buildings, make it difficult for legislators to get to work, or at the very least make them all walk a gauntlet of angry constituents demanding a return to fiscal conservatism, fairness in taxation, respect for the BoR, etc.   I'd be up for participation in something like that.

Got it TMF. As long as the three branches of government remain, they can do anything they want to the citizenry and you're good. I thought that was it--just wanted confirmation.   I'll bow out of the discussion at this point--got a sudden hunger for funyuns for some reason.

  That's reasonable. I was specifically looking for TMF to respond, because based on his statements you might expect him to be okay with the above and hope to reverse it in the voting booth (though in your scenario I'm not so sure you could even count on future elections behind held.)   In fact, based on what he has posted so far, if guns are outlawed tomorrow and a grace period for voluntary turn in starts, he'd be first in line since a duly elected government passed the law, despite it's unconstitutionality.   One can certainly argue unconstitutional laws throughout our history, but what has changed now is you have nearly, (if not already more than), 50% of the populace receiving government benefits, enabled by decades of ever-worsening public education that has gotten so bad now it's more important to promote and celebrate perversion than it is to teach constitutional history.   Who can look at the lingering questions about O's eligibility, Benghazi, the Gosnell trial and many other present evils, and not think that we are quickly approaching a tipping point from which we cannot return?   I certainly hope we can turn it around in 2014/2016, but we can't even rely on the only supposedly conservative party that is viable to field conservative, electable candidates.

Why are you so anxious to see folks take up arms right this minute? Are you itching for a chance to put some in the ground (your own words)? This thread is about a news story where a percentage of people surveyed said armed revolution *might be* necessary at some unspecified future time. All of this discussion is hypothetical, and I don't recall anyone in this discussion suggesting the time is now. Your hyperbole is completely unnecessary.   Answer, if you will, a simple question. Is there any action an elected U.S. government can take that would justify an armed revolt? (Regardless of how futile it might be?)

I see. So your position is that as long as the three branches of government and some semblance of elections exist, you're happy.

  I imagine everyone has in mind a "line" that when crossed will demand a response that cannot be made at the polls. I doubt that anyone involved in this thread believes we are further from that line than we were in 2008 (or that we were further in 2008 than in 1988). What I hear you saying is that you're willing to kill fellow patriots and Tennesseans whose "line" is in front of yours. This to me is the nuttiest post in this entire thread. Seeing this just days after visiting and signing up makes me wonder if I even want to be here.   I think if you truly love our constitution you should be looking for common ground with others of like mind, not promising to put them in the ground.