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  Two issues   # 1 (Logical):  Without the background check at the time of purchase, there is a time gap between when you were issued the purchase and when you are buying the firearm.  Not saying I agree with the principle, but that would be the argument.   # 2 (Financial):  The TBI and state coffers don't want to loose the money they get from the background checks.   They will give #1 as the reason, but #2 is why it would be killed like the open carry law.     Personally, I'd like to see universities that receive state funding be forced to allow HCP holders to carry on campus.  I walk a mile to and from campus daily to avoid putting short mileage on my truck and avoid the parking mess at MTSU.  I'm legislatively disarmed for a great portion of my day.  Simply allowing those who already meet our standard for carry to exercise the right would be treating adults like adults, IMO.  They are already doing it in a few other states with no issue.  No reason it couldn't be done here.

I only have a pedal bike for exercise, not a bike like that, but my rule of thumb is, if I don't want it to get stolen, and it isn't too heavy for a group to carry away, it get's locked up inside.  Right now, the only things sitting outside my place are a cheapo grill and my rake.  Everything else is locked up in the house or inside my storage shed.    Randall, I know your step son lives in an apartment, but the logic still applies.  Trusting in the decency of human beings is asking to be let down.

  Especially during Breast Awareness Month!

  Exactly.  The business of Facebook and Google, is to know your business and find a way to turn a profit off it through advertising.

  It was even more annoying when I was deployed or living overseas.  I would do the time zone conversions in my head, and it always took at least a week to remember when DST started/ended without having to check myself.

The only thing Papa John's makes that is better than Domino's is that big cookie.  It's so delicious, I swear, sometimes I order Papa John's just to get it.  But the rest of their food isn't worth the cost.  Their pizza is average at best, and their chicken is just bad.   If it wasn't for the student discount Papa John's offers for a large one topping pizza ($7.99 + tax and delivery), I doubt I would order from them at all.

1911 TRP and an M1 Garand.

Unless I need a quick box, I just order ammo over the internet. Much less chance of having to deal with idiots.

  Well said, Omega.

  I've been watching baseball my entire life and can't remember seeing a 5-inning save before.       He's only 25, which is still a few years away from what is considered "prime years" for a pitcher.  It's scary to think there is room for improvement in his game as he goes on.  My father (a Red Sox fan like myself) said "I'm glad he isn't in the American League!"

  aka:  the free market

  As long as that stays a personal conviction, I'll simply disagree.  But when people with similar beliefs (not implying you personally, just people in general) think they have the right to enact those beliefs through legislation, trying to deny someone the ability to make their own choice with assistance in a situation like Brittany is in, I will be there in opposition to such laws.  In my eyes, it's her life and she has a right to end it if she wishes.   Also, as long as there is division on the issue and legislative involvement (she has to do this in Oregon for a reason) it very much belongs in the public eye.  Unpleasant things shouldn't be off limits for debate just because they aren't easy to talk about.

I applaud her clam approach to how she wishes to end her life and hope I would have the same conviction of beliefs if in a similar situation.  Like Brittany, there is no way I would want to be in the position to watch myself deteriorate, and be a burden to others, but there is no way to do anything but guess at how one would act in that situation.   Hopefully the dignity she has presented herself with will help reduce the stigma attached to her choice.  She's a very courageous lady in my eyes.

I early voted today, go me.   I voted for the amendments as I outlined here, but ended up voting no for wine in food stores.    I know the free market leaning folk will chime in about it, but I had a revelation on this.  There are very few pure wine stores.  There are predominately stores that sell wine and liquor under the same roof.  So, every dollar in wine sales lost to Walmart, Kroger, Publix, has to be made up for somewhere.  Their expenses aren't going down, they will probably go up as time goes on, because that's what happens with rent, utilities and shipping costs.  So how will they keep themselves from going under?    They will raise the price on what they have left, liquor.  So, for me, this came down to personal greed.   I don't want the cost of business passed onto every bottle of rum, vodka, tequila or whiskey I buy.  If they come back and ask if we want all types of alcohol to be allowed for sale in food stores like we have beer, I'll probably get behind it.  But to piecemeal it just adds cost on one type, and I don't like that.

John Schnatter did a very nice thing by attending the funeral.  I don't care how rich you are, time is still very much out of your control.  With enough money, you can make the 24 hours in a day very efficient, but you cannot extend them or get more.  To give at least part of a day from the meticulously organized schedule of a CEO of a large company, on short notice, to support a grieving family deserves kudos.   As to the money spent covering the funeral, I'm indifferent.  To him, the cost is the equivalent of one of us buying the next round of drinks at a bar with a friend.  But like one of us buying the next round of drinks the thought and intent matters than the amount spent.  Maybe he just wanted to do a nice thing with no ulterior motive.  Maybe not.  Either way, the burden on the family is lessened, and that is a good thing in my view.   But, I don't see the need to buy a pizza from his business on a special day and time, though.  I get Papa John's when I'm in the mood for it.  A good deed should be its own reward and if Papa John did what he did for the right reasons, that should be enough.

Shoot all the ammo you have and you don't have to worry about a negligent discharge when you're cleaning the gun. ;)

Baseball is a funny game.  To win the World Series a lot of things have to go right.  I love the style of ball that San Fran is playing, they are a complete team in every facet which is why they are competing for their 3rd World Series Championship in 5 years.  The Royals aren't as flush with talent as SF, but they are playing their hearts out and I think their home crowd might be the factor that has them hoisting the trophy tonight.  Impossible to root for a team that has that special kind of magic the Royals have this year.  I know what it feels like, I'm a Red Sox fan and we had the same stuff last year for our improbable run.   It's been a great series so far, and the LCS match-ups before that were good as well..  The blowouts are still fun to watch until it gets out of hand.  I don't have a favorite, I just want to see one last game of good baseball before I'm forced to go without for the next 5 months.

  The same promise was made for satellite radio when it was being rolled out.  Nothing will ever be off limits as long as it makes a company money.

  ^ This is all it comes down to.   I bet the bitching would be much louder if websites decided to cover their operating costs through subscriptions.

I was in a similar situation as a kid.  The best thing you can do, IMO, is make the times they spend at your house, playing with your kids a great time.  I was pretty poor in my own house, but when I was hanging out at a friends house or my cousin's house, the parents always took a little extra care to make sure I was happy and enjoying myself.  I had some envy, but more so, it helped make me want to make something of myself and rise up from my conditions.  It proved that the best sermon is a good example.   Trying to do more could be seen as disrespectful by the kids guardians, even if it is with the best intentions from the way you describe them.  You might cause them to tell their kids to play with yours anymore, and then you're cut off from helping at all.

Very few print newspapers are worth the time to read these days.  The Tennessean isn't on that list and quite frankly, I haven't see any paper owned by Gannett Company that is.

  I'm just the opposite, I hate the stubby ones, and use the regular size ones exclusively.  I also tried the AFG for a bit, but that didn't blow me away either.  Though I didn't get to try it on a rail longer than carbine length rail.

I'll use a separate post to call anything zombie related a gun turn off for me.  I hope those who bought something with that, or added it themselves in a permanent way didn't hope for resale value to be the same as a non-zombie gun would be.

I think a lot of paint jobs can look tacky.  But that's just my personal aesthetic, I know some of you guys love doing it from the Show and Tell forum.   Camouflaging a long gun never appealed to me since with a fresh coat, it doesn't look right, and to get that worn in look, I'd have to beat it up pretty good, which being my own stuff, I'm not inclined to do on purpose.  Painting a pistol just seems weird to me, unless it's a touch up job in a standard color to give it some new life, which I do agree with.   The only pattern I'd consider getting done is that muddy girl style to paint up an AR in .22LR for my girlfriend to shoot alongside me when we go to the range.  She isn't a fan of shooting much higher for rifle rounds, and likes having girly stuff.

  That's why I never got married or had kids.  I like having disposable income to spend on gun stuff among other perks.  :D     If you want, you can PM me your address and I'll send you a few old school mags.  I'm phasing them out one at a time with P-Mags and can send some your way.  Consider it a welcome to the AR club present.