TGO David

Guys, I am splitting most of the replies from yesterday and all of the replies today apart from the previous HB0962 thread and placing them in this new thread. It will make it easier to track what's going on and prevent the other thread from sprawling out into a 300 page monster. Thanks.

Please direct further discussion of the House / Senate Override to THIS thread... http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/tennessee-politics-legislation/22192-official-thread-tn-house-senate-override-hb0962-gubernatorial-veto.html Thank you!

I am starting a new thread and moving all of yesterday and today's responses to THIS thread into the new one so that we can use it to discuss the House and Senate override. STAY TUNED!!!

I could dig up several examples if I really have to. I think you're either playing it down or just haven't been paying attention. Do we really want to get into this? This is an issue that I plan on discussing with part of the NRA leadership today actually. Of course, the NRA does not really need to assign a full-time lobbyist to Tennessee anyway. The past year has been one of very few legislative sessions where firearms related law was a hot topic in Nashville. Only during these times does TFA really seem to throw itself out there into the public eye, so only during these times would it likewise be prudent for the NRA to devote more energy to Tennessee also. Clearly you've got a bias here being the TFA's official web guy, so I don't expect you to agree. Why would everyone have known? Is this something that is fully and prominently disclosed in TFA membership literature or previously on the TFA web site? Frankly, I can easily see why this is surprising news to a lot of people. TFA advertises itself as a lobbying organization. Who is/are the registered lobbyists then? If it's not John, who are they? You know, I was shocked. I figured that John was doing the lobbying. It's always been painted that way, and I'm no newbie to the TFA organization. I was courted for your position back when TGO first started growing and John was interested in merging the two together or at least getting me involved in revamping their web site for them.

I'm reluctant to touch this one with a ten foot pole considering some of the animosity that has been drifting our way from TFA lately. This is definitely a journalistic jab back at the TFA for their harassment of Ronal Serpas. But I will say that the late Marswolf had always called to question whether or not TFA was completely on the level in respect to some of what they tout themselves to be; i.e. a lobbying organization. In fact, one of his most frequent demands was something that the newspaper article alluded to in regard to having to divulge their financials were they to be registered as a lobbying group. I wonder if Marswolf is having his last laugh here. Really this doesn't change much for me. When people ask me what Pro-2A group they should join, I tell them the NRA. They have a paid, registered lobbyist assigned to Tennessee.

I was going to do the 650 as well but Brian Enos talked me out of it. According to him it would have been a good choice were I only going to make one caliber and a LOT of it, but with my desire to reload a few different calibers including rifle sizes, he said that the 550 would be easier to reconfigure for each and more economical. Did you upgrade from a 550?

Just like chicken!

I know, right? I mean, who knew that StrickJ liked to dress up like a frog? I should have gotten hoppin' when I saw this...

We'll have to change your username to "JustaSUPERguy" at that point.

That was no long stick.

Get your butt back here in one piece without Kim Duck Dong or whatever his name is lobbing nukes at you first, and I'll be happy to take care of that P6 for you.

The firearm needs to be returned to Smith & Wesson so that they can tune the ejector and extractor a bit. The good news is that S&W provides a lifetime warranty for the lifetime of the gun and will pay for shipping both to and from them and have your weapon back to you in short order.

No, the dingdongs at Nissan wanted cupcakes.

You are a poet!

Supposedly it will be backdated to have gone into effect yesterday.

Can't we all get along? Seriously?

I got tired of myself once and waged war on my own person. It lasted several years, inspired Al Gore's theory of global warming, caused the Stock Market bubble during the late 90's and then ended in a stalemate. I declared a truce with myself on 1/20/09 after the terrorists took the White House. Both sides of my conflict agreed that right then was not the time to be divided and that we all must stand together as Americans and fight this common enemy. Even myself and myself. It was covered in Newsweek and a National Geographic photojournalist covered it through his lens. Perhaps you read about it or saw the pictures.

The promotions products company I use is absolutely great about accommodating one-off orders. If you only want or need one of them, I can probably get it. Likewise larger quantities. Let me see if I can find something that matches what you described and I'll let you know.

PS: IT people irk the crap out of me, and I'm an IT person. Honestly I can't stand most of my peers in this industry because they often are socially inept and measure the size of their gender-specific organs based on how cutting edge they are with technologies that the rest of the world doesn't give a rip about. These IT employees at Nissan are probably paid better than 90% of the industry professionals in similar jobs at other companies. I'd tell them to dig deep into their cheap-assed wallets and pay for their own food like everyone else does.

Dear Sir; Thank you for taking the time to email and inquire about our products. At my company, we too are feeling the pinch of the current economic climate so I empathize with your plight. However, just as Nissan could not expect to stay in business long if they were to give away cars, I cannot expect to stay in business long if I were to give away my products. [ optionally insert a statement to the effect that you would offer them to him at a slightly discounted rate in exchange for him making your business cards available at this function, and mentioning that the refreshments were provided by your company ] Then sign it Bob Lutz. j/k

No joke! The doctor referred to it as strickets... which apparently is a lot like rickets disease, but it's a softening of the crotchoidal bone. Thankfully the testosterone in my body rejected the disease and kicked it's ass.

Gotcha.

This gets my vote!

@Hexhead: Understood. Thanks for clarifying your stance on it. We do agree on the vast majority of it.

I know this post is going to come off as being kind of blunt, so apologies in advance... but you really seem hung up on the whole issue of carrying in bars. Am I correct to understand that you do not support my right to carry a firearm for my self defense should I choose to accompany friends to a pub even though I will not be consuming alcohol? Or should I not be allowed a means of self defense if I choose to go see a musical act or a comedian at a place that primarily generates its revenue off of selling alcohol? I agree wholeheartedly that we do not need to engage in drinking alcohol while simultaneously carrying a firearm, or driving a car, or performing open heart surgery or anything else like that. But I do not agree that I should have my fundamental right to a means of self-defense just because I am in a setting where someone else might be drinking. I've been present at a LOT of private parties, BBQ dinners, etc. where friends and strangers alike were swilling beer and I was armed. Not once did I suddenly and uncharacteristically whip out my sidearm and start shooting people because of my proximity to their drinks. For that matter, I've enjoyed a nice cold beer in my own domicile on more than one occasion and had a firearm within reaching distance. I never shot my wife, my dog, my kids or my television. I was tempted to shoot the television once, but that was during the Presidential Debates and I wasn't even drinking that time... I guess what I'm picking up here is that you believe there should be limitations on where a law abiding citizen should be allowed to carry a sidearm for his or her protection, based solely on the current activities of other people at that location. This seems... well, stupid.