Jonnin

TN law lol.   That definition can fit a sword, a car,  a chainsaw, and possibly even a taser ... all are apparently "clubs".

  flying around having fun is a lawful use.  Aerial photography is a thing.  Presumably they have the same rights as any remote controlled craft currently (?).   Not all of them even have a camera, and are not even capable of "snooping".     I dunno about flying over property, but I do know that you can't shoot down some guy in an ultralight with a video cam flying over your place.  

there is no such thing as gun violence.   Violence is violence and it is all equally wrong.  Don't buy into the liberal gun terms :)

Do it.  For this specific case, where someone posted an AD and then tried to get out of the charges, there is no contest as to their intent.  

I scavenge my 9mm brass and given that some 25% of guns fired where I do that are probably glocks -- you see so many of them -- and that I have never had a piece of brass that would not size and reload due to some sort of bulge (ive had my share of splits and holes blown out, but none bulged beyond fitting in the sizer die) I would have to say that its a non issue.   I did 40s for a while too and never saw any there either. 

  pretty much.   Its effectively gambling... for every guy that picks the right one and makes 100X his money, there are a lot of people that lost their bet. 

you can use a fish eye to record almost a full 360 looking down.   You can also de-fisheye the footage to watch normal video of an area, and you can even observe the same spot on the ground for many seconds with a slow flying craft by shifting the picture each frame to keep it on the same spot.    None of this is terribly new or difficult.   It takes big money to get details.  You are talking usually a football field or farther video distance,  and to see your face well enough to recognize it or see your nakedness thru a window with it is about impossible unless the device is capable of sustained hovering.   If it is hovering, it will be obvious what is going on if its doing so a short distance outside your window while you stand there naked looking at it.   Its difficult to look in a window from more than 100 feet away or so, reflections, screens, curtains, dirt, and all that ... TRY it, try looking in a window from a distance.   Try it again with some binocs.    Its difficult to do this without very pricy gear and even then its not fun.   Cheap, standard hobby Infrared won't go thru windows. 

  I cant see this law being used to arrest someone who is going about their business not bothering anyone, not appearing to be threatening to anyone, etc.   It has the look of one of those "throw the book at him" laws where they stick this along with 23 other similar charges against someone who was ... being a thug.   If dressed decently, a cane can even be a fashion item.   Proof of not needing it is difficult, all you gotta do is claim a bad back or knee or whatever.     Its a world full of AKs and ARs and glocks.   Its going to be hard to convince a jury that you were out to blow up the town that is filled with armed cops, armed people like us,  big strong people that will just tackle you, etc with your stick if you were not hitting anyone with it in the first place.   Even if it has a sword.  Ask any airport --- they get a few of these things DAILY where some doober bought a cane at a yard sale with a sword in it and they "didn't know".   A % of them probably really didn't know it was in there, and a % are lying.   Regardless, its every day... you can buy them when the airports do those selloffs of items they "collected".

Yea.   You can see where I ended up... I let some actuary do all the work and pick and choose the stocks in a fund.  I buy the fund, someone who has the time and training picks the actual stocks, and we all make money.    The penny stuff was fun but  after 5 years I still had the same couple hundred bucks I started with (not counting the once in a lifetime ford thing I mentioned -- those things happen once a decade, where the outside world has a direct and predictable influence on prices make it easy to figure out).

I got to look closer ... I read Nazi marks and just looked at the wood and not the metal.  I thought we were looking at a 80+ year old something. Yea that isn't old enough...  get a new stock here seems the most efficient solution.

if the stock is original, keep it, but if you want to shoot it, you can try to buy a replacement that isn't broken.   If that is not available, you can decide to fix it yourself the right way ... which mostly means carefully cutting a slab of good wood and using wood glue (possibly, with a screw or pin or whatever) to attach it all back together, stained to match.   Its already been messed up so you are not really ruining the value to do this unless the fix is vintage/wartime field repairs (seems unlikely).   You don't want to fix field repairs ... those actually have value/merits in keeping as a history of a gun that has seen action.     You might be talking about replacing the entire butt of the stock if that is rot.   If its just a big chunk that was knocked off and put back, you might can repair it.   I can't tell if the black is just fire marks (soldiers seem to carelessly put stocks in the fire quite often, actually) or rot or something else (stain or whatever).     Your work has to be able to take the recoil over its lifetime.   And metal support you put in is a 2 way street that can make it worse under recoil so consider that as you design a repair.   The metal of the gun itself also stresses the wood under recoil.   Making it look nice is pretty easy.  Making it hold up to be shot is the key.

  My sarcasm tells me to say that they measured a glock 19, the only pistol anyone would ever want to use, and just wrote down the values.   They are not even inch values converted (140 is 5.5, but 170 is 6.7, meaningless really).   My best guess is that for real they took some real world pistols and measured them,  then rounded it up or something to the nearest mm.

the pics were not up when I mentioned that in passing. I agree.

another thing about playtime investments is your taxes become a nightmare.    If you are trying to day-trade them to flip for a profit a few times a day, you can quickly be looking at 200, 500 transactions to manage come tax time.   You then get to total your losses and gains.  And then you get to deal with the foreign investment rules if you went there.   And so on.   Its not hard, but it can be a lot to keep track of and deal with. 

I Would rather just have a fighting cane than fool with that.   The sword canes in general are low quality weapons, slow to draw, with an awkward handle for swordplay.  Even if you get one with a better blade, it will still suffer the handle/draw problem.    If talking a healthy person carrying it as a disguised weapon, fighting stick upside the head is going to do as well.    If talking actually handicapped, a sword might win out for someone  too weak to get a good swing with the cane if you honed it razor sharp.  In that case, I would prefer it to be a half sword, rather than a full length one, as a weaker person might not do well with a full sized blade. 

I wanted to do it with a small amount of money too but the trades eat the profits unless you buy a LOT of stock per buy.   When the stock is less than a buck a share, and the trade costs you 10, 15 or whatever it is now,  and you make 10, 15 cents on a profitable share,  it takes too much to make a profit worth mentioning.   The best thing I ever got was ford at under 3 bucks a share during the auto bailout crisis.   I made 5X my money on that one.   Wish  I had had more to sink into it, that was sadly just a few hundred bucks. 

not a law I spent a lot of time on, I thought it was OR instead of AND.   Carry on :)

punt gun!   As far as using it at a manned airplane, I was thinking that the sort doing it would not really be too keen on respecting the law.   Its illegal to jam most signals without some sort of permission, for sure.   I think hospitals can do it,  law enforcement and military can do it, and a very small number of others.   The device shown is billed as being for law enforcement.

Surely someone can take a Thompson drum & modify it with a glock upper?

  if one wanted to push it, depending on what she really looks like,  it could be "impersonating an officer".  

Depends on its software and how it handles loss of signal to its ground station & gps.   Loss of gps is serious.     What is unsaid is if someone gets one of these and hauls it out to the airport it would probably do a number on low flying commercial craft during take-off and landing cycles etc.   It would probably mess up any number of other things too.   Jamming tech does not generally need to be in the hands of idiots.   And it doesn't take a degree in electronics to boost the signal to jam stuff farther away.     You can also hack a goodly number of the drones.   Many hobby ones and smaller sized ones don't even encrypt their signals.  Just do the listen and repeat routine and you can echo its comms and start telling it to do stuff.   Basic hackery stuff.  

wow, haven't seen one of those in decades.   And before that the last one I saw was plastic, metal is old school.   If it needs one of those, the shoes are 100% assured to make my feet hurt.  I won't wear shoes that make my feet hurt.  The younger generation is correct :)

  I am ok with the hunting angle if they will acknowledge that it is OK and not uncommon to hunt deer with an AR or a pistol :)

Hes moderate like Biden --- you can shoot through the door at whoever with a shotgun but you can't defend yourself with a pistol from the guy bashing your head in.     Pistols to da face be bad.  Shotguns thru the door be ok.    This be common sense gun control.   Its not hard to understand at all ... whatever does not make sense, that is their stance.

Someone copied the tornado plan and pasted it into the "shooter" plan, it sounds like.