These are my hands and some things that they have held.

I see your Artillery Luger and I raise you:

A Darick Model 1500 Tround:

A Gyrojet:

Met again with some old friends and got to meet a couple of legends of our Gun Culture.

And yes, I believe is an all original Artillery Mauser. I was holding while being poked on the side of my butt by Japanese swords. Lots of guns and lots of sharp-pointy things.

It was indeed a good Sunday.

So we have done the car registration and the Driver’s License thing here in Tennessee and the next step is to get the Enhanced Carry Permit (Yes, we want the darn thing because reasons.)

Now mind you, to get the TN DL which is supposed to be Real ID compatible, I was told to present Proof of Citizenship or Legal Permanent Residence so I could get that cute little star in the ID card indicating I am all good in that sense. So when I got my license, I took my certificate of naturalization and all was well and I am supposed to get my DL with a star in the mail sometime in the next couple of weeks (the fact I am driving around with a printed copy of the DL in the meantime is one curious TN thing I won’t address just yet.)

I don’t like messing around much with the Certificate of Naturalization as it is the only thing you have to prove indeed you went through the legal hoops and are a Citizen. US Born Americans can get a copy of the birth certificate  without too much of an issue, but I have to deal with the federal government and pay a frigging fee of $555 for a copy of the gorramed document which is why I keep the darn thing under lock and key at all times.

So a few minutes ago, I sit down to review the requirements for the TN Carry Permits and I get this:

Clicking at the link takes you to the list of approved items which do not include the frigging “TN DL. Now with Real ID!” which is supposed to be proof you are indeed legally here. And that begs the question of why did I go through the Real ID crap in the first place if the DL is not good enough.

And no, I don’t have a valid passport. Mine expired long ago and I tried to get a passport card before moving, but the slowness of the process would have meant they would be mailing the document to the Miami address rather than TN.  Now I have to wonder if the Passport card would be an accepted form of documentation or do I need the full booklet so the officials processing future paperwork will consider it valid.

I am going to breathe deep, count to ten and  wait for the TN DL to arrive in the mail, only then begin the process to get the EHCP.  I will probably go ahead and apply for the passport too so I can secure the hell out of my Citizenship Certificate and stop messing with it. If I read the law right, my Florida carry license should be valid for 5 months and 3 weeks before I am legally obligated to have the TN card.

Bureaucracy has a way to ground you back to reality, doesn’t it?

I never bought into Black Rifle Coffee.  I’m not much of a coffee drinker after zero dark o’clock in the morning, so I buy whatever is cheapest at Costco.

I did find their YouTube channel funny.

Now they decided to go woke and shit in their most dedicated consumer base.

People still don’t want to believe that Black Rifle Coffee compared Kyle Rittenhouse’s supporters to Nazis who should be flushed down the toilet, or canceled the Archangel Michael.

It isn’t fake news. It’s a New York Times interview that the company itself is promoting. pic.twitter.com/Y21EmAuPAS

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 17, 2021

Might as well be a gun company that donates to Everytown and takes photo-ops with Shannon Watts and Michael Bloomberg.

I hope they invested their money wisely because their business is gonna go broke.

Pedo alert~

NYPD searching for two suspects who were caught on camera attempting to kidnap a 5-year-old boy on a street in Queens Thursday. The crime took place around 8 p.m. on Hillside Avenue

His mother was able to pull him from the car before they fled. pic.twitter.com/eMRIKVdTAn

— Red Walrus (@_RedWalrus_) July 17, 2021

I don’t give a fuck what the law says about justified shooting.

If you try and kidnap one of my children in front of me, I will shoot you with every round of ammo I have on me, go to my car to get more ammo, shoot you again until I’m out, drive home, get my gas can, come back, burn your body to ash, chug water until I’m about to burst,  then piss your ashes into the gutter.  Only then will I consider the threat effectively neutralized.

And in at least half the places I’ve lived, most cops would look at what I did and say “that seems pretty reasonable, you’re free to go.”

In NYC, you can’t defend yourself from pedophile kidnappers and if you tried, you’d probably go to jail for a hate crime against an oppressed person with an alternative sexual orientation.

Yesterday, I was messing around in the truck’s center console where I keep one of my trauma kits and I realized I did not know if Tennessee had a “Good Samaritan Law” in the books. After a quick Google search, I found Tennessee annotated code § 63-6-218:

63-6-218. “Good Samaritan Law.”

(a)  This section shall be known and cited as the “Good Samaritan Law.”

(b)  Any person, including those licensed to practice medicine and surgery and including any person licensed or certified to render service ancillary thereto, or any member of a volunteer first aid, rescue or emergency squad that provides emergency public first aid and rescue services, who in good faith:

(1)  Renders emergency care at the scene of an accident, medical emergency and/or disaster, while en route from such scene to a medical facility and while assisting medical personnel at the receiving medical facility, including use of an automated external defibrillator, to the victim or victims thereof without making any direct charge for the emergency care; or

(2)  Participates or assists in rendering emergency care, including use of an automated external defibrillator, to persons attending or participating in performances, exhibitions, banquets, sporting events, religious or other gatherings open to the general public, with or without an admission charge, whether or not such emergency care is made available as a service, planned in advance by the promoter of the event and/or any other person or association, shall not be liable to such victims or persons receiving emergency care for any civil damages as a result of any act or omission by such person in rendering the emergency care, or as a result of any act or failure to act to provide or arrange for further medical treatment or care for the injured person, except such damages as may result from the gross negligence of the person rendering such emergency care.

Always good to double check stuff like this. Although I believe most States have some sort of Good Samaritan Law, it is always better to make sure you are covered and legally safe.

Are you?