SovereignAxe
Regular Member
New to the forums and carrying, but not new to guns.
I'm a member of a hunting and fishing association in my area, and my grandfather is an administrative member. It is because of him that I am getting my permit. They hold handgun training classes, which are required to get your HCP in TN. He foot the bill for the class, I just had to pay for the permit (which is outrageous at $115, but at least it's not the expensive to renew).
I finally turned in my paperwork to DMV to get my permit, now I get to play the waiting game because TN is of course not a constitutional carry state. My stance on that issue is divided, but I'll not get into that right now.
le sigh. I had a much larger post that just got accidentally erased except for the autosaved text above. Cliff notes from what got erased:
I have a Walther P99, don't know what holster I want but I'll make a thread in the holster forum for that.
I'm a lefty
I'm a college student 1 semester away from a BA in studio art with a minor in photography, emphasis on photojournalism.
I'm a registered independent, but I call myself a Constitutionalist.
I cringe every time I hear journalists talk about guns, especially when I hear the words "high capacity CLIPS." So yeah, I don't plan on being your typical gun clueless journalist.
One thing I will expand upon from what got erased is my issue with open carry. The way I see it, OC gives up your element of surprise with the BGs. However, what I've gathered from reading this forum is that OC raises 2A awareness, and that the more people seen carrying, the more a would be BG is going to think twice about pulling something for fear of running in to one of us. Is the general consensus here that those two pros outweigh my first con? I've seen that a lot but I haven't seen it debated against my issue about the element of surprise.
With all of that said, I hope to learn a lot here, and to have some good discussions with everyone.
I'm a member of a hunting and fishing association in my area, and my grandfather is an administrative member. It is because of him that I am getting my permit. They hold handgun training classes, which are required to get your HCP in TN. He foot the bill for the class, I just had to pay for the permit (which is outrageous at $115, but at least it's not the expensive to renew).
I finally turned in my paperwork to DMV to get my permit, now I get to play the waiting game because TN is of course not a constitutional carry state. My stance on that issue is divided, but I'll not get into that right now.
le sigh. I had a much larger post that just got accidentally erased except for the autosaved text above. Cliff notes from what got erased:
I have a Walther P99, don't know what holster I want but I'll make a thread in the holster forum for that.
I'm a lefty
I'm a college student 1 semester away from a BA in studio art with a minor in photography, emphasis on photojournalism.
I'm a registered independent, but I call myself a Constitutionalist.
I cringe every time I hear journalists talk about guns, especially when I hear the words "high capacity CLIPS." So yeah, I don't plan on being your typical gun clueless journalist.
One thing I will expand upon from what got erased is my issue with open carry. The way I see it, OC gives up your element of surprise with the BGs. However, what I've gathered from reading this forum is that OC raises 2A awareness, and that the more people seen carrying, the more a would be BG is going to think twice about pulling something for fear of running in to one of us. Is the general consensus here that those two pros outweigh my first con? I've seen that a lot but I haven't seen it debated against my issue about the element of surprise.
With all of that said, I hope to learn a lot here, and to have some good discussions with everyone.
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