I live in TN as well. Whereabouts are you?
my not-so-smart phone
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Hello neighbor, and fellow Tennessean.
Loving it here.
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We’re loving it here as well. We retired and moved here because of the location and like-minded people. Yes, we’re north by northwest of Nashville but statistically if SHTF this is the type of area city dwellers will gravitate to. Since we’re not easily found it will take some time for the inevitable if SHTF. We will more than likely block the highway with armed guards and turn back those who don’t belong here. It’ll take some extra effort and people but I’m confident we won’t have to beg for assistance. Wink wink, nod, nod
my not-so-smart phone
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I hear that. All our neighbors are tight nit good people we got several cops salted around, an EMS type, one next door neighbor is retired from MI state forensics psychiatric unit for the criminal correctional mentally ill, the other next door neighbor is a dispatcher for a law enforcement agency.
We have lived here for three years and had no issues, no known first responders to our subdivision.
All very pleasant, tranquil people here.
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I see our back and forth in the public thread, so the message version is only for direct attention to be sure your message is seen and not overlooked by your addressee; NOT true private messages unseen by all others.
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Copy that
my not-so-smart phone
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I had another response for you regarding my avatar but I’ll save it for a different day. I’m working from my phone right now so I can’t access the website securely. I am happy to hear you’re enjoying your neighborhood.
Be well. Be safe. God bless.
my not-so-smart phone
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So mote it be.
I got an actual response to my message after the auto reply that just acknowledged my email: Here it is about a week later.
The Senator’s office can add me to their Pro-2A count of in favor correspondence received.
Being from Tennessee I suspect that is a the longer count list.
Sorry, the email letter won’t copy/paste, I had to take a screenshot:
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It’s not dead, just in the long labor process of being born.
It may need a C-section (Cesarean delivery (C-section) is used to deliver a baby through surgical incisions made in the abdomen and uterus.
An act of Congress especially when not acting in harmony takes seaming forever to accomplish anything. It takes several go-arounds to get some bills passed.
Maybe after this latest election cycle we will have the necessary votes to overcome our detractors who are resisting all that is 2A.
Currently, I think that given the above, this might be our time to succeed passing a National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.
Giving us more states, places, spaces to Carry across more state lines w/o having to remove our EDC placed inaccessible to us in a locked portable gun safe, locked in our trunk until we have passed through any given state; or keeping it inaccessible if we are visiting that state.
Maybe if this passes sooner than later, more people will become gun owners or not be discouraged from buying guns and all the other after market products to support that, from ammunition, holsters, safes, and the whole market of add ons, if the were not discouraged by restrictions to our freedom to carry.
It’s one of many compelling reasons that I escaped NY for TN.
Look at and compare the two states gun and reciprocity laws.
NY only has counties issue their version of a CCW and upstate and downstate doesn’t even have reciprocity without each other’s endorsement for only 3-years, exorbitant fees, and orneriest restrictions, like on premises only at your home, or business, not in public. Step out doors and your EDC must be in a locker safe. Locked in your trunk inaccessible to you in your vehicle. They want to discourage gun ownership and carrying. Something for interstate travelers, you must not stop over at a hotel, you must drive through or be arrested. Why I only had a shotgun for home defense. They issue very few true “unrestricted” CCW. Like Senator Chuck Schumer has one of the few, not us mere mortals. Why pay exorbitant fees for a 3-year permit that they call a license and not even be able to protect yourself in public or cross some county lines.
By contrast TN is a shall issue state, the state issues all permits for 8-years for reasonable fees and you can carry everywhere with the few exceptions that exist in every state, like schools, courts, jails, etc.
County to county, accessible in you car.
Big world of difference right there.
NY has NO reciprocity with and does NOT recognize any other state.
Whereas, TN recognizes and honors 48 other states, yes Y’all can come visit us with your EDC.
And, sometimes else NY doesn’t have that TN does as of July 1, 2021 their version of “Constitutional” Permit-less Carry open or concealed long as you meet their criteria of not being a prohibited 
person of lawful age =/>18, lawfully present in the US, a Citizen, and not a criminal, fugitive, felon, no DUI, order of protection, history of domestic violence or stalking that type of thing.
I am fully qualified to own, and possess, in any lawfully present place, any legal firearm.
Compared to NY that is magnificent. I am not restricted to my home and the end of my driveway.
And, 36 other states honor TN permits with more coming onboard.
All 50 stares plus our territories would be fantastic.
Just think if your buck list included visiting all 50 states and / or cruising our islands like P.R. or the American Virgin Islands, etc, and you could stay strapped, not concerned with worrying about your legality except for abiding be each jurisdiction’s specific laws.
Like you do in your home state; like not consuming alcohol while carrying, or entering the usual prohibited places, etc. whatever the locals have to comply with, wherever you go, so do you.
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Put my name in your yes column, I’m all for the national reciprocity act to become law!!
William Forbes
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Welcome to he community William
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Welcome to the community, William, we hope that you enjoy your time online with us!
Take care & be well
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Welcome to the community! Hopefully this bill passes.