I want to live where whatever that I legitimately own has been and paid for with what I earn. That includes guns or anything else I damn well please.

Your advice is appreciated.
I'm looking for something thin to conceal in my pocket.
I had a 357 Magnum during the 80s. I can recall the dude I bought it from but who I sold it to cannot be accessed from old dino's memory banks.
I have NRA qualified with a .38 at least 20 times for both the Alabama DOC and two different security companies thereafter.
One other last security company let me qualify with my Kimber .45 semi-auto and I wore it as a bank guard for a while.
Fully retired now and haven't fired a shot for over a year. That shall soon change.

I found this link in some of the sick comments under the article. It is funny, but contains a lot of truth. About 16 minutes labeled as comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL8JEEt2...

Funny... Where I can I get them for some of my neighbors?

I'm astounded by the chart in the article, how the perception has swung, but more astounded that it did swing, and even more astounded that average opinion has actually reversed from 2000. I would have believed if someone told me it’s always been in favor of having guns. What does this mean, does it mean that people are getting educated into believing guns make it safer, or are they simply going along with some political opinion of some politician? Why the real swing, and will it stick?

In any case, I’ve always appreciated guns, especially the rights to own and even the right (which is now a really a permit) to carry one. I find as I read or hear more stories about crime I carry more often. And as I hear about crime closer to the area I might frequent, I carry much more often than not. Sometimes I think about not having my carry and I worry about it. But I seldom even think about it when I am carrying. I just never want to be caught in any kind of similar situation like Dr. Suzanna Hupp.

We’ve been robbed (once). Now they seem to go elsewhere, perhaps because I have a 1300 pound statue of a Vietnam Soldier with an M-16 at the ready in my front yard. And I fly, 20 feet in the air, a lighted American Flag 24 hours a day. Those in addition to the notices on the major parts of entry to my house that read, “Nothing Inside Worth Dying For” give me more piece of mind. I get the same piece of mind when I carry.

So if you don’t want me to carry then don’t commit crimes where I live. It doesn’t matter if a criminal is bigger or smaller than me, I'm pretty confident I can out shoot him. And if he can outshoot me, then he would not be a criminal and would probably be doing some kind of gun profession. Wouldn’t it nice to not need locks on our cars or even our homes? There are few places anymore that don’t really need locks, that’s where I’d like to live.

You might want to look into a revolver like my 357 Magnum. Revolvers don't jam and honor your requirement for a hammer. They're available in 9 MM as well, if you insist.

As the sovereign of my life I cannot be allowed to live as the power to allow is the power to not allow. I prefer to live where owning a gun is up to me as a sovereign individual. I do not like to be allowed or prohibited that to which I have the sole authority to determine its benefit to me. I cannot be allowed to work or to think they are my choice. Why should people allow me to work and me not allow people to make that choice for me? It is those who would rule that give rise to the necessity of me owning a gun. People do not need a gun to defend themselves or their property from me.

Also make sure Ragnar has access and a large supply of Ammo!!!! Guns maintain respect and the 2nd was written to protect us... mainly from oppressive government BS...

I plan to buy a "pocket pistol" within the next 15 days with the requirements of being a 9mm and having a hammer I can thumb back.
Why those specs? I don't like "strikers" such as Glocks. Having a hammer to thumb back is a "safety" is a feature Old Dino is very old dino comfortable with. Also, I never had a 9mm and so I want a freaking 9mm.
Secondly, I'd like to replace a Beretta Tomcat that I had for a while but gave to one of my grown kids. It's unbelievably accurate at long range for a little .32 pistol and I like the way you can chamber a round on top of a loaded clip by flipping up the barrel. (Click the link).
Come to just now think it about, I believe it was a was a double-action too. Could be wrong.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=bere...

Me too. We have open carry here.

That's because people are increasingly conscious of a type of person they must defend themselves against.

Yes. I either trust my neighbors or I don't live there, guns or no guns. An armed neighborhood is a polite neighborhood. And a well-defended neighborhood.

A well-regulated neighborhood watch, being necessary to the security of a free community of neighbors, the right of all our neighbors to keep and bear arms, should not be infringed by Home-Owners' Associations, the local town, or State or federal governments.

I already do.

Interesting. People seem to increasingly be realizing that self-defense rights are good. It seems this is reflected in general increase in 2nd amendment friendly legislation we've been seeing. Hopefully this is a trend that continues.

yes, and we recently affirmed that you may carry
your gun openly outdoors. . like I needed permission
to do so. . zowie!!! -- j
.

it's one of the delightful things about tennessee --
we are in the county and guns are here with us!!! -- j
.

like a neon sign saying "Free Shit For Anyone;;;
Come And Get It!!!" -- j
.

AMEN!!

I would ONLY live where gun's are allowed.

absolutely.

If you do not want to live where guns are allowed, would you put a little sticker on your front door saying there will be no guns allowed in this house?

+1 for truth.

But in answer to the posted question - yes.

Allowed?

I prefer to live where I don't need anyone's permission to own a gun.