A week in TN

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A week in TN

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So, we took the family to Gatlinburg area (including Sevierville and Pigeon Forge) for Spring Break. I noticed a lot of people OC'ing there. My personal preference is to conceal carry as mush as possible. It's no one else's business if I'm carrying. Anyway, we were sitting down to dinner and my shirt had popped up over my gun and the table next to me were staring and whispering. One of the men had gotten up and in very broken English asked what it was like to carry a gun around all the time. Apparently, they were visiting from China and were amazed that common people carry guns. The one lady asked in Chinese if I had ever shot someone. The guy that spoke the most English was very embarrassed to ask me that. I guess they have this grand notion that we go around blasting away at people at will. It was a nice conversation with them.
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I'm in Middle TN (Nashville). Not a huge number of OC'ers here. Get 20 miles out of town, and that changes significantly. I call it the "Mossy Oak" formula - the higher number of Mossy Oak clothing items being worn by the patrons, the higher percentage of OC.
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docachna wrote:I'm in Middle TN (Nashville). Not a huge number of OC'ers here. Get 20 miles out of town, and that changes significantly. I call it the "Mossy Oak" formula - the higher number of Mossy Oak clothing items being worn by the patrons, the higher percentage of OC.
Now that you mention it, the Mossy Oak fashion is rather popular down there. You can tell the tourists from the "indigenous personnel."
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docachna wrote:I'm in Middle TN (Nashville). Not a huge number of OC'ers here. Get 20 miles out of town, and that changes significantly. I call it the "Mossy Oak" formula - the higher number of Mossy Oak clothing items being worn by the patrons, the higher percentage of OC.
Hmmm ... The waitresses at the Waffle House in Jeffersonville off I-71 were wearing Mossy Oak caps, and our waitress complimented me on my EDC and wanted to talk guns. There may be something to that phenomenon.
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Werz wrote:
docachna wrote:I'm in Middle TN (Nashville). Not a huge number of OC'ers here. Get 20 miles out of town, and that changes significantly. I call it the "Mossy Oak" formula - the higher number of Mossy Oak clothing items being worn by the patrons, the higher percentage of OC.
Hmmm ... The waitresses at the Waffle House in Jeffersonville off I-71 were wearing Mossy Oak caps, and our waitress complimented me on my EDC and wanted to talk guns. There may be something to that phenomenon.
Now that location was posted last time I was by there, meeting my son to bring him the tickets he'd left at home for a Red's game.. - Good to know.
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Aesinsp wrote:
Werz wrote:
docachna wrote:I'm in Middle TN (Nashville). Not a huge number of OC'ers here. Get 20 miles out of town, and that changes significantly. I call it the "Mossy Oak" formula - the higher number of Mossy Oak clothing items being worn by the patrons, the higher percentage of OC.
Hmmm ... The waitresses at the Waffle House in Jeffersonville off I-71 were wearing Mossy Oak caps, and our waitress complimented me on my EDC and wanted to talk guns. There may be something to that phenomenon.
Now that location was posted last time I was by there, meeting my son to bring him the tickets he'd left at home for a Red's game.. - Good to know.
I'd heard that about Waffle House, so I looked closely when I entered. No gunbuster sign. And I was carrying quite openly.
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Werz wrote: I'd heard that about Waffle House, so I looked closely when I entered. No gunbuster sign. And I was carrying quite openly.
The lady who owns the franchise for several Waffle House's in central Ohio is anti-gun and keeps the stores posted, but another franchisee in central Ohio is not and does not.

The lack of consistency is disappointing. :(
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MyWifeSaidYes wrote:
Werz wrote: I'd heard that about Waffle House, so I looked closely when I entered. No gunbuster sign. And I was carrying quite openly.
The lady who owns the franchise for several Waffle House's in central Ohio is anti-gun and keeps the stores posted, but another franchisee in central Ohio is not and does not.

The lack of consistency is disappointing. :(

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Ever since I moved to here in Virginia in 2011 I've been OCing everywhere I go.
Only locking my gun in a clam shell in my car when I go to PT where I'm likely to not have absolute control of it.
I carry in Kroger, Walmart, Cici's pizza, Red Lobster, a couple of other local restaurants, and even my doctor's office.
And this is in a blue county in a sea of red ones.
Due, probably to the University of Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello is about a mile and a half from our house and I pass by it both going to and coming back from any trip I make.
On rare occasion I get a comment and they're always positive, never "I'm scared of you and your gun" type stuff.

Actually this wasn't that much of a change for me I used to OC around Stow most of the time. Definitely in the Stow WalMart.
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