TN or NC for gun friendliness

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TN is ok for gun friendliness. One law that bugs me is ya can't carry into an establishment where alcohol is "served". You can carry where it is sold for off site consumption. There are obviously other no-no areas but the restaurant thing is my pet peeve. I'm not familiar with NC laws but I've carried in TN now for quite a few years with never a single issue or problem.
 
TN is ok for gun friendliness. One law that bugs me is ya can't carry into an establishment where alcohol is "served". You can carry where it is sold for off site consumption. There are obviously other no-no areas but the restaurant thing is my pet peeve.
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Ditto for NC.
 
only other bad tn gun laws are no carrying loaded rifles and some ammo stuff. other than that, it's pretty decent compared to anywhere except the likes of montana/alaska
 
Ky is pretty decent, and still in the SEC. You can carry in a restaurant there, but not in a bar (or court room, police station, school, daycare...) unless you get special permission.

edited to add: sorry for inventing a 3rd option, that might be annoying.
 
by elimination, I would not choose nc. that state is going absolutely communist, with islamic leanings. Everyone knows that the 'golden triangle up there, Raleigh /durham/ Fayetteville. is hardcore anti american/commie leaning, especially around Duke university. So i would go Tennessee.
 
If you conceal carry NC's permits aren't worth the paper they're printed on. Every place in that state has no guns signs in the window.
 
If you conceal carry NC's permits aren't worth the paper they're printed on. Every place in that state has no guns signs in the window.
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NC carry permits DO have a good use. they allow you to skip getting a pistol permit from the Sherrif/PD when you want a new handgun.

and some areas aren't as bad about being posted everywhere. just seems like the area(s) that I personally am likely to wind up ARE

I grew up in Durham, i find the NC gunlaws, specificly the pistol permit system and current CHL situation, to be Objectionable but livable. in other words i consider the NC laws to be the limit of what i am willing to intentially move to, BUT it is only b/c of other factors that I'm willing to move back (family in wake forrest, climate better than coastal texas, better personal employment prospects than current location, Wife working on an in-company transfer to chem research facility in cary).
 
TN is much better than NC.

I can walk into a gunstore and purchase as much ammunition and as many handguns as I like. Once the insta-background check is back I can walk out with the whole lot and toss it in the car and head to the range. I can do this day after day after day.

In NC the sheriff issues a permit to you to purchase each and every handgun separately before you can even go to buy one. Without his prior permission you can't purchase a handgun.

Yep, TN is much better than NC.
 
NFA = AOWs, destructive devices, machineguns, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, silencers.
 
How about some Virginia? We have the restaurant law as well, but it seems to be a pretty gun friendly state overall.
 
KY and VA are nice and all, no slam intended, but my life was changed the first time I ever drove through Tennessee's mountains. I knew that at some point I wanted to live there (I have family near there, too). Since NC and TN are basically the 'same dirt' with a line through it, I figured those would be my choices...
 
In NC the sheriff issues a permit to you to purchase each and every handgun separately before you can even go to buy one. Without his prior permission you can't purchase a handgun.
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Most sheriffs have a clerk or clerks that processing the paperwork and issueing those permits is all they do. and last i checked doesn't the permit also take the place of the NICS check? (was told this bit by a Durham Co deputy in 1999)

it's a form of de-facto registration, and it's a relic "jim crow" law but you're not really "getting the sherrif's permission".
 
since the original question was a choice between TN and NC -

I'm staying in Tennessee for the rest of my born days
Memphis isn't so bad, you just stay on Condition Orange while there :uhoh:
keeps you on your toes
and it's a whole different world east of Nashville ;)

good luck on your decision

ff
 
How so?
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East of nashville is the TN everyone thinks of and what the tourist commision does all the ads about. and those that live or have lived there can cover it in detail better than i can. As all i've ever done is drive through it going between NC and Western TN.

West of nashville, most of Tennessee is basicly an extension Northern Mississippi and Alabama, untill you get to Memphis which shouldn't really be considered TN, it's a weird mix of St. Louis, and New Orleans. and not in a good way.

don't get me wrong i spent the first 6 years of my life in Memphis and most of my family (all except me, my wife, and my parents) lives in (my grandmother) or within 100 miles of the place, and i feel it has redeeming qualities. but, to me it's "a nice to visit for a day or two" and not much could make me want to live there again.
 
I live in East Tn, and it's the most wonderful place on God's green earth to live, We have had a very hot summer this year but normally it's mild winters and not so hot summers. I'm right between Chatannoga and Knoxville. small town called Athens. I OC very often and no one even looks most of the time. (By OC I mean while working my firearm becomes exposed).

If you like water sports you are close to ther TN river and the hiwassee, (just don't eat to much of the fish, something about mercury?)

I do understand falling for this area, I'm originally from New BErn, NC and moved here it 75, been here most of my life since.
 
East TN

Another East Tennesseean checking in.....

Wait a minute, we have enough people "moving in" here already. :D

Still more cows than people where I live though.

Don't mind the tourists. They usually yield to us locals and leave their money

The job market is great around Knoxville and housing/land is reasonable on the outskirts.

A few gun laws that should be changed though. The "resturant carry" might be changed soon and we almost got a "park carry" change this year.
 
I live in East TN - Elizabethton. It's a bit south of Bristol and about 20 miles from the NC border both south and east. My wife's family lives in NC, so I find myself in NC often. Carry laws are generally similar, but as hso points out, actually buying a handgun is a bit more of a pita in NC than in TN. Even a private FTF handgun sale requires an NC handgun purchase permit.

The one big difference I can think of between TN and NC is that in NC you legally must notify a cop you are carrying, and in TN you do not. I think it's best not to surprise a cop with it anyway, but not everyone agrees.

VA, TN, and NC all prohibit concealed carry in establishments that sell and serve alcohol. TN restaurants have signs up that say "sell or serve", and that's a lie. In VA, you can carry in a restaurant as long as it isn't concealed. I just take off my cover shirt and carry it when I'm in VA in a restaurant.

As for places that have signs, it's like most anywhere else. The more urban area you are in, the more likely you are to see one of those little signs. I spend a lot of time in the hippie mecca of Boone, NC, and there are VERY few of those signs around.

Please move here. We need every voice we can get calling our state legislators and telling them to change the park carry and restaurant carry laws.
 
In NC the sheriff issues a permit to you to purchase each and every handgun separately before you can even go to buy one. Without his prior permission you can't purchase a handgun.
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The only way to get around this in NC is to either:

A) Buy the maximum number of permits at one time and keep them on hand (5 I think, they last for a few years)
B) Get a CCW permit

as buying a handgun in NC requires Sheriff permit or presentation of a CCW permit.


that state is going absolutely communist, with islamic leanings. Everyone knows that the 'golden triangle up there, Raleigh /durham/ Fayetteville. is hardcore anti american/commie leaning, especially around Duke university. So i would go Tennessee.
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It's not that bad at all. We have some nuts in our large cities, just like anywhere else in the country. Main reason is the large influx of New Yorkers and Californians (not the good kinds, mind you) to the cities. crack.gif
And the triangle is Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill ;)
 
I believe NC is going to be the first state to adopt and use the driver's license mandated by the Real-Id Act, TN has already passed a law against it. Something else about NC stood out to me recently, I'll have to go dig it up to try to remember it, something about illegal immigration and extra benefits to illegals if I remember right.

Also, parts of NC are the equivalent of San Francisco east if you know what I mean.
 
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