Tennesee Knife Rights Knife Law Preemption Bill Passed – 3rd This Year Published on Friday, April 19, 2013

Gilbert, AZ --(Ammoland.com)- The Tennessee Senate, on a vote of 27-4, concurred on the House amended Knife Rights Knife Law Preemption bill, sending it to Governor Haslam.

Please call AND email Governor Bill Haslam and ask him to sign SB1015/HB0581: 615-741-2001 – bill.haslam@tn.gov

Knife Rights would like to thank the bill sponsors, Sen. Mike Bell and Rep. Vance Dennis, for their efforts to get this bill passed .

SB1015/HB0581 originally included language to repeal the Tennessee ban on switchblade knives and knives over 4-inches long, as well as enact Knife Law Preemption. It passed the Senate overwhelmingly, but was amended in the House after a last minute hyperbolic misinformation campaign in opposition to those repeal portions of the bill by the Tennessee Sheriff’s Association.

Testimony by their executive director included such outlandish remarks about switchblades as being intimidating because, “it even sounds like a shotgun rack, if you want to get right down to it.”

What that has to do with whether a knife should be legal or not, we are not at all sure. Moreover, an automatic sounds no different than most any other one-hand opening knife when opened aggressively. Perhaps the Sheriffs would like to outlaw Harleys because they sound more intimidating that a Vespa scooter?

As sometimes occurs in the legislative process, we were faced with the choice of moving what is arguably the most important part of the bill, preemption, and coming back next year on the rest, or seeing the bill die altogether. Knife Rights is pleased to “take the win” on Knife Law Preemption, our state legislative priority.

Tennessee is the seventh state to pass Knife Law Preemption since Knife Rights passed the first-in-the-nation Knife Law Preemption bill in Arizona in 2010, and the third state this year, following Kansas and Alaska.

Sponsors Bell and Dennis have assured us that they will be back next session with a bill to repeal the ban on switchblades and knives over 4-inches long and with time to counter the Tennessee Sherriff’s Association’s irrational misinformation, and your help, we are confident we will get it done.

Meanwhile, please help us finish off this effort. Call AND email Governor Bill Haslam and ask him to sign SB1015/HB0581: 615-741-2001 bill.haslam@tn.gov

When you call and email, keep it polite, short and to the point. Simply ask the Governor to please sign SB1015/HB0581 as soon as possible.

About: Knife Rights (www.KnifeRights.org) is America’s Grassroots Knife Owners Organization, working towards a Sharper Future for all knife owners. Knife Rights is dedicated to providing knife owners an effective voice in public policy. Become a Knife Rights member and make a contribution to support the fight for your knife rights. Visit www.kniferights.org

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Texas Legislature Moving On School Security Measures

Charlotte, NC --(Ammoland.com)- This week, the state Senate passed Senate Bill 1857 by state Senator Craig Estes (R-Wichita Falls), legislation directing the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to establish a process by which qualified concealed handgun instructors may obtain additional certification in school safety.

Successful completion of the advanced training course would allow the instructor to teach these security techniques to employees of school districts or open-enrollment charter schools who hold concealed handgun licenses (CHLs).

The Senate also approved Senate Bill 17 by state Senator Dan Patrick (R-Houston). This legislation would allow for two employees of a school district or an open-enrollment charter school without security personnel, who are CHLs and authorized by their school board to carry on campus, to participate in a school safety training program developed by the DPS and the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center (ALERRT).

House Bill 1009 by state Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) has been reported by the House Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee and sent to the House Calendars Committee. This measure creates a new category of law enforcement called a “school marshal.” In order to become a school marshal, applicants would have to complete an intensive training program developed by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE). However, the program would also be open to any employee of a school district or open-enrollment charter school who has a CHL. The governing bodies of the institutions would decide whether to appoint marshals to certain schools.

Please contact your state Representative and urge him or her to support HB 1009, SB 17 and SB 1857. Contact information can be found by clicking here.

About: Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org

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FL:Cheap Gun Opportunity Coconut Grove Tomorrow, 20 April

People who have guns they do not want anymore will be allowed to drop them off at the Coconut Grove NET office, at St. Stephens Episcopal Church, 2750 McFarland Road.

The program will operate from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, so you will want to get there early enough to pick out a good spot.

Many broken and junk firearms are turned in at these events, but a fair number of people who inherited decent guns, but do not want to have anything to do with them, show up. There are often some pretty good deals.

Across the country, freedom fighters are showing up at these events, and offering cash for the better specimens. This should be welcomed by event organizers, if their purpose is to "get guns off the streets". This is because such activity stretches the turn in dollars, prevents poor widows from being defrauded of their valuable property for a pittance, and places guns that are not wanted in responsible hands.

Private sales are perfectly legal in Florida, as they are in most states.

Local information would be appreciated, as these events are often held in poor neighborhoods.

Here are numerous links showing private individuals purchasing guns at numerous events across the country:

NM:More than 300 guns sold at sheriff buy back event(and private sales!)

PA:Gun Buyback Met With Competition In Bensalem.

Outside, a group of gun advocates set up a table offering a better price to people carrying high-quality weapons.

Second Gun Buyback Nets 42 Weapons

Also in front of the church were people offering to buy the guns off of people before they reached the buyback event.

ANGRY WHITE DUDE ATTENDS GUN BUYBACK COUNTER EVENT IN DALLAS

NM: City’s gun buy-back program nets hundreds of weapons

Outside the police station, a group of four or five men gathered to offer cash to people who were bringing guns in.

Gun buyback in Cincinnati collects 135 weapons

The Cincinnati Enquirer (http://cin.ci/W41mWY ) reports that a federally licensed gun dealer showed up to provide some competition. He bought a dozen weapons for $40 to $100 by standing outside the church with a sign that read “Cash 4 Guns.”

Several good deals made at Lansing Gun Turn in

MI:100+ Guns Turned in for Gun Buyback

Just outside where the buyback program was being held pro gun activists were offering cash for guns.

NM:Police harass legal buyers at Santa Fe Gun Turn In

Seattle has gun Turn in, Private buyers save guns

Tucson Gun Turn in - First Hand Account

AZ:Former Senator Offers Better Alternative to Gun Turn In

A Reader Reports from the Hartford CT Gun Buyback

Cleveland Gun Buyback Program Attracts Buyers Offering Cash for Guns (VIDEO) (OH)

The Detroit PD Doesn’t Like Competition(MI)

Gun-buying enthusiasts crash firearms ‘turn-in’ event at Memorial Coliseum(OR)

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Gun rights bills head to La. House floor

I agree that we need to preserve the First Amendment. The penalties for releasing the information should be sufficient.

BATON ROUGE — A House committee has ruled that gun owners’ rights top First Amendment rights.

The House Committee of the Administration of Criminal Justice Wednesday approved two bills by Rep. Steve Thompson, R-Bossier City, which would make it a felony for anyone to publish names and addresses of people who hold permits to carry concealed weapons. The bills, HB8 and HB98, apply to statewide permits and those issued by sheriffs that are valid in parishes where they are issued.

“There’s a danger of making people subject to robbery,” Thompson told the committee.

HB8 expands prior legislation that removed lists of handgun permit holders from the public records law to include a misdemeanor penalty — up to $500 fine and up to six months in jail — for releasing that information to anyone. It also adds a felony penalty — up to $5,000 fine and up to two years in prison — for publicizing that information in any manner.

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Polish Resistance made Sten Submachine Gun

Submachine guns are some of the easiest repeating guns to make in garage or other small shops.

To wrap up our week of semi-mystery guns, we have today a Sten gun copy made by the Polish Resistance. The gun’s owner didn’t have any details about its origin, and I have been unable to find any reference to it either. The gun is marked on the trigger housing and receiver endcap “BATHAU 19412 TDM”, and has no other visible markings.

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Missouri House Approves Sweeping Pro-Gun Proposals

Missouri legislators following their constituent wishes and the Constitution instead of the Old Media

There are actually 24 pieces of gun legislation in the Missouri House right now. The proposals in this bill would ban the enforcement of federal gun laws, allow certain school officials to be armed, some people with small firearms to carry them openly, and it would reduce the CCW age to 19.

"We're a concealed carry, second amendment-friendly state," explains A.G. Paul, owner of Sound of Freedom. And he is totally on board with that.

"Kind of makes you breathe a little easier that you're not in Massachusetts, Connecticut or California where they're stripping away everything they can."

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Illinois House fails to get supermajority to pass concealed handgun law

"May Issue" law receives only 31 votes compared to the "right to carry" law that received 64 votes. Unfortunately, a supermajority was required of 71 votes to pass.

Presumably this means that the State Attorney General will try appealing the Circuit Court decision that struck down Illinois' ban on concealed carry.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Gun rights advocates fell silent in the Illinois House on Thursday night after falling seven votes short of approving the public possession of firearms statewide despite a federal court order that gives legislators just weeks to put such a law on the books.

The proposal creating a method to permit qualified gun owners to carry concealed weapons failed 64-45. The measure needed a supermajority of 71 votes because the legislation would trump the right of the state's larger cities to set up their own laws.

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IL Dems Revolt Against Gun Control Law

If Illinois legislators do not come up with a concealed carry permit law by June 10th, the Illinois laws against the carry of firearms become void by judicial decree. Time is on the side of the freedom fighters in Illinois.

Democrats enjoy a supermajority in the Illinois House of Representatives, holding 71 seats to the GOP's 47. On Wednesday, the same day the US Senate voted down gun control legislation, powerful Democrat Speaker Michael Madigan tried to push a restrictive gun control measure through his chamber. The result was an open revolt by downstate Democrats, with almost half the Democrat caucus joining the GOP to kill the measure. The bill went down 31-76, a rare defeat for the legendary Madigan.

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Who is really lying in the gun debate?

After failing to get his gun control bill passed by the Senate Wednesday, President Obama lashed out at his usual favorite targets, "the gun lobby" and Republicans.

He claimed "the gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill." He scolded "senators [who] could not offer any good reason" to oppose the legislation. And sharing the stage with some of the heartbroken families from Newtown, Connecticut, he attacked Republicans as being unwilling to "protect the lives of all our children."

But who is really lying in the gun debate? Mr. Obama's case in favor of background checks rests on two false claims that he keeps repeating: “as many as 40 percent of all gun purchases take place without a background check” and that "background checks have kept more than 2 million dangerous people from buying a gun.”

Yet his claims only make sense if you ignore that the vast majority of these "purchases" are within family gifts and inheritances and that these "dangerous" people are actually law-abiding citizens who were accidentally stopped from buying a gun simply because they have a name that is similar to a criminal's.

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Abuse and assertion substitute for a rational look at the issues.

The tripe excerpted below is written by Paul McGeough, "Chief foreign correspondent" of a Left-leaning Australian newspaper.  From the opening sentence he abandons all pretence at believability.  He is clearly motivated by hate and rage rather than by any attempt to discover the truth.  He does a good job of showing what a poisonous lot Leftists are

So the US is cool with killing kids.

Like the 26 victims of December's massacre at a Connecticut primary school, all the reform clauses in the latest challenge to America's culture of guns and violence have gone down, shot down by a gutless Senate.  [It's gutless to rein in more and more government  intrusion into people's lives?  The word I would use is "heroic".  But our rage-filled Leftist would appear not to have thought of that.  He certainly shows no sign of considering it]

He didn't utter the words, but "scumbags" and "cowards" were the obvious subtext to a furious President Barack Obama's words in the Rose Garden, minutes after the legislative defeat – the first for the National Rifle Association and the second for all who cower in the face of its crude threats.

In a week in which the Boston bombing has the country reeling at the ease by which it can be visited by atrocity, the Senate failed to muster the necessary 60 votes to expand background checks for would-be gun buyers, to ban military-style assault weapons and to outlaw high-capacity gun magazines.  [And how would gun bans have prevented the Boston massacre?   The Boston bombers did not use guns]

He accused the “gun lobby and its allies of wilfully ly[ing]” about the compromise bill negotiated by a senator from each side of politics. He charges that Republicans and some of his own Democrat colleagues had "caved to pressure" from a vocal minority that supported gun rights.  “There were no coherent arguments as to why we wouldn't do this – it came down to politics,” Obama said.  [No coherent arguments?   Funny that the arguments went on and on about the issue.  Were all those arguments  incoherent?  But any argument that arrives at a conservative conclusion CANNOT be "coherent", of course, not in Obama's world]

Excuse me, next time the US struts the world stage, claiming American exceptionalism, setting itself out as leader of the so-called free world, it risks being dismissed as a nation of idiots. It's too easy to defer to strong polling support for gun control and to just vent about the Senate and the House – after all, who elects them?

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Holder feels 'frustration and anger' over gun bill defeat

Anger is the normal state of leftists

Attorney General Eric Holder expressed frustration and anger Thursday over the Senate's defeat of gun control legislation this week, but vowed he will continue to fight for measures to prevent gun violence.

“Despite my disappointment and, quite frankly, my frustration and anger at the filibuster in the Senate yesterday that led to the failure to adopt some of those changes, despite the fact that a majority voted for them, I and my colleagues throughout the administration remain committed to standing with the families of Newtown,” said Holder in testimony before the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday

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Who Killed Gun Control?

The new media is gradually spreading the truth. The decades of old "progressive" media propaganda is gradually being overcome on this issue. From the article:

I was struck by this poll graphic in the Washington Post on Wednesday. Despite the virtually unanimous support for stricter gun control in the national media, along with other opinion shapers such as Hollywood and the universities, and despite the mass shootings that have received so much attention in our modern world of 24-hour news channels, Americans are becoming more convinced that guns make your family safer.

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EXCLUSIVE: A Right Delayed

Floodwaters from Hurricane Sandy “damaged tens of thousands of [New Jersey] mental health records used as part of background checks for gun purchases … meaning some prospective gun owners have not been able to buy pistols or rifles for several months,” The Wall Street Journal reported.

“The months-long backlog coincides with a surge in gun ownership,” the story continued, spotlighting one resident who decided to protect himself following a rash of burglaries and has since been waiting almost half a year for the ID card the Garden State requires to purchase a firearm.

“A right delayed is a right denied,” the would-be gun owner complained, echoing the famous quote by Martin Luther King. In this case, it’s not hard to see how such a delay could prove fatal.

Such delays don’t just happen due to natural disasters. And a new law being demanded under the guise of saving lives could actually end up endangering some.

More Here at Guns Magazine

NM:Judge relaxes release conditions for Reese father and son

In an order granting a motion "supported by good cause" to amend conditions of release filed yesterday, Judge Robert C. Brack of the District Court of the United States for the District of New Mexico in Las Cruces ordered that “ankle monitoring devices worn by Rick Reese and Ryin Reese are to be removed.”

“It is further ordered,” the judge mandated, “that the Defendants … shall be allowed to travel freely within the boundaries of the State of New Mexico [and] that the curfew imposed upon the Defendants … shall be modified to be from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m.

“[A]ll other conditions remain in force,” the order declared.

Father Rick and son Ryin are part of a family of gun dealers jailed for allegedly knowingly selling guns to cartel members, but who were found not guilty on the most serious charges of conspiracy and had money laundering charges against them dismissed. They were convicted on a handful of lesser charges of making false statements on forms, basically under the presumption that they should have know federal agents were lying. Wife Terri was released on bond last year, son Remington was cleared of all charges, and a new trial for the outstanding convictions has been ordered following the judge’s ruling that the prosecutor withheld evidence from the jury.

More at Gun Rights Examiner Here

Ban all high-capacity bombs!

That's the logic of the anti-gun brigade after the Boston outrage

Obama the sore loser; McCain the traitor

President Barack Obama says ‘‘the gun lobby and its allies’’ used lies and distortion to thwart legislation in the US Senate that would have expanded background checks for firearms purchases.

Senators voted 54-46, with 60 needed to adopt the measure, as a handful of Democrats joined most Republicans in opposition. The vote was the most significant on gun control in 20 years

Mr Obama placed the blame on Republicans and lobbyists for gun manufacturers for rejecting the measure in defiance of the will of a majority of the public. He vowed to press on to get gun legislation passed.

‘‘I see this as just Round 1,’’ Obama said in remarks from the White House Rose Garden. He told voters to ‘‘sustain some passion about this.’’

Obama spoke about 90 minutes after backers fell short of 60 votes needed to adopt the measure, an amendment crafted by Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, and Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican.

The proposal was intended to be a bipartisan compromise and its failure marks a defeat for the president, who made heightened restrictions on guns and ammunition a priority following the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting last December.

‘‘The gun lobby and its allies wilfully lied about the bill,’’ Obama said. Today ‘‘was a pretty shameful day for Washington.’’

Mr Obama’s push to expand background checks, renew a federal assault weapons ban and limit ammunition magazines faced opposition from the National Rifle Association, the nation’s biggest lobby for gun owners and manufacturers.

Five Democrats voted against the background-check measure: Max Baucus of Montana, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mark Begich of Alaska and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota. Baucus, Pryor and Begich face re-election in 2014 in states carried last year by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Majority Leader Harry Reid also voted no, allowing himself under Senate rules to seek reconsideration of the vote.

Republicans Mark Kirk of Illinois, John McCain of Arizona, Susan Collins of Maine and Toomey voted for the amendment.

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WA:Suspect from Home Invasion Arrested

In the incident Monday a man who returned home and found two intruders shot and killed one with a shotgun. The homeowner also fired at the second suspect as he fled in the stolen SUV, shooting out a window.

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Statement from Chris W. Cox on U.S. Senate Defeat of Manchin-Toomey-Schumer Amendment

Today, the misguided Manchin-Toomey-Schumer proposal failed in the U.S. Senate. This amendment would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members to get federal government permission to exercise a fundamental right or face prosecution. As we have noted previously, expanding background checks, at gun shows or elsewhere, will not reduce violent crime or keep our kids safe in their schools.

The NRA will continue to work with Republicans and Democrats who are committed to protecting our children in schools, prosecuting violent criminals to the fullest extent of the law, and fixing our broken mental health system. We are grateful for the hard work and leadership of those Senators who chose to pursue meaningful solutions to our nation’s most pressing problems.

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AL:Gun sale nets a total of $98,700 for 3 agencies Read more: The Daily Home - Gun sale nets a total of 98 700 for 3 agencies

Leftists would rather have these valuable resources detroyed in deodand ceremonies

TALLADEGA — Nearly 1,000 guns seized by Talladega police, Talladega County Sheriff’s Office and the Talladega County Drug and Violent Crime Task Force were auctioned off to federally licensed gun dealers Tuesday afternoon. According to Talladega Police Chief Alan Watson, the sale netted a total of $98,700, which will be divided between the three agencies based on who had seized the weapons in question.

According to auctioneer Johnny Vetra, 30 to 40 dealers from Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky came to look at the weapons, which ranged from a flint-lock pistol to .50 caliber Desert Eagle pistol that frequently retails for over $2,000.

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AZ:Avondale Mayor and Councilman Prevented from Return to Medieval Deodand Ritual

Pipe, club and finally gun needed to stop savage pit bull attack on woman in Detroit

DETROIT —Numerous people attempted to stop the relentlessly violent mauling of a woman by two pit bulls on Charles in Detroit late Tuesday afternoon.

They used a pipe, vehicle steering-column auto-theft device, and finally, a gun.

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