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Between the time the Bill of Rights was written and now, we had a major event in this country; the Civil War. The war was fought over States Rights. Although the side that was fighting for States Rights lost that war; all Americans learned from it and never want to go that route again. That is why the SCOTUS has ruled they way they have. You have a right to keep arms, but the state will control where and when you bear arms. Obama hasn’t done anything to take away your guns. He would, but he can’t. Thinking that he can will only result in the same BS we had last election with the price of guns and ammo going through the roof. Your gun rights will be decided by your Tennessee State Legislators. Pay attention to who you vote for here. The state of Tennessee recognizes your second amendment rights no more than the state of Illinois. Paying the state to be able to carry a gun is not a rights; it’s a privilege and nothing to do with the 2nd amendment or the United States Constitution. We are free because of the American people and American Patriots. We are losing our freedoms because Patriots are few and far between anymore. Our country is filled will sell-outs that don’t care about their country as long as they have cheap junk to buy. This Presidential election will be about the economy and jobs. If our economy fails; the Constitution and the 2nd amendment will be meaningless.

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime. In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question He asked: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?" The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke. "You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity." The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America . The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time. One should always remember two truths: 1) There is no such thing as a free lunch, someone is paying for it. 2) When you begin to think that having your government provide for you and make your decisions is ok, realize that you’ve also given up the freedom that goes with making your own choices. This is the reason that BHO must go at whatever cost or pride you must suck up.

So, for all you folks who say you are absolutely NOT going to vote for the GOP nominee if it's (Romney/Gingrich/Santorum) ... Again, please remember that O is likely gonna get 1-2 more picks in his second term, and conceivably even 4. Add those to his two already installed socialists, Sotomayor and Kagen, and he's going to have more influence over ultimate US jurisprudence that any president in history. What inspires this as a separate post, is the fact that the Supremes are going to re-hear a case of long "settled" law, affirmative action in higher education. This shows that the already tenuous decisions in Heller and McDonald may well only be short-lived. All it takes is another case that works its way up. All it takes is for the Supreme Court to agree to hear it. Do you really think we'd get another 5/4 decision with even ONE more of O's appointments on there? There is really no such thing as "settled law" in the highest court of the land -- it can be changed in a heartbeat to the new "settled law". It'll be bad liberal enough if the Senate goes barely GOP. If it stays Dem, those appointments will be so far left you'll need binos to even see them. Nowhere will the difference likely be more decisive than with firearms law. So I say again, vote your conscience in the primary, but bite the bullet and vote GOP in the general. If you must puke to do it, let it rip (hopefully on a Dem ). - OS

Finally my local shop got a few in.......and now they are all gone Thanks to Direct Hit in JacksonTN for the hookup on todays 1911!

Another excellent article to spread far and wide: ********************************** Are we armed because we're free or are we free because we're armed? by AWR Hawkins, PhD Every time I read the Bill of Rights, I am struck by the wisdom our Founding Fathers demonstrated in pronouncing and protecting our natural rights. From religious liberty to protections on private property and the security we have in our own persons, our rights are essential to our humanity because our Creator saw fit to endow us with them. Moreover, because they flow from God to man rather than from government to man, our Founders designated them as off-limits to government encroachment. But while the whole of the Bill of Rights is magnificent, it is in the Second Amendment especially that one gets a real taste of both the simplicity and profundity of the Founders: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and Arms, shall not be infringed. In these words, we not only see the right to keep and bear arms clearly and simply set forth, but also the profound truth that an armed population is “necessary to the security of a free state.†No other right is explicitly described by the Founders as necessary to the security of a free state. No wonder George Washington said a “free people ought … to be armed.†In Federalist No. 46, James Madison, the father of the Constitution, boasted of the “advantage†Americans had over the people of almost every other country: that advantage was the fact that they were armed. More recently, Wayne LaPierre, the executive director of the National Rifle Association, has described the right to keep and bear arms as “the fundamental freedom that separates [America] from every other nation on earth.†Just think of it, Madison wrote of the advantage of an armed populace in the late eighteenth century, and LaPierre in the twenty-first. It is a theme which, over centuries, has both remained true and proven to be a quintessential characteristic of the American way of life. Quoting LaPierre again: “The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is the essence of what being an American is all about — living truly free as individual citizens.†Yet, this freedom, which our Founders saw as necessary to the security of a free state, has come to a perilous point in history. Although our government was forbidden from infringing upon it, it has done so anyway, and now we approach a presidential election where perhaps the most anti-gun president in history is running for re-election. If he gets re-elected, he’s certain to expend lots of energy trying to destroy the Second Amendment, either in part or in whole. As a state senator in Illinois, he supported a one-gun-a-month limit on gun purchases, supported laws making it illegal to use a gun for self-defense, and opposed laws that allow law-abiding citizens to get permits to carry guns on their persons. As a U.S. senator, he supported bans on high-capacity magazines and he supported the assault weapons ban. And at the same time, with a straight face, he claimed to support the Second Amendment. Here’s the bottom line: The first president of the United States believed a free people should be armed. Like Madison and others, he recognized the right to keep and bear arms was an expression of our humanity. The 44th president of the United States does not see things this way. He equally abhors the thought of an armed people and a free people: much less a free people which is armed. But Obama is wrong, because the right to keep and bear arms is still necessary for the security of a free state. It always has been, and it always will be. (Rights given by God do not change over time, rather, they endure for all time.) Not only are we armed because we are free, we are free because we are armed. http://dailycaller.c.../#ixzz1n2bXvcbB

I make a fool of myself EVERY TIME I shoot a GSSF.

There are plenty of gun owners who don't even believe one should have the right to carry in any form, or even own something that holds 30 rounds. The country is rife with "I only have a shotgun and a rifle to hunt with, why do you need an assault weapon" gun owners. - OS

Sure it is. Its the part where all powers not given to the govt are reserved for the people. Then we allowed the "general welfare" section to be used to reduce the need for you to think when choosing a barber or a mechanic. FTR, I am a highly irked Libertarian, so YMMV when it comes to interpreting the Constitution

How much more freaking stupid can it get in this country? Wait...don't really want to know.

And it is near unbelievable that a man and can't just gift a gun to his grandson. sounds pretty much un-American.

I can tell you this; I have written instructions to my wife and friends to sue the pants off of any organization that prevents me from defending myself while on their property! After all, while I completely agree with their right to contrl events on their property, if they forbid me from defending myself, then THEY have taken on that obligation! Failure to protect me while on their property will be met with a suit for damages.

Any status on this issue yet? Thanks for all your hard work its just kind of frustrating for some of us that have worked so hard to maintain and buy and sell with integrity so now show that we have no transactions. Thanks

Wonder if they would feel the same way if the state required training or a license to exercise their First Amendment rights? Don't have a permit? Keep your mouth shut or face felony charges. And I don't understand why the Second Amendment seems to be the only guaranteed right in the Constitution that really isn't.

Ron Paul get's media coverage...in fact, RP turns down major oppotunities - the left media isn't going to cover a march of veterans in Washington unless they were marching for Obummer. Hell, they claimed a "few thousand" showed up for Restoring Honor even though hundreds of thousands were there (including me) and they did the same thing with the March on DC in 2009 (I was there for that one too). Whatever coverage RP doesn't get has more to do with his numbers in the polls and primary results than anythign else...no one in the press (right or left) was giving Santum the time of day until he started performing well in the primaries.

Unless the parking lot is posted, it's like sleeping with the boss' wife. Not illegal, but don't get caught if you like your job.

My notifications have stopped after the third time or so.

A 1903 Springfield, a really nice K98, SKS-M, Arsenal AK, ...

I'd rather be forced to drink urine than eat feces, but when it's over, I'm still left with the taste of piss in my mouth.

What's with this 'or' stuff? Everyone needs a 19 and a 23!

All right fellahs...don't shoot til ya see the camera lens...Ready..Fire..

Sweet. Open fire.

I was wondering about the legalities too but based on Raoul's link I'd say a person would be within his legal rights to shoot down an unmaned drone especially if said drone was overflying the person's property for the purpose of spying on his activities!

Here's an interesting link about airspace ownership.

I love it! I can just see the hunters standing by...and then the drone flies over. Way too tempting.

No he wasn’t a law abiding citizen; if that was the case the young woman would not be in the hospital. Does Florida not have laws against reckless or negligent acts? He hasn’t been charged yet, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be; he needs to go to jail. He will almost certainly he destroyed financially from the civil case. Carrying a firearm is a tremendous responsibility. If someone gets shot because you un-holstered your weapon; it’s on you. ND/AD both exist. Whether someone pulled the trigger or a mechanical malfunction (like a slam fire) caused the discharged will not matter to some of those that defend the gun no matter what, there are AD’s. If you drop the slide and have an AD and it goes through the floor or ricochets off and kills someone it becomes an ND. If you decided to do your own trigger jobs, drop in triggers, or otherwise Bubba a carry gun, or buy a gun that is notorious for mechanical failures; you may well find yourself in jail or in civil court. Of course remember it’s impossible for a mechanical device to fail; you must pull the trigger. (See how stupid that sounds when you see it in print) So if it ever happens to you, you will know that you pulled the trigger.

I guess we're all delusional. What's the point of carrying anywhere then? I've been to many churches and have yet to see one with any more security than Kroger, Walmart, any mall parking lot, etc. I guess nobody with a gun can stop criminals. Especially in churches, huh? http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14817480/detail.html

I wonder if Pastor Fred Winters felt "safe" when he was shot dead in the pulpit on March 8, 2009 at First Baptist Church in Maryville, Illinois? I carry every Sunday I am in worship and Sunday School, as do some of the other members and several of the ministers, because the simple fact is that church buildings are no safer than any place else. If you think they are, you have succeeded in fooling yourself.

It needs to be loaded if you're carrying it. Nothing wrong with carrying in church. The trouble started when the dumbass pulled the trigger. It's that simple.

Mr. Brady, is that you?

There should be no mandatory training what so ever. Look up the definition to infringed

sure, and while were at it, we can have mandatory IQ tests for permit holders....... The last thing we need is more regulations and more "safety" features.

So a famous drug addict OD'ed. Who gives a flying F..K? Mike