JayC

Except he may qualify under the place of business exception, or one of the other exceptions for carrying a loaded firearm. I'd want to know more about his 'work' but you can carry any firearm loaded at your 'place of business' without a permit (although you'd need to properly transport it unloaded from home). Or for that matter he maybe in a 'vehicle' at work Keep in mind a tractor, front end loader, etc seem to fall under the vehicle rule. I'm curious if a 4 wheeler would count?

There is another great option, go somewhere else for lunch I'm sorry but visiting with a family member isn't worth being disarmed in my book.

Good god... How long do you have left on the lease? I'd start doing research into how to dispute an eviction claim and tell the apartment complex you've resolved the issue and how you resolved it is none of their business, and I would keep carrying and storing the firearm at your apartment (but take much greater care in not allowing it to be seen). You've already violated the first rule with dealing with issues like this, deny everything and admitted that you have a firearm. It will take them months to prove you have a firearm in that apartment if you're smart and start the eviction process, then I'd fight it tooth and nail both via the eviction process as well as in the press. I'd go down to the local PD and pull all reported crimes and dispatches to that complex for the last 5 years, and use words when talking to the press such as being scared of living in the apartment because of all the crime in the area. Frankly, 1 bad news article will cost them a lot more than getting rid of you I'd also hit up every apartment review site on the internet and post (truthfully) the high crime rate in and around the apartment etc etc etc. And at the end of the day none of us can tell you how this is going to turn out, there is no law allowing landlords from prohibiting firearms in a rented space. There is a TN AG opinion on the matter with little to no case law in TN to back up his claims. You may very well get before a judge that will throw out the lease clause prohibiting owning firearms. Or you may not, but in all likelihood your lease will expire along before it makes it through the entire process and you can move. I would not break down my firearm or store it in my car, I wouldn't go and ask the MTSU PD anything about it... While having a barrel in your vehicle does NOT violate state law, it might violate a student code of conduct and while they couldn't charge you with a crime they could cause your trouble as a student.

That is a much harder case to win though... That is the reason all the successful SCOTUS challenges to gun rights have come from people who weren't involved in criminal cases. From my reading of court cases (lay person for sure) it seems to me that challenging a law as unconstitutional as a law abiding citizen who isn't charged with a crime in much easier than challenging the same law in criminal court as a defendant.

I'm sorry to tell you, but we're already at the destination.

I wish somebody in my family would ask me not to carry.... that would be the perfect excuse for never going over there I have the exact opposite problem, I get hassled by my family if I don't have both of my carry guns with me

I disagree with that statement... Government does a lot of stuff that isn't allowed under the Constitution and nobody challenges the issue all the time. The problem is the violation is so minor, unless you're an attorney who is bored the cost of taking the police department to court of running the serial number is not cost effective... doesn't make it legal or right on the police departments part.

We assume it's probable cause, to my knowledge that has not been tested in a court of law in TN. The entirety of the circumstance has to be taken into consideration.

Have you read through the legislation she has introduced and voted for over the past 4 years? We'd be better off with a Democrat in that seat, at least it wouldn't confuse people who the enemy is Harwell doesn't support the state of Federal Constitution, her votes have repeatedly shown that fact... She needs to go, and if it costs us the seat in the process, better that than to re-elect her. And for the record, I'm not in the far right wing of the party I just know she lied to my face about her support for certain bills, and I've made the promise every time I see her name online, it's to remind people she can't be trusted and needs to go, even if we loose the seat in the process.

Anybody who voted for Harwell as speaker needs to go this time... which means all of the Republicans... We need a strong real conservative not some RINO in the speakers seat.

That is not exactly true... first there are hundreds of special "license" classes that the legislature has made for their friends which have no such requirement. Second, a little over a year ago the legislature passed a new graduated general liquor license which allows food sales to be as low as 15% of gross sales.

Pre-schools aren't "schools" under the law... With few exceptions schools must be registered with State you can get a list of schools from the state for your area... Pre-schools are general treated as a form of day-care license wise.

I've seen bits and pieces of his videos, mostly a sentence or two taken out of context. I see him saying that his religion allows Jihad against America (Show me videos where in his own words he is calling for people to be killed, vs saying that his religious text allows Jihad), I have not seen any evidence that he was involved in planning or terrorist operations in anyway shape or form... Just a muslim cleric giving religious sermons. He was never a member of Al Qaeda, but a member of another group call Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which wasn't even around in 2002 when we passed the use of force authorization. Which did not include Yemen where he has been for years. Anwar al-Awlaki most likely needed to be put in jail, or even executed, but that should have been done after he was found guilty by a jury of his peers. Now as for your argument again about the civil war, we're not talking about 2 groups of soldiers meeting and fighting, we're talking about an canon unit knowingly firing on an unarmed chaplin. Again, I've seen no proof that al-Awlaki was ever directly involved in attacks on US citizens/soldiers, he was just preaching, which may in and of itself be a crime because it lent aid and comfort to the 'enemy', but did not make him an enemy combatant, even under the laws passed during the Bush Administration. My point about Lincoln is two fold, first that we're not talking about 2 groups of armed men meeting... we're talking about killing a US citizen without due process of law, not armed at the time he was killed. Second, that Lincoln was an evil despot that did a lot of harm to the country that we're still paying the price for today. But, even he wouldn't summary execute an American citizen for speaking out against his unconstitutional war.

First, where are you getting your information he had declared war on the US? From some unnamed government source in a news report? Second, people killed in the civil war (with the exceptions of spies) were killed on the battlefield normally engaged in acts of war, not 1,000's of miles away from the battlefield driving in a car/wagon. And I wouldn't hold the despot Lincoln's actions up as a standard to live by, he did more harm to the constitution and liberty than any other President in the history of our country.

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As I read the law, it's illegal to own, let alone carry.

Drivers licenses are controlled by a number of federal laws, and the fact that you only need 1 drivers license today is because of a federal law. Does that make it right? No. But, if SCOTUS would grow a pair and force states and the federal government to follow the constitution(s) all of this would be mute. Even IL has a state constitution that guarantees the right to keep and bear arms, yet nobody is forcing the states to follow their constitutions nor the Federal constitutions.

The federal Constitution already trumps the states constitutions in the power enumerated to the Federal government. 14th Amendment binds the states to uphold the Bill of Rights (including the 2nd Amendment) among other things. Now was it a smart idea for the state to pass the 14th Amendment? Probably not, but a great number of southern state legislatures were under armed guard by North invaders at the time, and in the case of TN legislators were threatened with death by the Military "governor" to pass reconstruction laws and amendments. But that in an entirely different discussion that is often left out of US history You do have another legal theory that the 2nd and 10th Amendment prevents both states and the federal government from passing any law that infringes on the ownership and carrying of weapons, but to my knowledge nobody has brought this argument up to SCOTUS yet. 10th Amendment: 2nd Amendment: One could argue that the federal constitution prohibited both the federal and state governments on day one from infringing on the peoples right to keep and bear arms.

You can at least buy suppressors and automatic weapons if you jump through crazy paperwork... no average citizen can legally own a automatic opening knife. How on earth does that make sense?

Oh so it's not the state fair, it's the Davidson County fair... just named wrong? That makes much more sense. Does any state funds go to the upkeep of the fair grounds?

How on earth is this law constitutional? How can an out and out ban of certain types of weapons, fall under the ability for the legislature to regulate the wearing of weapons to prevent crime?

Stupid question, but isn't the state fair grounds owned by the state and covered under the state parks carry law? How exactly are they barring legal carry under the law?

Wow, what a sad life you must live... willing to compromise your principals just because somebody asks you a private question which is none of their business? I'm sorry, but I don't need a job bad enough (not even in this economy) to let somebody at work force me to answer private questions, or demean myself by lying to them. I can always find another job, but I can't get back my dignity or honor. As for the 17 year old, and what he said, I'd be marching down to the school the next day and filing a formal complaint against the teacher before they even called me about the cursing issue. While a minor at school might not have constitutional protections (don't even get me started) I for sure have freedom of speech and I'd have more than a few choice words to describe said teacher.

Good for you... I agree... silly

Dan, As somebody who experience organizing volunteer events and coordinates a 40-50 person volunteer group, you're making it a lot hard than it needs to be. Start small and grow from there... call the public works director for a fairly pro-gun rural county (Say Wilson for example) and ask them for a suggestion on a stretch of road they'd like to see your group clean up. Ask them for any suggestions they have how to do it, any safety equipment which is required (say orange vests for example) take notes. Don't even bother mentioning it's some form of HCP group, and never use the word protest Go on to a couple pro-firearm boards post about the event, include when, and where you're meeting, suggested dress code... etc... The morning of the event call the local Sherrif's office ask for the shift supervisor and explain to them you've got a group of volunteers who are going out to clean road X, that section of road was suggested by the public works director, and some of the members have HCP you just wanted him to be aware in case they get any calls... Then go clean up the road in question... take a lot of internal pictures post them on a facebook group page and ask your volunteers to do the same. Don't call the press, they'll find you on their own, hopefully after you have a few of these (positive) events under your belt... Once you get all the kinks worked out, then you can make the decision as a group to move to more 'visible' locations. You're talking about 6 to 10 man hours to coordinate the entire thing, plus whatever time you're on site picking up trash. It's just not the 'professional' level task you're describing anybody who manages a business would be able to get this done in a short period of time. IMHO the best approach here is to focus on cleaning up trash and not trying to a do a 'protest'.