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Bar Owners React to Strike Against Guns in Bars A Chancery Court judge ruled Friday that Tennessee's law allowing permitted handgun carriers to bring their guns into certain bars is unconstitutional. It was a huge victory for restaurant owners who took aim at the law as soon as state legislators passed it. Attorney David Randolph Smith says, "The great thing about our system is that a judge can declare something unconstitutional to protect the constitutional right and in effect have a judicial review of legislative action." However, some restaurant owners aren't happy about the change. John Chaffin, owner of Chaffin's Barn says the law improved his restaurant's security. Chaffin says, "When somebody comes into my restaurant to rob the place and i have been robbed. They see a sign that says anybody in there can be carrying a gun they have to think twice about whether or not the guy sitting next to them is actually toting." Chaffin wants state lawmakers to craft a new law next year that will stand up in court. John Chaffin says, "I certainly hope it gets overturned in January... but we're going to heaer a lot more about it." Though Roberts Western World and surrounding downtown Nashville honky tonks don't fit the requirements that would've allowed guns inside, owner Jesse Lee Jones doesn't believe this ruling makes much of a difference for troublemakers. Jesse Lee Jones says, "The criminals are not going to need a permit. and they're not going to ask my permission to walk into Roberts or anywhere else and carry the weapon." Smith says the problem is all bars in Tennessee serve food. The controversial law said: as long the majority of a bar's income came from food sales and not alcohol sales, Tennessees 257-thousand-plus permitted handgun carriers could bring their weapons inside. Smith pointed out in court that people don't alwyas know how much food a bar serves and therefore could never really tell if they were breaking the law. WZTV FOX 17/Nashville

Instead of just voting why not someone stepping up to the plate and running for one of these posts?

More good news from "Gun Friendly Tennessee"...

Years ago I had an idea for a computer set up much like an ATM for renewing your DL. Same computer checks when you walk into the DMV. Have it use either your thumb print or face recognition through the photo it would take of you when you start the machine. If you have a valid license, no questionable variables, outstanding stuff etc... you could get your license right there. Heck I'd even pay an extra fee just to use the machine, avoiding the drones who infest the DMV's payrolls nowadays. It could look like one of those old fashion picture booths you would see in K-Mart years ago.

I wonder if they are considering jacking up the fees on the already stupidly overpriced HCP?

DMV Wait Times Could Increase To 2 Hours NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Department of Safety proposed cuts at a Thursday budget hearing that would affect driver's license fees and license station wait times. Closing six driver's license stations and cutting 34 positions was proposed, resulting in wait times at driver's license stations to go from 45 minutes to an expected two hours. The driver's license stations that would close are locations in LaVergne, Lawrence, Weakley, Hamblen, Anderson and Tennessee Towers. The department would also eliminate a third of Capitol security, half of the air team and leave only one D.A.R.E. officer. An additional reduction of 22 positions might be necessary in metropolitan service centers, like Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga and Knoxville. The department proposed cutting up to 85 troopers, including 25 road troopers. Scott, Bledsoe, Meigs, Sequatchie, Hancock, Johnson, Cannon, Clay, Pickett, Trousdale, Moore, Lake and Houston counties would lose troopers. Gov. Phil Bredesen suggested raising driver's license fees to avoid trooper cuts. All cuts are proposed. Nothing is final until the governor makes a decision and the Legislature passes it. DMV Wait Times Could Increase To 2 Hours - Money News Story - WSMV Nashville

Many people will have problems "selling" themselves to those employers who were once beneath them. Alot of those jobs will go to younger workers, workers with less education and no skills before it will go to someone who has 12 years working as a wielder or a manager for a warehouse who lost a job due to a business closure. The comment about us being one missed welfare check away from anarchy in this country is very correct and the stark reality of the situation. Our elected officials know this ( I hope) and will vote to extend the benefits just to avoid the barbarians looting the cities. But how long can we keep handing out free money? 100 weeks, 125, 150, 200 weeks? When do we say enough? By all accounts the unemployment will keep rising through most of next year. The jobs will be the last thing to come back, if they come back. We hear talk of the other shoe dropping. If that is the case, it will just put off the return of jobs that much more after we suffer the next hit. It seems like we are barely afloat now and all it would take is just one incident, one financial hiccup, blunder or maybe one of those "too big to fail" companies failing to send us into a graveyard spiral. What about a state financially collapsing? California is over $21 BILLION in the red for just this year! Imagine the effect on the nations economy if the state of California collapsed. What about another major terrorist attack, say a dirty bomb in NYC or DC? We are living on borrowed time right now and the current crop of criminals in DC seem to have no clue what to do except pass more spending programs...

Well if the dead can vote I don't see why anyone can be really amazed that we have discovered recently unknown congressional districts

You think we got problems now! Imagine over 1 million people waking up and realizing they no longer have any money at all coming it to support a family or put food on the table.

Jobless benefits could end for many in January WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 1 million people will run out of unemployment benefits in January unless Congress quickly extends federal emergency aid, a nonprofit group said Wednesday. States typically provide 26 weeks of unemployment insurance for those who lose their jobs through no fault of their own, with weekly checks averaging about $300. Congress on Nov. 6 extended coverage for the fourth time since the recession began, granting 14 to 20 more weeks to try to keep about 1.3 million people who have been jobless for well over a year from running out of benefits before the end of 2009. That boosted the total number of weeks a person could collect unemployment to as much as 99 in the hardest-hit states. But that legislation didn't address an underlying problem: The emergency unemployment compensation program, including all 73 additional weeks, expires at the end of this year. If the program isn't renewed, after Jan. 1 recipients who have used up their 26 weeks of state benefits won't get any extra coverage. The National Employment Law Project estimated Wednesday that 450,000 people will fall into that category in January. An additional 600,000 will run out of extended coverage that month, the NELP estimates. Since the extra federal benefits are provided in stages, recipients won't be able to continue to the next one after Jan. 1, unless the emergency program is reinstated. Under the most recent extension, all states received 14 extra weeks. States with unemployment rates of 8.5 percent or above received six more weeks on top of that -- 20 in total. But a group of state agencies that administer the benefits noted this week that few, if any, recipients will be able to access those additional six weeks if the program ends Dec. 31. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Tuesday that Congress would consider continuing the federal emergency program and other benefits included in the stimulus package as part of a bill focused on jobs. But Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has said the Senate will finish work on health care before taking up a jobs bill, which could mean that it won't act until next year. Congress could face opposition over the cost of extending the program into 2010, especially with a proposed health care overhaul bill carrying an $849 billion price tag. Business groups estimate that extending the stimulus package's benefits for another year could cost $70 billion. But advocates warn that letting the program end or delaying an extension would create uncertainty for millions of recipients and potentially long gaps between benefit checks, making it difficult for many to make mortgage or rent payments. About 9 million people are receiving unemployment insurance, 5 million on the state programs and 4.1 million on the federal extensions. Maurice Ensellem, the NELP's policy co-director, said state agencies will start notifying recipients next month that their benefits will run out, unless Congress acts. "That's going to create a lot of anxiety," Ensellem said. "Every interruption in benefits creates real chaos."

Contact your local LE, have the vehicles VIN an Insurance card and the owners information, if financed the title holders information. File a theft report, then get a copy of the report and take it down to the tag office, they will issue you a new tag for a small fee.

Thats an understatement... This state is far from gun friendly.

65,000 Applications For 2,000 Jobs... Volkswagen Has Over 65,000 Applications For Jobs At New Plant More Than 35,000 Seek Production Positions... 11/16/2009 - Volkswagen Has Over 65,000 Applications For Jobs At New Plant - Breaking News - Chattanoogan.com

Imagine just for one moment this level of blatant lying and figure falsification was coming from a Republican WH...

Obama creates 30 new jobs in one congressional district. Bad news: No such district Good news: Obama creates 30 new jobs in one congressional district. Bad news: No such district | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times Chicago politics, where voting is such a revered civic duty that people do it even after they're dead, cold, stiff, stuffed, boxed and buried beneath the permafrost for years, has now come to D.C. with the Obama administration. This afternoon comes the most encouraging economic news, courtesy of our keen-eyed buddy Rick Klein over at ABC, that the Obama administration's $787-billion economic stimulus has, for example, thankfully created 30 new jobs in a little-known rural corner of Arizona at a cost to American taxpayers of only $761,420. That works out to only $25,380.67 spent to create each individual job. Seems like a lot per slot, but those 30 folks must be happy to be employed again and paying taxes. This will be a real feather in the cap of Vice President Joe Biden, who's been left behind and assigned by the ever-campaigning president to monitor the stimulus plan, its spending and effectiveness moving into the crucial midterm elections of 2010. Might the Democrats snatch that House seat? So the people of that 15th Congressional District in staunchly Republican Arizona should be pretty happy about this. Trouble is, there is no 15th Congressional District in Arizona. None. Nada. Zip. Zero. Doesn't exist. Not in Arizona. Not even on paper at the Democratic National Committee. There are only eight. Period. But the administration's much-vaunted recovery.gov website reported these jobs as being created there. Could well be a computer glitch. Lord knows humans would never make such a dumb, misleading mistake, even in politics. But then the trouble is that just months after grandly unveiling the recovery.gov website to showcase its economic prowess and tech-savvy, the Obama administration just spent 18 million taxpayer dollars to redesign the still new website. And that site proudly reported nonexistent new stimulus spending not just in Arizona but other states across the country. So that looks to have worked pretty well, at least if you're counting computer designer jobs created. Anyway, how do you think the 9th will vote next year?

When the time arrives that we must consider burying them, the time has come for us to dig them up!

Yes, welcome to gun friendly Tennessee where you must pay a ridiculous amount of money for the "privilege" to exercise one of your enumerated rights...

If anyone can sit their and with a straight face tell me this is a good law you need another hit off of your crack rock... Our wonderfully inept elected state officials have written this law with the sole purposeful intent of creating such a jumbled mess of local level opt out, opt in provisions that no one has any idea if the park you are in is a carry park or an opted out park. To include the police! More examples of just how messed up the gun laws are here in Tennessee...

Metro could allow guns in isolated parks A Metro councilman wants guns allowed in rural parks, he says to protect isolated visitors who may be more prone to attack. Sam Coleman of Antioch filed his proposal Monday. The council opted out of new state legislation allowing permit holders to bring their handguns into parks. The vote was a narrow 22-18, and some council members at the time said they wanted to exclude rural parks. “I think when we decided the question on Aug. 18, there was some sentiment we should take a look to see if there were some rural or isolated parks that might be an exemption,†Coleman said. “They might be some dangerous spots for some (park-goers).†Not long after the vote, Coleman asked the Metro Parks Department to provide him with a list of rural or isolated parks and greenways. Coleman’s proposal exempts all nine parks on the department’s list: Alvin Beaman Park, Bells Bend Park, Cane Ridge Park, Couch Tract Greenway, Cecil Rhea Crawford Park, Hamilton Creek Park, the Morgan Road property, Peeler Park and Vulcano Tract greenway. The list excluded parks attached to the county’s contiguous system of greenways, such as Seven Mile Creek, Shelby Bottoms and Whites Creek greenways. East Nashville Councilman Erik Cole, who voted in favor of opting out of the new state law, said the issue deserved consideration, but he needed to see data indicating such exemptions were necessary. “I’m still concerned about the residual impact of allowing more guns, even if they are completely legal and registered,†Cole said. “The presence of guns makes it more likely someone is going to get hurt, even with best intentions and even with the best of training.†The legislation is being studied by the Metro Department of Law in advance of next week’s Council meeting where it will be on first reading. The legislation appears to be valid, said Tom Cross, Metro Legal associate director. Metro could allow guns in isolated parks | tennessean.com | The Tennessean

Nashville is a strange town as far as gunshops go, basically there isn't very many at all. When I first moved here I was a bit appalled to find this out, I was looking for a nice indoor range, figured hey this is Tennessee, this is Nashville there's gotta be a mess of good indoor ranges here. Not so, nothing... gotta go dang near to Kentucky to Guns and Leather to find a decent one. Same goes for just gun shops, nothing in Nashville... its sad really...

Goodlesttsville Carries the Sig P220 Metro is exclusively Glock 22 or 23

A restaurant can still ask you to leave if you are carrying. But under the states criminal trespass law you must be allowed to opportunity leave and refuse to do so, or return to the property after you were given a warning not to come back before you can be arrested.

Actually you have to have a permit to have a loaded gun anywhere in your car, not just on your person in Tennessee.

Why do all the little counter drones at these stores feel the need to hose down every Tom, Dick and harry that walks within striking distance of a spray bottle of perfume? Even if they don't get you, you still have to navigate a sizable cloud made up of 1,328 of the latest fragrances. Now my sinuses are all out of whack... Maybe I should go back and just stand there, snotting all over the counter and chase the little perfume sprayer around sneezing on her? I swear I think I read something in the Geneva Convention about this when I was in college...