Archive for the ‘2nd Amendment’ Category

Tennessee Firearms Association Monthly meeting

August 11th, 2010 | Comments Off

The West Tennessee Regional Chapter of the Tennessee Firearms Association Monthly meeting will be help Thursday evening, August 12, 2010, at the Old Country Store, located in the Casey Jones Village.
Our room will be available at 5:30 for dinner, and the meeting will start at 7:00.
This months guest speaker will be Mark Johnstone, republican candidate [...]

TFA Meeting Thursday, July 8 - Old Country Store, Jackson TN

June 29th, 2010 | Comments Off

The Stated Meeting of the West TN Regional Chapter will be held Thursday, July 8, 2010 at the Old Country Store, located in the Casey Jones Village, Jackson, TN.
The meeting room will be available at 5:30 for a meal and time to catch up on recent issues, the meeting begins at 7:00 P.M.
Our featured speaker [...]

Veto Over Ride

May 19th, 2010 | Comments Off

Please heed the information from John regarding the actions necessary to get the veto overridden.
SB 3012   Restaurant Carry
From John Harris:
It will take, unless the rules are suspended, probably 2 hearings in each house.
Senate, if it moves quickly, can do its override by next Wed. House would get it
as soon as the Senate passes it and [...]

Call to action - 2nd ammendment

May 6th, 2010 | No Comments

The 2nd amendment legislation allowing for the carry of firearms in restaurants has now passed both the Tennessee House and Senate, again (It passed last year and was then stopped by the court because of supposedly being “unconstitutionally vague” due to a perceived ambiguity over the state’s definition of restaurants. SB3012 eliminates any ambiguity.) The [...]

Tennessee Firearms Association West TN Meeting

April 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Our stated meeting will take place next Thursday, April 08, 2010, at the Old Country Store in Jackson.  As usual, our room will be available at 5:30 P.M. for a meal and time to share news and socialize, and the meeting will begin at 7:00 P.M.
We have two guest this month,  Adrian Eddleman, candidate for [...]

Tennessee Firearms Association, Inc. Legislative Action Committee

March 21st, 2010 | Comments Off

Calendars
Monday, March 22, 2010
House Consent — Monday at 5:00 pm — House  Chamber
THIS IS THE OFFICIAL CALENDAR. HB  3968, HB 3973, HB 3974, HB 3975, and HB 3976 have been added. Item #28,  SJR 862, is item #55 on the state’s calendar. The House will take up the  following memorializing resolutions on consent: HR 280, [...]

Showdown brews over gun-in-bars

March 18th, 2010 | Comments Off

A new bill that would let handgun owners take their weapons into any bar or restaurant in Tennessee has started to make its way through the legislature, setting up another possible showdown over gun rights later this year.
But critics are already taking aim at the measure, which its sponsors filed Monday — less than two [...]

Tennessee Firearms Association, Inc. Legislative Action Committee

March 3rd, 2010 | Comments Off

Substantially all of the firearms related bills are assigned to the House Judiciary Criminal Practices subcommittee.  That committee has asked that all firearms related bills be set for a one (1) hour session on March 10, 2010, at 11:00 a.m. CST.  This is the preliminary calendar for that day.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010  -  HHR31 [...]

Tennessee Firearms Association, Inc. Legislative Action Committee

February 24th, 2010 | No Comments

URGENT ACTION ALERT

2009 was one of the most dramatic years that Tennessee’s firearms owners have seen since the era from 1994 through 1997 when Tennessee overhauled its handgun permit laws.  In 2009, Tennessee’s firearms owners were able to help push through their longstanding demands for the repeal of various laws which prohibited possession by handgun [...]

Tennessee Firearms Association, Inc. Legislative Action Committee

February 16th, 2010 | No Comments

This is a report of bills which have had or are scheduled to have activity during February.
SB 0576*
HB 1807
(Full  Text) <http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB0576.pdf>  CRIMINAL LAW: Handgun permit holders to carry guns where alcohol  served. Allows any individual who has a permit to carry a handgun to  carry the gun into a location where alcohol is served for [...]