Posted on 11/04/2010 6:22:46 PM PDT by kwikrnu
I have a lawsuit pending against the State of Tennessee regarding the carry of firearms. My handgun permit was permanently suspended and the current law prohibits the carry of loaded guns w/o a permit. Loaded is considered the carry or storage of a gun in the vicinity of ammunition. I received a brief from the AG today. In the brief he says, "The Andrews court further explained that prohibitions against wearing arms in public places are permissible." Of course the decision said no such thing, but they wish it did.
Here is the link to the brief:
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B4xDZlk5vthcYjE2NDY5YzktZmNjOS00YzUzLThiZmItOWZiN2NhMGQyZWIy&hl=en
Just for the record, why was your permit permanently suspended?
Okay nOOb, I’ll bite.
Just why the state of Tennessee “permanantly” revoke your handgun permit and what is a “handgun permit” anyway?
learn how to post the link next time and maybe people will respond
Considering you've only been here since March, maybe you need to relax a bit before jumping all over the new guys... K?
What’s “in the vicinity”? 1ft? 10ft? Close enough you can dive and get it? Sounds very vague ....
It seems unlikely to me that the right to defend one's life or the lives of one's family members disappears outside the home. The Tennessee statute appears to have an exception which permits the carrying of an UNLOADED firearm. An "unloaded and unconcealed rifle", which is allowed by the statute, is, in fact, a CLUB, which is explicitly disallowed.
I'd be pretty confident that the purpose of these laws was to disarm freed blacks at the end of the civil war. Now they are being used to disarm everybody the government decides should be disarmed.
sounded like a description that enables you to buy gun.
I was thinking CCW guess TN calls it different.
What really got me was the Tennessee Attorney General seems to be misquoting from Andrews v State when he said the state can prohibit the wearing of arms.
In fact, in Heller the majority said, “Few laws in the history of our Nation have come close to
the severe restriction of the District’s handgun ban. And
some of those few have been struck down. In Nunn v.
State, the Georgia Supreme Court struck down a prohibition
on carrying pistols openly (even though it upheld a
prohibition on carrying concealed weapons). See 1 Ga., at
251. In Andrews v. State, the Tennessee Supreme Court
likewise held that a statute that forbade openly carrying a
pistol “publicly or privately, without regard to time or
place, or circumstances,” 50 Tenn., at 187, violated the
state constitutional provision (which the court equated
with the Second Amendment).”
A CCW is a concealed carry weapons permit or license.
A HCP is a handgun carry permit.
Tennessee issues handgun carry permits after a payment of $115, background check, fingerprints, 8 hour class, range qualification, written test, and a 90 day wait. The qualifications are many, but I meet all qualifications to be issued a permit. I own guns, and in fact possess a federal firearms license. My handgun carry permit is permanently suspended in Tennessee.
>>>My handgun carry permit is permanently suspended in Tennessee.
Why?
Google his user name “kwikrnu” to discover the answer. Real nut job this one.
Even banned from a puppy forum!
They suspended my permit because I sued a State employee and wanted to discredit me. It was also suspended because I carried a blackpowder navy pistol in my hand in an old slave town. If you have any knowledge of Tennessee law and laws quoted by the AG in his brief you’ll see the irony. I have a FFL, am registered with the state board of pharmacy, I am almost finished with my schooling to become a registered nurse, and have been married 14 years with children. I must be a “nut job”.
Is HCP an open carry permit? As opposed to a CCW I mean?
Your main interest is firearms, you have been here since March and you don’t know that ‘banglist’ is the keyword for firearms/2nd Amendment issues?
In Tennessee, the permit does not specify "open" or "concealed", so it is generally accepted that a permit-holder may carry both ways.
Well, in his defense, I read all the 2nd amendment articles that I notice, and I’ve been here many years, don’t know how many, and I didn’t know that about banglist. In fact, I find it very difficult to find out the conventions like that on FR. I guess I’m just stupid.
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