Posted on 05/09/2009 8:14:53 AM PDT by marktwain
Tomorrow, the legislature will vote on the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act. This proposed law is very similar to the law exempting firearms manufactured and kept within the state from federal regulation that was recently enacted in Montana.
Barrett firearms are big guns manufactured in Tennessee and are among the guns in the Congress sights in HR 1022 to be banned. http://www.barrettrifles.com/ Now you have one more reason to move to Nashville.
It appears this bill has enough support to pass.
For more on this story:
http://www.wztv.com/newsroom/top_stories/wztv_vid_5694.shtml
Hmmmmmm. We have an office in Chattanooga.
LOL. You shocked me for a second when I read the headline, thought it pertained to gay marriage.
I can also think of one handgun manufacturer here in my area, although there may be others around the state. This kind of 10th Amendment action on the part of various state legislatures is probably the single largest reason that the Congress will be afraid to try for federal gun registration laws. They cannot dare have “open rebellion” at the level of state governments.
No, we got to vote on a state constitution Marriage Act several years ago...
It passed easily...
This movement by the states is wonderful progress that I had never expected, but I am deeply glad to see.
Now *this* is the kind of law that could convince me to move back to my home state of TN!
Ronnie Barrett will see a TON of business from this!
And he’s one patriot who deserves it. After CA instituted its ban of those big, mean .50 cal rifles, he responded by refusing to service or repair any owned by the state of California.
Here’s to seeing every Tennessee resident a rifleman!
Great job, all of you in Tennessee.
Excellent, praying that Pennsylvania will do the same.
It is a bit encouraging from all the bloody bad news.
Hey!!! ...........I liiiiiike it. In other words it’s telling the AG, the POTUS, and the other POS anti gun nutso’s, to just FO !! Bwhahahahahha
Why would the state of CA own a BMG?
Why did you leave? I’m actually contemplating relocating there in a few years and would like to know the cons as well as the pros to living there...thinking about the area around Alvin York’s home...
But..but...what will the chosen one say??
I just hope they have enough sense not to dare risking an open armed rebellion at the level of the nation at large. A bloody armed rebellion by 1/3 of the American colonists was required to win our liberties, and the newly liberated American citizens knew that a constitutional guarantee of the RKBA was necessary in order to protect all of our other rights. And if the political climate of the nation continues to go the way Obama wants it to go, it may eventually take another armed rebellion in order to keep those hard-won liberties from being denied to us by the rapidly growing mob of un-American collectivists on the far left.
AFAIK, with the possible exception of Switzerland, America is the last nation on earth where the people still have the freedom to exercise the God-given, unalienable, human right to keep and bear arms for personal and national defense. The colonists thought it better to die in the fight to achieve the liberty for posterity to exercise their God-given rights than to continue living as virtual slaves to a tyrannical royal government. And if another rebellion becomes necessary, this time against a tyrannical, Godless, un-American, oppressive, Marxist government, in order to preserve those rights for present and future generations of Americans, it will be the duty of every patriotic American man to redeem with our blood the liberties that our forefathers fought and died to win and leave to us.
I know that many people will say that talk is cheap but blood is dear, and I agree. But I also have to believe that there are still many Americans who would be willing to sacrifice their blood in order to preserve the liberties of their children if it ever comes down to that bitter choice, and it just may if Obama is a foretaste of what lies ahead. Thousands of years of human history is to a large extent an account of the common people's never ending struggle with tyrannical despots wielding illicitly acquired power over their lives, and there is no reason to believe that the success of the American colonists approximately 2-1/4 centuries ago settled that struggle for all time to come.
Glenn Beck has been talking about this!!...
BIG BTTT
Fortunately for them, the King didn't have tanks, F-15's, Helos, and Puff the magic dragon.
One must recall that Sherman was an American, and so were the people he slaughtered in his march to the sea.
The king doesn’t have those tanks, F-15’s, Helos and Puff the Magic Dragon. We do.
And Sherman did a great job in his March to the Sea. The column of newly freed ex-slaves walking behind his army stretched for miles.
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