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Charges dismissed for gun rights advocate
Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | 8-28-2014 | travis loller

Posted on 08/28/2014 6:39:19 PM PDT by kwikrnu

"A Nashville judge has dismissed charges against a man who walked around downtown last year wearing a bullet-proof vest and carrying an assault rifle with a silencer."

(Excerpt) Read more at knoxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: banglist; embody; leonard; rifle; silencer
Order to dismiss

http://www.kwikrnu.com/documents/silencer%20charge%20dismissed%208-26-14.pdf

The judge ordered the cops to return my silencer and rifle. I will pick them up on 8-29-14 at 10am. Expect me downtown after I pick them up.

video 1 of original detention

http://youtu.be/WRVgFQ4P1Sw?list=UUF8kc01qnMIlyVBmS_8v7zA

video 2 of second detention and arrest

http://youtu.be/QScD986-UZE?list=UUF8kc01qnMIlyVBmS_8v7zA

1 posted on 08/28/2014 6:39:19 PM PDT by kwikrnu
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To: kwikrnu

There needs to be compensation for these clear abuses of authority.


2 posted on 08/28/2014 6:43:36 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: kwikrnu

Yes, we can carry in the open. Not so sure about walking downtown with a black suppressed rifle; it can only have the effect of creating a problem.


3 posted on 08/28/2014 6:59:19 PM PDT by lurk
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To: lurk

The rifle was unloaded, with no magazine, inside of a sealed locked hard case. I was handing out second amendment leaflets shown in the video. If the First and second Amendment protect anything they protect what I did.


4 posted on 08/28/2014 7:12:15 PM PDT by kwikrnu
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To: kwikrnu

Excellent. You were lucky to find a judge who could actually read.


5 posted on 08/28/2014 10:40:07 PM PDT by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: zeugma

He could read, but added a bunch of his own extraneous opinion. I walked around downtown Nashville a couple of hours today w/o issue. I carried the cased rifle and silencer. I wore a bullet proof vest and handed out leaflets.


6 posted on 08/29/2014 11:31:22 PM PDT by kwikrnu
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