DC carry ban lifted, almost

Washington, DC's ban on carrying firearms for personal defense has been ruled unconstitutional. See the story HERE.

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Heroic PA doctor uses defensive handgun in gun free zone

In spite of being in a GFZ, the doctor packed heat. Locally, Knoxville and Farragut persist in banning guns in parks, in spite of reported crimes in those areas. More at Examiner HERE.

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Vote Campfield Tennessee Senate District 7

Why vote for Campfield?

With no right to personal defense, nothing else matters.

See video and discussion at Examiner HERE.

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Shiloh's Brew and Chew

Shiloh's Brew and Chew supports the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. See the Fox news Report HERE (after the ad).

Go show a little love. Spend some $$.

Address: 1805 E Lamar Alexander Pkwy, Maryville, TN 37804

Phone:(865) 233-7307

Here is their Web Site.

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Jason Zachary for Congress

I will be voting for Jason Zachary to represent the Second District of Tennessee. Status quo is not working in Washington, D.C. As part of that status quo, the Duncan family has held the Second District seat for half a century, almost 20% of our nation's existence. As he wrote in a letter to my wife some years ago, the only term limit Mr. Duncan agrees with is for the electorate to vote him out. Let's honor that.

With that in mind, I am reproducing, with permission, this from Bill Johns:

Letter to the Editor:

KNS and KNS Editorial Board-

Almost fifty years ago in 1965 when gas cost around .30 cents a gallon and a first class stamp cost a nickel is also when the former Congressman John Duncan, SR. was elected to office for Tennessee’s 2^nd District.  At that time, no one had been to the moon, Silicon Valley was just in its infancy, and the Woodstock  Festival was even years off.  Since then the Duncan legacy has built and maintained their very own and personal “entitlement program” with this seat financed through five decades of US taxpayers, pork programs, and influence. 

Musing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Its like shampooing your hair. . . .

How many times has this scenario played out in my lifetime?

Hamas (or some other Islamist militant group) fires indiscriminately into Israel, shooting not at military targets, but at the general population.

Israel fires back, inevitably hitting and killing noncombatants, because the aforementioned jihadis hide among the general population.

American alphabet television has a tear-fest over the loss of life in Gaza.

Israel apologizes for hitting the noncombatants.

A cease-fire is called.

Hamas doesn't honor the cease-fire.

Israel resumes combat operations.

Some outside government brokers a peace deal.

Rinse, lather, repeat.

How many times? Does anyone know?

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Veterans disarmed while commuting to VA facilities

Did you know that when a vet needs to visit the VA in Knoxville he/she must travel to and from the VA facility unarmed. Doesn't matter if they have a Permit. Doesn't matter that Tennessee law now authorizes permitless vehicle carry. More commentary HERE.

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CDC should stick to their business

The CDC keeps having serious problems with storage of deadly bacteria.

They should concentrate their resources there, rather than their bogus leftist attempt at designating guns as an epidemic problem.

The epidemic is one of recidivist criminals plaguing our society, and our sport fishing criminal justice system.

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Chicago violent crime epidemic

There is an inverse relationship between lawfully owned guns and crime. More guns, less crime. Chicago, on the other hand has a long gun ban history, with a correlating high crime rate. Read my commentary HERE.

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Questions about guns in Target, etc. . .

The recent addressing of firearms policy by Target stores raised some questions over on Facebook. I address those questions HERE.

Target's policy is similar to that of Chipotle, as reported HERE.

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Defend the border

A note to Rick Perry and other southern border state governors.

You have, I believe, the authority to call out the National Guard. It is high time to activate them, and unroll a few hundred miles of concertina wire.

Razor Wire Public Domain Staff Sergeant Nicholas Phelps - US Air Force Public Affairs

We are undergoing a full-scale invasion and the dear leader in Washington is not going to do anything about it.

Step up! Seal your portion of the border! Quit complaining about his inaction!

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Car carry now law in Tennessee

Today, Tennessee joins almost half the States, legalizing vehicle carry of a defensive firearm without a permit. Read more HERE

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Camp4u: And if you do.....

On Corker's tax proposal: Camp4u: And if you do..... 

Taxed enough already, Bob! Do you want us to eat cake, too?

Marie Antionette (Public Domain)

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Don't be a straw man

Comments on this week's Supreme Court ruling on a straw man purchase of a firearm HERE.

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Zenith Zoysia update

If you have bare areas, take a look at these photos, and then check out the tab at the top entitled Tennessee lawn grass. These are photos of Zenith Zoysia taken during the second growing season. Click to see a larger image. Seed were sewn over plug aerated soil May 2013. These pictures were taken June 17, 2014.

Seed sprouted last summer, watered last summer PRN, and only rain water this second summer. No topsoil here.

The longest stolon (runner) is about a foot long.

By the end of year four, with just rain water, this are should have close to complete coverage.

The green clump in the center is a Zoysia plant. As it grows, it will put runners out into the bare area.

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Unwarranted attack on permitless open carry

My rebuttal to a recent letter to the editor of the Knoxville News-Sentinel. If you subscribe to the N-S, you can see the slightly edited version they published HERE.

Photo © Oleg Volk. All rights reserved. Used with permission

The recent letter writer, Ben Brabson, in his opposition to permitless open carry of handguns, begins with an ad hominem attack on Senator Campfield, and ends with a false assertion concerning the conduct of fellow Tennesseans.

He reminisces about his childhood firearms usage and the safety indoctrination he received from his father and uncles. I guess he missed the Bill of Rights indoctrination, which speaks of keeping and bearing arms, not for food gathering or pest control, but for defense against unlawful felonious aggression. I guess he missed the definition of infringed in the Second Amendment, which has the same meaning as abridged in the First. Maybe, too, he missed the definition of the people.

The fact is, the writer shows his callous disregard for the safety and well-being of his lower-income neighbors who can’t afford the poll tax on the individual right to bear arms. He, by extension, becomes a co-conspirator with criminals who prey on the lawfully disarmed. Are the lives of these citizens of such less value?

He asserts that if permitless open carry is passed next year,

there will be a version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral repeated in every county of the state on a daily basis.

He may be surprised, then, to learn that every county of every state bordering Tennessee, except Georgia already has permitless open carry. Can he point to crime statistics that would support his assertion? In Kentucky alone, that would add up to 43,800 gunfights last year.

He insults Tennesseans by insinuating that we are less capable of self-restraint than people in those seven states. Are we, sir, such a bunch of rubes, that we can’t be trusted to exercise a God-given, natural right, unless we first purchase a permission slip from our Master, the State?

Respectfully,
Liston Matthews

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Ultimately, there is no middle ground. Gun prohibitionists keep looking for ways to reduce/eliminate private ownership and use of firearms. They are never content, either, with partial steps. Given their choice, total prohibition is the ultimate goal.

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Oddington book review

Check out the Salon review of M J Mollenhour's latest novel, Oddington.

Get the Kindle edition HERE, dead tree edition HERE.

Be sure and read his other two earlier novels, Arcturus and Amazon Avenger. Both intriguing thrillers.

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Talking confiscation again

In the wake of more shootings in Gun Free Zones, politicians are ramping up the conversation on gun bans. Meaningful gun bans can only mean gun confiscation. I discuss the unknown, possibly very high cost of such efforts at Examiner HERE.

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Photo shots from Training with the USAMU

Photo shots from Training with the USAMU

Setting up

Our turn to work the targets

Getting ready to shoot at 600 yds

Six hundred yards. First shot was X ring. Wish all of them were!

Score sheet - shots 1 & 4 were X's. Overall satisfied with iron sights and geezer eyes. 

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Training with the U. S. Army Marksmanship Unit

Check out the story HERE

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Open Carry controversy

A few yahoos have been Open Carrying of long arms into some restaurants uninvited. Not Good. See my inquiry results from Sonic and Chili's.

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Best Barbecue!!

I have been grilling and smoking meat for many decades, but today I cooked the best ribs ever.

My ribs have usually been somewhat dry by the time they had smoked for several hours. I have recently seen some folks on the tube smoke the ribs for three hours at about 250, then wrap in foil, and put back on the grill for another three hours at 250.

Did that today!

The bones pulled right out, and you can cut the meat with a fork. So tender and juicy.

Less sauce on the face, too.

Give it a try.

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Getting the lead out - Memorial Day 2014

Remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice, and should not have. Read at Examiner HERE.

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Open Carry and the Court of Public Opinion

See my Examiner article HERE.

Vehicle carry legal July 1, 2014 in Tennessee - no permit required

Here is a breakdown of the Vehicle Carry bill as passed by the Tennessee General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Haslam:

Senate Judiciary Committee 1

Amendment No.  1 to SB1774

Kelsey

Signature of Sponsor

AMEND    Senate Bill No. 1774  House Bill No. 1480*

by deleting all language after the enacting clause and by substituting instead the following:

(Deleted sections in red, added sections in blue)

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-17-1307, is amended by deleting

subsection (e) in its entirety

(e)  (1) It is an exception to the application of subsection (a) that a person authorized to carry a handgun pursuant to § 39-17-1351 is transporting a rifle or shotgun in or on a privately-owned motor vehicle and the rifle or shotgun does not have ammunition in the chamber. However, the person does not violate this section by inserting ammunition into the chamber if the ammunition is inserted for purposes of justifiable self-defense pursuant to § 39-11-611 or § 39-11-612.

  (2) It is an exception to the application of subsection (a) that a person who is not authorized to possess a handgun pursuant to § 39-17-1351 is transporting a rifle or shotgun in or on a privately-owned motor vehicle and the rifle or shotgun does not have ammunition in the chamber or cylinder, and no clip or magazine containing ammunition is inserted in the rifle or shotgun or is in close proximity to both the weapon and any person.

and substituting instead the following:

(e)  (1) It is an exception to the application of subsection (a)* that a person is carrying or possessing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle if the person:

(A) Is not prohibited from possessing or receiving a firearm by 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) or purchasing a firearm by § 39-17-1316; and

(B) Is in lawful possession of the motor vehicle.

    (2) As used in this subsection:

(A) “Motor vehicle” has the same meaning as defined in § 55-1-103**.

(B) “Motor vehicle” does not include any motor vehicle that is:

(i) Owned or leased by a governmental or private entity that has adopted a written policy prohibiting firearms or ammunition not required for employment within such a motor vehicle; and

(ii) Provided by such entity to an employee for use during the course of employment.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014, the public welfare requiring it.

  *(a)  (1) A person commits an offense who carries with the intent to go armed a firearm, a knife with a blade length exceeding four inches (4'') [note: 4" limit repealed as of July 1, 2014], or a club.

**55-1-103.  (c) "Motor vehicle" means every vehicle that is self-propelled, excluding motorized bicycles and every vehicle that is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires. "Motor vehicle" means any low speed vehicle, or medium speed vehicle as defined in this section. "Motor vehicle" means any mobile home or house trailer as defined in § 55-1-105.

Note to citizens who decide to take advantage of this new law. Keeping your handgun, proof of insurance, and registration in the same location is not a good idea.

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Time to demote Sargent from the State House

It is time for his constituents to bring Charles Sargent home from the State House. He and the Republican leadership have turned their backs on the people who elected them. See my Examiner column HERE.

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