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  1. March 22, 2024 Gun Owners Lobby Date 2024 - Sign up now! In the next paragraph, the underlined "Sign up now" is a button to do just that. Last week when I testified in committees, Mom's Demand Action, Covenant Moms and Safter TN filled the room. if that is all legislators see, that is how they will vote... Tennessee Firearms Association and Gun Owners of America are planning a Gun Owners Lobby Day to be held on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at the Tennessee Legislature. Sign up now! We must have accurate estimates of attendance by Tuesday, March 26, 2024 to place orders. We are planning to work that day to insist that our Legislators put a constitutional amendment (HJR0038 / SJR 0904) on the ballot in 2026 for gun owners. We will also be working to pass the handful of good 2nd Amendment bills that are pending and to make clear that we expect Legislators that they need to STOP most of the bills that are pending this year that include Red Flag laws, new crimes targeted at owners, new taxes to be imposed on gun owners and just more and more "big state" proposals to burden all citizens. Several of you have already signed up based on the announcement last week in the Legislative Report, and/or the announcements by TFA on Facebook or Twitter. We need an accurate estimate and time is critical! Also, contact your Tennessee State Legislators to demand that they sponsor the proposed Constitutional Amendment to restore your Second Amendment Rights. Some Legislators have proposed and are supporting a Constitutional amendment that would repeal the existing unconstitutional provision and substitute the phrase “That the citizens of this State have a right to keep, bear, and wear arms.” (See Amendment 1 to HJR0038 by Rep. Jay Reedy and SJR0904 by Sen. John Stevens) The amendment would, at the state level, reinforce that state legislators, local governments and others government decision makers are constitutionally prohibited from engaging in any “interest balancing” that the Supreme Court has said the Second Amendment prohibits. TFA has an easy to use email advocacy call to action tool that allows you to email your House and Senate members, the Lt. Governor, the Speaker of the House and Tennessee Governor with your request that they support amending Tennessee's constitution.
  2. Testimony was finally heard in Senate Judiciary this last Wednesday, the 20th of March. It received 7 favorable votes, along party lines of course. Have to get it out of Finance in the House and then to the floor there. Of note, I had three guys go with me for testimony, Moms Demand Action, Covenant Moms and Safer TN had over 60 in the room...
  3. In truth, it was less heinous than I expected. The treatment they gave Matt Shoaf was actually remarkable in my eye. The interview I gave was over an hour and a half, they used less than a minute. I have to give Van props for at least fact checking me on the Bath School Massacre and putting the newspaper page up to verify the truth of what I said. Had I been able to pick a segment they should have aired, it would have been his question about "Safe Storage". His supposition was that if one is getting gas at Sam's, and a criminal opens the vehicle door while you are at the pump and shoots a baby in it's carriage and a cop in the head, shouldn't the gun owner be liable for the crime? My answer was no, as my vehicle is understood by Tennessee statutory law to be my "castle" and an act of breaking and entering said castle to take my property to commit a crime was antithetical to the rule of law, but offered him a similar scenario. Suppose while pumping gas a thief opens the door of your vehicle and snatches a baby out the car seat and runs over to an overpass on I-40 and tosses the baby over the rail and it smashes the windshield of a semi passing underneath, causing an accident that kills numerous people, should the car owner be charged with those deaths? He did not have an answer and that segment of course did not get televised. Can't be afraid to show up though...
  4. Walked into the lions den and did an interview with Van Jones, it will air next Sunday night at 8:00 Central. Jones is a Jackson, TN native and a graduate of UT Martin. An avowed communist, his crowning accomplishment was his tenure as Obama's "Green Jobs Czar", (from which he had to resign) now a commentator on CNN. The interview on my part lasted over an hour and a half, I doubt there will be 5 minutes used in the program if that, but I gave as good as I got. This is the trailer...
  5. The Senate will hear all Firearms related bills in s "special" calendar next Tuesday March 5th. One will expect the Commie Mommies and the Covenant Moms to be out in full force. SHR 0904 and SB 2615 are on notice. I will be in attendance.
  6. All for it. Been working this bill for years, I think we might get it over the hump this time.
  7. Added another 24 cosponsors today, now over 50 in the House, will post all names tomorrow. That assures passage in the House, now need to bolster support in the Senate!
  8. Call to action on HJR 0038! https://tennesseefirearms.com/make-the-tennessee-constitution-second-amendment-compliant/
  9. Current House cosponsors: Todd, Sparks, Doggett, Slater, Barrett, Capley, Moody, Grills, Fritts, Cepicky, Martin B, Russell, Littleton, Moon, McCalmon, Keisling, Lamberth, Bulso, Boyd, Gant, Davis, Bricken, Richey, Darby, Hill, Garrett. Need to get this to 50+ to force Senate to take action, only have three cosponsors there so far, Bailey, Bowling and Hensley. it has been assigned to Senate Judiciary, need Sen. Dawn White, Sen. Kerry Roberts, Sen Paul Rose, Sen. Jon Lundberg and Sen. Brett Taylor. Any of their constituents need to call and email asking for their support.
  10. Senate Joint Resolution 0904 is now running concurrent. Contact your legislators and get them to cosponsor.
  11. This is the only facially valid issue up for consideration this session. It haws to be passed in both the House and Senate this year and then again next year to be on the ballot in 2026, as a Constitutional Amendment. It is placed on Constitutional Amendment calendar in the House finance committee agenda (no date set yet). John Stevens, the agreed upon Senate sponsor was wanting to wait till it was passed fully in the House before "picking it up" to run through the committee system in the Senate which would have resulted in it be dead this year, mandating we wait till 2030 to get it on the ballot. I engaged a number of his constituents and got them to help me convince him that it was necessary to run the resolution concurrent with the House version, it has been interesting. I contacted the Sec. of State and the Clerks of both chambers to validate the Constitutionality of running it at the same time and was afforded the ruling that it was. We will see what happens. Anyone interested in taking back the rights enumerated in our 1796 Declaration of Rights needs to contact their Senators and insist they sign on as cosponsors and push for this resolution to be put on the ballot in '26.
  12. I have been down with total shoulder replacement (reverse method) since last Monday the 22nd. Kicked the opioids Tuesday night so getting my sea legs back under me. Anyone who did not understand this was an attempted hatchet job is not paying attention, but, needing live, grassroots 2nd Amendment advocates involved to counter a seeming tsunami of "organic" support for "common sense" gun laws should be apparent to everyone reading this thread. If we do not show up, they can point to a lack of desire on the great unwashed to engage and they win!

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