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Monday, July 27, 2009

Law and Order / Woods Egads! Yet Another Impediment to the Free Exercise of Our Second Amendment Rights

Posted by Jeff Woods on Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:46 AM

click to enlarge What will these kids do without citizen gunmen to protect them?
  • What will these kids do without citizen gunmen to protect them?
Bad news for our many brave champions of the Second Amendment. The legislature may have enacted the guns-in-parks law last session, but that still doesn't mean they can stride around with their loaded pistols on playgrounds and ballfields. In a new official opinion, Attorney General Bob Cooper placed a big caveat on the new law: Guns still are banned during times when public schools are using the athletic fields, playgrounds or other recreational facilities. At many parks, that's a lot of the time, as we all know. It turns out there's another state statute that overrules the guns-in-parks law. Says the AG:
"Tenn. Code Ann. 39-17-1309 prohibits possession of firearms on various types of property, athletic fields and recreational facilities that are owned, used or operated by a school. By its plain terms, it prohibits the possession of firearms on athletic fields and recreational facilities, including those that are located in public parks, if such fields or facilities are actually being used by a school."
House GOP leader Glen Casada asked for this opinion. He must be so disappointed.

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Over the weekend there were unfortunately a number of shootings one of which was at an entertainment venue. I'm sure you are diligently researching if any of the gunmen were holders of concealed carry permits.

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Posted by Emmett Flatus on 07/27/2009 at 11:07 AM

"Entertainment venue?" Is this how the gunnies are further classifying establishements that serve booze?
The "entertainment venue" was a karaoke bar near Tellico. One killed, one wounded.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jul/25/one-dead-one-injured-monroe-county-bar-shooting/?partner=RSS

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Posted by Andy Axel on 07/27/2009 at 1:03 PM

Still waiting for results of permit search,
Meanwhile in Nashville over the weekend...
Drive by: http://www.wsmv.com/news/20188822/detail.html
fight club: http://www.wsmv.com/news/20188822/detail.html

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Posted by Emmett Flatus on 07/27/2009 at 1:21 PM

Didn't our Allegedislature fix the law so that it's impossible for the public to access any records of who holds permits?

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Posted by BoydBBiggs on 07/27/2009 at 3:35 PM

AG opinion is not law. The courts will have to figure this out. The new law was passed well after 39-17-1309 was passed so a court might well acccept that where the new law and 39-17-1309 contradict each other, the new law is the supreme law.

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Posted by goingbust on 07/28/2009 at 3:03 PM
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