Tennessee General Assembly Special Session Bill Index (tn.gov)

Sixty-five bills on the House side and about a dozen gun related. Withe the usual IANAL caveat and knowing I am still a virgin on the Volunteer State legislative process, I am going to take a swing at one or more of the bills daily. And no outward Red Flag Bill, but one or two may be considered as letting the camel’s nose under the tent.

And as usual, a direct link to the text of the bill so you can read it for yourself and form an educated opinion.

Let us begin.

HB 7001 by Thompson (D): Firearms and Ammunition – As introduced, specifies that classes that qualify as training for issuance of an enhanced handgun carry permit or concealed handgun carry permit must include training on the use of gun locks. – Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Chapter 445 of the Public Acts of 2023. (TEXT)
Even drafted by a Democrat, I have no issues with instruction on keeping guns safely secured. 

HB 7005 by Bulso (R): Schools, Private – As introduced, clarifies that a private school serving students in any of the grades pre-kindergarten through twelve is authorized to adopt a handgun carry policy for the private school’s property. – Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 50. (TEXT)
Not seeing an issue if a private school decided it is OK for staff and parents to carry a firearm in their property. Baby steps.

HB 7010 by Parkinson (D): Firearms and Ammunition – As introduced, creates the Class D felony of knowingly inducing or coercing a minor under 18 to commit theft of a firearm or a robbery or burglary offense involving theft of a firearm. – Amends TCA Title 39. (TEXT)
How come this is not already a felony? Not only stealing a gun but ANY kind of felony?

Read and give me your thoughts in the comments.

More to come tomorrow.

Since its inception, the California ammunition background check has been riding at about a 10.8% rejection rate.

Of that, more than 50% were in error. We don’t know if the remaining people were actually prohibited, or if they just didn’t bother to go to the trouble of doing the paperwork.

About 7,500 individuals are rejected each month.

The good news is that the CA DoJ reports that doing all that to law-abiding, responsible citizens resulted in 51 investigations. Those 51 investigations resulted in 15 individuals being arrested.

The state seized 152 firearms, 12 “ghost gun parts”, 237 magazines, and 78,742 rounds of ammunition.

That translates to 3 firearms on average per investigation and 1,500 rounds of ammo.

I was in an institutional kitchen where a meal was being prepared. I saw something that made me cringe in revulsion: They were boiling ribs.

I saw them being pulled out, dripping and steaming from the unholy bath and placed upon steel containers to “rest” but not in peace and then buried which should have been the decent treatment, but to wait for the next unholy step.

Next, they were splashed with what I believe it was that vile chemical secretion known as Liquid Smoke and turned over till the already-tortured slabs were covered with it. What followed next was gallons of alleged BBQ sauce, ribs turned over again and the container covered till it was time to serve the desecrated pork remains to the public.

And they even had the gall to call it BBQ ribs.

Quoting from a charging document:

If you bought a gun manufactured by SIG, in New Hampshire, from an FFL in New Hampshire, it is still likely to have been shipped out of state for distribution. That would mean it affected interstate commerce.

The state has gone further and said that even if the firearm was made in your state, that you bought it direct from the manufacturer, in person, that the firearm still affected interstate commerce. Their reasoning is that if that firearm were not purchased, you would have purchased a firearm that did cross state or country lines.

First:

Two groyper cult members challenge Jewish MMA fighters on behalf of Nick Fuentes to defend his honor. It goes as expected pic.twitter.com/v0dwAMjTwU

— Jaden McNeil (@JadenPMcNeil) August 17, 2023

Second:

I’m too out of shape and broken to beat the shit out of white supremacists, as much as I’d like to, so I carry a gun.

At where I work, it’s become tradition to wear Hawaiin shirts on Fridays.

I was looking for something new and came across a Danse Macabre themed Hawaiin shirt that a local artist is trying to get pre orders for to meet the minimum order of 30.

The pattern looks cool:

If you want to order one, go here.

Miguel’s post about harping on health really hit me. I’m struggling.

Two years ago, I was around 330. Today I’m hovering around 292. During the week, I lose weight. On the weekend, I gain it all back. I have to make the conscious decision to not eat bad things on the weekend. It is difficult, but I need to do it.

On the good side of things, my skin doesn’t fit as well as it use to. While my weight isn’t going down, my health is getting better. I do at least 30 minutes of spin, 5 days a week. This has made it much more likely for me to get up and move.

If you can, make a commitment to doing just a bit of exercise, every day. We need you healthy!

Software moves forward. I need to do an update to GFZ’s infrastructure, but haven’t yet.

Meanwhile, the comments are open, please let us know what you are thinking about and what you want to hear about.