You will laugh at the lying politicians and be pissed at the same time.

I’m old enough to remember the events. I remember the Feds telling us that there were no federal snipers pointing guns at the defenders. It was just such a shock to see gun sight camera images of those snipers. I mean, they were clear, and I didn’t know that it was possible with the tech of that time.

There was the follow-on standoff. I did watch the state’s video of the ambush and the death of the one protester.

I was asked to write about that saga. To look into the court cases.

It is unlikely to happen. It falls into the same category of research as Ruby Ridge cases, and the Branch Dividians. Interesting, but a boat load of research that I do not have the resources at the current time.

If somebody wants to send me courts and case numbers, I’ll look into it. My research last night didn’t pop anything except anger at the Wikipedia page.

Next, we have:

HB 7011 by Parkinson (D): Criminal Offenses – As introduced, makes a person who illegally transfers a firearm to a minor criminally responsible for any resulting act of mass violence or a threat of mass violence in which the minor threatens to use the firearm. – Amends TCA Title 39. (TEXT)
Not liking this one. There is no Men Rea attached to it and assumes the person will understand when a “transfer” is illegal. Also, never knowing how legislators will act in the future, the definition of legal transfer can be changed and a kid talking shit in the interwebs suddenly has an adult over the barrel.

HB 7012 by Lamberth (R): Firearms and Ammunition – As introduced, directs the department of safety to provide free firearm locks to Tennessee residents upon request; requires department-approved handgun safety courses to contain instruction on the safe storage of firearms; exempts the retail sale of firearm safes and firearm safety devices from sales and use taxes beginning November 1, 2023; defines firearm safes and firearm safety devices. – Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3. (TEXT)
We have Project ChildSafe as law of the land and I would not mind the NSSF getting involved deeply in it as they have been doing this for years now. And again, I support instruction on safe gun storage because I believe it is more effective than a stupid law mandating it. And the total elimination of sales tax is always welcome and only wish it applied to anything guns.

HB 7015 by Lambert (R): Criminal Procedure – As introduced, expands, from certain violent offenses to any felony offense, the offenses for which a person who has been arrested is required to have a biological specimen taken for the purpose of DNA analysis to determine identification characteristics specific to the person if probable cause exists for the arrest. – Amends TCA Section 40-35-321. (TEXT)
A big fat NO on this one. Any shitty cop can arrest you for any felony they can come up with and even it you are found innocent or case dropped, you are still forever in a DNA database as if you were some serial rapist. 

More tomorrow.

And it gets even more embarrassing.

This was the screen cap from a previous post:

Do you see the buses on the right? Brady kindly provides and explanation.

23 rented buses which is a greater number of volunteers clowning around on the ground, (about a dozen.)

How long did they spend with this poor show? About an hour? During that time, an average of 1,500 firearms were bought by Law-Abiding citizens with the correspondent loads of ammunition.

Yet they believe they are turning things in their favor.

They still do not know they lost.

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.