Oddities of TN laws on weapons
Aunt B. penned a piece for the Nashville Leftist Butthurt Crowd on the senate passing constitutional carry bill. Barring some sort of major uprising, the bill is dead since the house vote was moved to the last part of session, which is where bills go to die. She’s kind of dumbstruck that one could, under the proposes bill, carry a gun but not a stick. This is because TN has a rather stupid set of laws when it comes to weapons. TN law basically starts with the provision that carrying of all weapons is illegal but there are exceptions depending on the weapon or permitting or what have you. By default, the pointy stick is banned. And it doesn’t have a lobby getting an exception for it.
April 9th, 2014 at 9:43 pm
Hoping to get a piece of Ritter’s sweet, sweet, kniferights.org action I intend to soon start Bludgeons,slingshots,saps,metal knuckles, and nunchucks.org. 😉
Past time to get all the rest of these idiotic laws preempted and off yhe books.
April 9th, 2014 at 10:44 pm
Why… it’s almost like she read my blog post about exactly that a few days ago.
Matthew: I would be completely up for joining that org.
April 10th, 2014 at 1:50 pm
The “constitutional carry” bill is precisely according to the DECLARED right in Article I, Section 26 of the Tennessee Constitution’s Declaration of Rights. Once upon a time, liberals were especially defensive of all of our enumerated rights. Being one who wants to CONSERVE our enumerated rights, I consider myself to be a classical liberal. And down through history, one of the most basic human rights was that of being able to acquire, keep and CARRY the means to defend onesself. Legislators should be duty-bound according to their oaths of office to support this bill.
April 11th, 2014 at 5:54 pm
The laws against carrying deadly weapons, for example in MD where I once made the mistake of living, led to a proliferation of tire irons, baseball bats, rebar, 2x4s and other odd bits of hardware being kept in the trunk or truck bed for social engagements of the unplanned sort.
The explanation to police for the presence of such deadly weapons was always along the lines of, “I sure am glad I had this scrap wood / sports tool / leftover hardware /automotive component in my car when I was attacked by those youths.”
I would guess the same is true in TN.