kwikrnu wrote:
suntzu wrote:
Grapeshot wrote:
A pro-gun Internet community focused on the right to openly carry properly holstered handguns in daily American life.
"A Right Unexercised is a Right Lost"
That's the short version.
Yata hey
Now if the Tenn. members will simply start writing and campaigning to change TN law and the TN. Constitution to provide for the unlicensed carry of firearms--Alaskan style...
Too many people in this state seem enamored by the permit system--they either don't realize or don't care that the permit is merely meant to bring in more money for the state, nothing more or less.
If I could I would move to a free state...I have always wanted to go to Alaska anyway.
Most that havea permit can care less about real freedom. The State has decided that people who cannot afford the $115 plus a class and ammo that cost another $80 or so, should not be able to defend themselves. Those who may be on probation for a class a misdemeanoror who have failed to pay child support, should not be able to defend themselves.
The permits bring in $2 million a year @ 30,000 permitees per year after the $48 for the checks.
As I have said--this state is about the mighty $$$$ that can be gained.
$115 for the application
$50-90 for the permit course
$30-35 for the ammunition depending on what you shoot
$15-30 for the weapon rental if you don't already own one.
They will justify the permit by saying it is about "training"--training? an 8hr course--4 hours in the class where you listen to things the majority of which I learned when I was 6yrs old and my parents chose to teach me how to shoot, the rest of which I learned by reading. Then about 4hrs on the range where you spend it listening to the instructor walking the line telling you how to handle the firearm--which many already knew, and then you shoot from the 5, 10 and 15yd line and have to fire a certain amount of ammunition and make a "minimum score"--and then it is wham, bam, thank you ma'am you pass, take the pretty paper back to the Tn. Dept of Safety and send in your application after being printed--at a cost of $3 and wait about 30-35 days to get your permit in the mail and you're
legal under Tn. law to carry a handgun in this state....
BUT it is all about "training"---ask your state legislator and they will tell you so....what a crock. If it was about "training"--they would mandate that everyone 17-45 in the state of TN. be required to receive basic and advanced weapons and first aide training and be required to qualify once a year with their weapon--meaning they would basically have an IDF type draft where everyone was a citizen soldier. I mean if it is about "training"--the state should
really make it about training.....
This state does not care a bit more whether anyone has any "training" or not--it has always been about the $$$--always has been and unless things change, it always will be. That is why the permit course is the way it is--the only revision is the new change in TN. law where you can have a firearm in an establishment that serves alcohol as long as you are not consuming and the facility is not posted......
The permit is a pretty privilege that the state can give and the state can just as easily take away--and then you're left with a Chicago type situation where only the police and the criminals can carry--while the citizen is left to the wolves. A privilege is not a right.....You would think people would wake up and see that--but no, they are so enamored by the permit system and the state that gave it......they don't even realize what this state is about.