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Author: JohnHarris

Sen. Todd Gardenhire’s Campaign Promise – was it kept?

Let’s just cut to the chase…  this might not be directly a “Second Amendment” issue but this situation has a long history of impacting efforts to change Tennessee law and public policy to comply with the Second Amendment.   So, let’s discuss it. Those who identify and run as Republicans in Tennessee need to at a

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DOJ/FBI releases Covenant “Manifesto” to Judicial Watch

April 18, 2025, Judicial Watch announces that as part of a federal Freedom of Information Act request the DOJ/FBI has released a portion of the Covenant Manifesto to Judicial Watch. Judicial Watch announced on its social media account and its website the release of these records which are now available on its website. It is

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Bill Status Report for April 18, 2025 and Calendar for week of April 21, 2025 – Almost over and almost all are “dead on arrival”

From all observable facts, Tennessee Republican controlled Legislature, or perhaps more accurately the Republican Leadership, seems to have a mission to stonewall, defeat or block any Second Amendment proposals once again. Certainly, the Republican Legislative Leadership is bolstered by its friends in Bill “Lame Duck” Lee’s administration given the predictable anti-Second Amendment testimony from Elizabeth

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Second Amendment In Tennessee – May 13, 2025

Tennessee Firearms Association is hosting a Second Amendment in Tennessee free event on May 13, 2025, in Crossville, Tennessee. This will be an opportunity to join us for a discussion about the status of the Second Amendment in Tennessee and to ask questions in an open forum. We are inviting Legislators to join us as

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Senate Judiciary – is it now a “gun free” zone?

Over the last three decades, the Senate Judiciary has been the primary committee in the Senate through which almost all Second Amendment themed bills must pass. Indeed, it has proven particularly under the chairmanship of Todd Gardenhire and previously Senator Brian Kelsey to be the Biblical “valley of the shadow of death” for Second Amendment

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ATF Announces Significant Policy Changes Including Repeal of “Zero Tolerance”

On April 7, 2025, ATF announced significant policy changes that reversed damaging attacks by the Biden Administration on the rights protected by the Second Amendment. ATF’s announcement include the the repeal of its administratively adopted “adverse action policy” which was commonly referred to as its “zero tolerance” policy. ATF also announced the “review of Final

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What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.