Posted on 05/24/2013 9:24:30 AM PDT by kwikrnu
Embody claimed in court the Second Amendment gave him a right to carry firearms.
The Appeals Court disagreed, ruling that the right to bear arms is not unrestricted.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Thanks. What a state...
Make your own. Don’t need to be on fed lists.........
“Undocumented firearms” ^^
As an oddity, I have thought of getting one once in a while.
I don’t have a use for it either.
Ak-47 and AR-15 pistols are actually fairly common.
http://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/5257/910101844/wm_1556905.jpg
Does it need to be loaded to be illegal? If so, do they define “loaded”?
The definition of loaded in Tennessee is
TCA 39-17-1301(18) “Unloaded” means the rifle, shotgun or handgun does not have ammunition in the chamber, cylinder, clip or magazine, and no clip or magazine is in the immediate vicinity of the weapon.
Ouch. I guess if you want to carry an unloaded weapon and still be protected, you’d have to enlist a friend to carry the magazine and not make it obvious you were together. Sure would be nice if those anti-constitutionalists in the “legal” system would understand that as bad as they want to keep guns out of the hands of the People, the People also are willing to risk a run-in with the law vs. a trip to the morgue.
Thanks. Dead Corpse mentioned it too.
I like the look of that AR-15, but the AK-47 is butt ugly to me.
Thanks for the links.
I guess for close in fighting those would be good. I would be satisfied with the larger versions.
The article is so poorly written in several ways that it is hard to tell what is what.
For instance “while walking with a .44-caliber black powder revolver in his hand.” This is different from concealed or open carry, in that the gun is brandished. And it was very intentional on his part, for a rather bizarre reason.
The town of Belle Meade, where he did his stunt, had an antiquated statute on its books, “It is unlawful for any person to carry in any manner whatever, with the intent to go armed, any razor, dirk, knife, blackjack, brass knuckles, pistol, revolver or any other dangerous weapon or instrument... except the army or navy pistol which shall be carried openly in the hand.”
In other words, he was protesting the town’s preemption of state gun law, while carefully using an exception in their law, so that even by their law he would not be breaking the law.
Talk about jumping through hoops. Oddly enough, that exception was added to laws in the South with a racist intent, because almost no black people could *afford* to buy the relatively expensive army or navy pistol, so the law basically meant, “only white people can carry guns, and nobody can carry other weapons.”
His “AK-47 pistol” was actually an Romanian Draco AK pistol, which for some reason he had modified to put on it an orange Airsoft barrel tip.
We keep trying to get this changed every legislative session, but with the Dems in control of both Houses and the Governors mansion, we didn't get very far this year.
Maybe if ammo prices ever come down again...
From that thread over on AR15.com, he explained that he did that because law enforcement had told them that they'd get him on a "scaring the sheep" charge for carrying an AK openly. He felt that if it looked more like an airsoft/toy, that this would be avoided.
He was wrong. Got hassled by a park ranger for that, if my memory serves.
I think after that, he painted the whole thing orange.
To each their own. He may be a nut, but he always appears to act within the law and has never proven to be a danger.
Click here. Yes, it really is an AK47 pistol.
It's just that in normal conversation, a 'pistol' doesn't have or need a forestock, and the holster for that thing would need the hide of a 1/4 cow .. 1/2 cow with the link's 100rd drum option !
Little bulky for the night table too.
Someone upthread was explaining what point arrested guy was trying to make, but that minutia aside, the original piece sounded like the typical 'general motors ak-47 howitzer' dope.
Anyway, nice pic .. lol
I started jonesing for one a couple of years ago but never went through with it. Just too bulky to be a proper handgun and too impractical to be a rifle. Anyway, I am a rifle man myself.
Well, at least you’re trying.
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