This is worth watching. Pick up the talking points and call your state legislators...
Note that by some irony or perhaps Divine intervention, the House version of the bill if "1796" which is the date that Tennessee became a state! Isn't it fitting that the bill to redeclare the rights of Tennessee as a sovereign state bears the year of the state's birth?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QOXrTsLdC4
SB 1610*
HB 1796
(Full Text) Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act. Enacts the "Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act." Assumes that when a firearm and all of its essential parts are not manufactured in other states and shipped to Tennessee for assembly, that firearm and any others similarly assembled entirely within the state, are not subject to federal authority to regulate firearms under interstate commerce. Narrows the definition for firearm to preclude anything that cannot be carried and used by one person, a firearm that has a bore diameter greater than one and half inches, a firearm that uses ammunition with a projectile that explodes or has a chemical explosive element, or a firearm that discharges two or more projectiles with one activation of the trigger. (S: Beavers; H: Fincher)
House Co-Sponsor: West
Senate Status: Taken off notice in Senate Judiciary 05/06/2009.
House Status: House Judiciary 05/06/2009 recommended. Sent to Calendar & Rules.
THIS IS THE 10th AMENDMENT bill for Tennessee similar to the ones being passed or considered in Montana and 30+ other states. This bill needs to be on notice and moving forward.