Author Archives: JohnHarris

The Goal is To Win – Grassroots Workshop

Tennessee Firearms Association and Tennessee Firearms Foundation are hosting a grassroots workshop by Brett Rogers on how to mobilize conservatives, get them to vote and how to win elections.

The event will be:
– June 28, 2025 from 1:00pm to 5:00pm
– Buttrey Wedding and Event Venue
– 14651 Highway 424, Yuma, Tennessee 38390

Ticket price is $10 per person

C. Richard Archie, TFA’s West Tennessee Director, is serving as host and point of contact (archiecolely474@gmail.com)

2025 Legislative Review

The Tennessee Legislature failed once again on the obligation to remove infringements of the rights protected by the Second Amendment’s “shall not be infringed” mandate. Although the Republican majority has campaigned as being strong on Second Amendment issues (and some are) the leadership of the respective Republican caucuses proves once again that their political priorities…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Bill Status Report as of April 4, 2025 and Calendar for the week of April 7, 2025

The Tennessee Legislature is rushing at an unusual pace to conclude its work for 2025. Reports indicate that this has nothing to do with the successful management of the “People’s Business.” Rather, it appears several Tennessee legislators may be under subpoena to testify in the criminal trial against their formed leader Glen Casada which is…