Anti-Gun Control Sticker Leads To Citation, Prosecution

By Cam Edwards

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A Tennessee man says he’s going to fight a citation recently issued by a Sumner County sheriff’s deputy over an anti-gun control sticker on his truck. Nicholas Ennis says he’s been driving around for about a year with the sticker displayed, but it wasn’t until recently that he was told the sticker is “obscene”.

“I think my First Amendment rights have been violated because it’s not spelled out like he said on the ticket,” Ennis said. “That we should have the right to express our opinions, and the freedom of speech, and they’re trying to take it away, the constitutional right, they’re trying to take all that away from us, like American ain’t free no more.”

According to the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office, the sticker falls under a Tennessee law prohibiting “obscene obscene or patently offensive bumper stickers, window signs, etc.” The sticker in question, which features two rifles and the letters “u” and “c” above the phrase “gun control”, is a no-no because of the expletive spelled out with the firearms and the letters, or so says the sheriff.

UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, on the other hand, says it’s the citation that’s problematic, and says the …Read the Rest

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