James Yeager's gun carry permit suspended by TN

[Tod]

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50429293/ns/local_news-nashville_tn/#.UPCUj_JyGSo

A Middle Tennessee firearms trainer who made an ominous and very public promise in a YouTube video that gained national attention this week, has had his handgun carry permit suspended Friday by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security.
James Yeager, 42, had his permit suspended based on a "material likelihood of risk of harm to the public," the department said in a statement.
Yeager told Channel 4 News he is aware of the suspension, and his attorney will handle his statements going forward.
The department said Yeager has the right to seek a review of the decision.
Man's YouTube video gains national attention
James Yeager is a man with an impressive resume, including time as a small-town police chief and serving in security in Baghdad, but he said he spoke in anger when he made the video.
"I'm telling you, if that happens, it's going to spark a civil war, and I'll be glad to fire the first shot," Yeager said in a video on his YouTube page.
He was reacting to a recent comment from Vice President Joe Biden that the Obama administration may take executive action to pass control measures.
"I'm not going to let anyone take my guns. If it goes one inch further, I'm going to start killing people," he said in the YouTube video.
Yeager pulled the comments from YouTube after receiving backlash, and he said Thursday he didn't mean what he said.
"I was angry when I made the video and probably should have metered my words better. I am not plotting to kill any officials or anything like that," Yeager told Channel 4 News.
Yeager runs Tactical Response, a training center in Camden, TN, that specializes in weapons and tactical skills. The door of the business notes the staff is trained to kill.
The well-armed clientele was already making neighbors at the strip mall nervous, and then they heard the video.
"The guy needs to chill it. You know, you make those threats, and you've said that and now you come around the wrong person, you get hurt like that," said John Eaker, who owns a nearby pawn shop.
"He may get more than he asks if he keeps running that yak on the internet, you know," another neighbor said.
Yeager said he knows he's considered a radical in his views, but he's is not backing off comments that he will defend his right to bear arms in spite of getting death threats by email.
"It will be time to shoot people when the Constitution is set on fire," he said in the YouTube video. "If somebody comes to take my guns, I will shoot them."
According the Tennessee Department of Safety, Yeager is not a certified instructor. When asked about that, he said he allowed his license to expire.
The state also said Tactical Response is not a department-certified school.
Yeager served as police chief of the town of Big Sandy, TN, about a decade ago. The former mayor said Yeager is intelligent and a crack shot, but he thought Yeager's plan to start a SWAT team wasn't what the quiet town of 500 people really needed, so the mayor fired him.
Despite the threatening emails and phone calls, Yeager said he has received far more messages of support.

 

[madengr]

What the government grant'th, they can take'th away.

 

[shane77m]

Watch his business license get suspended next.

 

[Tod]

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50429293/ns/local_news-nashville_tn/#.UPCUj_JyGSo

This is how it works: one at a time the vocal get squashed.

Will he continue to carry concealed without a permit? Why did he get a permit (ask permission) in the first place? Is he a hot head full of talk but no action? And what is with the expired instructor certification? Was that a protest? Is his You Tube channel nothing more than a money-making ploy? He says he is not plotting to kill any officials or anything like that, but his videos do advocate being prepared to (planning to) kill officials (in general, not specifically).

Lives, fortunes, sacred honor....

State playing whack-a-mole....

 

[shane77m]

This is how it works: one at a time the vocal get squashed.

Will he continue to carry concealed without a permit? Why did he get a permit (ask permission) in the first place? Is he a hot head full of talk but no action? And what is with the expired instructor certification? Was that a protest? Is his You Tube channel nothing more than a money-making ploy? He says he is not plotting to kill any officials or anything like that, but his videos do advocate being prepared to (planning to) kill officials (in general, not specifically).

Lives, fortunes, sacred honor....

State playing whack-a-mole....

I wonder if he is a company man and this is all just a smokescreen to further the agenda of gun control. Honestly you can't really trust anyone. We already know that the FBI likes to set people up and turn them into terrorists.

 

[Tod]

I wonder if he is a company man and this is all just a smokescreen to further the agenda of gun control. Honestly you can't really trust anyone. We already know that the FBI likes to set people up and turn them into terrorists.

Good questions. The anti-gunners are having a field day with this on Facebook....

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

I'm pretty sure they just crossed his threshold.

So is this a lesson of "don't say it unless you mean it?"

Or... has TN made it clear where they're at?

 

[shane77m]

"material likelihood of risk of harm to the public,"

If he is serious I don't think it is the "public" that he wants to harm.

 

[Tod]

If he is serious I don't think it is the "public" that he wants to harm.

True.

Will anyone in his area come to his defense if someone comes to arrest him? If he should be arrested, will anyone break him out? Or will he rot, alone?

 

[Matt Collins]

What the government grant'th, they can take'th away.

Precisely.

This man has been convicted of no crime that I know of but yet the government has suspended his permit. Let this be an example as to why one should not first ask permission to keep and bear arms.

Logic follows that if you have to ask permission, then it's a privilege, and not a right. Privileges can be revoked at any time for any reason as this case demonstrates.


http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50429293/ns/local_news-nashville_tn/#.UPCUj_JyGSo

 

[Tod]

This part of the article I find especially interesting:

Yeager served as police chief of the town of Big Sandy, TN, about a decade ago. The former mayor said Yeager is intelligent and a crack shot, but he thought Yeager's plan to start a SWAT team wasn't what the quiet town of 500 people really needed, so the mayor fired him.

Yeah, that's all we need, another SWAT team.

 

[QuickZ06]

WOW!

 

[Tod]

Is anyone here a member of his forums? www.GetOffTheX.com Must be a member to read....

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

This part of the article I find especially interesting:



Yeah, that's all we need, another SWAT team.

Can't get on board with that.

But is it true?

Couldn't he just tell him not to start a swat team instead of firing him?

 

[Tod]

Can't get on board with that.

But is it true?

Couldn't he just tell him not to start a swat team instead of firing him?

Does seem pretty drastic, doesn't it. You have to wonder what all happened there.

 

[TheTexan]

Can't get on board with that.

But is it true?

Couldn't he just tell him not to start a swat team instead of firing him?

Apparently the dude has a colored history. Something about leaving behind a wounded soldier in the middle of combat.

In any case, until more is known about this, I would encourage people to judge the situation, and not the man. Discrediting people like Yeager (whether true or false), is a well established tactic of psy ops...

Do your own research on him, is what I'd say.

 

[torchbearer]

wish he'd move to louisiana.
then he would need no permits and he'd be around people who'd appreciate his talents.

 

[shane77m]

How this turns out should be interesting. Could he be the one that fires the second shot heard around the world?

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

Does seem pretty drastic, doesn't it. You have to wonder what all happened there.

I have to assume "public officials" lie when convenient or paid. Experience. That's also not how they normally deal with their law enforcement buddies.

Can we find any cops anywhere who were fired for suggesting a swat team? I doubt it happens much.

It's clearly sticky-icky shit, and will get worse as time goes on - regardless of this particular thing.

 

[JK/SEA]

i wonder if Piers Morgan will have him on for one of his 'debates'...