Daily Archives: March 15, 2010

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Reaping the Whirlwind

Leonard Embody has received notice that this Tennessee Handgun Carry Permit is being revoked.  If you don’t know this guy’s background, I’ve written on it here.

This was his response to the media:

“I’m a private person,” Embody said. “I didn’t want to be in the spotlight. I didn’t want my name in the news reports.”

…which would be why he has gone to great lengths to bait law-enforcement with his antics, posting the results to every internet forum and blog he could find.  His last stunt was to walk down the streets of Belle Meade in an orange reflective vest, carrying an 1851 Navy in his right hand.

Apparently, this didn’t go as well as he’d hoped.  In response to this incident, the Belle Meade police department made the recommendation to the Tennessee Department of Safety that Mr. Embody’s permit be revoked.  The text of their letter reads, in part,

This request is not made lightly and based on the increasingly unsafe methods of displaying and/or carrying a firearm by Leonard Stanni Embody over the past 24 months.

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