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Latest updates on firearm legislation in Tennessee. Track bills, votes, and policy changes affecting your Second Amendment rights, with analysis from the Tennessee Firearms Association.
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Hughes’ Court rejects request by Lee and Skrmetti to continue enforcing unconstitutional laws

On September 10, 2025, the three-judge panel that ruled two of Tennessee’s gun control statutes unconstitutional and void likewise completely rejected the request of Governor Bill Lee, Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and the other state Defendants to allow them to continue to ignore the court’s ruling and to thereby continue to enforce these statutes pending…

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September 10, 2025 No Comments

Bill Lee and Jonathan Skrmetti move for a stay of the court ruling to give them an opportunity to reverse it on appeal

On August 22, 2025, a three judge panel completely struck down as unconstitutional two of Tennessee’s more egregious gun control statutes – one which makes it a crime to carry a firearm with the “intent to go armed” and another which banned carrying certain weapons in parks, greenways, campgrounds and other recreational areas. This ruling…

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September 4, 2025 No Comments

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…

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May 26, 2025 No Comments

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…

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April 18, 2025 No Comments
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The Biggest Lie in Tennessee may be the Legislative Oath of Office.

Well, one of many but clearly one of the biggest. The Oath of a legislator in Tennessee has survived intact in our state constitution, though seemingly less important than it should be, since the Founding in 1796. Originally constructed to read in the Tennessee Constitution, Article 9 § 2: It has fallen one spot in…

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March 21, 2025 No Comments

Trump’s “promises made, promises kept” as reflected in Tennessee

On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump became the nation’s 47th President. He campaigned the last four years on the promises that he was making to the American voters. On January 20 the world watched as Trump immediately set about to keep many of those promises. Promises made, promises kept – as evidenced by his actions…

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January 21, 2025 No Comments

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

Thomas Jefferson