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.
On an October Monday in 2024, 34-year-old Alyssa Lokits was using a greenway in Antioch, Tennessee when she was shot and killed. One witness reports that he heard a woman crying out for help as he told his story to a new station he stated that “she said, ‘Help, I’m being raped, I’m being raped,’…
Since Helene devastated parts of Tennessee and the southeast, individuals, families and businesses have had to deal with robbers, thieves and looters. These storm victims need and want to know what level of force they can use to protect not only their lives but their homes, lands, businesses, inventory, and personal property. Many think that…
Does Tennessee have a “castle doctrine”? Yes, to some extent, and no in other contexts. The travesty of Hurricane Helene and the massive and widespread destruction that it caused has again raised the question of when can an individual to use deadly force to protect their home and property in Tennessee? Specifically, can you used…
Erich Pratt, Sr. Vice President at Gun Owners of America, speaks with the attendees at the Tennessee Firearms Association Legislative Action Committee ( www.tfalac.org ) 2024 Annual Event. Erich has spoken at these events in 2022, 2023, and 2024. His participation and that of GOA as a supporter of the annual events echos the working…
Congressman John Rose addressed the Tennessee Firearms Association Legislative Action Committee (www.tfalac.org) 2024 Annual event as a guest speaker and also one of the sponsors of the event. This is his presentation to the audience.
On June 14, 2024, the United States Supreme Court in its decision in Cargill v. Merrick Garland, et al, 22-976 struck down the ATF’s bump stock rule in a 6-3 decision written by Justice Thomas. Tennessee Firearms Association and the Tennessee Firearms Foundation joined Gun Owners of American and Gun Owners Foundation by submitting an…
On June 13, 2024, Federal District Judge Reed O’Connor, of the Northern District of Texas, held that the ATF’s “pistol brace” rule is void. Although it did not address the constitutional challenges to the ATF’s actions, the Court found that it did not need to reach the constitutional issues since the ATF’s conduct violated “[Administrative…
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.
