Category: Legislative Updates

Tennessee does NOT have REAL Constitutional Carry and Tennesseans need to once again demand it of the Legislature in 2024. There are many constitutional problems with respect to how Tennessee’s existing and even proposed laws fail to comply the the Second Amendment’s “shall not be infringed” mandate. Indeed, too many of Tennessee’s existing and proposed…

As of August 18, 2023, a review of the circumstances regarding Bill Lee’s proclamation for a special legislative session and some of the response of legislators to that proclamation forms a basis for conservatives to be concerned about the potential for misdirection and lack of openness in the process to materially change public policy in…

On April 11, 2023, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee made public statements calling for expanded “new” orders of protection and also calling for the passage of Red Flag laws in Tennessee. His comments are clear evidence that he either has not read the United States Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v.…

Bill Lee is just months into his second term as Governor for the state of Tennessee. Last fall, in an essentially unchallenged campaign for a second term as governor, he ran a television ad in which he talked about what he has done the last 4 years “like we said we would.” That advertisement raised…

Just this morning, TFA discussed a letter from Rep. Biggs dated June 29, 2022, to ATF asking some questions about reports of ATF abuses and whether internal ATF “policies” existed that essentially encouraged federal firearms license revocations for any possible violation that could be shown. We encouraged Tennessee’s Second Amendment supporters to call their Congress…

Tennessee Firearms Association’s Legislative Session Review for 2021 The Tennessee Legislature was able to work through a full session in 2021 without too many of the problems being attributed to Covid-19.  The year had significant hopes as at least three bills were pending which addressed either permitless carry or something much more desirable and closer…