Many people think that the State of Tennessee is one of those states that protects the rights of gun owners under the Second Amendment – but it has a history of way over 2 centuries of intentionally infringing that right.
In fact, in 2024, an effort was made to amend the Tennessee Constitution to make it reflect the scope of the Second Amendment’s protections. That effort would require that the people of the state be allowed to vote on the constitutional amendment in 2026. The bill (SJR904) passed in the state senate but the companion bill (HJR38), although it had 58 sponsors and only needed 50 votes in favor, was killed in the Tennessee House in a finance committee (which was appointed by Speaker Cameron Sexton). Why? Why would the Tennessee Legislature – the House specifically, and the House leadership in particular, want to deny the citizens of Tennessee the full scope of rights protected by the Second Amendment. The choice of Republican House leadership to kill this effort to amend the constitution denies the people of Tennessee the right to vote on this issue until at least 2030.
Listen as Richard Archie discusses this in more detail.
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