On March 10, 2025, Tennessee Firearms Association and Tennessee Firearms Foundation joined Gun Owners of America and 8 other organizations to submit an amicus brief in support of the a challenge that has been submitted to the United States Supreme Court in a case challenging a campus carry regulation that has been enacted in Michigan. The case raises the issue of whether campus carry restrictions, as applied under the Michigan restriction, violate the Second Amendment.
The lower courts appear to have ignored the Supreme Court’s finding in its June 2022 decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, No. 20-843 that the government bears the heavy burden for any existing law or proposed legislation to demonstrate that the law is consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of regulations that existed in 1791. In essence, that inquiry requires a determination of whether the majority of the 13 states that existed in 1791 had a law similar to the one that is under consideration. The question that this case presents is whether the nation’s tradition in 1791 was for it to be a crime for a lawful gun possessor to carry a firearm on a college or university campus. The lower courts did not clearly address that issue in their opinions.
Litigation efforts like this as necessary when elected government officials in the State of Tennessee, particularly those elected to the office of governor, the Tennessee Legislature and even Congress do not stand firm in defense of the 2nd Amendment’s “shall not be infringed” mandate.
You can help fund this type of litigation by making supplemental member donations to TFA or by making charitable contributions to the Tennessee Firearms Foundation, Inc., (a 501c3 charity) that supports public interest litigation.
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