In January 2027, the Tennessee Senate will select its Speaker—the official we commonly call the Lieutenant Governor. Tennesseans should pay considerably more attention to that decision than they ordinarily do, because the office combines an unusual concentration of legislative, political, and potentially executive power. Tennessee voters do not elect a Lieutenant Governor in a statewide…
A Texas ruling on August 5, 2026, finds that Congress removed the constitutional foundation for federal registration and approval rules covering suppressors and short-barreled firearms thus striking down the requirement that individuals register the transfers of those firearms with the ATF. But, not in Tennessee. Congress enacted the National Firearms Act, or NFA, in 1934…
Tennessee’s next governor will influence whether constitutional disputes are resolved through legislative leadership or costly litigation. The selection of Tennessee’s next governor will affect more than the public language used to discuss the Second Amendment. It may determine whether unconstitutional firearm laws are examined and corrected through the ordinary political process or if they will…
The Tennessee Firearms Association is carefully watching the August 6 Tennessee primaries. Every Tennessean who cares about the Second Amendment, constitutional government, and honest public service should be watching as well. TFA has worked for more than three decades to restore the Second Amendment to its full force. Some progress has been made, but Tennessee…
Tennessee’s August primary election is Thursday, August 6, 2026. As Election Day approaches, Tennessee Firearms Association is receiving a substantial number of questions about candidate surveys, interviews, campaign contributions, and endorsements. The most common question is straightforward: Who has TFA endorsed? More precisely, the most common theme is who is TFA supporting in the Republican…
Tennessee’s State Executive Committee Elections Matter On August 6, 2026, Tennessee voters will select candidates for governor, Congress, the General Assembly, and other public offices. Republican and Democratic primary voters will also elect the members of their parties’ State Executive Committees. These races may appear near the bottom of the ballot, but they should not…
Tennessee’s August 2026 primary will select the Republican nominee for governor in 2026. As a practical matter, that primary IS the election and the November general election will likely be nothing more than a formality. Tennessee Firearms Association sent its written 27 question survey to all Tennessee candidates for Governor and the Legislature. Of the…
The Tennessee Firearms Association has released the results of its 2026 candidate survey for candidates for the Tennessee Legislature. The survey was provided to candidates as an opportunity to state, in writing, their positions on specific Second Amendment, constitutional-rights, judicial-review, firearms-law, due-process, preemption, and firearms-commerce issues that may come before Tennessee’s next governor and the…
July 4, 2026 marks 250 years since the founding states declared that liberty is not a gift from government, not a privilege granted by rulers, and not a favor to be withdrawn when those in power find it inconvenient. Liberty is an inherent right. It belongs to the people. It must be guarded by the…
On June 25, 2026, the United States Supreme Court issued an important Second Amendment decision in Wolford v. Lopez. That decision may have a major impact on the pending challenge to Tennessee’s “intent to go armed” law and the “parks” gun ban in Hughes v. Lee. Hughes v. Lee is the Tennessee case that was…