The Tennessee Legislature is rushing at an unusual pace to conclude its work for 2025. Reports indicate that this has nothing to do with the successful management of the “People’s Business.” Rather, it appears several Tennessee legislators may be under subpoena to testify in the criminal trial against their formed leader Glen Casada which is…
Is Tennessee’s “Intent to go armed” law a model for other governments to consider?
Tennessee has a provision in its statutes that makes it a crime to carry a firearm (or a club) anywhere at any time with the “intent to go armed”. Tenn. Code Ann. 39-17-1307(a)(1). Doing so is a criminal act. Indeed, its a crime if you do so on your own private property or even in…
Advice: “If you don’t like the heat, get out of the kitchen…”
The title of this post references a statement by then Senator Harry S. Truman as quoted in the Idaho newspaper The Soda Springs Sun, from July of 1942. It has gained a place in the sayings of our nation as being direct, and somewhat “snarky”. I do not remember him being “woodshedded” by the “administration”…
Bill Status Report as of March 28, 2025 and Calendar for the week of March 31, 2025
On March 26, 2025, Tennessee Firearms Association and Gun Owners of America hosted a joint lobby day at the Tennessee Legislature. We had a great turnout for the event. One thing that was unusually, is that several of the House committees had coincidentally scheduled many of the bills that we were tracking this year for…
The Biggest Lie in Tennessee may be the Legislative Oath of Office.
Well, one of many but clearly one of the biggest. The Oath of a legislator in Tennessee has survived intact in our state constitution, though seemingly less important than it should be, since the Founding in 1796. Originally constructed to read in the Tennessee Constitution, Article 9 § 2: It has fallen one spot in…
Tennessee Bill Status Report March 21, 2025 and Calendar for Week of March 24, 2025
The Tennessee Legislature continues to demonstrate that is does not plan to enact REAL Constitutional Carry in 2025 or to make other changes to repeal existing laws that violate the Second Amendment. The Legislative Leadership – Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, House Speaker Cameron Sexton, Senator Jack Johnson and Representative William Lamberth – have given no…
Tennessee Bill Status Report – March 14, 2025, and Calendar for Week of March 17, 2025
The Tennessee Legislature appears posed to stonewall or block substantially all pro-Second Amendment bills that have been filed in 2025. Of course, this is not surprising when you have legislators like Speaker Cameron Sexton, Rep. Andrew Farmer and Sen. Jack Johnson latching onto ideas contained in Democrat bills and amending those ideas into their own…
TFA joins Supreme Court amicus brief in support of challenge to campus carry regulations
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.…
TFA joins amicus brief in Supreme Court in support of Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act
On February 26, 2025, Tennessee Firearms Association and Tennessee Firearms Foundation joined Gun Owners of America and 13 other organizations to submit an amicus brief in support of the State of Missouri’s application for permission to appeal to the United States Supreme Court. On February 26, 2025, Tennessee Firearms Association and Tennessee Firearms Foundation joined…
Tennessee Bill Status Report – March 7, 2025, and Calendar for Week of March 10, 2025
The Tennessee Legislature is moving forward with bills that are being monitored by TFA. However, almost none of the pro-2nd Amendment bills are being taken up in either house. As previously, Rep. Lowell Russell recently moved all firearms bills that are in the House Civil Justice Subcommittee to March 26, 2025. On March 4, 2025,…