TN Gun laws in the works
The TFA has a list of gun laws that have been introduced in Tennessee. Some that leap out at me:
CRIMINAL LAW: Sale and purchase of firearms. Removes provision requiring licensed gun dealer to conduct a background check on person purchasing a firearm through TBI. Requires gun dealers to conform to applicable federal law before a firearm is delivered to a purchaser.
CRIMINAL LAW: Firearm storage and transport in private vehicles. Allows lawful persons to transport and store a firearm in a locked vehicle on any property set aside for vehicles.
GOVERNMENT REGULATION: Sales and possession of firearms during state emergency. Prohibits the governor, during a state of emergency, from commandeering firearms or suspending sale of ammunition. Prohibits the state, public officials and any municipal government from imposing additional restrictions on firearms and ammunition during state of emergency or disaster.
CRIMINAL LAW: Stun guns for military or officers only. Includes stun guns and electric shock devices to the list of weapons prohibited for most persons other than military personnel and law enforcement officers.
ENVIRONMENT & NATURE: Firearms permitted in state refuge or public hunting area. Allows persons with a concealed carry permit to possess a firearm while traversing any state refuge, public hunting area or wildlife management area.
ENVIRONMENT & NATURE: Hunting ammunition restrictions. Removes existing restrictions to allow a person to hunt deer, bear, wild elk or wild boar with a shotgun loaded with more than one solid ball, a rifle using rim-fire cartridges, or with a rifle loaded with center-fire ammunition of less than 0.24 caliber.
CRIMINAL LAW: Domestic assault perpetrators to pay victim’s permit fees. Requires perpetrators of domestic assault, stalking, or a violation of protective order cases, if convicted, to pay for handgun safety course or handgun carry permit for victim of offense.
CRIMINAL LAW: Handgun carry permits. Removes the requirement that an applicant not be subject to any order of protection or provide a copy of a protection order in order to be eligible for a handgun permit.
March 3rd, 2006 at 1:30 pm
The hunt deer with an AR bill appears to also make it legal to hunt bears with a .22LR. Doesn’t make it a good idea, though.
March 3rd, 2006 at 2:51 pm
>I think such incidents should be reviewed on a case by case basis because a lot of
>orders of protection are crap
You’ll just end up with the same problem you get in ‘may issue’ permit states. Anti-gun LEO’s will just make a ‘case by case’ decision to deny the permit whenever they can.
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:01 pm
I think the second one probably makes it so that your CHL counts as a background check (which complies with Federal Law, becuase that is what TX does.) If the law currently in TN is that you have to have a background check every time if you don’t have an FFL, this will take care of that. Hell, a major selling point is that in TX, you can walk in with a DL and CHL, fill out your form, and walk out.
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:05 pm
Phelps, that’s what I thought about it at first but didn’t understand the last sentence.
March 3rd, 2006 at 5:17 pm
I love the “…to pay for handgun safety course or handgun carry permit for victim of offense.”
I think on the last one, it is a clause to allow a person who has a domestic assualt _against_ them to still get a permit if they have been given a protection order _for_ them. For example a stalker can’t make a claim against a potential victim in order to prevent said victim from getting a ccw. meh thinks….
March 3rd, 2006 at 6:08 pm
Uncle,
Some states, like Colorado require the background check for purchase to go through the state as well as the feds. So if I buy a firearm in Colorado not only does the FBI go through my files but the CBI does as well. It’s a redundant check that really does not appreciable good (not that I think background checks really do any good at all).
So what I think the provision in question does it remove a similar situation in Tennessee. In other words I think – judging by the language – that the TBI does a separate background check now & if this provision becomes law they’d stop the redundant check & just let the feds’ background check be sufficient.
March 3rd, 2006 at 9:59 pm
ENVIRONMENT & NATURE: Hunting ammunition restrictions. Removes existing restrictions to allow a person to hunt deer, bear, wild elk or wild boar with a shotgun loaded with more than one solid ball, a rifle using rim-fire cartridges, or with a rifle loaded with center-fire ammunition of less than 0.24 caliber.Maybe deer with a .223, but otherwise hunting deer, bear and elk with rimfire or .223 centerfire is a bad idea.
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:00 pm
hmmm, seems blockquotes don’t work in comments :p
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:41 pm
Publicola’s partially correct. According to my friendly FFL the only number he called to do a transfer was the TBI’s. This will shut down TBI’s system and transfer the checks to the NICS.
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:49 pm
[…] Say Uncle has a post on possible new firearm laws in Tennessee. There was some question about this one: CRIMINAL LAW: Sale and purchase of firearms. Removes provision requiring licensed gun dealer to conduct a background check on person purchasing a firearm through TBI. Requires gun dealers to conform to applicable federal law before a firearm is delivered to a purchaser. […]
March 3rd, 2006 at 11:07 pm
New gun laws
I am more interested in the restaurant carry bill that Neify has successfully stalled. As it is I bet more people that you imagine just break that particular law. I am going to carry when I am out to eat. I do not drink so I am no danger.
March 4th, 2006 at 10:01 am
I didn’t mean that the FFL had to call two numbers. The FFl calls the state. The state calls the feds while running their own background check. Least that’s my understanding of how it works in Colorado & presumably Tenessee & a few other states. Course the easiest solution would be to eliminate the background checks altogether.