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Republican bill to let TN permit holders effectively carry all kinds guns advances in legislature despite law enforcement concerns

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The bill, HB 1189, would change the state's "concealed handgun carry permits" to effectively allow gun owners to carry any firearm they own.

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Republican bill to let TN permit holders effectively carry all kinds guns advances in legislature despite law enforcement concerns

The bill, HB 1189, would change the state's "concealed handgun carry permits" to effectively allow gun owners to carry any firearm they own.

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Bill would ban credit card coding of gun and ammunition sales in SC • SC Daily Gazette

Guns are shown at Caso’s Gun-A-Rama in Jersey City, New Jersey, which has been open since 1967. (Photo by Aristide Economopoulos/New Jersey Monitor)COLUMBIA— Legislation advancing in the state House would ban credit card companies from tracking sales of guns or ammunition and ensure no government agency in South Carolina keeps a registry of gun owners. Similar legislation has already been signed into law in other Republican-led states. The bill,…

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Plymouth Police Chief Wants Exception To Rule Of No Guns In Town Hall

In Plymouth, right now, if a person wanted to carry a gun, loaded or unloaded into a municipal building such as Town Hall, according to state law, passed last year, it could not legally be done. The legislative ruling expanded prohibited areas to carry firearms to include municipal buildings. But Police Chief Dana Flynn wants […]

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Giving guns to certain mental health patients could become a crime in Tennessee • Tennessee Lookout

Rep. Shaundelle Brooks, a Hermitage Democrat, cries after her firearm bill advances from the Tennessee House Criminal Justice Subcommittee on March 26, 2025. The bill is named for her son Akilah Dasilva, who was killed in 2018 in a shooting at a Nashville Waffle House. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout © 2025)A crowd of supporters and a few lawmakers erupted in applause and cheers Wednesday as the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee advan…

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TN May Bar Giving Guns To People After Mental Health Treatment

A Tennessee legislative committee advanced Rep. Shaundelle Brooks’ bill that would criminalize knowingly giving firearms to someone who recently received inpatient mental health treatment. Brooks named the bill Akilah's Law in honor of her son Akilah Dasilva, who was one of four killed in a mass shooting at a Nashville Waffle House in 2018. Brooks has been lobbying for tighter gun restrictions ever since, and won her seat last November on a pla…

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Giving guns to certain mental health patients could become a crime in Tennessee

A crowd of supporters and a few lawmakers erupted in applause and cheers Wednesday as the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee advanced Hermitage Rep. Shaundelle Brooks’ bill that would criminalize knowingly giving firearms to someone who recently received inpatient mental health…

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