Quenston ColemanNASHVILLE — Tenth Senate District Republican primary candidate Todd Gardenhire says he backs the National Rifle Association’s “guns in parking lots” legislation, but two candidates running in the Democratic primary, Quenston Coleman and Andraé McGary, say they oppose it.
Meanwhile, Gardenhire’s Republican opponent in the Aug. 2 GOP primary, Greg Vital, finds himself in the middle on a dispute that has the NRA and businesses at one another’s throats.
And the third Democratic candidate, David Testerman, questions why lawmakers ever placed limits on where handgun-carry permit holders can go armed in the first place.
Gardenhire said the “Safe Commute Act” legislation is clear cut for him.
“I support someone having their own gun in their own car, locked and stored,” he said. “That’s their business.”