If Gov. Bill Lee and the National Rifle Association have their way, Tennessee will become a state that might as well make its new label something like, “Tennessee – where we let you shoot first, and we’ll ask questions later.”
We’re not joking.
Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday announced he will push legislation to allow most adult Tennesseans to carry handguns without having to undergo training or criminal background checks.
You read that right. Get your gun and carry it – in the open or concealed – with no permit, no training and no background check.
And, by the way, if you bought your gun (or buy this weekend, all quite legally, thanks to a “loophole”) at a gun show or from a friend, you didn’t (or won’t) have to get a background check or training, either. So the argument that “legal” gun-owners are already checked and trained (or will be) is bogus.