Gun carry may still be legal in Tennessee restaurants serving alcohol

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examiner.com — So “what is the law” now on gun carry in alcohol serving restaurants in Tennessee? Tennessee Attorney General Robert E. Cooper Jr.’s Office declined the Examiner.com’s repeated requests to say whether the Chancery Court’s ruling makes it (1) illegal to carry guns in alcohol serving restaurants, or rather, (2) just more difficult to prosecute a person who carries in a restaurant that does not serve enough meals in a given week to qualify for the exception in TCA § 39-17-1305(c)(30(B).

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Interesting. What they also left out was that the purpose of the law is to protect citizens, period. If the law is vague, it would only be in so much in prosecuting people, not in protecting them. It is not the job of citizens to interpret the law or rulings of judges also -- for someone to be arrested for carrying in a restaurant, because the law isn't clear, as said by the attorney, would be ridiculous.

Additionally, for DPS to say that another law, removed, now comes in effect is even more ridiculous. That law is no longer on the books, it doesn't magically come back on the books because another law suddenly is ruled unconstitutional by a COUNTY judge. In principle a judge can prohibit the enforcement of an unconstitutional law, but can not create a situation where citizens have to question their protection under the law.

If anyone was arrested under this law, they would have an extremely smart affirmative defense that there is a law, on the books right now.

What is sad is that they are going to expect police to enforce this law now, and get them in trouble.

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examiner.com — So “what is the law” now on gun carry in alcohol serving restaurants in Tennessee? Tennessee Attorney General Robert E. Cooper Jr.’s Office declined the Examiner.com’s repeated requests to say whether the Chancery Court’s ruling makes it (1) illegal to carry guns in alcohol serving restaurants, or rather, (2) just more difficult to prosecute a person who carries in a restaurant that

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So what a person would have to do is carry in a resturant, then have some nosey

busybody with nothing better to do call a cop and whine and complain, then have to

go through getting arrested then get a lawyer and spend umpteens amount of

money and time to see how it all would work out.

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marine77 wrote:

So what a person would have to do is carry in a resturant, then have some nosey

busybody with nothing better to do call a cop and whine and complain, then have to

go through getting arrested then get a lawyer and spend umpteens amount of

money and time to see how it all would work out.

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Sounds like California! :celebrate