razorback2003
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What Kwik has done is misinterpret state statute and also a city ordinance into thinking that, even with a TN handgun carry permit, he must carry his LOADEDhandgun in Belle Meade openly in the hand. That is furthest from the truth. I live in Tennessee and that is total garbage. That is an old state law that is no longer on the books.
Who did Kwik get his interpretation from that the only way to LEGALLY carry a handgun WITH a handgun carry permit in Belle Meade town limits is loaded in the hand in the open?
Is KWIK an attorney licensed in Tennesse?
Did KWIK get legal counsel from an attorney licensed in Tennessee before pulling this stunt?
I'm going to bet that NO is the answer to all three questions. I have lived in a town with such a same funny ordinance in West TN. TN is not like Illinois where you cannot have a handgun in Chicago. You may carry your handgun, with a permit, in Nashville, Chattanooga, Memphis, Brentwood, Franklin, Germantown, etc. Now...where ordinances do come in is parks and municpal type property. Towns do not have to post parks'properly' if they had a town ordinance forbidding firearms on the books before 1986. Those ordinances are legal as long as not modified after 1986....after that they are null and void and state law takes precedence.Brentwood, for example, cannot prohibit carrying ofhandguns, with a permit, in the whole city with some old city ordinance...go ask aTN attorney if you are in doubt.Or you can believe some guy who getshis permit suspended (it takes a lot to get a permit here suspended for being dumb...b/c it is 'shall issue' )fordoing something REAL DUMB in public and puts others in danger...it is your choice.
What Kwik has done is misinterpret state statute and also a city ordinance into thinking that, even with a TN handgun carry permit, he must carry his LOADEDhandgun in Belle Meade openly in the hand. That is furthest from the truth. I live in Tennessee and that is total garbage. That is an old state law that is no longer on the books.
Who did Kwik get his interpretation from that the only way to LEGALLY carry a handgun WITH a handgun carry permit in Belle Meade town limits is loaded in the hand in the open?
Is KWIK an attorney licensed in Tennesse?
Did KWIK get legal counsel from an attorney licensed in Tennessee before pulling this stunt?
I'm going to bet that NO is the answer to all three questions. I have lived in a town with such a same funny ordinance in West TN. TN is not like Illinois where you cannot have a handgun in Chicago. You may carry your handgun, with a permit, in Nashville, Chattanooga, Memphis, Brentwood, Franklin, Germantown, etc. Now...where ordinances do come in is parks and municpal type property. Towns do not have to post parks'properly' if they had a town ordinance forbidding firearms on the books before 1986. Those ordinances are legal as long as not modified after 1986....after that they are null and void and state law takes precedence.Brentwood, for example, cannot prohibit carrying ofhandguns, with a permit, in the whole city with some old city ordinance...go ask aTN attorney if you are in doubt.Or you can believe some guy who getshis permit suspended (it takes a lot to get a permit here suspended for being dumb...b/c it is 'shall issue' )fordoing something REAL DUMB in public and puts others in danger...it is your choice.