TFA’s Executive Director discusses the Supreme Court cases that render part of Tennessee’s constitution, many of its gun laws and a significant number of proposed laws unconstitutional under the 2nd and 14th Amendments.
On February 21, 2024, TFA Executive Director, John Harris, who is primarily a practicing attorney, was the guest on Heartland Liberty with host Dan Meredith. They spent most of the one hour show talking about both Tennessee and United States Supreme Court decisions starting as early as the first half of the 1800s that discuss the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.
These Supreme Court decisions led to the 2022 decision by the United States Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, No. 20-843 which has been the foundation for TFA’s “Bruen Basis” campaign.
If you are not familiar with these decisions or their impact, take the time to learn about them. You can start with the Heartland Liberty February 21, 2024 show. The need to protect your rights from the Tennessee state and local governments requires that you understand WHY some of these Legislators and the Tennessee governors have violated their oaths and trampled your rights.
Contact your Tennessee State Legislators to demand that they sponsor the proposed Constitutional Amendment to restore your Second Amendment Rights.
In Part 2 of this video series, C. Richard Archie, TFA’s West Tennessee Board Member, discusses how the language of Tennessee Constitution violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.
Some Legislators have proposed and are supporting a Constitutional amendment that would repeal the existing unconstitutional provision and substitute the phrase “That the citizens of this State have a right to keep, bear, and wear arms.” (See Amendment 1 to HJR0038 by Rep. Jay Reedy and SJR0904 by Sen. John Stevens)
The amendment would, at the state level, reinforce that state legislators, local governments and others government decision makers are constitutionally prohibited from engaging in any “interest balancing” that the Supreme Court has said the Second Amendment prohibits.
TFA has an easy to use email advocacy call to action tool that allows you to email your House and Senate members, the Lt. Governor, the Speaker of the House and Tennessee Governor with your request that they support amending Tennessee’s constitution.
John Harris | Executive Director Tennessee Firearms Association
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