Tennessee Gun Permit Data
Data provided by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security.
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Tennessee Background Check Data
In Tennessee, all prospective gun buyers or those redeeming a firearm from pawn from a licensed firearm dealer are required to undergo a background check.
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The Safe Tennessee Project relies on data and statistics from a number of federal and state health, law enforcement, and public safety agencies to inform policy recommendations.
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This information is sourced from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WISQARS database.
Read moreUnintentional Shootings – 2017
Tennessee has a problem with unintentional shootings. Many of these involve children. There is no federal database tracking these incidents and even those that do try to track them by searching news stories and police reports understand that accidental shootings are under reported. Although the term most commonly used to describe these types of shooting is “accidental” we do not
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