On Tuesday March 29th, a number of both good and bad bills will be up in the House Civil Justice Subcommittee. Because the legislative session is drawing to a close, here are many bills on the agenda. The committee will meet twice – at 9am and at 1:30pm in room 31 at the Legislative Plaza. Please consider coming, but if
Read moreOn Wednesday March 8th, four bills will be heard in the House Civil Justice Subcommittee. In addition to the fact the bills are unnecessary and dangerous, they are also expensive. Two of the bills carry fiscal notes reflecting potential loss of millions of dollars in federal funding. If HB508 and HB884 were to pass, the state would stand to lose
Read more2017 is shaping up to be a long legislative session. A large number of gun bills have been filed this session, many seeking to expand our already lax gun laws. We will be busy tracking these bills, the good and the bad, and invite anyone with legal or legislative experience and in interest in firearm law policy to reach out
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As policy director for The Safe Tennessee Project, I was asked by a public policy class at Vandy to participate in a discussion on gun policy. – In the interest of providing citations for my responses, below are a series of topics from the discussion and my responses (with hyperlinks) as well as additional information that may be helpful to the students.
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The Safe Tennessee Project organized a 26 minute sit in outside Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s Franklin office Wednesday afternoon as part of nationwide “day of action” to draw attention to the inaction of congress to pass common sense gun law legislation supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans, and Tennesseans. Organizations across the country held similar events, urged on by the members of congress who led
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