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TN: Don't mess with Tennessee's handgun permit system
Submitted by:
Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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Part of the privilege of serving as commissioner was responsibility for overseeing our state’s handgun permit system. We are proud of the permit system Tennessee has developed and maintained. We oppose the part of pending legislation (SB 765/HB 786) that would severely undermine our handgun permit system and ultimately make it meaningless by allowing the permitless carry of handguns in public, both concealed and openly. |
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PHORTO
(3/6/2021)
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"[L]aw enforcement officers will have no basis for stopping and questioning someone even if that person is openly carrying a handgun unless that officer has reasonable suspicion that the individual is involved in criminal conduct."
Have you checked the 4th Amendment recently? The minimum requirement for searching a person is reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity. If an officer initiates a random search merely based upon a hunch, that search is unconstitutional. You reveal a disturbing inclination to ignore the Bill of Rights. Where government can blur the line, it will blur the line.
Your concern is understandable, but you cannot assuage that concern by violating ironclad proscriptions against government overreach. |
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| For, in principle, there is no difference between a law prohibiting the wearing of concealed arms, and a law forbidding the wearing such as are exposed; and if the former be unconstitutional, the latter must be so likewise. But it should not be forgotten, that it is not only a part of the right that is secured by the constitution; it is the right entire and complete, as it existed at the adoption of the constitution; and if any portion of that right be impaired, immaterial how small the part may be, and immaterial the order of time at which it be done, it is equally forbidden by the constitution. [Bliss vs. Commonwealth, 12 Ky. (2 Litt.) 90, at 92, and 93, 13 Am. Dec. 251 (1822) |
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