TN governor signs guns-in-trunks bill

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Gov. Bill Haslam has signed a bill letting handgun permit holders carry their guns anywhere in their cars, including to work, provided they keep them locked up in their vehicles.

A spokesman for the governor said Friday that Haslam had signed the “guns-in-trunks” measure, Senate Bill 142, after a lengthy and politically costly debate in the state legislature. Haslam made no statement on the decision.

The measure takes effect July 1.

Business and gun rights groups in Tennessee sparred for four years over legislation meant to bar employers from keeping their workers from storing guns in their cars in company parking lots. The measure failed in the previous legislature, prompting the National Rifle Association to wage a campaign to defeat the state House of Representative’s third-ranking Republican, state Rep. Debra Maggart of Hendersonville.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130315/NEWS/303150111/TN-governor-signs-guns-trunks-bill


tennessee...republican house, republican senate, republican governor...

[Auntie Bush]

1. That's a dangerous combination.

Every state that has all three ReThugs in control would pass horrendous and illegal laws. Makes you realize what would happen to this country if we ever got ReThugs in all three areas. Hundreds of years of work this country has accomplished would go down the tube...along with America and Democracy. I really fear that someday this will happen. Thankfully I'm already old...and hopefully wouldn't be around to see this happen...but my kids and grandchildren will.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Why? Why is this sort of thing necessary?

What is this obsessive need of some people to be able to cart their guns around with them anywhere, anytime, under any and all circumstances???? And what is the point anyway- of being able to take their guns to work if they're just going to sit in their car? For the slim-practically nonexistent- chance that somebody is going to be able to flee from their workplace if somebody shows up shooting up the workplace and run to their car and get their gun and go back in and confront the assailant?

[justanidea]

4. Probably for those with concealed carry permits.

They probably cant carry on the job so they want to be able to leave their gun locked in their car until they clock out for the day.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Yeah but still, why?

I don't get the concept of people wanting to carry their guns around with them at every possible opportunity, regardless of circumstances

[mwrguy]

6. God forbid they make the trip to work without toting

What a bunch of paranoid loons.

[NightWatcher]

3. So the next time you're in Tn and you see a NRA bumper sticker in the parking lot

Go break in to their trunk. You might score a piece. I love the morons that advertise what they've got in their car.

[longship]

7. Here's an example

Sorry, couldn't resist.