TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 19, 2015

A House subcommittee on Wednesday killed a bill that would have allowed students to keep guns in their cars on public college campuses in Tennessee, the Commercial Appeal reports. The subcommittee killed the bill on voice vote after members spoke against an amendment that was added by sponsor Sen. Brian Kelsey, R-Germantown. The addition would have allowed an employee or student to transport and store a firearm or ammunition “in compliance with” handgun-carry permit law while using a parking area owned, used or operated by a school of higher education. The original bill limited the protection to “non-student adults” and only if the weapon was not being handled.