TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Brittany Sims on Mar 27, 2015

The National Rifle Association would violate state ethics laws if it offers lawmakers free tickets to a show featuring Alan Jackson and Jeff Foxworthy when the national gun organization's annual convention comes to Nashville in April, the Tennessee Ethics Commission wrote in a draft opinion. Any company that employs a lobbyist can't give a gift "directly or indirectly" to any "official in the legislative branch," according to the state Comprehensive Ethics Reform Act of 2006. The NRA has three registered lobbyists in the state. The Tennessean has the story.