Gun Crazy
The oft-proposed "guns in bars" bill may finally get its show-down
by Charles Maldonado
Maybe it should come as no surprise that HB0962/SB1127, the so-called "guns in bars" bill, has a real chance of passing through the state General Assembly this week. After passing 70-26 in the House earlier this month, it passed 26-7 last week in the Senate, which voted to remove a House amendment that would have prevented permit holders from carrying in alcohol-serving restaurants between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. The Senate went even further, and removed a provision in the original bill that wouldn't have allowed handguns in age-restricted restaurants, despite ongoing objections from law-enforcement officials throughout the state.
"We don't think that alcohol and guns mix well in any situation," says Maggie Duncan, executive director of the Tennessee Association of Police Chiefs, which has opposed the bill.
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