Posted January 4, 2017 5:33 pm by Comments

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

Its My Right Come And Take It - img:Tennessee Firearms Association
Its My Right Come And Take It – img:Tennessee Firearms Association
Tennessee Firearms Association
Tennessee Firearms Association

USA -(Ammoland.com)- In 2016, some Tennessee legislators worked hard to reduce the cost for standard and lifetime handgun permits.

Some did this, TFA believes, because they realized that the state had been making a large profit on the handgun permit scheme and they were attempting to reduce those costs because of that.

Others, TFA believes, sponsored or supported fee reduction legislation to reduce the “pressure” to enact constitutional carry or, because it was an election year, to be “on the board” with what some might classify as a pro-2nd Amendment vote.

For whatever the motives, a couple of laws changed in 2017 regarding the handgun permits. One change was to alter the basic initial fee from $115 to $100. A second change was to make the permit’s duration 8 years. The renewal cost remained $50.

However, a second law reduced the cost of the “lifetime” permits from $500 down to $200. That means, if you want to get a lifetime permit on an initial application the cost will be the base fee of $100 plus the additional lifetime fee for a total of $300.

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