Posted April 16, 2019 12:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

There are a few classes of people who are ineligible for purchasing or owning a firearm. Most notably, felons, though those inclined to continue their criminal ways seem to have little trouble getting guns anyway. Another group are those convicted of domestic violence, regardless of whether they committed a felony or not.

A third group is made up of those who have been “mentally adjudicated as defective.” In other words, those found to be suffering from rather severe mental illness, making them a threat to themselves or others.

Now, the Tennessee House has decided to step in and add their own take to this following a deadly shooting at a Nashville Waffle House last year.

The Tennessee House Monday night overwhelmingly approved a bill sponsored by Rep. Robin Smith, R-Hixson, that makes it a Class A misdemeanor to transfer a firearm to someone they know has been judicially committed to a mental institution or adjudicated by a court as a “mental defective.”

The bill passed 93-2 in the GOP-run chamber with Democrats praising Smith, a former Tennessee Republican Party chairman.

Noting that she supports gun rights, has a state-issued handgun carry permit and is a life member of the National Rifle …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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