The Week in Review: The Silencing of 2A Rights in Tennessee

On Monday, Chairman Todd Gardenhire (R-Chattanooga) moved ten bills to February of next year.

The problem with this decision is though it is in his power to reschedule bills, he chose to put these bills on a calendar that does not exist, under a Senate that will operate under new rules, with members who may not even be on the committee because of it being an election year.

Tennessee’s Republican betrayal of their sworn oath to the Constitution.

The August 22, 2025 ruling in Hughes v. Lee should have been a moment of triumph for constitutional governance in Tennessee. A three-judge panel delivered a masterful defense of Second Amendment rights, striking down two antiquated statutes that had long criminalized the fundamental right to bear arms. Instead of celebrating this victory for constitutional liberty, […]