City Council to ‘stand with the people’ on gun referendum
“Now, it is up to each of us, as well as the elected senators and representatives of the Tennessee General Assembly, to stand with the people and pass legislation to keep our neighborhoods safe,” Memphis City Council Chairman JB Smiley Jr. said in a statement Wednesday, Nov. 6. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
The Memphis City Council’s passage of a gun-control ordinance is the next step now that voters have approved the ballot referendum.
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