General Assembly kills red-flag bill days after Lee asked for one
Gov. Bill Lee was surrounded by Republican General Assembly leadership on April 3 when he proposed school safety investments. But days later when he proposed modest regulations to gun access, he stood alone. (Ian Round/The Daily Memphian)
Two days after Gov. Bill Lee asked lawmakers to pass an “extreme risk protection order” bill, one such bill sponsored by Democrats died without receiving a committee hearing.
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Ian Round is The Daily Memphian’s state government reporter based in Nashville. He came to Tennessee from Maryland, where he reported on local politics for Baltimore Brew. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in December 2019.
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