House Judiciary Committee passes constitutional carry bill
Bill Gibbons (in a file photo), a former district attorney general and Department of Safety and Homeland Security commissioner, pointed out Memphis has ranked second and third in the nation for violent crime in recent years and last year alone more than 9,300 offenses involving guns were committed in the city. (Lance Murphey/Daily Memphian file)
Despite the protests of Memphis officials and lawmakers, the House Judiciary Committee has passed a constitutional carry bill that enables “law-abiding” people to pack handguns without a state permit.
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Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.
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