{"id":2479,"date":"2026-06-27T06:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2026-06-27T06:05:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:05:46","slug":"pro-second-amendment-group-tennessee-brawl-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2479","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Second Amendment Group, Tennessee Brawl In Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<p>Pro-Second Amendment organizations have filed lawsuits to invalidate gun laws across the country for decades, but Hughes v. Lee, involving concealed carry in Tennessee, is not the usual Second Amendment case.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2477\">DUKE: The WNBA Finally Got Its Superstar \u2014 And Hates That She\u2019s White<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because the \u201cLee\u201d in this litigation is Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, the governor of a state that ranks in the bottom ten of \u201cstates most likely to be sued by gun-rights groups.\u201d Yet, attorneys from the office of Republican Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti were squaring off against Gun Owners of America (GOA) in front of the Tennessee Court of Appeals Tuesday. <strong>(RELATED: Former GOP State Attorney General Deploying Novel Strategy To Sink Democrat Governor\u2019s Semi-Auto Gun Ban)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GOA Director of State and Local Affairs Chris Stone told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the issue involves firearms laws dating back over a century, Tennessee Code sections 39-17-1307(a), covering \u201cintent to go armed\u201d for use in a confrontation and 39-17-1311(a), which prohibited carrying firearms at a number of locations, including public parks, playgrounds, civic centers and other specified public recreational areas. Stone noted that both laws effectively criminalized exercising one\u2019s Second Amendment rights, especially if a person was exercising \u201cpermitless carry,\u201d which Lee signed into law in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a holdover in the Tennessee Code from, I want to say the 1800s, that is called the intent to go armed and that has stayed on the books in Tennessee,\u201d Stone said. \u201cAnd it was an old code that basically prevented people from being armed as a terror to the public. In other words, somebody running around with a rifle actually being, violent or crazed or, part of an actual known gang rolling into town somewhere with their posse to threaten people and basically say, we\u2019re in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p>The gun-rights group won the lawsuit on  in a Gibson County court in August 2025, but Skrmetti appealed the ruling. The Tennessee attorney general\u2019s office defended their decision, arguing that GOA made errors in the process of challenging the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re litigating because this case was brought in the wrong court, using the wrong standard, seeking the wrong relief,\u201d Skrmetti said in a statement when reached for comment by the DCNF.\u00a0\u201cConstitutional concerns about our gun laws need to be resolved the same way every other constitutional concern is resolved.\u00a0 The rule of law means everyone needs to follow the same rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s just a common tactic that the state uses to nitpick and torpedo cases. The real issue is that the attorney general of Tennessee is supporting infringements on the Second Amendment and is fighting against the rights of law-abiding gun owners,\u201d Stone said when asked about Skrmetti\u2019s comments. \u201cHe should have just let the original decision stand instead of continuing his assault on the right to carry a firearm in public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2475\">Feds Eye Delaware-Sized Mineral Deposit And Virginia Might Block It<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/p>\n<p>Hughes v. Lee was filed as a civil case and was heard by a three-judge panel because it presented a constitutional challenge to state laws, the Tennessee Firearms Association (TFA) said. During Tuesday\u2019s oral arguments, Tennessee argued that the state Legislature was the proper venue to address what it admitted were constitutional issues with the law.<\/p>\n<p>Stone told the DCNF that GOA was contesting the law in court because the language of the two statutory provisions could be used to target people who end up in a self-defense situation outside of their home, adding that the Legislature had failed to address the issue. <strong>(RELATED: Biden Justice Really Worried Judges Might Actually Apply Second Amendment In Gun Cases)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why we wanted to do this wasn\u2019t just because it was some random old code on the book, is that technically you didn\u2019t have an affirmative right to self-defense in Tennessee outside of your dwelling,\u201d Stone said. \u201cThat if you were carrying, even though they have concealed carry permits and they had an interesting version of kind of permit less carry, it ran into all sorts of issues too, because of their parks issue, which prevents carry on greenways and in public parks. Well, those are all over the state of Tennessee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you could be carrying, quote unquote, \u2018constitutionally without a permit,\u2019 but you walk onto a public greenway that you didn\u2019t know was a greenway, you get in a justifiable situation where you have to defend yourself, you can get charged under Tennessee\u2019s intent to go armed law and in violation because you\u2019re on a public greenway,\u201d Stone continued.<\/p>\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact\u00a0licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2473\">\u2018Alright, Seriously?\u2019: Governor Hochul Fails To Start Chant At New NFL Stadium Opening<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys from the office of Republican Tennessee Attorney General Jonthan Skrmetti were squaring off against Gun Owners of America (GOA) in Court Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,2702,259,1056,1058,2703,26,1922],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-2a","tag-bill-lee","tag-concealed-carry","tag-goa","tag-gun-owners-of-america","tag-jonathan-skrmetti","tag-second-amendment","tag-tennessee"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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