Concise Summary of Tennesse Weapon Law

Nature and Source of the Right 

Registration

Background Checks

Licensing

Gun Locks & Safe Storage

Buy-Backs

Waiting Period

Age Requirements

In the Workplace (guns in parking lots, other employment issues)

Educational property 

The Natchez Trace

Special Provisions re: Public Parks 

Exhibition of a Weapon (brandishing)

Silencers, SBR’s, and SBS’s

Stun Guns

Pepper/OC Spray

Pocket Knives

Carrying of a Deadly Weapon

  • Unlicensed Carry / Deadly Weapon Defined
  • Licensed Carry
  • Open Carry

Reciprocity 

Churches 

Justifiable Homicide

Castle Doctrine and (No) Duty to Retreat

Preemption

No Guns Signs