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I hope you don't seek his council for anything of importance.

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Sorry for another permit question but I have a lawyer friend who told me, even though I have a carry permit, I cannot drive with it loaded...

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This is false.

TN law doesn't mention loaded/unloaded.  You'll often see the phrase "with intent to go armed" in TN law.

It is a justifiable defense against the charge of carrying a handgun with intent to go armed if you have a carry permit.

Ask him to cite the specific code/law, and you can look up whatever he is referring to, but he is mistaken.

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IF you have a TN HCP (handgun carry permit), you may legally carry a handgun, fully loaded, on or about your person,
while walking, bicycling, driving, etc., as long as you are not someplace properly posted prohibiting such action.

Perhaps your lawyer friend is confused (as TN law is sometimes confusing!––gasp!!), because currently you cannot
carry a loaded Longarm (rifle or shotgun) in a vehicle.  We (TFA) are working to change that right now, so that you
will be able to carry a magazine-loaded rifle or shotgun––but with the chamber empty (thus, by law/definition, unloaded)
in your vehicle.

Currently, you may not have loaded magazines with the longarm.

Handguns, however, as long as you have a permit, are OK.  The Titans you mention did not have a carry permit.

www.tfaonline.org

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David



David,
When does this go for vote?
I thought that loaded long guns in cars was already voted on, and denied, but allowed a loaded magazine/tube, just not one in the chamber.

Have to admit that with all the laws currently out there, and going back and forth, I may of missed something or confused with something else.

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It just needs to be signed by the governor. If I'm not mistaken it automatically becomes law tomorrow if he doesn't veto it. The effective date on the bill is July 1.

http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=hb0390

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Ok, just read thru that again. Appears that with the amendments(Amendment No. 2 to SB0578), still can not have ammo in a magazine/tube in the gun.

Correct??????

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You can have a loaded magazine inserted in the gun, but you cannot have a round chambered. Amendments 1 and 2 were withdrawn. Amendment 3 was kept and added the stipulation that you could not have a chambered round.

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Yeah...he used the example of the Titan's QB getting arrested for having one in his glove compartment or something.  Was it Vince or Steve?  Probably didn't have a permit and that was it.

Oh well, she'll be in the console for sure.

MAY 22––Meet Steve McNair. The Tennessee Titans quarterback was arrested this morning for drunk driving after a cop spotted the 30-year-old football star's SUV weaving erratically through the streets of downtown Nashville. A bleary-eyed McNair, who smelled of alcohol, agreed to a Breathalyzer test and registered a .18, nearly twice the state's .10 blood alcohol limit. A search of McNair's 1999 Lincoln Navigator also turned up a 9mm pistol. But while the QB holds a valid permit to carry the gat, it is illegal to possess a firearm while under the influence. Charged with DUI and the gun rap, McNair was released from a Music City lockup after posting a $3000 bond. (3 pages)

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What is this "mag" you speak of?  Revolvers rule!!!!!!!!!!

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Sorry for another permit question but I have a lawyer friend who told me, even though I have a carry permit, I cannot drive with it loaded.  He seems to think the mag needs to be somewhere out of direct pop-in.   So....can I have my chambered pistol next to me ready to roll?

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chambered or just a mag in the well?

i wouldnt carry with a loaded pipe anyway. jmo

dont have a ccw, but itchin to get one

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Regarding carrying handguns in your vehicle in TN with a carry permit, if you're pulled over by a police officer you MUST notify him/her that you're carrying WITH PERMIT. Actually if you just hand him your license and carry permit card together, he'll ask if you're currently armed. You just say yes or no and he'll probably ask where the weapon is located––because he wants to make sure that you aren't going for it while you're chatting. Don't reach down and grab the weapon to show him. Just tell him where it is. I'm not sure I would retrieve it if they asked me to. I don't remember the law, but it sounds like a bad idea.

If you're NOT carrying and you don't offer info that you're a permit holder AND he runs your license looking for violations while in his patrol car, he WILL be notified that you're a permit holder and will probably challenge you about whether you're carrying or not. Go ahead and tell him you're a permit holder and not carrying in the first place. You don't have to, but why not?

A deputy pulled me over for not having my current sticker attached on my plate. I didn't notify him that I was a permit holder (and I wasn't carrying so I didn't have to), but he told me that he was notified that I was "permitted", and he quizzed me hard about whether I was carrying or not. After he left I stepped out to put the sticker on my plate (it was still stapled on the registration paper and current), and I realized that I had thrown my empty gun cabinet in the pickup bed to move to my new house. He never asked about that though.