Check Your Pistol at the Restaurant Door

Minutes ago, the Chancery Court threw out Tennessee's law that allows gun-permit holders to carry guns in places that serve alcoholic beverages. The Court agreed with our position that the law is unconstitutionally vague.

As of now, the law is invalid. Gun-permit holders can no longer legally carry firearms into places that serve alcoholic beverages. The case may be appealed, and certainly the legislature will take a look at the law again when they reconvene early next year.

For restaurant and bar owners, until it is generally known that you cannot carry a gun any more, I would leave "no gun signs" posted.

A big thanks to fellow attorneys David Randolph Smith, David Raybin, Adam Dread and Tom Lee that fought with me to overturn this law.