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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 03:52 AM Apr 2016

Tennessee bill seeks to stop gun carry permits for ex-police with DUI convictions

NASHVILLE — State Rep. Curry Todd, a retired Memphis police officer who has pleaded guilty to drunken driving and gun charges, is speaking out against Gov. Bill Haslam's proposal to keep retired law enforcement officers with DUI convictions from being able to carry firearms in public.

Todd was arrested in Nashville in 2011 after he failed a roadside sobriety test and police found a loaded .38-caliber gun stuffed next to the driver's seat. The Collierville Republican later pleaded guilty, but has easily been re-elected to the Legislature ever since.

The Haslam administration bill carried by Majority Leader Gerald McCormick, R-Chattanooga, would give the Tennessee Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission the authority to ban retired officers from obtaining handgun carry permits if they were convicted of drunken driving once in the previous five years or twice within the past decade. It would only apply to new applicants.

The bill was up for a House floor vote on Monday evening after passing the Senate unanimously last month. But the vote was delayed after Todd questioned the need for the bill.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2016/apr/12/tennessee-bill-seeks-stop-gun-carry-permits-ex-police-duis/359769/
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Tennessee bill seeks to stop gun carry permits for ex-police with DUI convictions (Original Post) SecularMotion Apr 2016 OP
Laws should apply equally to all. JonathanRackham Apr 2016 #1
True, and should apply to existing as well as new gun permits. JustABozoOnThisBus Apr 2016 #2

JonathanRackham

(1,604 posts)
1. Laws should apply equally to all.
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 06:42 AM
Apr 2016

There should be no special sub class of citizens with special laws or exemptions to laws.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,763 posts)
2. True, and should apply to existing as well as new gun permits.
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 09:19 AM
Apr 2016

But, somehow, cops seem to be above the law. Even retired cops. They have a more influential union than most of us.

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