Nashville Fairgrounds carry

[dstormvet101]

I am new to this group, and have a question. I have my TN carry permit but haven't been able to find anything that states if we can Or can not carry at the Nashville Fairgrounds. Can someone please tell me. 

Edited May 27, 2017 by dstormvet101
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[monkeylizard]

IMO, It's unclear. Most of us arm-chair lawyers (i.e. not real attorneys) on TGO would say it's permissible to carry there with a permit. The state's AG issued an opinion that seems to agree with us, but it's only an opinion, not law. Nashville patently disagrees with the state and has basically flipped the proverbial bird at the legislature and the AG by continuing to post (and nominally enforce) no guns at the fairgrounds and other city-owned places like Ascend Amphitheater. The city's attorney also issued a statement effectively saying "screw you, we're going to do what we want".

Then we just got this new law about most local-government owned property being good to go unless there are metal detectors and security guards, then they can post. Nashville's mayor is very unhappy about this one, so I expect we'll see more finger-flipping in the months to come . . but I honestly don't know, and nobody will know for sure until a judge rules one way or another, but that will take someone being charged with violating TCA 39-17-1359 in one of these city-owned places and taking it to court, which hasn't happened yet.

Edited June 7, 2017 by monkeylizard

[bersaguy]

55 minutes ago, monkeylizard said:

IMO, It's unclear. Most of us arm-chair lawyers (i.e. not real attorneys) on TGO would say it's permissible to carry there with a permit. The state's AG issued an opinion that seems to agree with us, but it's only an opinion, not law. Nashville patently disagrees with the state and has basically flipped the proverbial bird at the legislature and the AG by continuing to post (and nominally enforce) no guns at the fairgrounds and other city-owned places like Ascend Amphitheater. The city's attorney also issued a statement effectively saying "screw you, we're going to do what we want".

Then we just got this new law about law about most local-government owned property being good to go unless there are metal detectors and security guards, then they can post. Nashville's mayor is very unhappy about this one, so I expect we'll see more finger-flipping in the months to come . . but I honestly don't know, and nobody will know for sure until a judge rules one way or another, but that will take someone being charged with violating TC 39-17-1359 in one of these city-owned places and taking it to court, which hasn't happened yet.

Yep,  the Mayor of Nashville thinks pretty much like most in her party when it comes to obeying laws. You have to obey her laws but she does not have to obey the rank and file people above her that hand down laws at the state level.............JMHO