Carrying at the Tennessee State Fair

[Guest Suspicious Loaf]

Hello all,

Quick question. Anyone know if carrying is banned at the state fair? I can't find any info from the website (or previous posts).

Don't want to have to take my gun back out to the car after walking up to the gate.

Thanks.

[Guest pfries]

Well Senator Joe Haynes is on the board so I would not call and ask.

[Pain103]

You can't carry at TN State Fair. If I remember correctly the fair is posted but probably improper. They were using metal detector wands to scan everybody. They keep a few Metro PD at the gate so no go for the handgun. I went either last year or year before and had to get one of the on duty officer's to tell the guy at the front gate I was good to enter with my handgun. You won't miss much if you don't go. After sunset it get's infested with thugs and gangs.

[Guest Suspicious Loaf]

You can't carry at TN State Fair. If I remember correctly the fair is posted but probably improper. They were using metal detector wands to scan everybody. They keep a few Metro PD at the gate so no go for the handgun. I went either last year or year before and had to get one of the on duty officer's to tell the guy at the front gate I was good to enter with my handgun. You won't miss much if you don't go. After sunset it get's infested with thugs and gangs.

Man, that's a shame. My wife and I really enjoyed the fair in Oklahoma. It was a beautiful place full of fried foods and bizarre people. Too bad about the gangs (and no guns).

[peejman]

Nevermind. Apparently this thread regards the fair in Nashville and I wasn't paying attention.

Edited September 12, 2011 by peejman

[Guest nicemac]

In Nashville at the TN State Fair Grounds? Waste of time… TN's "state fair" is a joke. Go north to Louisville, KY in August for the closest decent state fair. The Wilson County in Lebanon fair is much better and more closely resembles a real state fair than the official state fair in Nashville.

[JayC]

Stupid question, but isn't the state fair grounds owned by the state and covered under the state parks carry law? How exactly are they barring legal carry under the law?

[Sandman]

You can't carry at TN State Fair. If I remember correctly the fair is posted but probably improper. They were using metal detector wands to scan everybody. They keep a few Metro PD at the gate so no go for the handgun. I went either last year or year before and had to get one of the on duty officer's to tell the guy at the front gate I was good to enter with my handgun. You won't miss much if you don't go. After sunset it get's infested with thugs and gangs.

Just carry a glock...we all know that since it's polymer, a metal detector can't find it.

[Guest 270win]

If it is not illegal, i'd carry. These signs do not seem legal or binding on someone with a permit and someone had a police officer let him in after showing his handgun carry permit. I'd carry anyway. The worst that could happen is be told to take your gun back to your car.

[Guest nicemac]

…and someone had a police officer let him in after showing his handgun carry permit.

He was an off-duty cop…

[Pain103]

The state fair is held on Metro Nashville property not TN state property. I didn't stay long at all when I went will probably not go back unless it's held somewhere outside of Nashville.

[Guest Broomhead]

The state fair is held on Metro Nashville property not TN state property. I didn't stay long at all when I went will probably not go back unless it's held somewhere outside of Nashville.

So the TN State Fair shouldn't be held at the TN State Fair Grounds in the state's capitol? Should it be held in KY, also, instead of TN? Maybe that will make it better.

LMAO!

[Pain103]

So the TN State Fair shouldn't be held at the TN State Fair Grounds in the state's capitol? Should it be held in KY, also, instead of TN? Maybe that will make it better.

LMAO!

I don't have an issue with it being in Nashville if it wasn't so trashy. I wish it was a better condition and they were able to keep the trouble out but they can't and it won't change anytime soon. Yes the state capital would be the ideal spot for a state fair but the condition of the capital of our state is going down the toilet.

[Guest nicemac]

I don't have an issue with it being in Nashville if it wasn't so trashy. I wish it was a better condition and they were able to keep the trouble out but they can't and it won't change anytime soon.

Kentucky has a great state fair. It is a clean, comfortable family atmosphere.

The TN state fair board has run the fair–and the speedway–into the ground. NASCAR had a Cup race at the fairgrounds for decades. No more. Even weekly racing is all but gone. The inability to keep NASCAR track viable in Nashville, TN is proof they are clueless about how to run anything.

Or maybe they aren't clueless… A lot of talk about dismantling the whole mess and turning it into condos. More taxes for the city, and all they have to do is get rid of the rednecks and the riff-raff at the state fair. Enough bad press about how bad the fair has gotten and it will be an easy sell for the voters.

[JayC]

The state fair is held on Metro Nashville property not TN state property. I didn't stay long at all when I went will probably not go back unless it's held somewhere outside of Nashville.

Oh so it's not the state fair, it's the Davidson County fair... just named wrong? That makes much more sense. Does any state funds go to the upkeep of the fair grounds?

[TMF]

I went down there for the state fair a few years ago and it was awful. If there was ever a time to be carrying for self defense it was there. I wouldn't ever go again and certainly wouldn't recommend anyone with children go.

[Guest Tn.Mitch]

I dont go in any place that I cant carry in..