Anti confiscation law in Tennessee ?

[Guest The Incredible Bulk]

I've been searching for information attempting to determine if Tennessee has passed an anti-gun confiscation law (sometimes referred to as a "Katrina Law") to prevent unlawful confiscation of firearms following any natural (or otherwise) disaster. Most of what I am coming up with are results for "gun confiscation bills" and some actress named "Katrina Law".

 

So does Tennessee have legislation passed and/or on the books to prevent the confiscation of firearms in times of disaster ? 

[K191145]

I've been searching for information attempting to determine if Tennessee has passed an anti-gun confiscation law (sometimes referred to as a "Katrina Law") to prevent unlawful confiscation of firearms following any natural (or otherwise) disaster. Most of what I am coming up with are results for "gun confiscation bills" and some actress named "Katrina Law".

 

So does Tennessee have legislation passed and/or on the books to prevent the confiscation of firearms in times of disaster ? 

 

Yes we do, passed some time after Katrina. I can't remember what it is called though.

[btq96r]

The event that would be the catalyst to a confiscation effort (ie: Katrina in New Orleans) would make me think government and LEO's would pay no heed to such a law and do what they wanted to anyway.  To me it's not an out of the blue threat, but the crisis situation that would be my primary concern, and in a crisis, we know laws in America aren't very reliable.

[K191145]

The event that would be the catalyst to a confiscation effort (ie: Katrina in New Orleans) would make me think government and LEO's would pay no heed to such a law and do what they wanted to anyway.  To me it's not an out of the blue threat, but the crisis situation that would be my primary concern, and in a crisis, we know laws in America aren't very reliable.

 

I've been searching for the actual code to make a copy so I can quote it to anyone during a crisis demanding me surrender my weapons. How I will inform them that they are violating state law during the "standoff" I will have to figure out.  :)

[Oh Shoot]

I've been searching for information attempting to determine if Tennessee has passed an anti-gun confiscation law (sometimes referred to as a "Katrina Law") to prevent unlawful confiscation of firearms following any natural (or otherwise) disaster. Most of what I am coming up with are results for "gun confiscation bills" and some actress named "Katrina Law".

So does Tennessee have legislation passed and/or on the books to prevent the confiscation of firearms in times of disaster ?

I've been searching for the actual code to make a copy so I can quote it to anyone during a crisis demanding me surrender my weapons. How I will inform them that they are violating state law during the "standoff" I will have to figure out.  :)

 

The Tennessee "Katrina Law" is found in:

 

TCA 58-2-107.  Emergency management powers of the governor

 

One line was added to very end:
 
(m) "During any state of emergency, major disaster or natural disaster, the state, a political subdivision or a public official shall not prohibit nor impose additional restrictions on the lawful possession, transfer, sale, transport, carrying, storage, display or use of firearms and ammunition or firearm and ammunition components."

 

and another modifed to:

 

(e)(8) [The Governor may ...] "Suspend or limit the sale, dispensing, or transportation of alcoholic beverages, explosives, or combustibles, which terms shall not be construed to include firearms, ammunition, or firearm or ammunition components"

 

Note however that in confrontation with a LEO, at least in the short run mace, tasers, batons and guns beat paper every time.
 
- OS

Edited March 29, 2015 by Oh Shoot

[EssOne]

 

..........................................Note however that in confrontation with a LEO, at least in the short run mace, tasers, batons and guns beat paper every time.
 
- OS

 

 

 

 

First rate information OS.  The only people who should wave paper in an officer's face are credible representatives waving it at the Chief in the Chief's office. An individual gun owner waving it in an individual officer's face during an emergency would have no effect at all beyond irritating an already irritated cop. Besides, I don't think the issue of confiscation in this discussion is concerned with the actions of an individual officer. Rather, I believe it deals much more with the broader issue of state and local government and their agencies confiscating firearms from a number of gun owners during a disaster. In that vein, this is a very well-crafted statute that doesn't give local government much wiggle room at all. I wish all statutes supporting private gun ownership were this well written.

Edited March 29, 2015 by LMTFAN

[DaveTN]

I've been searching for the actual code to make a copy so I can quote it to anyone during a crisis demanding me surrender my weapons. How I will inform them that they are violating state law during the "standoff" I will have to figure out.  :)

Cops aren’t going to demand you surrender a weapon simply because of an emergency unless martial law has been invoked. Chances are better that during an emergency they would be disarming you because you are suspected of something. They probably aren’t going to have any in-depth conversations with you.

[Guest The Incredible Bulk]

Ok thanks folks. Now I know my collection is protected at least by the letter of the law.

[Oh Shoot]

Ok thanks folks. Now I know my collection is protected at least by the letter of the law.

 

The collection should be ultimately protected by the collection. ;)

 

- OS

[K191145]

Cops aren’t going to demand you surrender a weapon simply because of an emergency unless martial law has been invoked. Chances are better that during an emergency they would be disarming you because you are suspected of something. They probably aren’t going to have any in-depth conversations with you.

 

Sure they will, they are called negotiaters and they like to talk. :)  Besides, they ain't comming for little ol me anyway, there's only one scenerio I can think of where I would have to bug out off my property anyway and that's a train wreck with a chemical spill 1/2 a mile away. If it's not that then i'm holding up at my house no matter how damaged it is.

[K191145]

Ok thanks folks. Now I know my collection is protected at least by the letter of the law.

 

I don't see that happening here in Tennessee anyway, New Orleans is a big liberal city that had a corrupt liberal mayor who is currently residing in jail. Notice no gun confications happened in Mississippi, there's a reason for that.

[EssOne]

I don't see that happening here in Tennessee anyway, New Orleans is a big liberal city that had a corrupt liberal mayor who is currently residing in jail. Notice no gun confications happened in Mississippi, there's a reason for that.

I agree. I don't see it happening in Tennessee either. And I tend to think it wouldn't have happened in New Orleans either if the government services hadn't been so horribly unprepared and badly managed by such a negligent mayor. Confusion breeds lots of mistakes, and the situation in New Orleans is one of the most confusing and chaotic I've ever seen. When they let 70 school busses drown, well, that's a pretty good signal that fecal matter is about to occureth.

[K191145]

I agree. I don't see it happening in Tennessee either. And I tend to think it wouldn't have happened in New Orleans either if the government services hadn't been so horribly unprepared and badly managed by such a negligent mayor. Confusion breeds lots of mistakes, and the situation in New Orleans is one of the most confusing and chaotic I've ever seen. When they let 70 school busses drown, well, that's a pretty good signal that fecal matter is about to occureth.

 

Also there was a rumor that long before Katrina, some federal money dedicated to maintain and strengthen the levys was re-directed to build casinos but of course it was all Bush's fault. New Orleans was a city that gambled with the laws of physics anyway, a hole in the ground surrounded by a great lake, the Mississippi river and the Gulf of Mexico, the question wasn't if but when it would flood. People who live in the middle of big cities are refugees waiting for a disaster.

[rmiddle]

I don't see that happening here in Tennessee anyway, New Orleans is a big liberal city that had a corrupt liberal mayor who is currently residing in jail. Notice no gun confications happened in Mississippi, there's a reason for that.

 

I am not so sure.  Memphis and to a certain extent Nashville are pretty good size Liberal city's with Anti Mayors and a police force that is getting more aggressive dealing with drugs.

 

Thanks

Robert

[K191145]

I am not so sure.  Memphis and to a certain extent Nashville are pretty good size Liberal city's with Anti Mayors and a police force that is getting more aggressive dealing with drugs.

 

Thanks

Robert

 

There would be more of a fight in Tennessee I believe, at least I hope so. I personally don't live in Nashville so Nashville doesn't have any authority here even though i'm close to it, I can't see a situation in Nashville like I can Memphis if the New Madrid fault lets go again. Also we saw the few in New Orleans have their rights trampled on but there were alot more who didn't or lived outside the city. The ones who did got all the media attention.

[ProfEngr]

oops. wrong thread.

Edited April 2, 2015 by ProfEngr

[Appalachian]

So would the National Guard and/or federal LEO abide by that? 

 

Edited April 3, 2015 by JCMD

[Chucktshoes]

Y'all have a whole lot of faith in a whole lot of government employees if you think those laws will have any meaning when the rubber hits the road. The only real question to their worth is if they will provide any cover against charges after the fact to a citizen who uses all available and appropriate force to resist unlawful actions by LE who were "just doing their job" during a state of emergency. Edited April 3, 2015 by Chucktshoes

[K191145]

Y'all have a whole lot of faith in a whole lot of government employees if you think those laws will have any meaning when the rubber hits the road. The only real question to their worth is if they will provide any cover against charges after the fact to a citizen who uses all available and appropriate force to resist unlawful actions by LE who were "just doing their job" during a state of emergency.

 

[b]"just doing their job"[/b]

 

Isn't that also known as the Nuremburg Defense?

[rmiddle]

There would be more of a fight in Tennessee I believe, at least I hope so. I personally don't live in Nashville so Nashville doesn't have any authority here even though i'm close to it, I can't see a situation in Nashville like I can Memphis if the New Madrid fault lets go again. Also we saw the few in New Orleans have their rights trampled on but there were alot more who didn't or lived outside the city. The ones who did got all the media attention.

 

I wasn't suggesting that it would every happen in rual TN.  The only possible places would be inside the city of Memphis or Nashville the area's outside the city would be a totally different store.

 

Thanks

Robert

[LagerHead]

OhShoot always has good info on the laws. He is either a lawyer or spends a LOT of time at Holiday Inn Express.

[JTENN.]

I wasn't suggesting that it would every happen in rual TN.  The only possible places would be inside the city of Memphis or Nashville the area's outside the city would be a totally different store.
 
Thanks
Robert

I work for LE in Nashville, and I would not trust them.