Tennessee Firearms Association Alert (via email):
Just this simple cryptic message alone would probably prompt a full-scale investigation. Can you imagine if they started getting a flood of them?
UPDATE: SayUncle passes along word they've recanted.
Tennessee Firearms Association, Inc.I wonder what would happen if someone threw a monkeywrench into the works? Maybe filled out the forms with a bunch of fake information and buried them in checking it out? Or even simpler, just scrawling out a suggestion on what they can do with their gun owner registration scheme on the face of the form, and mailing it to Manager Lisa...?
Legislative Action Committee
Tennessee Department of Safety has started sending out letters telling firearms instructors that "effective immediately" they are going to be required to complete and fill out a "roster" that has to be faxed to the Department of Safety within 24 hours of the ion handgun permit certification class. http://www.state.tn.us/safety/forms/HGschoolroster200862408.pdf
This new roster collects information concerning the weapons used in the class including the owner's name and the serial number. Other forms filed with TDOS (including the certification form) has the make, model and caliber of the weapon.
Nothing in the statutes authorize or direct the Department of Safety to collect or require this information.
I would like to gauge the public response to the collection of this information and whether it enables TDOS or the state to start collection records detailing firearms owners and at least some of the specific weapons owned by them.
If you oppose this change, feel free to contact TDOS AND your state legislators.
TDOS contact information in on the TDOS web site
http://www.state.tn.us/safety/handgunmain.htm
The main contact, according to the state's web site is:
Contact Us:
Lisa Knight, Manager
1150 Foster Avenue
Nashville, TN 37243
(615) 253-5221
866-849-3548 (toll-free)
Just this simple cryptic message alone would probably prompt a full-scale investigation. Can you imagine if they started getting a flood of them?
UPDATE: SayUncle passes along word they've recanted.