Gun rights advocates seek to keep public in dark on permits

From Executive Director Frank Gibson’s column in today’s Tennessean:

The furor over Gov. Phil Bredesen’s veto of the so-called guns in bars bill would be comical if it and related issues surrounding gun-carry permits were not so serious, but there’s more to the story than allowing 220,000 Tennesseans and millions of gun permit holders from other states to carry their weapons into places where alcohol is consumed.

Read the entire piece here.

Legislators seek to close gun permit records

The move comes after publication by the Commercial Appeal of a database of Tennessee gun permit holders. TCOG Executive Director Frank Gibson has been quoted in numerous stories on the issue, including this one by Scripps.