A House push is under way to lower the handgun-carry age to 18 in Tennessee following a legal agreement by the state attorney general, one in which critics say he acquiesced to a California gun-rights group instead of defending state law.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is coming under criticism from some Democratic lawmakers for agreeing with a California-based gun rights organization on a proposed order in the group s pending federal lawsuit in Knoxville that if approved by the judge would extend the state s handgun-carry law, conceal-carry permit and "permitless" carry provisions to 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds.