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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 s 43-year-old anti-nepotism law would get new clarity and its first set of legal teeth to enforce the ban on state officials hiring and overseeing their relatives under a bill now moving in the General Assembly.
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.
Former Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston has received a private reprimand from the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility following a complaint submitted by former County Commissioner Tim Boyd, according to a letter Boyd shared with the Chattanooga Times Free Press.