Huge Win! GOA Secures True Constitutional Carry in Tennessee

GOA/GOF Legal Victory Expands Constitutional Carry

Great News! GOA just secured a huge legal victory in Tennessee, which officially turns that entire geographical region into the 29th Constitutional Carry state.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: “I thought we already had 29 permitless states?”

Well, we sort of did … but sort of not. Here’s what happened.

Late last week, GOA received a unanimous order from the three-judge panel in our Tennessee parks case.

GOA absolutely crushed – demolished – annihilated Tennessee gun control, on every claim and argument we brought in the case.

For starters, the judges declared the Tennessee parks carry ban unconstitutional.

Tennessee wins full Constitutional Carry!

More importantly, the judges also struck down Tennessee’s “Going Armed” statute, which made bearing arms a crime.

Tennessee’s law used to contradict itself. The “going armed” statute banned carrying guns, even at home.

But the 2021 “permitless carry” law gave gun owners a stronger legal defense if arrested, allowing them to show (in court) they were lawfully carrying without a permit.

GOA’s court victory struck down the “going armed” ban, so police can no longer arrest law-abiding gun owners who carry firearms. This makes Tennessee a true Constitutional Carry state.

The Tennessee Firearms Association has, for years, been telling the world that the Volunteer State is NOT Constitutional Carry. As they stated in 2022, “Tennessee is one of the states that is now classified as a ‘constitutional carry’ state. It is not.”

But all that has now changed. And to be clear, we could not have done this without you.

GOA thanks its members for their generous support, because it is helping us bring cases like this.

Gun owners can help support our legal work by going here.