Earlier today the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation sent out an email
to notify Federal Firearms Licenses in Tennessee that it was
implementing a policy whereby it would deny those individuals who had 2
or more DUI’s in the last 10 years or 1 DUI in the last five years from
being able to purchase any firearm in Tennessee.
Tennessee
Firearms Association contacted the TBI to request clarification of this
policy and the reasoning behind it in an Open Records Request. TFA also
contacted the Department of Safety, the BATF and several state
legislators on this same issue to see if any of them had been contacted
or were in agreement with the TBI policy.
Almost immediately, the
TBI sent out another email in which it asked federal firearms licensees
to disregard its earlier email “as an error”.
From: Sandi Duncan
Subject: This morning’s Email
Date: July 1, 2021 at 1:58:13 PM CDT
To: [omitted FFL group list]
Reply-To: Sandi Duncan
This morning an email was sent from TBI regarding Public Chapter 108
and how its passage impacts purchase prohibitors specific to DUI’s.
Upon further research and review, we ask that you disregard that email
as an error. I greatly appreciate your feedback and bringing this to
our attention. We apologize for any confusion this has caused and look
forward to our continued partnership.
Director David Rausch
Sandi Duncan
CJIS Manager – TICS Unit
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
901 R.S. Gass Blvd.
Nashville, TN. 37216
Tennessee Firearms Association would like to thank those TFA members
who reported this issue, the state legislators who immediately got
involved to address it and other state and federal officials who
responded to this “error”.
