Tennessee Legislature Sends Bill Requiring School Gun Safety Courses to Governor

The Tennessee Senate on Thursday passed legislation, which will go to Gov. Bill Lee (R), to require gun safety courses to be taught in schools.

FOX News reported that the legislation, HB 2882, passed by a 24 to three vote on Thursday. HB 2822 passed the Tennessee House in February.

HB 2882 centers on gun safety courses conducted via “videos and online resources,” in which no live ammunition or firearms will be used.

The Tennessean noted that HB 2882 would require schools to provide instruction on:

• Safe storage of firearms.
• Safety relating to firearms.
• How to avoid injury if a student finds a firearm.
• Never to touch a found firearm.
• To immediately notify an adult of the location of a found firearm.

The courses will be designed to be “age-appropriate and grade-appropriate” and will begin to be taught in the 2025-2026 school year.

State Sen. Richard Briggs (R-Knoxville) called HB 2882 “one of the most important bills we have, that could potentially save lives.”

There has been no word on if Gov. Lee is expected to sign the bill. However, he emerged from the March 27, 2023, Covenant School shooting pushing for more gun laws and going so far as to call a special legislative session for gun control.

Lee specifically wanted a red flag law.

California has had a red flag law since 2014, yet that state was the number one state for “active shooter incidents” in 2021.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, and a pro-staffer for Pulsar Night Vision. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Beef is his favorite vegetable. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.