Posted on 04/22/2021 6:40:36 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
Hey y'all, soon we plan to build a mountainside home overlooking the Smokies on county land in Tennessee.
What kinds of legal, regulation and other things do we need to know moving from Texas to Tennessee?
Asking locals can be hit and miss. References from past customers would be better. Vetting their work and writing good contracts is even better.
I know a general contractor that utilizes sub-contractors from over an hour away simply because the locals subs (of which there are many) are unreliable.
Tennessee does not have constitutional carry. Recently passed “permitless carry” actually imposed additional restrictions in some areas. For many years, the Establicans that control the General Assembly have repeatedly blocked true constitutional carry, including this session.
The Tennessee Firearms Association (TennesseeFirearms.com) is a great resource for 2nd Amendment advocacy and news and well worth joining.
AMEN, Molewhacka!!!! Lurkedlongenough, people coming into from elsewhere are thinking all is rural and bucolic here. IMO, it is more so in E TN. I cannot imagine living anywhere else. I mentioned the horrible fires that started in the national park and spread down into Gatlinburg because it was such a devastating thing to happen here. Thirteen people lost their lives. None of them were people who had lived here for a generation or more. There are effectively three ways in/out of Gatlinburg and surrounding neighborhoods. Two of the three were totally blocked from the fires. One two laned road to make your exit if you managed to drive through walls of fires. A lot of folks in that area were merely visitors or part-time residents. They don't know the lay of the land to survive if they don't prepare. Fire hydrants in neighborhoods? Not generally. There were no "official" warnings of the nearby, all consuming fires. You have to rely on your own sense of survival. Other than that downer, you'll never have met a friendly group of folks. We're number one in allergies so plan on buying up a stockpile of allergy meds, lol. The Springtime when the plants start greening and blooming are gorgeous. Summers are hot and very humid. Fall is beautiful. Winters are typically rainy and cold and we don't see the sun shining for days on end. Very little snow; mostly icy. No state income tax as mentioned by someone earlier. However, sales taxes are our biggest gripe. EVERYTHING has a 9 3/4% sales tax or close to it. Another big plus, you can talk with folks, even those you don't know well, about guns and ammo without being mistaken for some paranoid weirdo. It's commonplace to talk about what brand guns you own...how hard it is to find ammo or the supplies to reload your own... If you get to know the locals, they will engage you to ask where you go to church and will invite you to their's. You'll hear locals talking to one another and always ask, "How's your mama and daddy doin'". You will feel at home here and accepted if you want to be. Funerals of locals aren't always for just mourning; you will hear some folks laughing because these tend to be impromptu family reunions or high school reunions. You may be too busy to attend those things, but everyone shows up at someone's funeral sharing good stories involving the deceased. Not meant to be a diatribe; I merely want to give you the birds eye view of "being from here".
Thanks! Was perusing the actual laws and saw that possession of hollow point ammo is illegal? Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-1304 ??? Shoot!!!
To put a finer point on it, hollow point ammo such as Critical Defense does NOT have the hollow nose cavity filled with explosive material (gunpowder). Hollow point bullets have the nose cavity filled with polymer balls or some other inert filling the nose cavity, but not anything explosive. The media and social sites obfuscates the two. Hollow point ammo is perfectly legal to sell, buy, possess, or for personal use in TN.
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