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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is addressing Coronavirus-related delays in state firearms background checks. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation would like to explain the reasons for delays customers and firearms dealers may have experienced this week while securing a firearms background check or appeal in the state, and the steps being taken to ...

A 15-year-old boy is in the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound to the neck after a friend accidentally shot him with an AR-15 style rifle inside a Sevierville home on Wednesday. Officers from the Sevierville Police Department responded to a 911 call reporting an accidental shooting at a residence on Nichols Street near downtown Sevierville just after 3 p.m. ...

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will host the 2017 Becoming an Outdoors Woman (BOW) workshop June 2-4, 2017 in Crossville at the Clyde M. York 4-H Center. The relaxed atmosphere of the BOW workshop is aimed at women, and an opportunity for those 18 or older to learn outdoor skills usually associated with hunting and fishing. However, the workshop provides ...

Tennessee residents are allowed to hunt without a license on the state’s Free Hunting Day, this Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016, which coincides with the opening day of squirrel season. Free Hunting Day is an event the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency annually provides in hopes of increasing interest in hunting. Squirrel hunting is one of Tennessee’s oldest and favorite traditions. The ...

On Jan. 23, 2015, American Legion Post 104 introduced to businesses and the public, the American Legion Junior Shooting Safety Program. Working diligently over the past year, Post 104 became the only American Legion Post in the state of Tennessee with a shooting program. Post 104 recruited 22 students between the ages of 12 and 16 interested in entering into ...

Buds Gun Shop & Range, the largest gun store and indoor range in Tennessee, will host its first-ever Precision Rifle Event April 22-24, 2016. Professional shooters from the Precision Rifle Series (PRS) will be on hand to do product demonstrations, conduct a free seminar and meet with shooting enthusiasts. The Precision Rifle Event at Buds Gun Shop & Range also ...

Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge Police are looking for a suspect who may have used an Airsoft Gun to commit a string of armed robberies along the Parkway on Tuesday. According to the Gatlinburg Police Department, a male suspect attempted to rob Blaine’s Grill & Bar at 812 Parkway #105 in Gatlinburg at gunpoint just after 2 p.m. on Feb. 23, ...

Facebook announced on Friday a change in its policy regarding private gun sales on the social networking site and on its photo-sharing platform Instagram, leaving some users up in arms. Users of Facebook and Instagram will no longer be allowed to offer and coordinate private gun sales on the website as the company adds firearms to its list of regulated ...

Certain Tennessee Army & Air National Guard personnel will soon be armed with handguns at state and federal facilities in an effort to increase security after the Chattanooga shootings in July. Maj. Gen. Max Haston, Tennessee’s Adjutant General, announced Thursday that the Military Department has taken steps to increase the security of its personnel and facilities to include allowing Tennessee Army ...

In January 2015, the American Legion Post 104 in Sevierville announced the beginning of a new program under one of the Four Pillars of the American Legion, Americanism. This is the Youth Air Rifle Shooting Safety Program / Junior Shooting Program. Lester Piniak, Commander Post 104, says the training course is the first for the American Legion, not only in ...