_{[SOURCE] ^{By Caleb Wethington | WSMV}}

A bill was introduced in Tennessee this week to allow people with certain permits to carry guns in businesses that prohibit and/or restrict them.

The bill, HB 2032, was filed by Representative Jody Barrett, R-Dickson, on Tuesday.

It will remove offenses of possessing a weapon in a building that prohibits or restricts them — allowing people with an enhanced handgun carry permit to carry inside.

“Firearms and Ammunition – As introduced, removes the offense of possessing a weapon in a building that prohibits or restricts weapons; allows a person with an enhanced handgun carry permit to carry a handgun into a business that prohibits or restricts weapons; removes penalties for violations of certain firearms provisions. – Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.”

Barrett has sponsored and co-sponsored many bills in Tennessee surrounding firearms:

• HB 2035: As introduced, preempts the entire field of legislation regarding extreme risk protection orders to the exclusion of all county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government law, ordinances, resolutions, enactments, or regulation; declares a federal statute, rule, executive order, or a federal judicial order that has the effect of enforcing an extreme risk protection order to be null and void; creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of attempting to enforce a federally implemented extreme risk protection order.
• HB 7043: As introduced, authorizes persons with an enhanced handgun carry permit to carry a handgun on school property unless the person knows that the respective school provides armed security on the school property; removes certain exemptions of a law enforcement officer’s authority to possess a firearm on school property; authorizes certain community corrections officers to possess a handgun on school property.
• HB 0746: As introduced, removes the authorization for an individual, corporation, business entity, or local, state, or federal government entity to prohibit the possession of weapons by a person who is at a meeting conducted by or on property owned, operated, or managed or under the control of the individual, corporation, business entity, or government entity; removes the criminal offense of possession of a weapon in a building or on property that is properly posted.