Gun Policy News
US 3rd-Party Gun Sales Don't Require Background Checks
25 May 2016
WKRN TV Nashville
NASHVILLE – If you buy a hand gun from a gun shop in Tennessee, you need to pass a background check.
But if two private citizens buy and sell a gun, that transaction doesn't require a background check—and it is legal.
News 2's Andy Cordan was offered a chance to buy a gun on the street the other day from a man who first tried to pawn it.
It happened Monday about 5 p.m. when the man left the shop in South Nashville carrying a gun he later identified as a TEC-9, a... (GunPolicy.org)