My middle brother who also carries(he mostly CC's unlike me) told me of an incident he had with a Rutherford County Sheriff's Deputy at Nice Mill Damn near Smyrna.
Apparently the deputy stopped him and informed(or misinformed) him that a NEW State Law had been passed that banned HCP carriers from all "Recreation Areas". Supposedly he was asking his "dispatch" about this to get his information to relay to my brother who was carrying. I'm assuming uninformed and undereducated regarding State Law....
The area is not/was not posted last I checked nor was it when my brother was confronted. It is a "Recreational" bank fishing area/Park on an small old dam with a parking lot on both sides. The land just downstream(which I frequently fish) is government land, so I would assume even if they have this imbecilic ban, outside of the "Recreation Area" would be fine for HCP holders? Surely they haven't banned Bank fishing while carrying on government land...land that people hunt on in hunting season legally.
I haven't heard a thing about a law banning HCP holders from Recreation Areas in parks aside from posted parks via local ignorance/anti-gun rights. Was this fellow lying via an uninformed dispatcher? He didn't bother him other than to tell him to leave and make that claim that all Recreation Areas(apparently implying it was law whether posted or not) were off limits to HCP holders in Tennessee according to this person.
If these so-called "Recreation Areas"/Parks are not posted I would assume that Law Enforcement has no legal right to even bother a HCP holder that is there fishing or otherwise. Perhaps I assume wrong. I'm not a lawyer.
The patchwork of ignorance(posted parks and businesses) is an irritation the needs to be gone. Let's try to elect True Conservatives not RINO's...if we can weed them all out and the Safe Commute Bill seems to have done this sorting/weeding out job fairly well. We know who many of the RINO's are now.
While I'm at it..I'm a frequent visitor of some of the State Parks in my area mainly Cedars of Lebanon State Park. I'm fairly good interpreting laws, but when there is a patchwork nightmare such as local government overruling State Law things can get foggy. I'm not a lawyer as I said, but I have read TN Carry Permit Law, loads of related material, and the TN State Parks website saying HCP holders were exempt from the "No alcohol or Firearms"(in terms of firearms) sign posted on almost all State Parks including the State Park "Recreation Areas" within them as far as I know?
Local municipalities(cities, unincorporated "towns", or County) have no say over HCP holders in Parks do they if they are located within their jurisdiction as long as they are State Parks yes? Has anyone reading this ever had trouble CC'ing or OC'ing in Cedars of Lebanon?
Anyone had a similar experience with a deputy, PD, or "Ranger" making such a claim at another(or the same) unposted Park/"Recreation Area"?