Tennessee Firearms Assoc. Inc.

I am live with a relative who has a felony charge from 15 years ago. Can I obtain a gun permit or CW? if so will endanger my relative with authorities if I have a gun? It was a non violent felony, no drugs, no domestic violence,involved. Also I do not have nor ever had any type of record more dangerous than a speeding ticket.

Generally, federal law is the main issue here and it provides that your decision to live with someone who is a "prohibited person" does not deprive you of your rights to purchase and own firearms nor to obtain, under state law, a permit. What does happen is that specific precautions need to be taken in order to preclude that individual from have "access" to the firearms, so you will need a safe or other security device because what you don't want is the firearm to just be "laying around" and then that individual to get charged with "felon in possession" violations and/or to be accused yourself of transferring a firearm to someone who you knew could not possess it.