{"id":113212,"date":"2025-11-09T18:32:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=113212"},"modified":"2025-11-09T18:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:32:32","slug":"113212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=113212","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Gun Owners of America Wins in Memphis; Judge Declares City\u2019s Illegal Gun Control Ordinance \u201cDead as a Doornail\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Gun Owners of America Wins in Memphis\u2014Judge Declares City\u2019s Illegal Gun Control Ordinance \u201cDead as a Doornail\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 7, 2025<\/p>\n

Memphis, TN<\/b>\u00a0\u2014 Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) are celebrating a major victory for Tennessee gun owners after the\u00a0Shelby County Chancery Court rejected the City of Memphis\u2019<\/a>\u00a0unconstitutional and illegal gun-control ordinance.<\/p>\n

In its ruling, the Court made clear that Memphis\u2019 sweeping local gun restrictions were not just unlawful\u2014but entirely void.<\/p>\n

The following are two major points outlined in the order:<\/p>\n

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  1. The City CONCEDED its ordinance violates state law.<\/b>
    \nMemphis admitted that every line of its handgun-carry ban, vehicle-storage rule, so-called \u201cassault rifle\u201d ban, and red-flag scheme is 100% illegal under Tenn. Code Ann. \u00a7 39-17-1314.\u00a0(Order pp. 3, 9\u201311)<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The Judge called the ordinance \u201cDEAD AS A DOORNAIL.\u201d<\/b>
    \nThe Chancellor wrote that \u201cThe Ordinance and those who proposed it engaged in \u2018virtue signaling,\u2019\u201d but \u201cthe Ordinance is as dead as a proverbial doornail as a matter of Tennessee law.\u201d\u00a0(Order p. 6)<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Simply put, the\u00a0Memphis ordinance is entirely unenforceable<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Erich Pratt, Senior Vice President of Gun Owners of America, issued the following statement:
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    \n\u201cMemphis may be known as \u2018Bluff City,\u2019 but this ridiculous ordinance is a textbook example of a city passing an illegal law just to make a political point. Of course, Memphis was bluffing\u2014and waved the white flag the moment GOA walked into court. The judge simply read their surrender out loud. Litigation like this is critical to defending law-abiding gun owners from reckless and unconstitutional actions by local politicians. Memphis\u2019s deceitful \u2018virtue signaling\u2019 endangered residents and visitors alike, exposing them to unlawful prosecution. Such abuses have no place in a constitutional republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

    John Velleco, Executive Vice President of Gun Owners Foundation, issued the following statement:<\/b><\/p>\n

    \u201cMemphis just got schooled in Gun Law 101: You can\u2019t \u2018virtue-signal\u2019 your way around a state preemption statute. The City admitted its ordinance is illegal, the judge branded it \u2018dead as a proverbial doornail,\u2019 and the court stamped it \u2018not enforceable\u2014full stop.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Gun Owners of America Wins in Memphis; Judge Declares City\u2019s Illegal Gun Control Ordinance \u201cDead as a Doornail\u201d Gun Owners of America Wins in Memphis\u2014Judge Declares City\u2019s Illegal Gun Control Ordinance \u201cDead as a Doornail\u201d FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 7, 2025 Memphis, TN\u00a0\u2014 Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) are celebrating … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113213,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113212\/revisions\/113213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}