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After school shooting, Tennessee gun laws likely to remain lax

As Nashville residents reeled from a fatal grade school shooting that left six dead, a federal judge quietly cleared the way to drop the minimum age for Tennesseans to carry handguns publicly without a permit to 18 -- just two years after a new law set the age at 21.

People participate in a gun control rally Saturday, June 11, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. (Nicole Hester/The Tennessean via AP)

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