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The Associated Press reports:
In the wake of a deadly school shooting last month, Republican lawmakers in Tennessee awarded final passage Tuesday to a proposal that would further protect gun and ammunition dealers, manufacturers and sellers against lawsuits.
The Senate’s 19-9 vote sends the bill to Republican Gov. Bill Lee, despite pushback from Democratic lawmakers saying their GOP counterparts are trying to shield gun companies just weeks after the Nashville school shooting that killed six people, including three 9-year-olds.
The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Joey Hensley from Hohenwald, said his legislation doesn’t prevent any other proposal from passing. “This is just to try to help businesses in this state that have chosen to come here, to give them a little civil liability,” Hensley said.
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Hensley last appeared on JMG in 2022 when he introduced a bill that would ban “obscene” books from public school libraries.
He first appeared on JMG in 2019 when he introduced a bill to ban same-sex couples from adopting.
Four-times-married Hensley, a physician, returned to our attention the following year when he was accused of prescribing opioids to family members and his girlfriend. His girlfriend, not incidentally, was his married cousin.
Hensley was also the sponsor of Tennessee’s “Don’t Say Gay” public schools bill and he authored a bill which would have declared children conceived via artificial insemination to be illegitimate.
In 2017 he was accused of adultery in a local couple’s divorce filing. In 2015 one of his several ex-wives took out an order of protection against him after she claimed he deliberately hit her twice with his car.
Following a deadly school shooting last month, Republican lawmakers in Tennessee on Tuesday approved a proposal to give gun and ammunition dealers, manufacturers and sellers more protection against lawsuits. https://t.co/j5NZsqqd3N
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 19, 2023