GAME-CHANGING COURT CASE FOR TENNESSEE HUNTERS?
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- So long as you're not shooting within 100 yards of a dwelling or 50 yards of a public road, hunters in Tennessee can hunt property inside a city's limits. But a court case in Sweetwater, Tennessee could change that. The Tennessee Wildlife Federation is monitoring fines levied against duck hunters who were ticketed for firing guns on their own hunting property. While previous cases like this have been struck down, the state of Tennessee is changing as more people move in from the Western and Northern states. Could that impact this case and well-established hunting laws?
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That's the problem, these idiots moving to our state!
When this case goes to trial the court will rule in favor of the hunters. A city ordinance is NOT a law. The state of Tennessee allows hunting, not a city, nor township-the state. So, if these hunters are legally hunting ducks with shotguns, and they have satisfied the “state’s” legal requirements for distance boundaries regarding dwellings there is absolutely no crime. As far as the ordinance goes they can write them a meaningless ticket that will be kicked down the road if it were to ever see the courtroom. I have firsthand experience with almost the exact situation and hunting prevailed. People have legally deer hunted within the city limits of Oak Ridge for years.
Well if that’s a city ordinance the city police and county sheriffs can’t carry guns. It’s a city law
A city ordinance is not a law
Common sense and TWRA are 2 things that shouldn’t be used in the same sentence !
General Issues Opinion on Hunting in Cities
Tuesday, June 19, 2001 Richard Simms
It is legal to hunt inside metropolitian city limits.
That’s the opinion of the Tennessee Attorney General.
As long as you are on your own land or have permission from the landowner, are using an appropriate firearm, possess a hunting license and hunt in season, then hunting is legal anywhere in Tennessee. Put simply, the state's hunting laws supersede local ordinances.
The opinion follows a legislative battle when a couple of bills were introduced by Representative Gary Odum to give cities the ability to limit hunting in urban settings.
Law trumps ordinance.
City can’t regulate hunting but city can regulate discharge of a firearm in city limits.
Come look, guys. Right in the middle of town. Street on both sides, school close by, homes all around. Get the facts before you comment.
So? State law supercedes city.
If it is further than state law requires then it is legal
Here in Jackson tn a person cannot hunt with a gun inside the city limits. But you can hunt with a bow.
This may be a case of where the hunters might have been being “bad neighbors “but the point is who ?can tell you where you can hunt or not hunt, especially, when you are on you own property !
I didn't hear mention of noise pollution in a populated area. Duck hunting can involve periods of intensive shooting. Making enemies will not help gun ownership or usage in the long run.
Interested to see how this mess turns out.
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively.
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Hold to your rights boys.
State supercedes city. And there's no rule about hunting near a road,just not from a road or shoot across one.
I aint so sure this issue hasnt went to court..although don't know. Heard n read this topic off n on tndeer.
Pretty sure Collierville and multiple other cities are the same way .
Ive bow hunted in city limits 🤔 but Ive never fired a gun
I wish I could upload a picture of google maps to show where this property is located! It’s literally in the center of the town with schools, neighborhoods and business close by!? Why would anyone in their right mind think this would be a safe and wise place to hunt??
It's a matter of common sense where every application differs. I don't know what it's like in that particular area but i do know that steel shot being fired into the air from a shotgun is going to run out of juice very quickly and scatter. When it comes back down it's not going to pose a danger but it can tick some people off. I don't feel like city limits should be the term to say no hunting. I hunted in a place for the better part of 40 yrs with not one bad incident. That area was annexed and became city limits maybe two yrs ago. The area hasn't really changed other than one main road was made wider and they put up lights along it. It could be hunted today just like i always did with no safety issues. It boils down to common sense of knowing limitations and personal responsibility. Other than that i say if you don't like it don't move here! If how we do things is so bad why do you want to move here so bad? Use common sense and with that live and let live!
Lived in east Tn my whole life and thought it was illegal to hunt in city limits of any town with a gun. If it’s the property I am thinking of it’s behind 35.59308° N, 84.46859° W
Don't buy land to hunt on inside any city limits. (ya mite want to consider county & state).
hear in calif they use suppessars now they will be legal every where but fish and wild life don't like this they cant hear it
Over 30 yrs. ago, an employee of mine was forced to remove (under threat of fines , and /or jailtime) a treestand from his property in the city of Dickson Tn. and he was bow hunting? This is nothing new, but it is common sense, and I owned acreage that was annexed in another city where we legally deer hunted with firearms. Nothing there changed.
Yep its illegal to discharge a firearm inside the city limits, it's been that way for years (way before people started moving in). It's the same reason that I have always had to bow hunt our property which is large but within the city limits. A ton of cities have similar ordinances here in TN. I live here in Sweetwater and I don't remember anyone ever duck hunting there personally. I love duck and dove hunting but I'm personally not going to inside the city limits.
Doesn't mean nothing, State hunting laws supercedes Any city ordnance.
Twenty to thirty years ago the same issue came up in Vonore (also in Monroe County TN). Additionally, I had a family member cited, circa 1970, for discharging a firearm inside the City Limits of a Blount County TN town. In order to possibly stand a chance in Court, these hunters will need to have an ironclad history of routine past hunting on the property. Rumors of past hunting will not suffice.
If they were legally hunting, then they should have fought it, because State hunting laws supercedes any city ordnance.