“The handgun battle is heading from Capitol Hill to City Hall. Local governments and advocates for firearms owners are gearing up for a summer face-off over how far to take a new state law that lets people with carry permits bring handguns into parks. City councils across Tennessee … are moving to reaffirm their bans on handguns in parks following passage of a new state law. But people opposed to handgun restrictions are mobilizing to block their efforts. ‘I don’t think it’s necessarily reasonable to close all of them,’ John Harris, executive director of the Tennessee Firearms Association, said of Metro’s plans to keep parks closed to handguns. ‘I don’t think it’s necessarily reasonable to close any of them.’” (06/29/09)