TENNESSEE

In the first legislative session in which they

gained control, white supremacists passed "An Act to

Preserve the Peace and Prevent Homicide," which banned

the sale of all handguns except the expensive "Army

and Navy model handgun" which whites already owned or

could afford to buy, and blacks could not.

Tennessee revamped its economic handgun ban

nine years later, passing "An Act to Prevent the Sale

of Pistols," which was upheld in State v. Burgoyne, 75

Tenn. 173, 174 (1881). (GMU CR LJ, p. 74)