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Tennessee
Below you are links to
informational sites related to the Tennessee Gun laws and regulations. (
Legal lawyer stuff as follows:
Center-fire- Greenfield Industries are not responsible nor
endorses any information found on listed links. blah, blah,
blah. You get the picture. Take everything you read with a
grain of salt.) We have even included some
comical links such as the
Brady Campaign , because everybody enjoys a little
fictional reading from time to time.
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Ten thousand years ago,
Tennessee was inhabited by Native American people of various
tribes. The first white man known to have come to Tennessee
was the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1540. Sometime
after de Soto's explorations, the native population diminished
and the area was largely used as a hunting ground by the
Choctaw, Cherokee, Shawnee and Chickasaw. The first permanent
white settler was William Bean, who in 1769, built a cabin on
the Watauga River in northeast Tennessee. The first
constitution ever written by white men in America was drafted
in 1772 by the Watauga Association at Sycamore Shoals near
Elizabethton, Tennessee. It was patterned after the
constitution of the Iroquois League of Nations, a "federal"
system of government developed 200 years earlier for five
eastern Native American tribes.
In 1779, Jonesborough became the first chartered town in what
is now Tennessee. Also, by 1779, white longhunters were
pushing into Middle Tennessee with settlers following their
trails. They built forts in what are now Davidson, Robertson
and Sumner counties. By 1810, a thriving population was
centered in and around Fort Nashboro -- soon to be called
Nashville -- and people continued to immigrate along the
Cumberland River, the Tennessee River and the Natchez Trace
until they spread to the Mississippi River.
Tennessee settlers played a vital part in winning the American
Revolutionary War. The "Overmountain Men" helped to defeat the
British at the Battle of King's Mountain, a victory which
proved to be a major turning point in the war.
Tennessee was at first part of North Carolina, and then was
known briefly as the State of Franklin. It later became part
of the "U.S. Territory South of the River Ohio," and finally
was admitted to the Union as the State of Tennessee, the 16th
state, on June 1, 1796
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