Official Safety Department Release On Registering Guns Used In Permit Classes
Posted on December 18, 2008 at 5:02 pmThe presser:
This week the Department of Safety mailed new Handgun Safety School Class Roster forms to all 164 Handgun Safety Schools across the state.
The new forms inadvertently included three sections that requested the make of the gun, handgun serial number, and whether the school or student owned the handgun. This should not have been done and the sections were included in error. These new forms had been created in response to a Comptroller’s Performance Audit finding relative to verifying an applicant’s successful completion of a handgun safety course. The intent of the new form was to verify participation in the handgun safety course.
TDOS rules and regulations require records of students who participated in the handgun safety course. This allows the department to verify that an individual applying for a permit has successful completed the course with the handgun safety school. Failure to verify that individuals who apply for a handgun carry permit have successfully completed a course with an approved school may potentially allow individuals to submit false certificates and obtain a handgun carry permit.
A letter from Handgun Permit Unit Director Lisa Knight is being sent to handgun school owners informing them that the Department of Safety has instructed them not to complete the three sections. The Handgun Unit is in the process of revising the form and mailing new forms that omit those three sections.
“There was no intent by the Department of Safety to create any sort of gun registry.” stated Commissioner Dave Mitchell. “The department regrets any confusion or misunderstanding caused by the issuance of the new handgun safety roster form.”
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[...] TENNESSEE SAFETY DEPARTMENT denies registering guns. [...]
[...] permit course attendees. They quickly said they didn’t mean it. Now, they have issued an official statement:
They got caught and now they have to back down so they blame it on some sort of bureaucratic snafu.
Of course it could be a simple mistake, but given the general track record of government one might be forgiven in assuming it was malicious rather than innocent.
Has the perp of this ‘confusion or misunderstanding’ been fired, disciplined or in any other way punished for their ‘error’?
Same question for the perp’s supervisor for not properly overseeing the perp’s work?
Same question for the Comptroller and their office for initiating this ‘error’?
Error? Yeah, right.
This is senseless duplication of effort, costing the schools time and money. Last time I saw the “Certificate of Completion” is had the make, model and caliber of the gun in the lower left corner. TDOS gets a copy of this form and it CERTIFIES the student passed the course. Will an additional form make a difference– I think not. It’s just another mindless requirment thought up by a bureaucrat with too much time on his hands. It’s unneccessry and redundant. Wise up and get rid of the form completely.