Heading into law this Friday is Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1736, which will put into action something gun owners have been encouraging for years.

The law aimed to enact a “duty of care” on any person who posts their property as a gun-free zone, making them responsible for the safety of any handgun carry permit holder while the permit holder is on the posted premises as well as while during their travel to and from the premises and the location where the permit holder’s firearm is stored.

Can you imagine? Holding gun-free zone property accountable for injuries people sustained by being disarmed and left defenseless? Groundbreaking.

UPDATE: In the course of researching the Wisconsin legislation one of our readers wrote in the comments, I had a discussion with a friend of mine at the NRA where he opened up the TN bill and into the fray we went.

When SB 1736 was passed, politicians did so after adding a single amendment which, interestingly enough, scrubbed the entire bill by “deleting all language after the enacting clause”.

Why pass a bill with an amendment that changes the entire bill? Well, government pretty much ruins everything, don’t they?

But, dear patriots, the amended legislation still goes into law today and instead of doing what the original bill intended (because that would just be way too easy), they flipped it on it’s head by encouraging businesses to welcome concealed carriers by shielding them from liability.