KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A new Tennessee law now requires public school educators to teach students about firearm safety.

The law calls for students as young as kindergarteners to learn how to tell a toy gun from a real one.

This school year K-12 students can learn everything from safe firearm storage to the importance of never touching a found firearm.

Chad Gann is a wildlife officer and a range manager at John Sevier Hunter Education Center. He teaches people about proper firearm safety protocols.

The Tennessee Department of Education and the Department of Safety and Homeland Security are working with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

Together, they established an age-appropriate firearm safety guideline instruction for schools to use.

"It teaches kids what they should do if th

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