NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A recent court ruling on firearms has left Tennessee law enforcement, and the governor, with questions.

Following a lawsuit, a panel of judges in West Tennessee ruled last Friday that two state firearm laws were unconstitutional: one was a ban on guns in public parks and the other was a law against carrying a gun with the “intent to go armed.”

Both laws were argued as a violation of the Second Amendment by some pro-gun advocates in the state. Rep. Chris Todd (R-Madison County) told News 2 that “everybody seems overjoyed” by the ruling.

But how will local law enforcement agencies adjust?

Dickson County Sheriff Tim Eads said changing the already-broad “intent to go armed” law likely won’t impact much.

“I don’t think it changes a whole lot, anyway, other than it

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