Here are the 3 gun laws on Memphis’ upcoming ballot
“Gun violence affects Shelby County different than it does any other county in the state. It affects Memphis differently than it affects any other city,” City Council Chairman JB Smiley Jr. said Thursday, Oct. 10. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Here’s how to find the three gun referendums on the Nov. 5 ballot and then translate the wordy language in which they are written.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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