CHANGE: Bill Haslam now favors gun rights. “Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Haslam told a Nashville meeting of the Tennessee Firearms Association that if lawmakers abolished the handgun-carry permit system and allowed people to go armed without permits, he would sign it into law.”

SayUncle comments: “And to think, just a few years ago, he was a member of the most powerful anti-gun lobby in the country. They grow up so fast.”