Nope, says the Tennessee Lawyer Basic in a Mar. 14 opinion (No. 22-04) that was simply posted on Westlaw:

The prohibition in Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-1306 towards carrying weapons in buildings wherein judicial proceedings are in progress could also be moderately construed to use solely to these buildings wherein a choose typically conducts judicial proceedings, corresponding to courthouses and felony justice services. It doesn’t seem that the Basic Meeting meant Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-1306 to use to buildings from which a choose conducts a judicial continuing remotely by convention name or videoconference, such because the choose’s personal residence or one other related constructing {[or] to different buildings corresponding to personal residences, enterprise workplaces or different related buildings from which non-judicial contributors—e.g., attorneys or witnesses—would possibly take part in judicial proceedings by convention name or videoconference.} …

First, “[t]he apparent intent of [Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-1306] is to make sure the protection of judges, attorneys, courtroom personnel, litigants, witnesses, and observers current within the courtroom and to guarantee the right decorum and deportment throughout judicial proceedings.” In different phrases, the intent is to guard individuals in courthouses—i.e., in buildings the place their participation in judicial proceedings requires them to come back into contact with others who could pose a danger if they’re armed. However a lawyer or choose or witness taking part in a judicial continuing remotely from his or her own residence or workplace doesn’t face the dangers related to bodily presence in courthouses, so there isn’t a purpose to increase the that means of “constructing” to incorporate buildings from which persons are taking part remotely….

Second, the exemptions [to the statute] evince a legislative intent to incorporate solely such buildings as courthouses and felony justice services wherein judicial proceedings are historically and usually carried out, as a result of these exemptions apply to officers and different individuals who would solely be in courthouses—specifically, regulation enforcement officers, bailiffs, marshals, and different courtroom officers who’ve “duty for shielding individuals or property or offering safety.”

Third, when Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-1306 was enacted in 1989, the business web had not been developed, and distant participation in judicial proceedings was in no way commonplace. Thus, it’s unlikely that the legislature meant “buildings” to incorporate buildings from which individuals take part remotely in judicial proceedings. Had that been the intent, the Basic Meeting might have and would have carried out that intent by amending the statute as expertise developed to permit distant participation. On the contrary, whereas the statute has been amended a number of occasions since 1989, not one of the amendments proof an intent to incorporate buildings from which individuals are remotely taking part in judicial proceedings by convention name or video convention.

Fourth, the constitutional-doubt canon would make a courtroom disinclined to interpret the prohibition in Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-1306 broadly to embody personal residences, since firearm possession there’s protected by the Second Modification. Construing Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-1306 as making use of solely to these buildings wherein a choose typically conducts judicial proceedings, corresponding to courthouses and felony justice services, avoids constitutional battle and safeguards Second Modification rights. See D.C. v. Heller (2008) (“[N]othing in our opinion needs to be taken to solid doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms … in delicate locations corresponding to colleges and authorities buildings ….”).

In sum, the prohibition in Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-1306 towards carrying weapons in buildings wherein judicial proceedings are in progress could also be moderately construed to use solely to these buildings wherein a choose typically conducts judicial proceedings, corresponding to courthouses and felony justice services. It doesn’t seem that the Basic Meeting meant Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-1306 to use to buildings from which a choose conducts a judicial continuing remotely by convention name or videoconference, such because the choose’s personal residence or one other related constructing.