Up in Arms: Georgia Governor To Sign Controversial Gun Bill Wednesday

[QuietDan]

Up in Arms: Georgia Governor To Sign Controversial Gun Bill Wednesday

 

April 22, 2014

 

BY GABE GUTIERREZ

 

ATLANTA – Its official name is the “Safe Carry Protection Act.”

 

But critics are calling it the “Guns Everywhere Bill.”

 

At noon Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal is scheduled to sign the sweeping legislation into law. One of the most permissive state gun laws in the nation, it will allow licensed owners to carry firearms into more public places than at any time in the past century, including bars and government buildings that don't have security checkpoints.

 

The law also authorizes school districts to appoint staffers to carry firearms. It allows churches to "opt-in" if they want to allow weapons. Bars could already “opt-in” to allow weapons, but under the new law they must opt out if they want to bar weapons. Permit-holders who accidentally bring a gun to an airport security checkpoint will now be allowed to pick up their weapon and leave with no criminal penalty. (At Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, a record 111 guns were found at TSA screening areas last year.)

 

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/arms-georgia-governor-sign-controversial-gun-bill-wednesday-n86941

Edited April 23, 2014 by QuietDan

[leroy]

Thanks for posting this... I think the state of georgia has hit a home run shot with this one...I saw the knoxville local TV news this mornin; and they were whining about it too...

 

I think the "take away" from all this is that georgia has a pretty good share of single welfare mothers and the usual chorus of the "anti-violence" black movement (...which i find laughable; they need guns more than anybody to protect themselves from their own children and imagined "night riders"... Reference the florida study on self defense shootings...), along with the other children of the forest that are scared of guns and gun owners who are howling to high heaven... They have lost the battle in the legislature and now they are resorting to making the usual claims of "dodge city" and "blood in the streets" to console each other in their loss on this issue...

 

The fact is that lots of people everywhere are edgy and they are being proactive in protecting themselves and their loved ones from thugs, perverts, dope heads, and "stone cold killas"... I say that's a good thing....Way to go Georgia citizens, legislature, and governor.... Keep up the good work.... Maybe the Tennessee political class will take a lesson from this....

 

leroy

[Hershmeister]

What a bullsh$t "news" piece. Listed under "investigations" and run not as a news piece but as an op ed or pr release from the brady group. And complete with the angelic picture of a murdered black child to boot. Treacly and predictable and utterly despicable. http://m.ajc.com/news/news/probe-continues-into-grayson-high-students-slaying/nYBzL/ "Three of the victim’s teenage classmates, who were accused of being in a gang called the Young Wavy Goons, have been in custody since February. However, Gwinnett Police Detective Andrew Whaley testified Tuesday at a preliminary hearing that two other people have since been implicated in the shooting of Paul Sampleton. ..... Police say Sampleton was bound and killed in his kitchen on Dec. 19, just minutes after he arrived home following early release from school for the holidays. The classmates are accused of targeting him because they coveted his expensive basketball shoes and electronics. So far, only Larnell Sillah, 16, is charged with murder. The other two young men — Romaine Stewart, 18, and Achiel Morgan, 15 — are charged with armed robbery. Police say Stewart and Morgan helped plan the heist but did not participate in it. Burglary charges also are pending against Sillah and Romaine for a September 2012 break-in at a house in the 1100 block of Stony Point in Grayson, which is in the neighborhood where the two teens lived, prosecutors said. A Sig Sauer .45-caliber handgun — along with other handguns, shotguns and assault rifles — was among a dozen firearms stolen from the home." Turns out the gangbangers sold the sig to a police CI for $150.....

[Hershmeister]

PS: maybe they would feel safer in chicago

[greenego]

"it will allow licensed owners to carry firearms into more public places than at any time in the past century, including bars and government buildings that don't have security checkpoints."

 

I take it this means GA carry permit holders. What about out of state holders?

[netmindr]

The law should apply to anyone with a Georgia permit, or a permit from any of the states that Georgia currently recognizes. 
Per http://www.handgunlaw.us/states/georgia.pdf they are:

 

Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona Colorado 

Florida, Idaho Indiana Iowa Kansas 

Kentucky Louisiana Michigan Mississippi Missouri 

Montana New Hampshire North Carolina North Dakota Oklahoma 

Pennsylvania South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah 

West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Edited April 23, 2014 by netmindr