GunnSmokeer
Senior Member
So, fellow gun owners.... the Georgia General Assembly is in session!
I don't think there are any anti-gun bills that have a snowball's chance in Hades of getting passed.
Are there any pro-gun, pro-carry bills in the hopper that we can ask our State representatives in the House and Senate to vote FOR?
I don't know if there any bills already drafted that deal with any of these issues, but here's my wish list for this legislative session, a REALISTIC wish list, not a "PIE IN THE SKY, UNICORNS FARTING CLOUDS OF COTTON CANDY" type fantasy list:
1.) Clarify that in any public-private partnership, and any lease of government-owned facilities or land for an event managed and controlled by a private entity, the RIGHT TO CARRY applies, and PREEMPTION prevents either the government or the private management company from having any rule or policy against guns in places that are not already off-limits were O.C.G.A state laws.
2.) Establish as a matter of tort law that there is no duty of care to forbid or discourage lawfully-armed persons from visiting or patronizing a business. State that as a matter of public policy, the State of Georgia announces that it believes that when vetted and screened law-abiding citizens with carry permits go out in public armed, all of the public benefits through the suppression of crime.
(this leaves open the possibility that if some business bans guns anyway, and some GWL holder disarms to comply with that rule and is harmed by a criminal there, the property owner or business manger who enacted the stupid "no guns allowed" rule might be liable.)
3.) Put more preemption in place to stop City and County governments from banning recreational shooting, hunting, and firearms training where it is reasonably safe. Current law lets cities and counties do anything they want on this topic, including a complete ban on discharging firearms, or saying you have to have 100 acres of land and no buildings of any kind (even barns, outhouses, or sheds) within 500 feet of the firing line.
I say the State should tell counties that only reasonable restrictions may be enacted, and any shooting range that appears to have a backstop "reasonably calculated" to catch and stop the bullets fired there cannot be outlawed by local ordinances or zoning regulations.
I don't think there are any anti-gun bills that have a snowball's chance in Hades of getting passed.
Are there any pro-gun, pro-carry bills in the hopper that we can ask our State representatives in the House and Senate to vote FOR?
I don't know if there any bills already drafted that deal with any of these issues, but here's my wish list for this legislative session, a REALISTIC wish list, not a "PIE IN THE SKY, UNICORNS FARTING CLOUDS OF COTTON CANDY" type fantasy list:
1.) Clarify that in any public-private partnership, and any lease of government-owned facilities or land for an event managed and controlled by a private entity, the RIGHT TO CARRY applies, and PREEMPTION prevents either the government or the private management company from having any rule or policy against guns in places that are not already off-limits were O.C.G.A state laws.
2.) Establish as a matter of tort law that there is no duty of care to forbid or discourage lawfully-armed persons from visiting or patronizing a business. State that as a matter of public policy, the State of Georgia announces that it believes that when vetted and screened law-abiding citizens with carry permits go out in public armed, all of the public benefits through the suppression of crime.
(this leaves open the possibility that if some business bans guns anyway, and some GWL holder disarms to comply with that rule and is harmed by a criminal there, the property owner or business manger who enacted the stupid "no guns allowed" rule might be liable.)
3.) Put more preemption in place to stop City and County governments from banning recreational shooting, hunting, and firearms training where it is reasonably safe. Current law lets cities and counties do anything they want on this topic, including a complete ban on discharging firearms, or saying you have to have 100 acres of land and no buildings of any kind (even barns, outhouses, or sheds) within 500 feet of the firing line.
I say the State should tell counties that only reasonable restrictions may be enacted, and any shooting range that appears to have a backstop "reasonably calculated" to catch and stop the bullets fired there cannot be outlawed by local ordinances or zoning regulations.
