Carry at the NRA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia

ammoland ^ | 25 April, 2017 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

This year, 2017, the NRA Annual Meeting is being held in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center. 80,000 people are expected to attend.  There will be 450,000 square feet of exhibits. As with the past two annual meetings, attendees will be able to carry firearms in accordance with state laws. In Georgia a carry permit is required.

Georgia recognizes carry permits from 32 other states.

Handgunlaw.us lists the states.

Virginia is not listed on the official Georgia.gov page, but I understand that Georgia reciprocity with Virgina has been restored. You are responsible for validating your own information.

From handgunlaw.us:

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming all recognize Georgia-issued firearms licenses. 

Georgia recognizes both resident and non-resident permits from the above states. Georgia carry law covers both handguns and knives that are designed for defense or offense, and have blades that are over five inches in length.

A carry permit is required for both open and concealed carry.

There are gun free zones in Georgia law, but most do not apply to the  Georgia World Congress Center where the Annual Meeting will be held.  However, the food court at the CNN Center in their hotel complex is a gun free zone. There are other areas in the CNN Center, which has a number of retail shops, that ban guns.

[marktwain]

I was at the NRA Meeting in Atlanta during set up yesterday.

I saw both open and concealed carry.

[wastoute]

Somehow I doubt the fascists from Antifa will show up there.

[Yo-Yo]

Amazing that whenever the NRA Annual Convention rolls into a town, the local crime rate experiences a significant drop. I wonder why that is?

[Reno89519]

Boycott “CNN Center, which has a number of retail shops, that ban guns.”

[Redcitizen]

That’s an interesting fact.

[Lazamataz]

You are in town???

[The Toll]

Major PEW PEW weekend!

[Lazamataz]

Feel like attending? What’s the cost?

[RandallFlagg]

I wish they’d come back to Colorado.
They haven’t been here since Columbine happened, and I couldn’t go then.
That, and the GRPC.

[RandallFlagg]

If memory serves, it’s free for NRA members.

[Lazamataz]

So 25 dollars.

Because I need to re-up. :)

[RandallFlagg]

Every time I re-up, I buy three-year memberships just to stay consecutive. I started doing this in 2013.
By next year, I’ll finally be a voting member.

[The Toll]

If you’re a member the show floor is free. If not, your only option is to join the NRA at check-in. That can be as low as $35.

[Lazamataz]

Wanna go?

[The Toll]

Possibly. I have a Swap Meet at Tru-Prep I need to go to tomorrow and then I am dropping an Apex trigger in my M&P on Sunday. HA! I got gun stuff all over this weekend. Depending on how long the trigger job takes, I might be free Sunday after 12:00 or so?

[Lazamataz]

‘S a plan!

[Only1choice____Freedom]

So you trigger people for a living.

Good for you.

[The Toll]

It might take a lifetime for me to get this new one installed. HA

[Yo-Yo]

And make no mistake, it is a fact.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/447138/absurdly-inaccurate-stereotype-will-not-die