Posted on 03/13/2009 5:32:17 PM PDT by LTCJ
A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that licensed firearms owners may not carry guns into parts of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
GeorgiaCarry.org, a gun-rights group, and state Rep. Timothy Bearden (R-Villa Rica) challenged the airport’s ban on guns. They contended a law enacted last year overrode a longstanding policy prohibiting visitors to the airport from carrying firearms in non-secure areas.
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Please Freep the poll on the article link asking if you agree with the ruling.
And if you are a Georgia citizen, please join GeorgiaCarry.org.
Yes 13.33% 786
No 86.67% 5111
The FEDs are over stepping.
Freeped.
FREEP THIS POLL ***PING!*** FRmail me if you want to be added or removed from the Fearless Poll-Freeping Freepers Ping list. And be sure to ping me to any polls that need Freepin', if I miss them. (looks like a medium volume list) (gordongekko909, founder of the pinglist, stays on the list until his ghost signs up for the list)
Ping for Two If By Sea, please.
Until one of those 90 million, named Mohammed, brings in a gun and calmly picks off a dozen or so infidels before security sends him to his 70 virgins (who, to his horror, all look like Miss Piggy).
Done.
Yes 13.21% 788
No 86.79% 5177
Freeped.
Do you agree with the court’s ruling that guns should be banned at the airport?
Yes 13.19% 788
No 86.81% 5188
I think we should ban 1st Amendment rights for Code Pink. See how that goes over in the LSM.
Totally unconstitutional. It expands the no-gun area to some undefined boundary. They could say that since you could shoot at an aircraft with a rifle, then any place within 1 mile of any possible flight path of an arriving or departing flight could be a no 2A zone. Even for people passing on the highway.
Worse, he overruled the guy that wrote the legislation, Rep.Bearden.
Do you agree with the court’s ruling that guns should be banned at the airport?
Yes 12.78% 789
No 87.22% 5383
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