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Gov. Kemp signs bill allowing concealed carry of handguns without a license
The AJC ^ | 04-12-2022 | Maya T Prabhu

Posted on 04/12/2022 3:51:35 PM PDT by ealgeone

Standing outside Gable Sporting Goods in Douglasville, where Gov. Brian Kemp said he bought his daughter Lucy’s first handgun, the governor signed a bill that allows Georgians to carry concealed handguns without first getting a license from the state.

Making good on a 2018 campaign promise, Kemp signed Senate Bill 319, referred to by backers as “constitutional carry.”

SB 319 allows a “lawful weapons carrier” to carry a concealed handgun everywhere license holders currently are allowed — meaning guns would still be prohibited in places such as the secured areas of airports or government buildings that have security at the entrance, including the state Capitol.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; constitutionalcarry; desperation; georgia; kemp
Kemp knows he's in the conservative doghouse. Signing a bill that partially restores a Constitutional right.
1 posted on 04/12/2022 3:51:35 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Effective immediately.
Open or concealed.
If you are eligible to have a carry permit,
you do not need to pay the money to get one.
The only reason to get one now is for interstate reciprocity.


2 posted on 04/12/2022 3:59:08 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: ealgeone

An armed society is a polite society.

Ideally, many Georgians will advantage themselves enabling a few citizen reprisals signaling to criminals that they need to “get lucky” as Clint Eastwood famously said.

We’ll watch crime stats in Georgia. This could turn out very well.


3 posted on 04/12/2022 4:25:19 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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To: ealgeone

Excellent news, but it still doesn’t get him out of the stolen-election crapper...


4 posted on 04/12/2022 4:26:02 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: ealgeone

What the Georgia SCOTUS said about Georgia’s first attempt to ban handguns, back in 1846.

* Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846).

“’The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State.”


5 posted on 04/12/2022 4:30:44 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (BACK in Facebook jail for posting a euneuch does not voluntarily submit to surgery like a tranny)
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To: ealgeone

One more blue-to-green update for that US map of constitutional carry !


6 posted on 04/12/2022 4:34:04 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: SuperLuminal

Illustrates the mess he’s in.


7 posted on 04/12/2022 4:39:13 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Repeal The 17th

Still keep your CCL current.

In case you travel to another state.
Or when the government revokes your privileges.

Effective immediately.
Open or concealed.
If you are eligible to have a carry permit,
you do not need to pay the money to get one.
The only reason to get one now is for interstate reciprocity.


8 posted on 04/12/2022 4:45:50 PM PDT by Dacula
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To: ealgeone

Doesn’t make up for the hsit he pulled in the election. He’s a criminal.


9 posted on 04/12/2022 4:50:18 PM PDT by OKSooner
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To: ealgeone

BUT you better have a lawyer on call! I had one and a license. Just sayin’, common sense.


10 posted on 04/12/2022 4:58:03 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: chiller

It might cut back on the number of road rage incidents too. These days, driving on the 85/75 connector after 9pm is a risky move.


11 posted on 04/12/2022 4:58:41 PM PDT by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: Dacula

They make the laws impossible to know from state to state.
Is there a site one can learn?


12 posted on 04/12/2022 4:59:14 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: ealgeone

Nice, simply NOT KNOWING WHO is armed deters a lot of robberies and idiotic outbursts. Good to hear some positive news!


13 posted on 04/12/2022 5:03:15 PM PDT by mythenjoseph
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To: ealgeone

Still won’t save your scumbag traitorous butt from getting tossed from office.


14 posted on 04/12/2022 5:04:11 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: ealgeone

Kick his ass out regardless.


15 posted on 04/12/2022 6:09:59 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (You get what you let occur with no resistance. Everything Joepedo n' felons do is on your head.)
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