April 6th, 2008, 09:47 AM
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Member
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Acworth, GA
Posts: 467
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Originally Posted by mrhutch
d'oh!
by "off limits", does that still qualify as under DNR control, where you can only be arrested for criminal trespass if you are caught with a gun and then refuse to leave? cause if so, i'll take the risk, and will be willing to leave if necessary. haven't seen a ranger in that park in the 2 years i've been going, and they don't exactly do strip searches at the gate.
if not, then $#!+.
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NO, it is a federal felony to carry at Kennesaw Mountain, same as any other National Park...for now.
This AJC article from last week explains how it will go down: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/polit...y_be_allowed_to.html
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Why you soon may be allowed to carry concealed at Kennesaw Mountain
Thursday, April 3, 2008, 04:06 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Friday is about to become a very big payday for gun rights advocates.
Here’s the deal:
Two bills will move, not one. H.B. 257, which now permits those with concealed weapons permits to carry in restaurants and on rail and bus systems, is but one chunk.
H.B. 89 will also move. This measure will carry the watered-down, guns-in-parking-lots language that the Senate, National Rifle Association and the Georgia Chamber of Commerce have wrestled with for two sessions, plus other goodies for the NRA.
Right now, chances of passage for both must be rated very good. Opposition is scarce. Joe Fleming, lobbyist for the Georgia chamber, says his group will be focused H.B. 89, to make sure the parking lots language doesn’t change.
Whether restaurant groups, MARTA and other transit systems raise objections — and raise them quickly enough — will determine whether H.B. 257 has tough sledding.
When it leaves a House-Senate conference committee tomorrow, H.B. 89 will be significantly changed. The parking-lot language, stripped out by the House, will be restored.
The language redefining “public gatherings” where firearms remain prohibited has been abandoned. You will not be permitted to carry a concealed weapon into church.
But the bill will:
— Require expedited treatment for concealed weapons permits by the probate court judges who issue them;
— Relax state restrictions on where firearms can be stored in vehicles;
— Make “straw” purchases of firearms illegal — a way of prohibiting lawsuits of the type filed by New York against gun dealers in Georgia, alleging they are sources for weapons that flow into states where buying a gun is much more difficult or time-consuming.
— And it will allow licensed concealed weapons to be carried in state parks and historical sites.
This last part is important, and here’s why:
U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has said his department would suggest new regulations by the end of this month that would amount to the biggest relaxation of gun-toting rules in federal parks in more than a century.
Basically, he said that concealed weapons would be permitted — if the U.S. parks are located in states that permit carrying in their parks. So passage of H.B. 89 would insure that, someday soon, visitors to Kennesaw National Battlefield Park and the federal Chattahoochee River park would also be able to carry concealed.
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Forget all that stuff about concealed concealed concealed in the article. Open carry is still allowed with a GFL. |
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