jfl

... I know, I know, lots of firearms law don't !!!

So I am back in North Georgia for a week.
My Florida CCW is good here.
Since July 2008 I can carry in restaurants under the 50% rule (like in Florida).

However, I cannot drink while carrying.

So, after the appetizers, I give my gun to my wife, she is allowed to have 2 guns, I am not carrying anymore, so I drink a beer.
Later, she gives me my gun back and hers, and legally drink her Gin and Tonic.

Or, I could drink a 6-pack before leaving the hotel and be legal (and slightly impaired) at the restaurant drinking iced tea.

Before you fire the flame-throwers, let me say that I am totally against CUI (carrying under the influence)

Maybe I should have posted this thread in the "Humor" section

Let me also say that I feel comfortable having one, repeat ONE, beer with a good dinner.

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automatic slim

I'm just wondering how the waiter reacts when he sees you two passing guns back and forth.

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torgo1968

So what exactly was the point of this post?

If I understand it, it was to tell us how you broke the spirit of a law to stay within the letter of a law while passing guns back and forth in a public place because you couldn't or wouldn't eat without alcohol.

jfl

No, not really.

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torgo1968

Ok.

dukalmighty

The law is stupid but I believe the spirit of the law is to keep people that choose to carry guns in SD, alcohol free while doing so,you have shown how that law can be skirted so they may decide they will fix it and just ban guns in any place that serves alcohol

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Holger

How about the VA restaurant carry laws? I can't carry concealed in places that serve alcohol. However, I can open carry in such places and even drink a beer. Now, if I was retired LEO or a Commonwealth's Attorney, I can carry concealed in restaurants that serve alcohol AND drink. Note: For the CA's, no CHP is required and no training is required to carry concealed. Make sense?

crankinNM

It seems that "rules where made to be broken" applies here.

We are a nation of rule breakers.........we pretty much have to be.

When you break the rules....keep it to yourself.

Bprepared

I didn't think there was a 50% rule here in Florida

Anubis

I see the point in the title of the thread. If the Georgia law does in fact state simply that drinking alcohol while carrying is prohibited, jfl clearly demonstrates its fallacy. The law should have been written to provide a logically rigorous prohibition. For example, "carry of concealed weapons is prohibited by any person whose blood alcohol content is above amount X while the person is outside his or her owned, rented, or leased private property".

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