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http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/04/02/guns_0403.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab Please hit this poll and let them know that, yes, you agree with the Senate, which yesterday passed a bill authorizing carry on mass transit. If there is one place you need a gun in...

Apparently, the Atlanta Journal Constitution finds GeorgiaCarry.org's mission to be against their values. http://www.georgiacarry.org/cms/2007/08/23/gco-is-a-pro-gun-group-with-a-dangerous-agenda/ She somehow manages to compare Georgia firearms license holders in a local park to gang...

From VCDL Alert. http://www.georgiapacking.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4381 I think the member is a member here.

GUN BAN ALERT! Fayette County is considering adopting a preempted ordinance on possession or use of firearms in its parks. Please see this GCO post immediately! Board of Commissioners meeting is this Thursday evening! GCO's John Monroe was interviewed by the local newspaper, so...

GCO filed a lawsuit against Coweta County, Georgia, recently. The county answered and claims that the preemption law, which states a county may not "regulate in any manner" the carrying and possession of firearms does not apply to its ordinance banning the carrying and possession of firearms in...

Clayton Cramer has written a new book that started out as an answer to Michael Bellesile's anti-gun fantasy, The Arming of America. Armed America Is Shipping Instapundit mentions that my new book is shipping at Amazon, and observes: I expect it will be quite good. Thanks for the vote...

From today's VCDL Alert: The event that VCDL Board member Dennis O'Connor describes below happened in a SunTrust branch a couple of days ago. SunTrust does not ban their law-abiding customers from legally carrying a firearm for self defense. Had this been a Wachovia or a BB&T, both of...

Art Eatman: Art, will the Herald Tribune work? :D http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061128/ZNYT02/611280302 The article also points out that "In asking a judge for the no-knock warrant before the raid, the narcotics investigator named in the warrant, Jason R...

HB 6 has been introduced in the Georgia General Assembly. This bill bars firearms seizures during times of emergency. More information is here.

A brief has been filed in the appeal to the Eleventh Circuit of the issue of requiring disclosure of one's SSN in violation of the federal Privacy Act in order to apply for a firearms license. The outcome of this may affect more than Georgia. http://georgiacarry.org/

Some of you know that Georgia probate judges have simply been refusing to issue temporary renewal licenses to renewal applicants in spite of the plain wording of a statute requiring them to do so. Thanks to Georgiacarry.org, Cobb County has now issued a temporary license to a plaintiff in a...

In Georgia, the licensing statute provides that "Not later than 60 days after the date of application" the probate judge "shall issue" an applicant's firearm license. In spite of this language, some probate courts routinely take 4 to 6 months to issue such licenses. One applicant waited not...

"The Second Amendment Doesn't Prohibit Gun Regulation - It In Fact Compels It," According to Professor Saul Cornell Link: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/029 When you get to his comment on "handguns," and how the Second Amendment does not prohibit an out and out ban on them...

New Organization Several individuals in Georgia were working tirelessly on issues of Georgia gun rights, as individuals, for some time and making little headway. Accordingly, they began working together, hoping to make more progress. They discovered that working together works better than...

Link: http://www.claytoncramer.com/weblog/2006_08_27_archive.html#115699741198720987

In researching whether the defintion of the word "bear" included the meaning of "carry" in the 1700s, I ran across this interesting quote from the Emerson decision (Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals): Also revealing is a bill drafted by Thomas Jefferson and proposed to the Virginia legislature...

An Order issued just yesterday from the federal district court in Atlanta, ordering the Carroll County Probate Court to process an application for a renewal GFL and issue a temporary GFL without receiving from the applicant his social security number. Link...

Any Alabama members here? If so, can one carry into a courthouse in Alabama? Into a courtroom? Does anybody have any specific experience doing so? What about the state capitol building? Town hall meetings? The packing.org page puts only picket lines off limits in Alabama. Does anyone...