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(Atlanta) Airport Gun Suit Dismissed
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/me...irport_guns.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab
(Atlanta) Airport Gun Suit Dismissed
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/me...irport_guns.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab
Judges dismisses lawsuit seeking to allows guns in airport
By RHONDA COOK
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Saturday, September 27, 2008
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by an advocacy group trying to force Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to let licensed gun owners bring firearms into non-secure areas.
U.S. District Court Judge Marvin Shoob ruled Friday that GeorgiaCarry.org presented no “material facts” to support the group’s argument that a recent change in state law allowed weapons in areas outside security checkpoints of the world’s busiest airport.
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Since July 1, Georgia law has allowed weapons on MARTA, in public parks and into restaurants that serve alcohol by people licensed to carry.
The gun group sued Atlanta and the airport the day the law took effect, contending that the allowance in the statute for “public transportation” included Hartsfield-Jackson.
The attorney and the head of GeorgiaCarry.org could not be reached by telephone Saturday for comment.
In a prepared statement, the city said, “We are pleased with the court’s ruling and that Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport will continue to remain a safe, secure, gun-free environment for its almost 90 million passengers a year.”
Shoob had already declined to issue a temporary order stopping the airport and Atlanta police from arresting anyone caught with guns in the terminal, saying allowing concealed weapons into non-secure areas of Hartsfield-Jackson would make the airport less safe and require it to substantially revise its security procedures.
City officials have said 80 percent of the airport is “non secure.”
In his order Friday, Shoob wrote the July 1 change in the law specifically does not include the airport because the statute includes an exemption that is included in another part of the Georgia Code.