In as much as the State has pre-empted all firearms laws and GCO has gone after counties and cities who violate that pre-emption and Kennesaw's gun ordinace is comming up on 25 years.
Should GCO demand the repeal of Kennesaw's ordinance?
What if you live in public housing in Kennesaw? Is there any? That might conflict with the public gathering clause of GA state law.
I like the law. I don't think it does anything though. Let's me know if I get a chance to move to Kennesaw I should take it. Sounds like they at least have the right idea and their hearts are in the right place.
Huh? I was speaking of Kennesaw's ordinance that requires the Head-of-household to have a gun and sutable ammo. How does that not go against pre-emption?
(d) Nothing contained in this Code section shall prohibit municipalities or counties by ordinance, resolution, or other enactment, from requiring the ownership of guns by heads of households within the political subdivision.
There is a good, common-sense reason why the legislature allows local governments to require heads-of-households to own guns, while in other ways local governments must leave gun control issues to the State leglislature.
The Kennesaw law does not interfere with intrastate travel, or place a burden on citizens to study the law of every single jurisdiction through which they pass. That could be dozens of different jurisdictions, on just one two-hour car trip across the Atlanta metro area.
Since the Kennesaw ordinance only applies to heads of households who reside in Kennesaw, people only have to know and obey this one law. (Actually they don't have to obey it, since there's no penalty for vilolating it, and nobody ever intended to enforce it anyway, and it has loopholes that make it meaningless, except as a "middle finger salute" to the gun-banning towns of Morton Grove and Skokie, Illinois.
There is a good, common-sense reason why the legislature allows local governments to require heads-of-households to own guns, while in other ways local governments must leave gun control issues to the State leglislature.
The Kennesaw law does not interfere with intrastate travel, or place a burden on citizens to study the law of every single jurisdiction through which they pass. That could be dozens of different jurisdictions, on just one two-hour car trip across the Atlanta metro area.
Since the Kennesaw ordinance only applies to heads of households who reside in Kennesaw, people only have to know and obey this one law. (Actually they don't have to obey it, since there's no penalty for vilolating it, and nobody ever intended to enforce it anyway, and it has loopholes that make it meaningless, except as a "middle finger salute" to the gun-banning towns of Morton Grove and Skokie, Illinois.
(d) Nothing contained in this Code section shall prohibit municipalities or counties by ordinance, resolution, or other enactment, from requiring the ownership of guns by heads of households within the political subdivision.
The thread is not stupid, nor should it be deleted. Kennesaw has another ordinance on the books that is not so well known, and it violates state law. It is a gun ban in parks.
My question was based on a false assumption: That the Kennesaw gun requirement was a violation of State pre-emption. As such it was stupid. I didn't do my research.
However the premise might still require an answer. Will we be as active in overturning a law that supports gun rights but is in violation of the pre-emtion statute?
Even if I were, I think maybe Georgians for Gun Safety or some similar group would be available to take on that sort of activity. Our volunteers and other resources are finite, and GCO has not even lifted all the local level gun bans yet!
Again, I am not aware of any such ordinances, so the question is merely academic at this point, but the board and the officers have a responsibility to see to it that resources are focused on the founding purpose of GCO, which is to protect and expand the right of its members to keep and bear arms under the Georgia Constitution, not to be some sort of general watchdog group over government officials.
As a member, if you have a strong disagreement with the purpose of GCO or the methods of GCO, you are always welcome to speak to me (or any other board member or officer) about them privately. It is the members (and their problems) that guide the direction of GCO, after all.
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