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This is an excerpt about GA laws from a Brady Campaign dosument about maintaining a "gun free" business:
So, are they correct?Georgia grants business owners the right to exclude customers and thereby keep their business premises gun-free. See Stockwell v. State, 400 S.E.2d 709 (Ga. Ct. App. 1990) (business owner allowed to exclude defendant from private dental office). A person is guilty of trespass if they “knowingly and without authority . . . enter[] [or remain] upon the land or premises of another . . . after receiving, prior to such entry, notice from the owner . . . that such entry is forbidden.†Ga. Code Ann. ’ 16-7-21. Entry in violation of posted notices that CCW licensees carrying concealed handguns are not permitted is sufficient to trigger the statute. Moreover, the statute does not require any specific method of notification. Rayburn v. State, 300 S.E.2d 499 (Ga. 1983); Wingfield v. State, 383 S.E.2d 180 (Ga. Ct. App. 1989); Williamson v. State, 215 S.E.2d 518 (Ga. Ct. App. 1975).