Just got this in an email today...
A little background....
GCO (Georgia Carry Organization) is a non-profit membership based organization that fights for the rights of Georgia citizens to keep and bear arms and to lawfully conceal carry. They have been responsible for several lawsuits over the past year against various Georgia cities and counties which unlawfully banned conceal carry of firearms within their districts. So far, GCO has won every case in that regard, even recently winning a lawsuit against the city of Atlanta (Liberal Atlanta).
Before these lawsuits, individual counties and cities had a myriad of local gun control laws which prevented a legal Georgia Firearms License holder from carrying in various locations, even though Georgia State Law clearly states that GA State Law is the final authority on gun law and no other local laws can supercede it.
The last hold out has been Stone Mountain State Park. They are being defended by the Georgia Attorney General himself, Mr. Thurburt Baker. I expect a strong fight. After reading the complaint, it does sound like the law is on the side of the GCO and not Stone Mountain State Park.
I am very excited to see this "home grown" organization fighting so diligently for our rights here in Georgia. The membership dues we Georgians pay to the GCO have been well spent.
Yesterday, GCO filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Dekalb County (Georgia) against the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, seeking to have SMMA’s ban on possession or carrying a firearm in Stone Mountain Park declared invalid. A copy of the complaint can be viewed here:
http://www.georgiacarry.com/smma/complaint.pdf .
To Attorney General Baker …… The men and women of GeorgiaCarry.Org will see you in court.
A little background....
GCO (Georgia Carry Organization) is a non-profit membership based organization that fights for the rights of Georgia citizens to keep and bear arms and to lawfully conceal carry. They have been responsible for several lawsuits over the past year against various Georgia cities and counties which unlawfully banned conceal carry of firearms within their districts. So far, GCO has won every case in that regard, even recently winning a lawsuit against the city of Atlanta (Liberal Atlanta).
Before these lawsuits, individual counties and cities had a myriad of local gun control laws which prevented a legal Georgia Firearms License holder from carrying in various locations, even though Georgia State Law clearly states that GA State Law is the final authority on gun law and no other local laws can supercede it.
The last hold out has been Stone Mountain State Park. They are being defended by the Georgia Attorney General himself, Mr. Thurburt Baker. I expect a strong fight. After reading the complaint, it does sound like the law is on the side of the GCO and not Stone Mountain State Park.
I am very excited to see this "home grown" organization fighting so diligently for our rights here in Georgia. The membership dues we Georgians pay to the GCO have been well spent.