The Fourth of July is right around the corner and no matter which pocket of the city you live in, fun is sure to be right around the corner. Click on each neighborhood to find a nearby celebration with fireworks, parades and music: Downtown Atlanta, Decatur, Avondale Estates, Dunwoody, Chamblee and Stone Mountain. If you’d […]
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Home Depot Backyard firearms ban may be lifted after advocate’s latest complaint
A firearms ban at the Home Depot Backyard park at Mercedes-Benz Stadium may be removed after the latest agitation by a guns rights advocate.
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Music Midtown weapons ban is challenged by gun rights advocate
The Music Midtown concert festival’s weapons ban is being challenged by the man who just lost a legal battle for the right to carry guns at the neighboring Atlanta Botanical Garden.
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Buckhead crime rate ‘looking good’; guns stolen from vehicles a problem, says police commander
“So, we’re still looking good with crime” must be the last thing you’d expect to hear from Buckhead’s police commander amid a cityhood movement founded on the notion, largely unchallenged even by its opponents, that the neighborhood is a criminal “warzone.”
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Court decision on guns in leased parkland could be bigger than ‘constitutional carry’
The notion of “Constitutional carry” — the license-free toting of firearms in public — is sucking up all the Second Amendment oxygen in the Gold Dome and governor’s race these days. But a pending decision in a quietly simmering lawsuit could be more consequential in determining where those guns can be carried — specifically if it includes the Atlanta Botanical Garden at Piedmont Park.
