GA2A’s agenda includes a totally unsexy and downright obscure item about restoring the common-law definition of assault, which is winning praises from criminal defense attorneys.
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How a gun-ban debate is also challenging Rivian, property taxes and other uses of public land
A gun-ban debate has become a legal precedent on a bigger question: Does the public indeed control public land and public money?
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Zoo Atlanta drops gun ban after legal questions
Zoo Atlanta has dropped its new weapons ban following a challenge by a gun rights activist.
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Gun rights activist questions Zoo Atlanta weapons ban
An apparently new weapons ban at Zoo Atlanta is being challenged by the gun activist whose legal complaints may have ended the Music Midtown concert festival this year.
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Savannah Jazz Festival denies firearms-ban policy after gun activist’s latest concern
The gun activist whose complaints may have ended Music Midtown this year has stirred similar but incorrect concerns about the Savannah Jazz Festival banning firearms. The misfire nonetheless shows that gun rights activists remain on the lookout for unlawful weapons bans to test.
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One Central Park concert festival worries about gun laws while another moves ahead
Following Music Midtown’s reportedly gun-related cancellation, at least one major concert festival in the Old Fourth Ward’s Central Park may back out if firearms can’t be banned, while another is moving ahead.
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Arrested Development’s Speech fears ‘insane’ gun laws after Music Midtown cancellation
Arrested Development, Atlanta’s pioneering Southern hip hop group, brought its message of peace to Music Midtown many times over the years. But now frontman Speech is expressing his outrage over “insane” gun laws that appears to have triggered the concert festival’s cancellation.
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Music Midtown cancellation spotlights state law on guns in parks
Atlanta’s Music Midtown concert festival has been canceled without explanation amid rumors – which promoters have not denied – that state law preventing it from banning guns was causing legal problems.
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Music Midtown to announce its ‘position’ amid rumors of gun law issue
The Music Midtown concert festival will soon issue a statement on its “position” amid rumors that Georgia law preventing it from banning firearms might force a cancellation or move.
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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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Atlanta Botanical Garden wins right to ban guns from its property
The Atlanta Botanical Garden has won the right to ban guns from its property after an eight-year court battle with the advocacy group GA2A.
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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.
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Georgia Senate votes to fortify gun trade
Senate to cops: sell confiscated guns or else
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More than one thousand people rally in Atlanta for tighter gun laws
The giant red cardboard letters spelling the word “moms” stood out in the gray Atlanta drizzle Wednesday, held up between the state Capitol and more than one thousand people rallying outside, demanding that the lawmakers inside tighten up gun laws.
