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Oh, the Places Your Gun Will Go!
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Pro-gun Georgia lawmakers want to make sure Americans exercising their Second Amendment right aren't arrested for accidentally trying to board airplanes with guns, Politico reports on Monday. Under the current law, permit-holding gun owners can take their gun with them if they follow procedures and check the gun with other stored luggage at the airport. If you try to take the gun on the plane with you, you'll be arrested. But! According to gun rights activists, gun owners are so used to carrying their guns they forget they have them. This leads to them getting arrested in security. And that's why lawmakers want to change the rules so that absentminded gun owners won't get arrested if they forget to check their guns, as long as they have a permit and are willing to leave the security line.
On the one hand, the TSA doesn't approve of this for their own safety, especially after a gunman killed one agent and injured four others at LAX last year. Also, responsible gun owners aren't impressed by people who forget about where their guns are. On the other hand, doesn't anyone care about the Constitution anymore? Gun rights activists across the country do, and they've been pushing for expanding gun carry laws, even in places that common sense might suggest are not good places for guns. Here's where the battle for the Second Amendment is being fought:
http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/02/oh-places-your-gun-will-go/358167/
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Pro-gun Georgia lawmakers want to make sure Americans exercising their Second Amendment right aren't arrested for accidentally trying to board airplanes with guns, Politico reports on Monday. Under the current law, permit-holding gun owners can take their gun with them if they follow procedures and check the gun with other stored luggage at the airport. If you try to take the gun on the plane with you, you'll be arrested. But! According to gun rights activists, gun owners are so used to carrying their guns they forget they have them. This leads to them getting arrested in security. And that's why lawmakers want to change the rules so that absentminded gun owners won't get arrested if they forget to check their guns, as long as they have a permit and are willing to leave the security line.
On the one hand, the TSA doesn't approve of this for their own safety, especially after a gunman killed one agent and injured four others at LAX last year. Also, responsible gun owners aren't impressed by people who forget about where their guns are. On the other hand, doesn't anyone care about the Constitution anymore? Gun rights activists across the country do, and they've been pushing for expanding gun carry laws, even in places that common sense might suggest are not good places for guns. Here's where the battle for the Second Amendment is being fought:
http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/02/oh-places-your-gun-will-go/358167/