You shouldn’t become a criminal because someone else committed a crime. Georgia’s bill stops local governments from punishing lawful gun owners after theft and restores statewide constitutional protections.
The Georgia Senate on Tuesday passed its first bill of the session, which would ban local governments from requiring gun owners to lock their firearms in vehicles.
The bill, Senate Bill 204, passed by a 32-21 vote after a short debate over the balance between local public safety initiatives and statewide Second Amendment protections. The measure, which was carried over from last year, now heads to the governor.
“You see, we are the supreme lawmaking authority in this state, not some liberal municipality,” said Trenton Republican Sen. Colton Moore, who sponsored the bill and who argued on the Senate floor that the bill would restore “freedom back into the hands of the citizenry.”
By Alander Rocha
