Bring your semiautomatic to the airport?

[marylander1940]

Is it OK to Bring a Loaded Rifle into an Airport? This Guy Did It

 

Jim Cooley and his daughter. (Photo: Jim Cooley/Facebook)

 

The story of a man who walked into Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Friday carrying a loaded AR-15 semiautomatic rifle has gone viral. And here’s the most amazing part of it: his actions were completely legal, thanks to Georgia’s gun laws. Passed in 2014, the HB 512 Safe Carry Protection Act allows people to openly carry a rifle in an airport, so long as they don’t try to go through security.

 

The armed Cooley was dropping his daughter off for a flight, when police officers approached Cooley, asking why he was carrying a semiautomatic weapon with an extended capacity 100-round drum.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/is-it-ok-to-bring-a-loaded-gun-into-an-airport-120692240587.html

 

I wonder if the law would apply to this other guy:

 

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Sensible gun legislation will prevail when someone really high up the food chain becomes a victim.

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Just imagine what the reaction would have been had that guy not been white. Open carry be damned.

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Along the above lines, this op-ed points out that:

 

California passed its first ban on open carry in the 1960s in response to the Black Panther Party. “The Legislature was debating an open-carry law when 30 Black Panthers showed up at the Statehouse with their guns,” said Adam Winkler, a professor of law at U.C.L.A. and the author of “Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America.”

 

“The same day Gov. Ronald Reagan made a speech, saying there’s no reason why a law-abiding person should be carrying a gun on the street.”

 

Maybe the way to turn this debate around would bring new recruits into the gun rights movement. “If open-carry advocates today were Marxist-leaning black radicals,” said Winkler, “we might have a very different situation.”

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/opinion/gail-collins-guns-in-your-face.html?_r=0

[instudiocity]

Well, someone should point out that if an attendee at that prayer meeting had been packing, the death count might not have only been lower, but included the perp.

[sincitymix]

I am sorry, but I truly don't think anyone needs to own a semi automatic rifle, automatic rifle, military hardware, sniper rifle etc etc. ak 47 whatever. It seems like many citizens own enough high powered firearms to equip a small 3rd world army.

I know many of my sisters friends in Colorado know how to convert semi automatic weapons into full automatic... the reason they say? Its not for safety, it was for hunting. "yeah, I can pull out my sniper rifle to kill that moose 1 mile away! isn't that awesome!! " me: Oo.. why.. would you want to snipe the poor moose from a mile away? I hope you are going to hike that mile to recover the meat at least.. them: laughter.

 

So I am sorry.. the whole.. I need my 200 round in less then 10 seconds assault rifle for safety.. and squirrel hunting.. is just ludicrous.

[Lookin]

Well, someone should point out that if an attendee at that prayer meeting had been packing, the death count might not have only been lower, but included the perp.

 

 

For Gerald so loved the world that he gave his only begotten gun . . .

[sincitymix]

 

For Gerald so loved the world that he gave his only begotten gun . . .

 

Unless the person packing the weapon got trigger happy and took out some innocent people who either were in the line of fire, or was along the bullets trajectory path. Bullets have to go somewhere.

[instudiocity]

Unless the person packing the weapon got trigger happy and took out some innocent people who either were in the line of fire, or was along the bullets trajectory path. Bullets have to go somewhere.

At least the legal, concealed carry permitted person will have attended a gun safety course - chances are they would make the right decision beginning with the questions, "Is this a situation where using my weapon will benefit people? Who am I putting in harm's way? Can I safely stop this attack without causing injuries to innocent people?"

 

Which is at least as much a part of a gun safety course as actually handling the weapon and shooting it.

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Well, someone should point out that if an attendee at that prayer meeting had been packing, the death count might not have only been lower, but included the perp.

 

Which would increase the chances of more people being hurt or killed.

 

Also, does anyone else consider it inconsistent for someone at a prayer meeting held in the name of someone who advocated turning the other cheek and allowed himself to be arrested and executed to bring guns there to use as a defense?

[instudiocity]

Also, does anyone else consider it inconsistent for someone at a prayer meeting held in the name of someone who advocated turning the other cheek and allowed himself to be arrested and executed to bring guns there to use as a defense?

Don't be going to the Vatican then, those Swiss Guards, the ones not in the striped suits designed by Michelangelo, they're packing Uzis.

 

Also, I don't know anyone carrying a concealed carry weapon who carries is for OFFENSE.

[sincitymix]

At least the legal, concealed carry permitted person will have attended a gun safety course - chances are they would make the right decision beginning with the questions, "Is this a situation where using my weapon will benefit people? Who am I putting in harm's way? Can I safely stop this attack without causing injuries to innocent people?"

 

Which is at least as much a part of a gun safety course as actually handling the weapon and shooting it.

 

and how many of those people in the gun safety course actually listen? or do they just throw the manual over the left shoulder go MEH! It does make me wonder about gun safety courses in some of the southern red states

[sincitymix]

Don't be going to the Vatican then, those Swiss Guards, the ones not in the striped suits designed by Michelangelo, they're packing Uzis.

 

Also, I don't know anyone carrying a concealed carry weapon who carries is for OFFENSE.

They also have pikes and halberds I think? for the up close and personal, lets see what your insides look like

[instudiocity]

They also have pikes and halberds I think? for the up close and personal, lets see what your insides look like

Ok, now you've walked right into the ....

 

GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE,

PEOPLE DO

Argument. Bottom line is I'm thankful there are some people who carry Guns Defensively because there are so many Offensive People, with guns, too!

[Guy Fawkes]

I own a handgun and if I feel the need will strap it on. I've only been questioned about it once, and all I did was point out that they had the same model strapped to their waist. They said: "But I need it as a part of my job." and my answer was: "Precisely!"

"According to Cooley, he was exercising his rights: “If you don’t exercise your rights, the government doesn’t have any hesitation taking them away,” Cooley told WBS-TV Channel 2."

[Frequentflier]

Fortunately I don't live in an open carry state and the city has very tough gun laws. That means if we ever see someone with a gun that wasn't in uniform it's 911 and the forces are on the way. In the fifteen years I've lived here I don't remember even reading of an open carry violation. If I was in an area where open carry was legal and saw someone carrying I'd leave wherever I was. While not all open carry people are lunatics, I don't trust anyone I don't know who isn't law enforcement with a gun. Fine for others to trust their lives around those people, not mine. People have 2nd amendment rights that should be applied to weapons that existed when it was written. I have the right to go into a store or airport and not be worried the guy with a gun isn't about to go postal. And the idea that more guns make us safer is stupid - we have too many now and we're not safe in a church, elementary school, shopping center, etc. And the NRAs ever stupid view that carrying means safety sure doesn't apply to unsuspecting people about to watch a movie or children/near babies in a school (who legally and practically can't have a gun). Sorry to be blunt but there is no intelligent basis for gun policies and near freakish fixation/fetish like views in the U.S. when the data is looked at.

[thickornotatall]

It all depends on what you look like..............http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2014/09/who-is-wrongest-person-in-john.html

 

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