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Openly Carrying A Rifle in GA
- Thread starter Linachaw
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Sid Vicious for POTUS!!!!
That completely depends on where you are.
You can carry a weapon (handgun/offensive knife) without a permit as long as your are not a prohibited person:
1.) While legally hunting or fishing on your own property or other private property with the owners consent to hunt/fish
2.) on your own property
3.) in your own vehicle
4.) on the property of another with the consent of the owner
5.) in your own business or as an employee of the business of another with the owners consent
6.) Active duty military (not otherwise prohibited buy federal/state law) are exempt from the GWP requirements and can carry a weapon in all public and private places that a GWP can legally carry.
None of these instances require a permit to carry concealed or open. So a simple "no" doens't quite tell the whole story.
WHY CAN YOU OPEN CARRY A RIFLE or A SHOTGUN WITHOUT A PERMIT
BUT YOU CAN NOT CARRY A PISTOL OPENLY WITHOUT A STATE BOUGHT PERMIT?
BUT YOU CAN NOT CARRY A PISTOL OPENLY WITHOUT A STATE BOUGHT PERMIT?
If you want a serious answer, it's probably because
1-- long guns are almost never used in crime (at least historically, back when Georgia made most of its gun laws, although I think that is changing in modern times due to all these high profile massacres done with AR and AK pattern rifles),
while handguns are often used in violent felony crimes.
AND
2-- Hunting often involves carrying long guns openly --sometimes on the public right of way of public streets and highways, and sometimes while loading guns in your car which may be parked on a public street in front of your house but not on your own private property. Since Georgia is a solidly pro-hunting state, and rifles and shotguns are the primary tools of hunting & sport shooting,
the legislature excluded those long guns from many of our gun control laws.
I don’t think he did.
(f)
(1) Any person with a valid hunting or fishing license on his or her person, or any person not required by law to have a hunting or fishing license, who is engaged in legal hunting, fishing, or sport shooting when the person has the permission of the owner of the land on which the activities are being conducted may have or carry on his or her person a weapon or long gun without a valid weapons carry license while hunting, fishing, or engaging in sport shooting.
(2) Any person with a valid hunting or fishing license on his or her person, or any person not required by law to have a hunting or fishing license, who is otherwise engaged in legal hunting, fishing, or sport shooting on recreational or wildlife management areas owned by this state may have or carry on his or her person a knife without a valid weapons carry license while engaging in such hunting, fishing, or sport shooting.
(f)
(1) Any person with a valid hunting or fishing license on his or her person, or any person not required by law to have a hunting or fishing license, who is engaged in legal hunting, fishing, or sport shooting when the person has the permission of the owner of the land on which the activities are being conducted may have or carry on his or her person a weapon or long gun without a valid weapons carry license while hunting, fishing, or engaging in sport shooting.
(2) Any person with a valid hunting or fishing license on his or her person, or any person not required by law to have a hunting or fishing license, who is otherwise engaged in legal hunting, fishing, or sport shooting on recreational or wildlife management areas owned by this state may have or carry on his or her person a knife without a valid weapons carry license while engaging in such hunting, fishing, or sport shooting.
