Fenty and gang only need declare the whole of DC a ’sensitive area’. After all that’s where the fed conducts its business.

Yup, good thing there aren’t any major airports there. [I'm not kidding; both are in VA.]

GCO deserves kudos for the work it’s done in Georgia. NRA has done a lot to preserve preemption here in Pennsylvania. They jumped on the City of Philadelphia post haste when they went and enacted their illegal ordinances. They also put the TSA nonsense in their alert tonight, and asked people to contact TSA and tell them they are unhappy with their mutterings about creating a federal ban on guns in airports.

If TSA starts moving forward with this, we’re going to need the 800lb gorilla. The same 800lb gorilla that cajoled the Department of Interior into proposing a change to the Code of Federal Regulations to get rid of the ban in National Parks.

And yes, I recognize that NRA is misguided with this parking lot nonsense, but they did get on board with bringing the concealed carry improvements on board their bill, to get them passed with a compromise parking lot bill in the end.

If you are in Georgia and carry in a restrurant that serves alcohol, or carry in a park, or carry on public transit, that was GCO’s work. The licensing improvements was GCO’s work. The parking lot language that almost killed the good stuff in HB89, that was the NRA’s work along with their insulting and threatening every Legislator.

GCO is taking one of Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Guns. We beat her once over the park ban (that was an GCO suit, not NRA). We may beat her again. Win or Lose, GCO will keep fighting every infringement we encounter. If we have to take this to SCOTUS, we will. And GCO won’t throw Machine Guns under the bus.

Back to the article, Mayor Franklin has been networking in DC to get her gun ban covered under federal law. Apparently, she is scared that she will lose to GCO AGAIN. When that day comes, GCO will be able to put another notch on thier belt for another gun ban repealed.

Monday is the federal court hearing on the preliminary injunction in the Atlanta Airport lawsuit, at 1:30 p.m. in the United States District Courthouse at 75 Spring Street in Atlanta, in room 1767. This determines whether the federal court will intervene to stop Atlanta from making arrests while the lawsuit is pending. This hearing does not determine whether GCO or Atlanta wins or loses the entire case.

Another GCO initiative is the Senate study committee examining Georgia’s firearms law. That’s on Tue at 1030 in the Capital.

We’ve lost DC.

Sebastian is right

Fenty and gang only need declare the whole of DC a ’sensitive area’. After all that’s where the fed conducts its business.

Why would anyone think that banning legal carriers with licenses would have anything to do with the above situation?

Only Congress can do this. The TSA does not have unilateral authority to control funding.

You can find the link to the court documents there. Heller is mentioned but the big stick is state preemption against local firearm laws (Atlanta lost their parks ban a few months ago because of preemption). Georgia law only allows localities to ban the discharge (except in self defense). So basically if there is no federal law then state law must be followed and the airport is trying to get around that any way they can.

Sure `they` can. One of those deals where policy is “This is completely voluntary, but if you do not comply we will pull funding.”

You know: “…shall not be infringed…”?

At least, unless they’ve amended the Second recently to include an “except in cases of airports” clause and I missed the memo.

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I didn’t get the jist of this until I just read it again, but this is an end run from the desperate douche bags who are getting sued by Georgia Carry! Oh now it makes sense!

Here is the real gist of the case:

“The TSA is “trying to work through some complex legal issues,” said spokesman White. He gave no timetable for a decision. Courts may ultimately decide whether an airport can override state law and prohibit guns by adding a ban to its security program, Chambers said.”

The reason for this is to give the city of Atlanta some way to override state law. Good luck suckers! I don’t see that happening!

I won’t fly anymore for a host of reasons and this one more example why I will most likely not fly again.

The TSA can only outlaw on the basis of their jurisdiction period. Airports are state run up until the federal area beyond the security zone which is federally controlled. This looks like another humiliating experience for the government when they get sued! LOL! Go ahead TSA bring it!