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Georgia Firearms History: From Colonial Militia Laws to Constitutional Carry

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:24.669Z

Georgia doesn't get enough credit for how complicated its firearms history actually is. Most people know it as a permissive state — constitutional carry, shall-issue, the home of Glock — but the road to get there ran through some of the ugliest racial disarmament laws in American history and also produced the most consequential early Second Amendment ruling anyone's ever handed down. That tension is worth understanding. The state passed some of the earliest and harshest racially targeted gun...

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Georgia Firearms History: From Colonial Militia Laws to Constitutional Carry

Georgia's relationship with firearms is as old as the colony itself. From the first militia musters on the Savannah River bluffs in 1733 to the 2022 constitutional carry law, the state has swung between moments of strict control and broad permissiven

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