Two Guys With Guns Have Showdown On First Day Of Georgia’s New ‘Guns Everywhere’ Law

in Seattle, Wednesday, March 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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A “misunderstanding” between two armed men in a Georgia convenience store led to an arrest on the very day that the state’s new expansive gun rights law went into effect, according to The Valdosta Daily Times.

Valdosta Police Chief Brian Childress summed the incident up for the newspaper.

“Essentially, it involved one customer with a gun on his hip when a second customer entered with a gun on his hip,” Childress said.

According to the Daily Times, the first man, Ronald Williams, approached the second man in the store and demanded to see his identification and firearms license. Williams also pulled his gun from his holster, without pointing it at the second man. The second man responded by saying that he was not obligated to show any permits or identification — then he paid for his purchase, left the store, and called the police.

Police responded to the call around 3 p.m. Tuesday, and Williams was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct for pulling his gun in the store.

Tuesday was also the day that Georgia’s so-called “guns everywhere” law went into effect, allowing residents to carry guns into bars, nightclubs, classrooms, and certain government buildings. Among other things, the law also prohibits police from demanding to see the weapons permit of someone seen carrying a gun. Childress mentioned that last point when talking to the Daily Times about Tuesday’s incident.

“This is an example of my concern with the new gun law that people will take the law into their own hands which we will not tolerate,” Childress said.

(h/t Jim Galloway)

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  1. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    It was Gods will…

  2. I’m confused; which one was the good guy with the gun?

  3. Oh for f*ck’s sake. Let’s turn every convenience store into the OK Corral. What could possibly go wrong?

  4. One more state to not visit. I won’t visit the “Gunshine State” FL. Of course, the insanity in all of this is cutting the states down that are acceptable.

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