Supreme Court Declines Case On Guns In Churches

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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the issue of carrying guns in church, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, leaving in place a Georgia law that prohibits carrying guns in houses of worship. 

From AJC:

That leaves in place a decision last summer by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejecting a claim by the gun rights group GeorgiaCarry.org that worshippers had the constitutional right to arm themselves for their own protection while they are in a church, synagogue or a mosque. The federal appeals court last summer also turned away a Second Amendment claim, writing that an individual right to carry a gun into a place of worship does not trump a private property owner’s right to “exclusively control who is allowed on the premises and under what circumstances.”

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