8/13/12
By: Sun Choy
In GeorgiaCarry.org v. Georgia, the Eleventh Circuit upheld Georgia’s 2010 ban on guns in places of worship. The Baptist Tabernacle of Thomaston and GeorgiaCarry.org, a gun rights group, claimed that the ban violated their constitutionally protected religious freedoms and their right to bear arms. In rejecting plaintiffs’ argument that guns were necessary to protect the congregation, the court noted:
