After two years of relative quiet on the state’s gun policy front, a sweeping pro-gun bill is moving forward in the Georgia Senate.
The proposed changes include making it harder to criminally charge people who brandish their guns, expanding access for licensed gun-toters to houses of worship and some courthouses and letting gun owners with minor drug convictions keep their carry licenses.
The bill could also force cities like Atlanta to sell the firearms their police officers confiscate.
Atlanta’s police chiefs have refused for years to resell the guns the agency confiscates despite a state law passed in 2012 that requires local governments to put them up for auction.
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