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While Kennesaw, Georgia, passed a law making gun ownership compulsory in 1982, the law was never enforced and didn't cause crime rates to plummet.
As the debate over guns continues in Washington and in communities across the country, there’s at least one place where owning a gun is technically required by law. In Kennesaw, Georgia,...
Kennesaw made national headlines with its 1982 ordinance requiring heads of households in the city to own a gun, which had been passed originally as a pro-gun reaction to a ban on handguns that had been enacted earlier that year in Morton City, Illinois.
Since 1982, the city of Kennesaw, Georgia, has required heads of household to own a gun. Kennesaw's ordinance has made headlines locally, nationally and internationally. Since more than a million people demanded stronger gun control laws in the March for Our Lives, many local governments have proposed tougher restrictions on guns.
That’s right, if you’re the head of household, you’re required by city law to own a gun. This is outlined in section 34-21 of the city code, which goes on to say its purpose is to “provide for and protect the safety, security, and general welfare” of the city’s residents.
A suburb of Atlanta, Kennesaw has a law on the books that reads “every head of household residing in the city limits is required to maintain a firearm.” "If you're going to...
It may be the law in Kennesaw to own a gun, but the police department says it isn’t actually enforced. Many locals CNN spoke to assumed that the law dated back to the town’s founding, but...
In Kennesaw, Georgia, local law says that “every head of household residing in the city limits is required to maintain a firearm.”
KENNESAW, Ga., April 18 (Reuters) - The Virginia Tech killings have set off calls for tighter U.S. gun laws but anyone wanting to know why those demands likely will make little headway...
In Kennesaw, Georgia, a good citizen is an armed citizen. In 1982, a law was passed that required each head of household to own a working firearm with ammunition.