You will be armed: Georgia gun mandate.

• Author: Feeney, Matthew
• Position: Citings - Brief article

IN APRIL the city council of Nelson, Georgia, a town of 1,300 located 55 miles north of Atlanta, unanimously passed an ordinance requiring every head of household to maintain a firearm and ammunition. The ordinance is mainly symbolic. There is no penalty for failing to comply, and residents can opt out if they have "personal objections" to owning a gun.

Nelson is not the first Georgia town to pass a gun mandate. In 1982 Kennesaw, Georgia, which lies 35 miles south, passed a virtually identical ordinance in response to a handgun ban in Oak Park, Michigan. In...