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Right to carry weapon depends on usufruct

Right to carry weapon depends on usufruct

Right to carry weapon depends on usufruct

Did you ever imagine that your right to carry a firearm in a botanical garden operated by a private nonprofit on governmentally owned land depends on whether the land arrangement is a lease or a usufruct? It turns out that the Supreme Court of Georgia thinks it is the controlling question. In a case that first arose in 2014 when a security guard at the Atlanta Botanical Garden told a visitor that he could not carry a weapon in the garden, the Court of Appeals of Georgia has affirmed that the land arrangement is a traditional lease and not a usufruct so that the visitor cannot visit the garden while carrying a firearm. Phillip Evans, a licensed gun owner, was escorted from the garden...

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