ATLANTA - Georgia gun owners will join the Stop School Shootings Now advocacy group at the Georgia State Capitol on Wednesday to call on lawmakers to give a bill that would ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines.
The H.B. 10 bill is currently stuck in the Georgia House Public Safety and Homeland Security committee, according to a news release sent out by the Stop School Shootings Now founder, Clare Schexnyder.
Gun owners, parents, students and concerned Georgians will hold a press conference at 9:30 a.m. on the first floor of the North Wing and plan to call on Chairman Alan Powell and the committee to give their bill a hearing.
"The time for responsible gun owners to step up and step away from the status quo on gun law is now," said Schexnyder. "If our congressional representatives continue to bury this bill, they'll only bury more children."
"We want a fair hearing for H.B. 10 by the committee. There is no reason for civilians to have access to semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15," said gun owner Chris Moser of Atlanta. "They're not needed for self-defense. They're not needed for hunting. Banning these weapons wouldn't be an infringement on the Second Amendment."
Stop School Shootings NOW was founded the day after the Parkland, Fla. shooting that took place on February 14, 2018. The group was an integral organizer of the National Walkouts on March 14th where over millions of students from all over the national walked out of school at 10 a.m. to protest gun violence and to remember the 17 lives that were lost.
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