In addition, some lawmakers have pushed to limit gun ownership in several parts of the country in recent years, but a town in Georgia officially requires residents to possess firearms and ammunition.
According to the BBC, a rules established in 1982 requires inhabitants of Kennesaw, Georgia, to possess firearms and ammunition.  ,
The state’s gun laws reads,” In order to provide for and protect the safety, security and public security of the town and its inhabitants, every head of household live in city limits is required to keep a firearm, along with ammunition”. Kennesaw’s weapons rules does contain restrictions for people with criminal convictions, residents with physical or mental disabilities, and residents with spiritual beliefs that go against the condition.
In a statement to the BBC, Kennesaw Mayor Derek Easterling said,” It’s not like you go around wearing it on your leg like the Wild Wild West”, He added,  ,” We’re not going to blow on your door and say,’ Let me see your weapons. ‘”  ,
Easterling claimed that he was unaware of any arrests or trials involving residents who had broken the 1982 firearms laws.
According to interviews with Kennesaw residents, the majority of people in the area think the city is protected thanks to gun laws.
People told the BBC,” If something, thieves need to be concerned, because if they break into your house, and you’re it, they don’t understand what you got”.
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According to statistics shared with the BBC by the Kennesaw Police Department, there were no deaths in 2023. But, the city reported two deaths that included weapons in 2023.
Blake Weatherby, a Kennesaw First Baptist Church landscaper, told the BBC that the “attitude” behind the gun legislation is what keeps the area secure, no the guns themselves.
” It’s the mindset behind the artillery around in Kennesaw that keep the gun crimes along, not the cannons”, Weatherby said. ” It doesn’t matter if it’s a cannon or a knife or a palm or a high heel foot. We protect ourselves and our relatives”.
After the Kennesaw gun law was passed in the 1980s, Pat Ferris, who was elected as a member of the town council, told the BBC that he thought the legislation was intended to be “more of a political speech than anything.” Ferris added that he wasn’t sure how many people “even know that the law exists.”
Additionally, another town council member, Madelyn Orochena, told the BBC that the gun law is a “weird much factoid about our area” and that “residents did sometimes rotate their eyes in a bit of shame or laugh along about it.”
