Fulton County Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution aimed at protecting the Second Amendment rights of county residents.
“We’ve been asked by a group of individuals here in the community to entertain being a Second Amendment sanctuary county,” Commission President Bryan Lewis said. The process for drafting such a resolution began more than two months ago.
A Second Amendment sanctuary, also known as a gun sanctuary, is a state, county or locality in the United States that has adopted laws or resolutions that prohibit or impede the enforcement of certain gun control measures perceived as a violation of the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which states that U.S. citizens have the right to keep and bear arms.
In passing the Second Amendment Preservation Resolution, commissioners affirm their support of the Second Amendment and oppose gun control laws they feel unlawfully infringe upon the right to keep and bear arms.
The resolution, drafted by County Attorney Holli Shorter-Pifer and reviewed by Fulton County Sheriff Chris Sailors prior to its passage, states:
“That Fulton County shall be a County in which the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms is deeply honored and protected and against unlawful infringement,” and, moreover, “that the Fulton County Commissioners and Fulton County Sheriff hereby declare their opposition to any law or regulation that unlawfully infringes upon the right to keep and bear arms…”
The resolution is not intended to regulate firearms, ammunition or firearm accessories in any way. It does declare that county resources will not be used in a manner that unlawfully infringes upon the right to keep and bear arms.
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