Huffington Post – by Ryan Grenoble
A Georgia man openly carried a fully loaded AR-15 semiautomatic rifle into Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the busiest in the world.
Jim Cooley was armed with the weapon — complete with an extended capacity 100-round drum — when he went to drop his daughter off for a flight last Friday. Following the enactment of new state legislation in 2014, it’s actually legal to carry a rifle in the open in the airport, so long as the holder doesn’t attempt to pass through airport security.
Multiple police officers approached Cooley while he was in the airport and asked about the weapon, after which he replied he was carrying it for safety. Officers can be heard talking with Cooley in videos of the interactions he later uploaded to YouTube.
“You have quite a few people afraid because calls are coming in left and right,” an officer tells Cooley in one of the videos. “People’s fears are not my responsibility,” he replies. “If you’re detaining me, then I’m going to have to file a lawsuit.”
Cooley tells the same officer in another video that she “shouldn’t even be talking” to him about the rifle.
In yet another video, Cooley accuses three officers who followed him outside of “harassment,” telling them they “didn’t even have the right to approach me.” The officer responds by calmly encouraging him to contact an attorney if he feels slighted.
Asked by ABC affiliate WSBTV on Tuesday if people should do something just because they legally can, Cooley said he was just exercising his rights as a gun owner.
“If you don’t exercise your rights,” he said, “the government doesn’t have any hesitation to take them away.”
“You have quite a few people afraid because calls are coming in left and right,” an officer tells Cooley…”
This man is doing nothing other than exercising his unalienable right to carry a weapon for protection. Yet, these sheeple MORONS are more afraid of him than the filthy, murdering pigs who not only carry openly, but murder innocent people with impunity on a daily basis.
FEMA/.40 fodder, and GOOD RIDDANCE!!!
The Indoctrination has been effective . . . .
Good on him
My wife and I were at a Kroger and noticed a wife and husband OC their Springfield XDM’s
It ended up in a conversation that lead to how much we all liked the pistol and that we wouldnt leave home with out them ,,I was CCing mine but its like an arm rest ,, kinda hard not to know what it is under my shirt tail
we invited them out to our range for some target practice .. made a new friend
WTG JIM !!!
The TSA are THIEVING IDIOTS.
People need to get use to the idea that it IS LEGAL to carry a gun.
AND
THOSE WHO CARRY ARE OUR PROTECTORS……..
Those who oppose, are NOT on the side of freedom.
Frankly, can’t he say to the police, “Well, YOU f*ckers are killing us 4 a day, and the ‘news’ is telling us there’s terrorists everywhere, SURE I’m going to carry a gun!!! Stop killing us and stop telling us there’s terrorists everywhere, then I might consider not carrying a gun in the airport!!!”
wtf????? isn’t that correct, what I just said???????????
AMEN TO ALL THE ABOVE MINUS SOME LANGUAGE.
We have the annual “FunFest” with carnival and beer tent in town this weekend. They’ll be “Rent-A-Cops” from neighboring counties making sure no one jay walks without incarceration. The police presence last year was overkill. I will guaranty anyone openly carrying in town this weekend would be arrested. The charges wouldn’t stick but you would spend the night in lock up.