Georgia open-carry advocate eyes a new Walmart frontier
He's back: Jim Cooley, and his campaign to bring his AR-15 to an array of provocative places in Georgia, was featured in the Washington Post over the weekend.
The open-carry advocate had to do a bit of convincing to persuade his wife Maria to accompany him and his sidearm to the local Walmart in Winder. From the Post:
“Yeah,” she says, giving in. “I might as well get this travesty out of the way.”“What travesty?”
“You carrying a big ol’ rifle in the store, scaring the hell out of all the Walmart shoppers.”
“There’s no difference between carrying a rifle and carrying a handgun,” he says.
“You tried that last time, remember?” Maria says, stepping into a pair of flip-flops and running her fingers through her hair. “And what happened? Barrow County sheriffs. Three or four of them.”
You may recall that Cooley raised some eyebrows - and probably a few calls to the cops - last year when he carried his weapon to the baggage claim area in the busy Atlanta airport.
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Greg Bluestein is the Atlanta Journal Constitution's chief political reporter. He is also an author, TV analyst and co-host of the Politically Georgia podcast.
