Photos: Kennesaw's gun law

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Photos: Kennesaw's gun law

A photographic look back at Kennesaw's gun law, which requires heads of households to own and maintain a gun.

Major Ken Carter of the Kennesaw Police Department proudly displays one of the many different bumper stuckers being printed up in the area. (Andy Sharp/AJC staff) 1982

Fred Bentley Sr., whose firm represents the city of Kennesaw and wrote the gun ownership ordinance 30 years ago, shows a copy of the ordinance in the book, "Historic Kennesaw - 1887-2012 Celebrating 125 Years," at his office in Marietta on Thursday, December 20, 2012. Eighty-six-year-old Fred Bentley Sr., whose firm represents the city of Kennesaw, authored the gun ownership ordinance 30 years ago. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

Illinois representatives of Quad Cities Sportsmen Group applauds Kennesaw, Ga. for their gun ordinance, and present plaque and gun. (L-R): Kennesaw Police Dept. Major Kenneth Carter, Kennesaw Mayor Pro-tem, J.O. Stephenson, Calvin Shriver and Brad Park of Quad Cities Sportsmens Group. (Cheryl Bray/AJC staff) 1982

Alan Hall of Ironside Printing Company in Marietta laminates some of the posters he has printed since the enactment of the Kennesaw gun ordinance last week. (Andy Sharp/AJC staff) 1982

Major Ken Carter of the Kennesaw Police Department is shown with the 10 new guns donated by the city to be given to folks there who do not now own guns. (Andy Sharp/AJC staff) 1982

Mulford Fisher, owner of On Target gun shop and firing range in Marietta in his store. He has offered to teach residents of Kennesaw the finer points of owning and firing a handgun. (Calvin Cruce/AJC Staff) 1982

Judy Purdy (white top) sights down the barrel of her large caliber hand gun during a training session on the firing range 5/12, part of a weapons training course being offered to residents of Kennesaw so they may safely comply with the town's ordinance requiring guns to be kept in all homes. Mrs. Purdy is the wife of Kennesaw Mayor Darvin Purdy who was instrumental in getting the gun possession ordinance passed. (John Rossino/UPI) 1982

Kennesaw resident Helene Collum looks over some of the guns that her city's police department had on display 4/24 furing the first gun clinic the police gave for that city's residents after passing a law that all heads of households must own and maintain a firearm. (John Rossino/UPI) 1982

Kennesaw, Ga.'s police chief Robert Ruble says that the town's new ordinance requiring heads of households to own and maintain guns and ammunition is symboli and there would be no penalty for violation. (Copy) 1982

Dent 'Wildman' Myers, 70, owner of a civil war surplus/antique shop, sees profits from the Kennesaw ordinance, passed in 1982, that requires all heads of households to own a gun. (KATIE KING/Staff)

Marjorie Lyon, a Kennesaw resident who works at Wildman's Civil War Surplus, located on Main Street in downtown Kennesaw, is shown a Wednesday, January 31, 2007 photo wearing her 38 caliber pistol (she has a permit for it). (ANDY SHARP / AJC staff)

In a Wednesday, January 31, 2007 photo we see a weathered old bumper sticker that says "It's the Law in Kennesaw," referring to Kennesaw's gun ordinance mandating gun ownership. This is on the front door of Wildman's Civil War Surplus. (ANDY SHARP/ AJC staff)

Dent 'Wildman' Myers, owner of Wildman Civil War Surplus in Kennesaw, in his shop with some of his pistols he generally carries on his person. He's in favor of the law. (Andy Sharp/AJC staff) 1982

Dent 'Wildman' Myers, a well known gun enthusiast in Kennesaw, wear two 45-caliber pistols in front of his Civil War store. (Calvin Cruce/AJC staff) 1990

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Major Ken Carter of the Kennesaw Police Department proudly displays one of the many different bumper stuckers being printed up in the area. (Andy Sharp/AJC staff) 1982

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