Airport gun stunt provokes a question: What if he'd been a black man?

The guy with the assault rifle walking around Hartsfield-Jackson the other day?

He says he was proving a point — that it's legal to enter some parts of the airport with a weapon. But another gun enthusiast said he wouldn't have been able to pull the same stunt.

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“No. I would not take that risk,” said Kenn Blanchard, a Maryland-based gun advocate known nationally as “Black Man With a Gun."

“I don’t want to be statistic to prove a point at the risk of being shot.”

Blanchard says gun laws are often "most restrictive and racist in cities with large African-American populations."

“We still have the right to carry, but the perception is still 500 years behind,” he said. “There are still people afraid of a black man with a gun.”