Courts rarely notify state of gun permit holder felony convictions

[SecularMotion]

ATLANTA (AP) — Gun owners who are convicted of a felony lose their eligibility for a Georgia carry permit, and the courts must notify the state that this person can't legally carry a firearm anymore.

That's a little-known amendment to Georgia's "guns everywhere" law that is supposed to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.

But The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has found that metro Atlanta courts almost never file such reports. Fulton County Probate Court has sent two "revocations" to the state since July; DeKalb's Probate Court also has filed two. Statewide, only 21 of 159 counties filed any revocations at all. The AJC also found that, even if such reports were filed to the GBI, that agency has no database or other computer file where the records would be stored.

The "guns everywhere" law, known properly as the 2014 Safe Carry Protection Act, enabled Georgians to take guns into a wide range of new places, including bars, churches and many government buildings. The law was amended last year to add a reporting provision:

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