DOUGLASVILLE — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp rose to national notice in 2018 in part through a television ad that showed him brandishing a shotgun at an actor playing a suitor of one of his daughters.
Facing primary, Georgia's Kemp delivers on looser gun laws
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![Gov. Brian Kemp hands a pen to Rep. Mandi Ballinger after he signed a bill which will allow permit less carry at a sporting goods store in Douglasville, Ga., Tuesday, April 12, 2022. SB 319 allows a "lawful weapons carrier" to carry a concealed handgun ev](https://statesboroherald.cdn-anvilcms.net/media/images/2022/04/14/images/gun_law.max-752x423.jpg)
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