Atlanta’s Music Midtown Festival Canceled After Court Ruling Made It Illegal to Keep Guns Out of Event | THR News - video Dailymotion

A recent state court ruling restricts gun bans on certain types of public property.

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00:00Atlanta's Music Midtown Festival has been canceled after a court ruling made it illegal

00:04to keep guns out of the event.

00:13The long-running Music Midtown Festival at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, scheduled for September

00:1717th and 18th with headliners My Chemical Romance, Future, Jack White and Fall Out Boy,

00:23has been called off, according to a statement issued by festival organizers.

00:27Although not cited by the organizers, the likely cause has to do with recent changes

00:31to Georgia gun laws that prevent the festival from banning guns on the publicly-owned festival grounds.

00:37In 2014, Georgia passed a law officially known as the Safe Carry Protection Act that allows

00:42people to carry firearms in bars, churches, schools, private businesses and on public-owned

00:48state land like Piedmont Park, where the festival is held.

00:51The Georgia Supreme Court made a decision in 2019 that makes it impossible for short-term

00:55private events like music festivals to prohibit guns on public land.

01:00Music Midtown has always banned guns, and many artist contracts require firearms to be barred

01:05from the premises for them to perform.

01:07For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tetris Kelly.