Thank you for your input,was very helpful. What I had mean to say wuz,how old does you hafta be to do this. Better?
Do what?
If you are talking about carrying a firearm in a vehicle, there are two age limits, maybe three, which not everyone appreciates. If you look at subsection (a) quoted above, it says [in part] "inside his or her home, motor vehicle,", so if it's "his or her vehicle" the age limits would be 16 for a long gun, and 18 for a handgun, 16 because that's the minimum age to drive.
The kicker that a lot of people overlook, and which gets misstated in a lot of the interwebs is in subsection (d) which very obliquely refers to someone in a vehicle that is not his or her vehicle, i.e. a passenger. Here the law states," d) Any person who is not prohibited by law from possessing a handgun or long gun who is eligible for a weapons carry license may transport a handgun or long gun in any private passenger motor vehicle; " What this means is that by implication, the passenger must be 21, that being the minimum age to be eligible for a GWL.
Whether this age distinction was intended by the legislature is one of those imponderables the answer to which we will never know.
From time to time I post a question about the minimum age to have a handgun in a vehicle in Georgia, here and on other forums, and it is always surprising the number of LEO who think it is 21. They rely on the fact that an FFL cannot sell a handgun to a person under 21, despite the fact that in Georgia a private sale is perfectly legal.
People who read the news may remember the incident of Isiah Crowell, football player at UGA. He was stopped near the UGA campus, the cops searched his car and found a pistol with an altered serial number, He was kicked out of school. He was charged with carrying a gun on school property, and possession of a firearm with an altered serial number, The DA eventually dismissed it for some bogus reason, but the real reason is that his vehicle was stopped in a bus bay on a county street, and was never on UGA property, and the search was arguably legal, but the seizure of the gun to examine he serial number was not. DA didn't want all that to come out in court and embarrass the kiddie cops, so he dismissed on the grounds that Crowell didn't know the serial number had been altered.