Who says "they [the apartment management] can't deny you [a lease] based on that [you or a friend / possible roommate at this new apartment posing with what looks like an assault rifle]?
We aren't talking about PUBLIC HOUSING, are we?
This is private property.
Private property owners can exclude persons in possession of firearms. (OCGA 16-11-126, and see the recent Supreme Court of Ga opinion on the GeorgiaCarry.Org/ Philip Evans vs. Atlanta Botanical Gardens case.)
The ONLY ISSUE HERE is whether the private apartment management unjustly withheld a refund of the application fee, for being unreasonably arbitrary and discriminatory in their actions, even though they broke no criminal law nor civil rights law.
I didn't realize it was legal to reject a lease application because someone owns firearms. While bs, does kind of throw the possibility of a case out the window.