There's a man with a gun in Piedmont Park

For this week's Creative Loafing cover story, I openly carried guns into restaurants, stores, parks, and even MARTA, just to see what would happen.

Imagine if someone with a firearms license walked onto a MARTA train with a shotgun. He couldn't be arrested, even though someone can be ticketed for eating on a train.

"So I just want to be clear," I asked MARTA police Chief Wanda Dunham. "If I had a turkey sandwich in one hand and a gun in the other hand, MARTA police would ticket me for the turkey sandwich?"

"If you're eating it," she replied. "Only if you're eating it."

Someone with a permit can board a MARTA train with a shotgun?

"That's what the law says," she replied. Then, with sarcasm, she adds, "It just gives you that warm fuzzy feeling."

My only regret about the story: the book that's visible in the photo is "Feng Shui For Dummies." At the bottom of the pile is a much more photo-appropriate book, "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Getting Magazine Articles Published."

The photos in the story are by Joeff Davis.