A decision taken by Georgia legislators to allow licensed Georgia gun owners to carry their firearms in public places has led to an inquiry on whether people are permitted to take their firearms with them in the nation’s busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International.

The airport’s director, Benjamin R. DeCosta, said that the law should only be applied to public city transportation like buses or city subway and added the fact that carrying a gun in an airport would be very problematic and also dangerous. He declared the airport a “gun-free” area and emphasized that anyone who was found in possession of a handgun, would be detained and accused of misconduct.

A Georgia gun rights association filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Atlanta on Tuesday after airport officials stated that they would maintain a ban on concealed weapons in the passenger terminal in spite of the modifications of the state law. The amendments, approved by the Georgia legislature in spring and applied on Tuesday, unwind the state’s ruling out on carrying weapons on public transportation and in some other areas, including bistros which serve alcohol drinks.

The difference of opinion in Atlanta arrives at the same time when the directive of firearms across the country is in its changing process. In an assessment made last month, the United States Supreme Court maintained the individual right to own a gun for personal use. In a 5 to 4 verdict slaying the District of Columbia’s ban on firearms, the court declined the perspective according to which the Second Amendment promoted the right to own arms only in cases of “well regulated militia.”