. . . [T]he right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; but the general assembly shall have power to prescribe by law the manner in which arms may be borne.
Post-Civil War State Constitutions
1877
Ga. Const. of 1877, art. I , § 22.
Georgia
The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed, but the General Assembly shall have power to prescribe the manner in which arms may be borne.