ATLANTA — Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is supporting a new lawsuit brought by a gun-rights organization challenging a Savannah ordinance restricting the storage of firearms inside the city.

The ordinance, approved by the Savannah City Council in April of last year, prohibits storing guns in unlocked vehicles, with violators subject to a $1,000 fine and 30 days in jail. Passage of the ordinance followed an outbreak of stolen firearms in Savannah, most taken from unlocked vehicles.

In a brief filed last week, Carr wrote that the ordinance is superseded by a state law prohibiting local governments from regulating the possession, transport, or carrying of firearms.

“This misguided attempt to punish law-abiding Georgians does absolutely nothing to address crime, and it won’t hold up i

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