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Wednesday, March 30th, 2016

Texas Republicans will allow people to openly carry guns at its state convention

Author:     Eric W. Dolan
Source:     The Raw Story
Publication Date:     29 Mar 2016 at 16:37 ET
Link: Texas Republicans will allow people to openly carry guns at its state convention
Stephan:   As I predicted -- as easy a prediction as one is ever likely to make -- the Secret Service will not admit weapons into the Republican Convention. It is worth noting though that by the same they had announced their decision 35,000 Republicans had signed a petition calling for Open Carry at the convention. But in Texas, as with so much else, things are a little weirder. In the Texas State Convention, as this story describes, Open Carry is A-O.K.
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The Republican Party of Texas will allow people to carry guns at their state convention, according to the Dallas Morning News.

Both open and concealed carry of firearms will be permitted at Texas State Convention in May, officials confirmed.

On Monday, the U.S. Secret Service announced it would not allow people to carry guns at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. More than 45,000 people had signed a petition calling on the RNC to allow the open carry of firearms at the event.

Both Texas and Ohio allow guns to be carried openly in public.

The leader of Open Carry Texas praised the decision to allow guns at the upcoming state convention.

“The bottom line is there is no place where you cannot be the target of criminal activity,” C.J. Grisham told the Dallas Morning News. “Since there’s no such thing to a safe place, there should be no place where you don’t have a right to a self-defense.”

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2 Comments

  1. David Bean on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 9:26 am

    After waiting two hours in line in the rain to see Bernie last Friday, the secret service would not allow an eighty year old veteran and his shivering wife to enter the Portland arena with an 1 1/4″ pen knife that he had previously passed through TSA and flown with. It was a heartbreaking scene. They won’t let you even bring in a water bottle. ….. all conditioning for the police state in my view.

  2. Carol Moore on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 9:32 am

    I know several Liberals who signed this petition with the thought “All these Republicans in one room with guns. How many will shoot each other?” Therefore, it makes me wonder how many people signed this in hopes of proving it would not be safe to have open carry.