NRA Convention Will Allow Guns, Except When Trump and Pence Speak

[WhiteTara]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nra-convention-allow-guns-except-180526500.html

(DALLAS) — Attendees at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Dallas can carry their firearms — except during the forum where President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence speak Friday.

A White House official said Monday that Trump will attend Friday. Pence had already been slated to speak at Friday’s leadership forum,

The NRA has said on its website that due to Pence’s attendance, the U.S. Secret Service is responsible for security then. It’s standard for the Secret Service to bar firearms from being carried into places visited by the people they protect, regardless of state laws.

Some students at the Parkland, Florida, high school where 17 people were killed in February criticized the NRA on social media for what they see as hypocrisy.

Guns were also banned during Trump’s appearance at the NRA’s annual meeting in Atlanta last year.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. What are they going to do?

Stop the show while everyone goes and secures their firearm? Too many guns. Too many delicate people who need them.

[jaysunb]

2. What the hell is this obsession w/ guns ???

This is some sick shit.

[secondwind]

3. Every American should have the same "protections" against guns.

Wouldn’t that be wonderful.......

[RockRaven]

4. Schadenfreude

thy name would be "Unintentional discharge at the NRA Convention"


Oh, please, please, please, please.... please happen close enough just before VP/POTUS arrival to scuttle their appearances.

[tblue37]

5. Remember this sort of thing when Obama was in office? (Emphasis added):

A man is shown legally carrying a rifle at a protest against President Obama on Monday in Phoenix, Arizona.

PHOENIX, Arizona (CNN) -- A man toting an assault rifle was among a dozen protesters carrying weapons while demonstrating outside President Obama's speech to veterans on Monday, but no laws were broken. It was the second instance in recent days in which weapons have been seen near presidential events.

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Phoenix police said authorities monitored about a dozen people carrying weapons while peacefully demonstrating.

"It was a group interested in exercising the right to bear arms," police spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill said.

Arizona law has nothing in the books regulating assault rifles, and only requires permits for carrying concealed weapons. So despite the man's proximity to the president, there were no charges or arrests to be made. Hill said officers explained the law to some people who were upset about the presence of weapons at the protest.

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