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the national rifle association is sending a stern message to gun lovers. check your weapons at the door. these are a few pictures of gun rights advocates who in recent wee weeks entering popular restaurant chains with guns in hand as part of an open carry movement and the nra is speaking out. the nra says it s downright weird. let s bring in the public relations director for the group behind many of these demonstrations. good morning. thanks for having me. thanks for being here. a lot of people have trouble understanding why your members carry military assault rifles into family restaurants. can you explain? as a group, as open carry texas, we came together with three other major open carry
courage to go to school and teach. wow, i would say it has something to do with tenure and unions. more ahead, two big restaurant chains are telling customers they can t pack heat while they
people wanting to know why don t you guys open carry handguns? isn t that rifle overkill? we get to explain to them it is a strange law but we can t open carry our glaucs. if people were digging it and everybody was so excited to see you and thought it was awesome, why have seven different restaurant chains said please don t come back? obviously people weren t excited to see it. maybe they didn t tell you or your group because they were afraid of people with guns so they told management. seven restaurant chains said we don t want you here. it is because of a consorted effort by a group that is backed by michael bloomberg, an antigun control group. and they have started trolling, coming into our pages and seeing where we have been and they turn around and start petition drives and get people not even in our state to sign these petitions and say they won t come to that restaurant if they see our members inside there.
decision. i understand people s point of view that more happened prior to shooting. as i explained to people the best way to react to people being hostile towards you is to turn the other cheek and give them a smile. i am going to ask you one more time. i think this is a fairly common sense question. in an age with mass shootings, where people show up and blow people away do you think ordinary civilians are afraid of a group of people who are armed? are you asking if the average person is afraid? would that illicit fear? the average person i would say no because we interact with them every weekend and we don t get the fear factor at least not in the state of texas. i can t speak to people in other states. we haven t had the same pushback. most of the pushback has come from other states. and seven restaurant chains.