Grapeshot, please forgive my oversight, per your request your attention is directed to the following link:
http://forum.opencarry.org/forums/showthread.php?108024-Gold-Carry-State/
A quick synopsis of GRNC’s stance, the organizational president's statements concerning those NC citizens who OC:
Post #14:
Cricketdad, one of GRNC’s Bd of Dir on the 5th of November stated:
quote:
I have been asked by Paul Valone to re post this. To those who complain that HB 111, which would eliminate restrictions on concealed handgun permit-holders in restaurants and parks,
fails to include open carry in those areas,
a reality check is in order, particularly with regard to open carry in bars. (see wabbits comments regarding just this statement in the PS below!!)
Snip…
image of North Carolina concealed handgun permit-holders -- certified sane, sober and law abiding… snip…
GRNC’s goal is to achieve improvements for NC gun owners. We might be able to achieve a loosening of restrictions for concealed handgun permit-holders.
For open carry, those improvements are, at present, unachievable just as a “shall issue” concealed handgun law was unachievable until 1995.
Snip… unquote
And then throughout the remaining 123 postings of this thread Mr. Valone personally continued in the discussion along w/several of GRNC’s supporters by organizationally threatening legal action as well as calling all those who questioned or challenged their posted comments regaled to call the challenger(s) NAMES instead of continuing in unemotional discussion.
I hope this meets your query Grapeshot, and in the spirit of the holidays, hope you will forgive the oversight!!
wabbit
ps: quite interesting to note that multiple states across the nation have successfully overcome this open carry parody GRNC claims to exist exclusively in NC, in those establishments w/a bar AND food service, where over half their income is gleaned from food.
