stealthyeliminator
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BEST VIDEO SO FAR IMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCyJAIHcoJg
According to a post on Facebook, two members of Texas Carry were arrested within the past hour to 2 hours outside of the capital building. The members were carrying openly holstered pre-1899 pistols that are not classified as firearms under Texas law.
Based on the conversations posted online in the recent weeks/months, I would imagine that the government intends to prosecute them NOT under unlawful carry of a weapon but under disorderly conduct, which makes it an offense when one "displays a firearm or other deadly weapon in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm;" - meaning that the case hinges not on whether or not the weapon qualifies as a firearm, but whether or not it was carried in a manner calculated to cause alarm. Common sense - and probably mountains of case law from all across the country - tells us that it is not displayed in a manner calculated to cause alarm when it is properly holstered. We shall see. I will try to post any updates I find as quickly as possible.
According to the Facebook posts this was not a simi-peaceful arrest as the previous ones were. This was a full blown, guns drawn, fingers on trigger, to-the-ground takedown. The officers refused to tell the ones arrested what laws they had broken, and they refused to tell bystanders why they were being arrested. When questioned, they simply replied "we are just doing what we are told." Whoever is doing the telling, needs to be booted from their office. Better, yet, boot them from Texas. Send them to Chicago, perhaps, they ought to love it there...
I believe the following video is of the arrests made today. WARNING offensive language throughout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cow1HBEH1TY&feature=youtube_gdata_player But you can't say a few curse words are any more offensive than false arrests, broken oaths, and blind obedience to an oppressive state.
A bare-bones news story. Hopefully more will be reported in the near future. http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Witnesses-2-handcuffed-at-Texas-Capitol-gun-rally-229394821.html
I'm now reading that they've been charged with criminal trespass. It'd be laughable if it weren't a matter of law abiding citizens being arrested, abused and oppressed
According to a post on Facebook, two members of Texas Carry were arrested within the past hour to 2 hours outside of the capital building. The members were carrying openly holstered pre-1899 pistols that are not classified as firearms under Texas law.
Based on the conversations posted online in the recent weeks/months, I would imagine that the government intends to prosecute them NOT under unlawful carry of a weapon but under disorderly conduct, which makes it an offense when one "displays a firearm or other deadly weapon in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm;" - meaning that the case hinges not on whether or not the weapon qualifies as a firearm, but whether or not it was carried in a manner calculated to cause alarm. Common sense - and probably mountains of case law from all across the country - tells us that it is not displayed in a manner calculated to cause alarm when it is properly holstered. We shall see. I will try to post any updates I find as quickly as possible.
According to the Facebook posts this was not a simi-peaceful arrest as the previous ones were. This was a full blown, guns drawn, fingers on trigger, to-the-ground takedown. The officers refused to tell the ones arrested what laws they had broken, and they refused to tell bystanders why they were being arrested. When questioned, they simply replied "we are just doing what we are told." Whoever is doing the telling, needs to be booted from their office. Better, yet, boot them from Texas. Send them to Chicago, perhaps, they ought to love it there...
I believe the following video is of the arrests made today. WARNING offensive language throughout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cow1HBEH1TY&feature=youtube_gdata_player But you can't say a few curse words are any more offensive than false arrests, broken oaths, and blind obedience to an oppressive state.
A bare-bones news story. Hopefully more will be reported in the near future. http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Witnesses-2-handcuffed-at-Texas-Capitol-gun-rally-229394821.html
I'm now reading that they've been charged with criminal trespass. It'd be laughable if it weren't a matter of law abiding citizens being arrested, abused and oppressed
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