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Fairbanks gun rights group backs open carry days
(Published February 20, 2009)
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A Second Amendment rights group in Fairbanks is encouraging members to bring their guns out into the open.
Scaheffer Cox with the group Second Amendment Task Force is urging everyone to wear their guns during open carry days this weekend and next. He expects about 500 people to participate.
He says there's a social stigma that only "cops and robbers have guns." But he says more people than that pack heat, they just conceal their weapons.
Fairbanks Police Chief Dan Hoffman doesn't oppose the show of arms, saying there's no law against carrying open, legal firearms in Alaska.
Hoffman believes this is in reaction to the election of President Barack Obama. Hoffman says there's fear and concern the Democrat will crack down on gun ownership.
Information from: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, http://www.newsminer.com
http://www.fortmilltimes.com/124/story/465403.html
Fairbanks gun rights group backs open carry days
(Published February 20, 2009)
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A Second Amendment rights group in Fairbanks is encouraging members to bring their guns out into the open.
Scaheffer Cox with the group Second Amendment Task Force is urging everyone to wear their guns during open carry days this weekend and next. He expects about 500 people to participate.
He says there's a social stigma that only "cops and robbers have guns." But he says more people than that pack heat, they just conceal their weapons.
Fairbanks Police Chief Dan Hoffman doesn't oppose the show of arms, saying there's no law against carrying open, legal firearms in Alaska.
Hoffman believes this is in reaction to the election of President Barack Obama. Hoffman says there's fear and concern the Democrat will crack down on gun ownership.
Information from: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, http://www.newsminer.com