okboomer
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Hi folks,
A lady on another gun group I belong to has posted about this and I thought I would post it here ... with her permission. I would post a link to the thread but you would have to join a crochet group to see it :what:
First post:
And this is the email she sent giving me permission to post this with additional information and links:
Hi folks,
A lady on another gun group I belong to has posted about this and I thought I would post it here ... with her permission. I would post a link to the thread but you would have to join a crochet group to see it :what:
First post:
Then we asked some questions and this post is pretty clear about the questions being answered:I am angry. Very angry. My local gun shop owner, and very good friend, is being harassed. A group of protesters, Heeding God’s Call, have been trying to force him to sign an illegal “Code of Conduct”. They are an offshoot of Mayor Blumberg’s Mayor’s Against Illegal Guns. So far there have been two protests held at the shop. The first time, it was on a weekend and we outnumbered them. The second time, it was on Good Friday during work hours and we were severely outnumbered.
They say they are coming back in May (now scheduled for April 14)for another protest. We would really like to have “our side” more organized and better represented this time around. But it is hard. We try to get the word out, but unless you are looking in the right places, no one even knows that it is happening until the news puts out an article. The NRA sent out an email about it less than 24 hours before the protest was set to begin. While the effort is appreciated, how is anyone supposed to get the time off from work (if necessary) when the email arrives at 5:30pm the day before you need to take off??
Also, this group has a base in Chicago as well, so expect to see more and more situations like this cropping up across the country.
they did have a permit. it was billed as a “prayer rally”. the cops and civil affairs were there keeping the peace between the two groups, but that was about it. philly is one of the most liberal cities around. none of the council members care about an “evil gun store” that has been in the community since the 80s.
The owner was not allowed outside. I was posted inside the shop to make sure that he stayed there while the protest was going on outside. Of course, he wanted to go upstairs and pee out the side window onto them, so I don’t know what keeping him inside was going to accomplish =) The shop’s lawyer wasn’t allowing us to do too much. Which was getting us even more irritated. We were supposed to be the bigger people and ignore being called all sorts of lovely Christian things. That didn’t happen, but for the most part we behaved ourselves.
Oh, and the permit… was to block off a street! They set up in the middle of the street and overtook the sidewalks of surrounding businesses and homes. Suffice to say, they were NOT happy campers… and that anger was not directed at the Shooter Shop.
This is what they posted on their facebook page. All of the photo’s of our group have already been reported (misrepresentation of character, posting pics of minors without parental consent). We were the ones carrying flags. This is what we posted (you have to log into FB, but worth it) from the protest back in February (unfortunatly nothing has been uploaded yet from over the weekend. We were all too busy spending the holiday with family). Notice how we tried to be respectful and not show them with us?
It was posted on several forums: defensivehandguns, pafoa, wethearmed, and who knows where else that I just don’t know of. People said that they were going to be there. At the last minute, phone calls started coming in saying that everyone needed to cancel because their family was making them do other things, or they just didn’t show up at all. It is sickening because these are the people that are supposed to be on our side! It isn’t any wonder why the country is in the shape it is when you realize that those with any desire to see our liberties saved have no motivation or drive! scream
(I’m allowed to reprint these comments because they were made by my SO =) )
TheZog
@losinghopebytheday: You are completely wrong. Please note: 18 Pa.C.S. § 6111.4: Registration of firearms Notwithstanding any section of this chapter to the contrary, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to allow any government or law enforcement agency or any agent thereof to create, maintain or operate any registry of firearm ownership within this Commonwealth. For the purposes of this section only, the term “firearm” shall include any weapon that is designed to or may readily be converted to expel any projectile by the action of an explosive or the frame or receiver of any such weapon. How much clearer do you want it?
And this is the email she sent giving me permission to post this with additional information and links:
Absolutely! Share away! The more people that learn about this, the better.
PA -is- an open carry state; however, Philadelphia is -not- open carry.
Here is a link to the shop for you. We were just told last night that they plan on coming back April 14th at 11am. It must be really nice for all of them that don’t have jobs to be able to do these types of things during the work week. It hasn’t been confirmed, because the last we had heard they were due to come back in May, but it is being put out there as their next date.
Also, here is the article about the first protest. Oh, and their Flickr of the protest. Notice how they don’t even specify that those with flags are not there for them?
As my last post pointed out, the code they want signed is illegal in the state of pa, and the shop already does -everything else on it- because yes, the code is good in the theory of moral business practices. And they are all holding up the fact that Collisemo’s (sp) closed down after their protests… they had nothing to do with it. The owner, unfortunatly, was another victim of the failing economy and needed to close down, just like so many others in the country.