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Newport News Fall Festival - MWAG

Armed

Regular Member
Joined
Aug 28, 2008
Messages
418
Location
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Yesterday (Saturday Oct. 1st) I volunteered to assist a non-profit organization park cars for the Fall Festival in Newport News City Park. The non-profit leader was given a park service radio to coordinate as necessary during the event. This means we were "privy" to some of the back and forth communications within the park. About mid afternoon we heard that a citizen had called 911 to complain about a man with a handgun strapped to his hip at the festival.

I was just curious if anyone on the this board "owns" this story, and can tell us what happened and how things turned out. I'm guessing since we heard nothing else over the park radio, it was a 'non-event'?

Thanks,
 

youngck

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Aug 17, 2009
Messages
65
Location
Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
The MWAG may have been me. I was wearing my Taurus .45 throughout the day on Saturday. I was working at the Newport News Republican City Committee booth near the ranger station, mule ride and food court. I did not get any comments except for those who expressed appreciation for my 2A support. Mostly I was under the impression that few noticed at all. No women or children ran screaming from the booth area. The park rangers were just feet away all day, and at least one police officer picked up literature. More importantly the Republican candidates (Mickey Chohanny 1st Senate Dist.; Tom Harmon 2nd Senate Dist; Mike Watson 93rd House Dist. and David Yancey 94th House Dist.) for the general assembly were all there at one time or another in the booth and all were positive about OC and 2A.
 
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