North Carolina: Haywood County Blinks

By Justin Stakes

Are Haywood County Commissioners Having Second Thoughts About Snubbing the Law-Abiding?

Raleigh, NC -(Ammoland.com)- What started as a proposed ordinance to ban ALL open and conceal carry has resulted in some potential backpedaling by Haywood County’s commissioners.

Last week’s county commission meeting to discuss this proposed ordinance was a HUGE victory for gun owners like yourselves. Not only did nearly 400 gun rights activists pack the meeting and let themselves be heard, but the county has now announced that “The Haywood County Board of Commissioners will not take any action at their regularly scheduled meeting of Monday, April 4, 2016 on the proposed ordinances for Carrying of Concealed Weapons and Displaying of Firearms …”

Scorched by hundreds of angry voter contacts, the Haywood County manager last week attempted to justify the commission’s actions as an attempt to bring the county’s 1995 ban on concealed carry in parks into compliance with changes in the law. In reality, the commission attempted to manipulate statutory definitions to continue gun bands which are no longer legal.

In addition to banning open carry and concealed carry in all county buildings, their proposed changes would reclassify …Read the Rest

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