Posted August 29, 2019 1:07 pm by Comments

By Cam Edwards

Ed Swedish just wanted to do something good for his community. The gun store owner in New Hudson, Michigan heard about a shortage of blood, and worked with his local Red Cross to set up a blood drive at Huron Valley Guns this upcoming weekend.

“We actually made plans to move all of our showroom to the back and this was all going to be set up as an area for the blood drive and where you sit after you have the blood,” Swedish said.

He even printed flyers for the event for this Saturday, Aug. 31 and Sunday, Sept. 1. Swedish told all his customers to come by and help out.

But after the Red Cross backed out, it will be business as usual at Huron Valley Guns this weekend. The organization apparently didn’t like the idea of hosting the blood drive inside the business, and eventually decided not to hold the event with a mobile blood bank in the parking lot either.

“For us to jump through all the hoops and then, first it’s no good in the store then it’s not even good in our parking lot I mean,” Swedish said. “I wouldn’t go as far as saying …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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