Toting Guns At The NRA Annual Meetings

By Tom Knighton

Anti-gunners love to make hay over little things. For example, take the Secret Service’s requirement that the rooms where President Trump and Vice President Pence were speaking be gun free zones. Plenty of folks latched onto that to try and claim the NRA was a bunch of hypocrites.

After all, they argued, isn’t it a little hypocritical to not allow guns at the NRA’s annual shindig?

Only, that wasn’t the reality. The only places that guns were off limits were the halls where the president and vice president were speaking. The rest of the convention’s facilities had plenty of people carrying firearms, and the Washington Free Beacon‘s Stephen Gutowski took his gun to prove it.

Last week the National Rifle Association had its 147th annual meeting in Dallas, and I legally carried my gun throughout the event.

This shouldn’t be particularly newsworthy since everything I did was perfectly legal—I never had to draw my firearm, and there were likely hundreds or thousands of other people there carrying guns. So many major media outlets, however, misreported the rules for gun carry at the convention that I felt compelled to set the record straight not just by words but by deeds. So, that’s …Read the Rest

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