VCDL Denied Booth At Blacksburg, VA Festival

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File

The Virginia Citizen’s Defense League does a lot of good work in the Old Dominion State when it comes to gun rights. It’s a voracious defender of the right to keep and bear arms in a state increasingly trying to shift into an anti-gun stronghold. The fact that it’s been able to block gun-control legislation as effectively as it has tells you plenty about the organization and its efforts.

Part of those efforts, of course, is a need to be for the group to be seen out and about in Virginia.

However, a festival in Blacksburg where the group has had a booth each of the last six years now won’t have them.

Blacksburg Steppin’ Out attracts hundreds of people every year to check out live music, art, crafts and local vendors. This year, however, one political activist group is planning a protest after they were denied a booth at the festival.

The Virginia Citizens Defense League, which lobbies for gun rights and teaches firearm safety, said it was denied a booth at the festival this year.

League President Philip VanCleave was told it’s because the league did not fit in with the festival’s new themes, which include arts …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms