Virginia Gov’t Buildings Don’t Allow Open Carry… And Now Concealed Carriers Are At Risk

By James England

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA — Gun owners and advocates will have their moment in an upcoming town hall meeting discussing the potential ramifications of Governor Terry McAuliffe’s proposed ban on all guns in state buildings. The ban previously applied to just open carry but will be extended to concealed carry unless significant dissent is voiced at this meeting.

McAuliffe’s executive order decision to ban guns in public buildings came last year but requires this meeting in order to be put into effect permanently.

For those unfamiliar, Gov. McAuliffe has lead a tumultuous reign as the Governor of Virginia, using concealed carry reciprocity as a carrot-and-stick political measure to get his way.

Now a gun advocacy group is backing McAuliffe’s decision saying that security is good enough to justify this sort of restriction.

via CBS 6

“Gun violence doesn’t happen in those places because they are managed and because they are secured. And because there’s a heightened amount of security in those places, there’s no need to carry a firearm,” said the Virginia State Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Lori Haas .

Concealed carriers couldn’t disagree more.

“They can’t guarantee us our protection. Nobody can. Only we can,” said Gary Lewis, the owner …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation