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[Bleepey]

Security is tight at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center [[Nope not touching that one]] outside of Washington, DC. CPAC attendees must go through metal detectors and have their bags searched by guards.

With many of the Republican presidential candidates set to attend the five-day conference ‒ with their Secret Service entourages in tow ‒ the heightened security measures are necessary, CPAC’s communications director Ian Walters told the Daily Beast.

So the only good guys with guns are the cops and federal agents.

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“The policy has pretty much been no firearms,” a police officer named Muldoon told the Beast. “Some people got up in arms about that.”

It’s not exactly a popular policy with attendees not named LaPierre.

“I don’t like it,” said Robert Owens, one of the conference-goers. “I just think that the Second Amendment would allow somebody to carry a firearm wherever they choose to carry a firearm. There shouldn’t be a limit to it.”

While the NRA has long raged against gun-free zones, CPAC is far from the first time the gun-rights organization has attended a conference in such a location. In fact, the NRA often hosts its annual convention in locations that ban firearms, including some events for its 2010, 2014 and 2015 meetings, Nashville Public Radio reported last April.

The Tennessee capital hosted the 2015 NRA convention, where the major concerts were held at the Bridgestone Arena.

"Bridgestone Arena prohibits the possession of firearms," the NRA posted in a disclaimer its website. "When carrying your firearm, remember to follow all federal, state and local laws."

https://************/usa/334606-nra-gun-free-cpac/

RT today I know. The NRA doesn't believe the bullshit they say.

 

[Seth Enosh]

Sounds like they have Secret Service "good guys with guns" there already to protect the presidential candidates.

Is this thread complaining that a conservative organization is not so extreme that they will only hold conferences at venues allowing open/concealed carry by civilians? Don't most laws pushed for by conservatives allow private organizations to ban gun possession on their property? That's how the new Texas open carry law works, it contains explicit ways for businesses to ban both CCW and open carry.

 

[PBY]

Sounds like they have Secret Service "good guys with guns" there already to protect the presidential candidates.

Is this thread complaining that a conservative organization is not so extreme that they will only hold conferences at venues allowing open/concealed carry by civilians? Don't most laws pushed for by conservatives allow private organizations to ban gun possession on their property? That's how the new Texas open carry law works, it contains explicit ways for businesses to ban both CCW and open carry.

If they want that shit in schools but not in conferences where they are what does that tell you.

 

[Vicetrailia]

Sounds like they have Secret Service "good guys with guns" there already to protect the presidential candidates.

Is this thread complaining that a conservative organization is not so extreme that they will only hold conferences at venues allowing open/concealed carry by civilians? Don't most laws pushed for by conservatives allow private organizations to ban gun possession on their property? That's how the new Texas open carry law works, it contains explicit ways for businesses to ban both CCW and open carry.

But yet they want guns in classrooms. They know how to protect themselves very well, but let everyone else deal with the bullshit.

 

[Haloid1177]

Sounds like they have Secret Service "good guys with guns" there already to protect the presidential candidates.

Is this thread complaining that a conservative organization is not so extreme that they will only hold conferences at venues allowing open/concealed carry by civilians? Don't most laws pushed for by conservatives allow private organizations to ban gun possession on their property? That's how the new Texas open carry law works, it contains explicit ways for businesses to ban both CCW and open carry.

While that's somewhat true, the NRA doesn't believe in those sort of things, and since they're attending this conference, I think it's a fair criticism.

 

[AbsolutBro]

Is the "not touching that one" from the original article? The link doesn't work as I'm guessing it's a banned site.

Edit: it's also worth noting that the Gaylord Convention center is actually in Maryland, not Washington D.C., and that Maryland has pretty strict gun laws in place already.

 

[Funky Papa]

If you know the source is banned, the best course of action is to find a different (and probably better) source or look for something else to talk about.