Unc talked to the NRA directly.
Sounds to me like the NRA is erring on the side of caution which, really, I can't fault them for doing. The last thing we would need would be someone getting arrested at the NRA convention for carrying outside of NC state law or anything like that - can you imagine the media feeding frenzy?
Thanks for clearing that up, Unc!
That is all.
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Yes, let's not exercise our rights because the media might have a frenzy.
The NRA is very nice to prevent you from doing something that might be injurous... Nanny Rifle Association ?
People getting arrested because some DA has a burr up his ass would tend to put a damper on the convention, don't you think?
This is North Carolina, the place where Nifong prosecuted members of the Duke Lacrosse team on the word of a strung out hooker in the complete and utter absense of any corroborating evidence. Something tells me the NRA doesn't want to rely on the prosecutorial discretion of the NC DA.
Like it or not, they're playing within the very narrow confines set down by the state of NC.
Now, why they didn't have the convention in a state without prohibitions on CCW in convention centers is beyond me.
Hell, they could have had it Boston...
I still think we individually, and as a group need to voice our displeasure at being disarmed BECAUSE we are attending a *supposed* Gun Rights Convention.
I don't see any sinister or nanny-type behavior here. What I do see is a gun rights group who seems to place carry laws for their members at a low priority. We need to change that mentality.
Sheesh, that takes all the damn fun out of it... Why bother with fact and reasonable caution when we can have our two-minutes hate instead?? :)
It should have been held elsewhere. Period. It was a bad decision and the NRA should own instead of making mealy-mouthed excuses. After reading the explanation they gave Uncle I can't help but conclude that they're full of it and doing damage control. Every NRA member, ever ticket purchaser is a participant by the simple fact that they paid money to participate.
If there was any confusion it should have been worked out before choosing this particular location. IF they did understand this to be the case before hand another location should have been chosen.
And, the NRA has lawyers that should be more than capable of making the local DAs piss themselves and go cry in a corner.
My annoyed thoughts on the matter, anyway.
It isn't a law that you cant carry in a convention center, It is a state law that you can carry in posted places and you cant carry in state property. The convention center meets both of those requirements.
Look at how much the AZ law has changed since the '09 meeting... I remember the big pissing match about how you couldn't carry in the AZ meeting because of the alcohol sales in the building. Less than a year later, you can carry almost anywhere in the state WITHOUT A PERMIT!!!
This is a good thing for NC and the NRA, it will spur much needed changes in the state law.
PS Jay, I got my pass, Ill see you Saturday night at the dinner.
Can we get the name of the NRA executive who approved North Carolina as the venue?
Name and shame.
The fact that they're doing this sort of damage control says that this decision was very ill advised.
As a credentialed journalist, can you request an interview with their Marketing VP at the convention to (a) get the name of the individuals involved, (b) get a statement of future direction wrt RKBA at their conventions, and (c) what they plan to do to regain the trust of their members?
;-)
When gun clubs in North Carolina charge admission for a shoot, everyone understands they are participating and it is the sponsoring organization that allows the guns on the property. If I paid a fee at a club, then only watched the event, would I have to worry about being arrested for having a gun?
At the local convention center, also in N.C., when they hold a gun show, I have to unload the weapon and have a ziptie put through it, but I am not disarmed. I have both the weapon and the ammunition in my possession. I paid admission there.
Who would do the search or the arrests if the venue owner or the sponsoring organization didn’t inform the police of a problem? If the law allowing the sponsoring organization to permit carry did not seem like enough, they could have registered everyone that expressed an interest as a security guard.
Where we really are is this. Beyond informing people attending that it will be illegal to carry, the NRA will be putting everyone though metal detectors. So not only do they not trust you to carry, they don’t trust you to not carry, and therefore will be searching you. Just about the way the Brady Campaign thinks it should be.
The NRA chose the site for the convention.They knew when they chose the site weapons were prohibited.This is 100% the NRA's fault.The only this I want to hear them say is "We were wrong to chose a state and venue that does not let our members exercise the second amendment rights that we stand and fight for. In the future we will make sure that the state and venue we chose support our rights or they will not enjoy the economic benefits that we and our members can bring them."
Anything else is just mealy mouth excuses.
I got a call from a friend this morning. He attended the convention the last time it was in Charlotte, along with 9 other people that all rode up together. Every one of them was carrying, and it was a non-issue.
The only areas that had signs prohibiting carry were the sub-venues that were serving alcohol.
I have to retract my earlier comment, which is based on my own incorrect impression that the NRA was a gun rights organization.
According to their own web site, this does not seem to be the case. Go take a look.
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