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Gun Control Reform Activism

Electric Monk

(13,869 posts) Sun Mar 15, 2015, 04:11 PM Mar 2015

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Gun-toting advocates rally in Lower Merion; official says it's "an armed occupation."

Several dozen gun-rights supporters descended on a Lower Merion park Sunday afternoon in a peaceful show of force protesting a local gun ordinance.

The rule does not ban legal guns from parks, but rally organizers say it is vaguely written and should be repealed. Some said it is illegal.

Demonstrators carried firearms in Bala Cynwyd Park. Gun-control advocates said earlier they would avoid the demonstration. Lower Merion Township Commissioner Brian McGuire declared the rally an "armed occupation."

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The event, billed as being family-friendly, intended to draw gun-rights supporters from across the state.

Kim Stolfer, a Pittsburgh man who founded Firearms Owners Against Crime, said the Lower Merion ordinance is illegal under a Pennsylvania law that gives the state jurisdiction over all firearms regulation.

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Gun-toting advocates rally in Lower Merion; official says it's "an armed occupation." (Original Post) Electric Monk Mar 2015 OP

Boys and their toys, again NoJusticeNoPeace Mar 2015 #1

Armed racist (Tbaggers) doing what they do best, intimidating. Hoyt Mar 2015 #2

fucking gun humpers gopiscrap Mar 2015 #3

I pity them and their empty lives they fill with WMD's and self-loathing. Nothing more than a cult. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #4

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)

1. Boys and their toys, again

Reply to Electric Monk (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2015, 04:12 PM

Mar 2015

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

2. Armed racist (Tbaggers) doing what they do best, intimidating.

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Sun Mar 15, 2015, 04:19 PM

Mar 2015

gopiscrap

(24,219 posts)

3. fucking gun humpers

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Sun Mar 15, 2015, 04:25 PM

Mar 2015

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

4. I pity them and their empty lives they fill with WMD's and self-loathing. Nothing more than a cult.

Reply to Electric Monk (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2015, 04:28 PM

Mar 2015

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