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Initech

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Mon Jul 1, 2013, 01:43 PM Jul 2013

Utah Gun Rights Group Planning Open Carry 5K Run

SALT LAKE CITY -- Running with scissors is generally considered a risky endeavor, but one group of Utah residents says running with a gun isn't.

Organizers of the "Run 4 Guns" planned for this fall in Spanish Fork, Utah, are touting the event as the nation's first open carry run.

The group is inviting runners to bring not only their tennis shoes and water bottles, but their gun holsters, as well.

Organizer Macgregor Whiting of Mapleton said the September 5K race, which was first reported by Salt Lake City Weekly, aims to celebrate Second Amendment rights and show that gun owners are responsible, normal people. In addition to the 3.1 mile race, they'll have a half-mile "armed dash."

Proceeds from the event will go toward victims of gun violence, Whiting said.

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/south/spanish-fork/utah-gun-rights-group-plans-open-carry-k/article_cd693949-5d3e-5d41-8e68-2e4597a11777.html


File this one under "things that will not end well".
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Utah Gun Rights Group Planning Open Carry 5K Run (Original Post) Initech Jul 2013 OP
Is it so wrong that I feel compelled to move to Utah so I too can act with impunity? siligut Jul 2013 #1

siligut

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1. Is it so wrong that I feel compelled to move to Utah so I too can act with impunity?
Mon Jul 1, 2013, 02:02 PM
Jul 2013

Relatively short run, but I gather Utah gun owners are not the out-of-shape, beer-drinking morons that we typically see on teh Google.

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