Troxler says he will enforce gun ban at NC State Fair, despite threat of legal action

[alp227]

RALEIGH — The state’s most recent gun law may allow concealed firearms at this year’s N.C. State Fair, where they have been forbidden for decades.

Grass Roots North Carolina, an advocate group for gun owners, plans to file a legal action establishing the right under state law, according to representatives.

Fair officials, meanwhile, are considering stepped-up security and plan to continue the yearly event’s no-guns policy.

“We’re not changing any policy that we’ve had in the past,” said Steve Troxler, the state’s agriculture commissioner and the head of the fair. “Hopefully ... we’ll get the word out now: Leave them in the car.”

full: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/09/30/4195835_new-law-may-allow-guns-at-nc-state.html

[Politicalboi]

1. Then they should cancel the fair

Let the people know who fucked it up for them. Poor men who still live their childhood need to carry their guns everywhere so they can protect us.

[hack89]

2. I can understand why you would think that

if they held the state fair and people legally carried their concealed guns with no problems, it would the latest in a long string of "there will be blood in the streets" predictions to be proven wrong.

[friendly_iconoclast]

4. Florida allows it, and gun owners have conspicuously *not* been involved in violence there

[friendly_iconoclast]

3. Instead of obeying the law? It ain't the gun owners who are being childish here...