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cabman1
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Posted: Fri Jun 26th, 2009 02:21 pm |
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http://www.wilx.com/home/misc/49085476.html
Picnic With A Bang Save Email Print
Posted: 8:18 AM Jun 25, 2009
Last Updated: 8:18 AM Jun 25, 2009
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Gun advocates have a bang-up idea for a picnic in Traverse City.
A group called Michigan Open Carry Inc. plans to host a gun-toting picnic at Sunset Park on Saturday.
It's part of the nonprofit's ongoing effort to promote the legal, open carry of firearms and the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
Picnic attendees will walk around with pistols in hip holsters in a public park.
Not everyone is thrilled with the idea.
Virgilene Warren lives a few blocks from the park. She tells the Traverse City Record-Eagle she finds the picnic to be "a little disturbing."Last edited on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 02:24 pm by cabman1
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T Vance
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Posted: Mon Jul 20th, 2009 05:51 am |
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Last edited on Tue Jul 21st, 2009 04:04 pm by T Vance
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Michigander
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Posted: Sun Aug 2nd, 2009 11:59 pm |
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http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/20253681/detail.html
Pistol-Packing Picnic In Oakland CountyPicnic To Raise Awareness About Right To Carry Arms Without PermitPOSTED: Sunday, August 2, 2009UPDATED: 7:32 am EDT August 2, 2009
AP OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Organizers of a gathering in a Detroit suburb want picnickers to bring a dish to share and carry a handgun in plain view.The Sunday afternoon picnic at Seymour Lake Park in Oxford Township, about 30 miles north-northwest of Detroit, is to raise awareness of a Michigan law allowing registered gun owners to openly carry handguns without a special permit.Alcohol and shooting won't be allowed at the potluck.Members of Michigan Open Carry, said the gathering is a regular family picnic, the only difference is the people there will be armed.
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Generaldet
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Posted: Mon Aug 3rd, 2009 01:49 pm |
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Articles from the Oxford Leader and the Oakland Press about the Oxford picnic.
http://www.oxfordleader.com/Articles-i-2009-07-15-230321.113121_Pistolpacking_picnic_to_promote_open_carry_right.html
http://www.oxfordleader.com/Articles-i-2009-07-15-230319.113121_Ordinances_on_gun_possession_unenforceable.html
http://www.oxfordleader.com/Articles-i-2009-07-15-230333.113121_My_Way.html
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2009/07/30/news/local_news/doc4a7163282429c651394091.txt
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2009/08/03/news/local_news/doc4a76accceaf15965289153.txt
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warlockmatized
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Posted: Wed Aug 5th, 2009 10:15 pm |
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Generaldet wrote: Articles from the Oxford Leader and the Oakland Press about the Oxford picnic.
http://www.oxfordleader.com/Articles-i-2009-07-15-230321.113121_Pistolpacking_picnic_to_promote_open_carry_right.html
http://www.oxfordleader.com/Articles-i-2009-07-15-230319.113121_Ordinances_on_gun_possession_unenforceable.html
http://www.oxfordleader.com/Articles-i-2009-07-15-230333.113121_My_Way.html
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2009/07/30/news/local_news/doc4a7163282429c651394091.txt
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2009/08/03/news/local_news/doc4a76accceaf15965289153.txt
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Generaldet
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Posted: Sun Aug 16th, 2009 04:41 pm |
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http://www.macombdaily.com/articles/2009/08/13/news/srv0000006105015.txt
http://www.macombdaily.com/articles/2009/08/14/news/srv0000006114137.txt
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fbuckner
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| I really wish i could have been there saturday. Alas we had a class and I had to be there. Jason aka MiCPL told me i missed some really great info. I need to make the next one and have some good fellowship. Last edited on Tue Nov 10th, 2009 01:19 am by fbuckner
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James_Liv_Co
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Posted: Tue Nov 17th, 2009 12:21 pm |
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From Livingston County Press Argus- front page today:
http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20091117/NEWS01/911170308/1002/NLETTER01/Group-aims-to-spread-word-on-gun-rights?source=nletter-news
Group aims to spread word on gun
By Lisa Roose-Church • DAILY PRESS & ARGUS • November 17, 2009
A Melvindale man, who openly carried a gun into Fairlane Mall in Dearborn while shopping for socks, was stopped at gunpoint by police after leaving a parking space.
An Ohio man was ordered at gunpoint to lie on the ground in July after someone called 911 to report that he was walking down the street with a handgun, which was holstered. One of the responding officers told him, "You cannot just walk down the street with a weapon."The Constitution says otherwise.
"If one chooses to carry a weapon in Michigan, one can do so without a license," Brian Jeffs, president of Michigan Open Carry Inc., said. "There's no law that says it's illegal."
Livingston County Prosecutor David Morse agreed, saying, "You're granted the right through the Constitution."
Michigan Open Carry, a nonprofit organization that promotes the lawful carrying of a handgun, recently participated in a luncheon sponsored by the Christian motorcycle club In God We Trust M/C in the hopes of educating the public about openly carrying handguns. It's a movement that has grown nationwide since 2004, Jeffs said.
However, there are numerous incidents — some of which have led to lawsuits — in which police officers and the general public misunderstand or just plain don't know about the right to carry a weapon openly.
Any law-abiding citizen of Michigan who can legally possess a firearm may openly carry that firearm in a holster in all places not explicitly exempt by law without a concealed pistol license. Those exempt places — where weapons cannot be carried — include banks, churches, courts, theaters, sports arenas, day-care centers, hospitals and establishments under the Liquor Control Act, which would include bars and stores that sell alcohol.
A person may not, however, brandish the weapon. A Michigan attorney general opinion from 2002 states that to brandish is to "waive or flourish menacingly" or "to display ostentatiously." A person also may not openly carry a weapon in a vehicle unless that individual has a concealed pistol license.
(Article continues for two more pages: http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20091117/NEWS01/911170308/1002/NLETTER01/Group-aims-to-spread-word-on-gun-rights?source=nletter-news )
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