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TexasTowelie

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Fri May 9, 2014, 03:32 AM May 2014

Open carry groups split over police notification

FORT WORTH — A Texas gun rights group known for openly carrying firearms and a North Texas affiliate have parted ways after police were called on the affiliate twice in recent weeks.

Authorities say Fort Worth and Arlington police responded to 911 calls last week and late last month reporting that a group of men carrying rifles and shotguns had entered fast-food restaurants in their respective cities.

Both Open Carry Texas and Open Carry Tarrant County dispute that account, saying that instead of hiding, the fast-food employees posed for pictures with the gun-toting members. But they have agreed to a “mutual parting without animosity” because of a disagreement on how their signature protests are carried out — exposing a rift in the state’s growing open-carry movement.

Open Carry Texas founder C.J. Grisham said the North Texas group should have notified authorities of their planned appearance in advance and that demonstrators should have carried flags with the group’s logo.

More at http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2014/may/08/open-carry-groups-split-over-police-notification/ .

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Open carry groups split over police notification (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2014 OP
Do you have a flag? Turbineguy May 2014 #1
Just more white cloud May 2014 #2
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