Concealed carry advocates protest McAuliffe's gun ban in state buildings
RICHMOND — Kevin Reynolds says he feels safe in the “protected realm” of Capitol Square, but he gets a different vibe when walking down Broad Street to his car after a late night at the office.
“As a state employee, I appreciate my right to carry a firearm in my defense,” Reynolds, the chief of staff for state Sen. Tom Garrett, R-Buckingham, said Wednesday as he and more than a dozen others spoke against Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s executive order that banned guns in state offices.
The Department of General Services, the state agency that oversees government facilities, held a public hearing on the gun ban Wednesday as part of the regulatory process necessary to enact the governor’s order.
Concealed carry permit holders, some of whom had empty holsters on their hips because firearms were not allowed at the hearing in the state-owned Pocahontas Building, said they felt McAuliffe was targeting law-abiding citizens.
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