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Popular Restaurant Chain to Gun-Owning Customers: Don’t Bring Your Firearms in Our Stores
The Blaze ^ | 5-19-14 | Ap

Posted on 05/19/2014 6:09:37 PM PDT by TurboZamboni

Edited on 05/19/2014 6:18:59 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

NEW YORK (AP)

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: Connecticut; US: Florida; US: Texas; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: banglist; carry; chipotle; colorado; connecticut; dallas; denver; erikasotolamb; florida; guns; miami; newton; seattle; starbucks; texas; washington
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To: dangerdoc

The way the short guy is holding his rifle is VERY close to “brandishing” - which is NOT the same thing as “bearing”.

Keep your g—damned finger away from the trigger unless you intend to shoot someone you stupid little moronic twerp.


101 posted on 05/20/2014 1:34:58 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: TurboZamboni

It was a stupid stunt. No way to to represent the right to carry nor to further the cause.


102 posted on 05/20/2014 1:41:13 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: PapaBear3625

Amen. True. Whoever planned this stunt did the cause no good.

I wonder how many of the hotheads offended by Chipotle’s decision would feel the same way if they were eating there and a group of openly well-armed Middle Eastern men walked in.


103 posted on 05/20/2014 1:47:09 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: ctdonath2
Context matters.

Indeed.


104 posted on 05/20/2014 2:30:28 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Freeping Since 2001

Did you see the picture of the two - the large guy is carrying his long gun in a non-threatening manner. If I had been there, I would have kept an eye on him, but not reacted.

The smaller one is trolling for a response at best, and trying to incite fear at the worst - finger on the trigger guard,ready for action, and the barrel slightly elevated - clearing conveying a threat. And threats sometimes get answered.

http://www.businessinsider.com/michael-bloomberg-wants-to-ban-guns-in-chipotle-2014-5


105 posted on 05/20/2014 4:57:52 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
By showing off his rod, you mean open carry?

No, I mean showing it off in a manner designed to draw attention to it. Like the small one in the picture in the article I linked to just up thread.

106 posted on 05/20/2014 5:02:52 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: William Tell

Notice that, per another reply, those guns do NOT have the mags inserted - they have a mag holder inserted in its place, keeping the mag handy but not instantly ready to fire.


107 posted on 05/20/2014 7:04:27 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
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To: dangerdoc
these “activists” may not be our “activists”

Excellent insight. Someone needs to research these guys and see if they're really "one of us" (albeit along the lines of "our crazy uncle"), or some crazed antis trying to make us look bad (they've pulled such stunts many times before).

108 posted on 05/20/2014 7:07:07 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
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To: PAR35

They’re both obviously trying to cause trouble (if only angst among the clientele). There’s no indication they just happened to be carrying offensive weapons and wanted a bite to eat.

They’re trolls. I’m surprised how many here defend their actions.

“Threats sometimes get answered.” Indeed, someone _properly_ OCing (holstered, inoffensive, low-profile ... be he cop or not) may very well have found legal standing to escort them off the premises at gunpoint - or on a gurney, at the slightest hint of further escalation.


109 posted on 05/20/2014 7:13:02 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
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To: Oatka

Best summary of the situation I’ve seen. Yeah, it’s legal, and maybe he’s just trying to get home to cut down a tree ... but I’m not gonna stick around to find out.


110 posted on 05/20/2014 7:15:05 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
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To: Oatka

Excellent.


111 posted on 05/20/2014 8:16:18 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: ctdonath2
ctdonath2 said: "... keeping the mag handy but not instantly ready to fire."

Per my comment, you can't determine from the picture whether or not there is a round in the chamber. The rifle may not be ready to fire multiple times, but it could be ready to fire once.

112 posted on 05/20/2014 9:44:21 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: William Tell

A chambered round, but the mag isn’t? deliberately? That’s a pretty strained theory - not just when the mag is a mere 90 degrees from full insertion, and especially when involving a military which is borderline paranoid about chambered rounds. IDF handgun doctrine is built around “mag inserted, empty chamber”: first step on drawing is chambering a round.

Find some solid basis for your “chambered round but no mag” theory before propagating it.


113 posted on 05/20/2014 10:18:28 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
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To: Farmer Dean
Same here, never wanted to eat there anyway. I get my Barbacoa from Taco Cabana
here in Dallas. They used to be Two-Pesos and changed their name. The best dagone
Barbacoa on the planet. You must try it.
114 posted on 05/20/2014 10:34:16 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: ctdonath2
ctdonath2 said: Find some solid basis for your “chambered round but no mag” theory before propagating it."

Perhaps you are using the wrong context for interpreting my observation.

I was not suggesting that IDF or any other forces would be willing to allow a chambered round in a rifle which has no magazine inserted.

My comment was aimed at the open-carry demonstrators who got so much attention because they had magazines inserted, pointing out that the mere fact that the magazine is not inserted would not make the rifle unloaded.

Before open-carry was outlawed here in the People's Republik of Kalifornia, those who were open carrying were routinely detained and the officers would not be content to observe the lack of a magazine, they would take the gun and check the chamber.

115 posted on 05/21/2014 9:06:59 AM PDT by William Tell
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To: dangerdoc

my thoughts exactly


116 posted on 05/21/2014 4:06:14 PM PDT by cycjec
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To: DBrow

some kind of activists; the question is what kind.


117 posted on 05/21/2014 4:07:31 PM PDT by cycjec
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To: deks

I never saw those before! It does look like it.


118 posted on 05/21/2014 5:08:03 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Up yours NSA !)
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To: TurboZamboni
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119 posted on 05/23/2014 8:28:13 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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