This group of Houston gun owners celebrated Independence Day the best way possible

These folks know how to celebrate freedom!

Why provide such a small excerpt? Why not provide FReepers a clue what they did?

Good on ‘em.

Now I see. You post articles from one source, give very short teasers and do not participate in the FR discussion.

Why not at least include something like:

Come and Take it Houston – a group of gun owners that gather publicly to “educate Texans on their right to openly carry shotguns and rifles in a safe manner.”

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1 posted on Thu May 10 2012 14:29:42 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Jim Robinson

Notice the cop standing behind on the left watching;^)

Good point. Thanks for helping me out.

I was at a 4th of July Parade yesterday. Saw a WWII era jeep with a real air cooled .30 caliber machine gun mounted on it. I’m sure it was a semi and not fully auto, but still. That’s pretty kewl. You won’t see that in a parade in other countries, thats for sure. Oh, unless the dictator wants to show off his army hardware and intimidate the enslaved citzenry...

From the TEXAS Declaration of Independence from Mexico..

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/texdec.asp

“It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments.”

THE RIGHTFUL PROPERTY OF FREEMEN! Even Texas understood it!

It still amazes me Texas doesn’t have open carry.

Oddly enough, for once, walking around on the street displaying their guns is less important than using them.

That is, Texas is overrun with wild hogs. They are destroying farmland and reproducing at an insane clip.

New Mexico now has a $1 million program to hunt, trap and kill them. “They’re much brighter than I am,” Ray Powell, a veterinarian and New Mexico’s land commissioner, told the AP. “If they had the dexterity, they’d be driving vehicles around. I mean these guys are really smart.”

Texas may have the most wild hogs of any U.S. state, and the situation is expected to worsen, despite the $7 million per year that Texans spends to keep the animals’ numbers down, the AP reports. A recent study by Texas A&M University found that the number of feral pigs is likely to triple in five years in Texas if serious efforts aren’t made to reduce their populations.

Ted Nugent killed 455 wild hogs in ‘A’ recent hunting expedition in Texas.

The pigs are expanding their territory, and have already become a problem in Oklahoma as well, though found in most US states.

“Oddly enough, for once, walking around on the street displaying their guns is less important than using them.

That is, Texas is overrun with wild hogs. They are destroying farmland and reproducing at an insane clip.”

Two different issues... one is exercising a right probably copied from the situation in Temple...

Most of Texas hunting land is in private ownership and the damage caused by the feral pigs is nothing compared to the damage that can be caused by a feral lawyer. I am very selective about allowing any non-relative on our land especially if they are armed...

I, on the other hand, joined in the Temple 2nd Amendment march...

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[quote=”XXX”]I never thought I would say this, but look at Belton, TX for this 4th of July. Insurance companies are now the policy makers when it comes to guns. Or it might just be a politician lying. Even though firearms have always been a part of the 4th of July parade, now they are banned. We need to start banning politicians without backbones.[/quote]

I have copied this from an entry I made on “Free Republic” blog several days ago...

“The list of float entries included one on behalf of OpenCarryTexas.org, an organization created to educate Texans about the legal carrying of firearms and led by U.S. Army Master Sgt. C.J. Grisham.

Grisham said the Chamber welcomed his organization’s float into the parade this year, but all sides were at the mercy of lawyers and insurance agents.

“The Chamber was very accommodating,” he said, “Honestly, they tried to do everything they could.”

Unable to carry firearms, his organization plans to set up near the Belton Police Department building on Second Avenue at the invitation of the police department and will intermingle with parade guests along the route, Grisham said.”

For those of you that don’t recognize the man and group listed above, they were the center of a 2nd Amendment march in Temple on June 1st. I carried a NRA ‘Stand and Fight’ flag in that march.

The two towns, Temple and Belton, bump into each other along a good portion of their city limits’ boundary. I grew up in Temple but chose a Belton girl to marry 57 years ago (we live on a couple of hundred acres of her family land in and near Belton.)

I have always compared the two towns to Dallas and Fort Worth, adjacent but with completely different attitudes. Belton and Fort Worth were cattle towns on the Chisholm Trail and Temple was not yet in existence. Temple became known as a Santa Fe rail road center and currently is a major hospital (Scott and White) location.

I think that the two towns attitude toward guns is well illustrated by the two police departments, Temple is engrossed in defending itself in the C.J. Grisham controversy while Belton is assisting Grisham in getting a location for his group.

I might also add that Temple uses Interstate 35 as a revenue source but Belton occasionally places an empty patrol car along its portion of the highway. The Belton police chief does not believe that the dangers to his officers is offset by the revenue generated.

I have worked on the Parade committee in the past and know many of the people involved with it currently. The reenactment’s and display of guns has long been a part of our 4th of July tradition. The Fort Hood Calvary Units have also been a big part of the parade.

I give the benefit of the doubt to the parade committee and blame it on catching a dose of Washingtonitis and not reading the document before the purchase. I would bet it is corrected next year.

I might also add that I am currently a volunteer with the Belton Police Department and will be assisting with the traffic control and, later, safety patrols in the Park where the activities are located. I am a life or higher member of the NRA, GOA and TSRA (Texas State Rifle Association) and would not be supporting the City of Belton and its police department if I thought they were in any way anti-2nd amendment. (BTW, while working as a BPD volunteer, I cannot conceal carry due to a pesky insurance clause.)

END OF SNIP

The parade is now history and indeed no guns were displayed by the parade participants. When I returned from my assigned location, C.J. Grisham and the associated displays were doing a ‘booming’ business ON THE FRONT LAWN OF THE BELTON POLICE DEPARTMENT with open long gun carry in full force. I had a chat with C.J. and he had nothing but praise for the support he received from Belton and specifically the Chief of Police.

I agree that the insurance companies have jumped on the Yankee inspired PC wagon and we need to find a Texas friendly company. I do not believe that it was intended by any Beltonian since they would be vilified at any local gathering.

BTW the job I had today allowed me to see the parade in its entirety after twenty or so years of having jobs in the background.

My apologies, in that I was mostly kidding about the wild hog invasion, in a “man the barricades and defend the town” spirit. I fully support the 2nd Amendment work that’s being done, despite harassment from liberals and lawyers, and wish them the best.