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Hundreds gather for open carry rally outside City-County Building (Pittsburgh)
WPXI ^ | January 7, 2019

Posted on 01/07/2019 11:25:08 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

PITTSBURGH - Hundreds of people gathered Monday in downtown Pittsburgh for an open carry rally in response to proposed gun control measures introduced by the City Council last month.

Part of Grant Street was blocked off, and precautions are in place as gun rights activists from around the region take part in the rally.

Open Carry Pennsylvania encouraged gun owners and supporters to demonstrate at noon outside the City-County Building on Grant Street.

The rally started with a minutelong moment of silence for the 11 people killed in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; opencarry; pittsburgh
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1 posted on 01/07/2019 11:25:08 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; ...

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2 posted on 01/07/2019 11:29:38 AM PST by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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To: PROCON

Uh, in ‘shotgun’ Joe Biden terms: “One word. Facial recognition software working overtime.”


3 posted on 01/07/2019 11:36:32 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: PROCON

Maybe if we show up in masse just showing weapons, we won’t have to use them.

Nah.

5.56mm


4 posted on 01/07/2019 11:37:41 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Also here: https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3718005/posts

LOVE the photo !


5 posted on 01/07/2019 11:44:16 AM PST by tomkat
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

and precautions are in place as gun rights activists from around the region take part in the rally.
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We ‘know’ they probably are in place at other rallies
BUT

does th MSM ‘inform’ the public in such a matter over a BLM or ProAbortion or pussyhat brigade ‘rally’?

Both of those groups and the ACLU would be claiming discrimination


6 posted on 01/07/2019 12:11:01 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98"Getting rich as a Politician means doing something illegal''(trunc) HS Truman)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

local gun control ordinances are illegal under current Pennsylvania state law ...


7 posted on 01/07/2019 12:20:35 PM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

All those guns and not a single person was shot.

Imagine that.


8 posted on 01/07/2019 12:27:08 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: rktman

Facial recognition software - you said it bro!

Call me timid but I would show up at that rally with an AirSoft replica rather than a live weapon.

I have CCW but I am leery about open carry - it makes the bearer a target. Better to keep the bad guys guessing about who’s packing & who isn’t.

Nice to see it’s in Pittsburgh. The execrable James Carvile once described Pennsylvania as `Alabama sandwiched in between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia’.


9 posted on 01/07/2019 1:03:08 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: PROCON

From Pennsylvania’s Constitution:

Section 21 The right to bear arms:

The right of citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned.


10 posted on 01/07/2019 1:07:48 PM PST by Daveinyork
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To: elcid1970

Nobody ‘needs’ to know ‘is I is or is I ain’t’.


11 posted on 01/07/2019 1:11:06 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

They don’t need to know cuz they already know who you be.


12 posted on 01/07/2019 1:28:47 PM PST by Redcitizen (I don't always lurk, but when I do, Freerepublic.)
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To: Redcitizen

That’s true when the cop runs your license plate, but is there now a facial recognition database?

If it’s at the Federal level, then we have de facto registration. Who has a CCW without owning a firearm?


13 posted on 01/07/2019 1:32:06 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: Redcitizen

Well we are on FReerepublic so, yup.


14 posted on 01/07/2019 1:37:10 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: elcid1970

There’s probably a facial recognition software program at the Federal level that scans state and federal databases even if there is not one central Federal photo ID database.


15 posted on 01/07/2019 1:38:01 PM PST by Redcitizen (I don't always lurk, but when I do, Freerepublic.)
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To: rktman; elcid1970

” Well we are on FReerepublic so, yup.”

We’re in good company.


16 posted on 01/07/2019 1:39:08 PM PST by Redcitizen (I don't always lurk, but when I do, Freerepublic.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Love It!


17 posted on 01/07/2019 1:40:21 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Redcitizen

So those who are pushing for a national identity card (”Your papers, please”) needn’t bother. Your driver’s license will suffice once the cop runs it.

And then we have all those illegals who can’t wait to get their paws on their very own driver’s license.

Geez, it’s been forty years since NASA said satellite imaging was already good enough to look down from orbit and tell how long it’s been since you last shaved.


18 posted on 01/07/2019 2:01:12 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I am so disappointed in my local news team. Twice they said “ protesters with open carry permits”. Of course, there is no such thing. We have concealed carry permits. Not open carry permits!


19 posted on 01/07/2019 2:35:16 PM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I wonder how the gov would act if they called a concealed carry rally.

Don’t necessarily show up armed. See who gets searched.


20 posted on 01/07/2019 4:01:32 PM PST by fruser1
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