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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nLast week, we talked a little about Open Carry Texas<\/a> when their heavy-handed tactics resulted in the restaurant chain Chipolte to craft a ban of guns in their facilities. The Dallas News<\/a> reports that Open Carry Texas and their armed presence is forcing other businesses to do the same, since OCT continues to show up at family-style restaurants with the long guns slung over their narrow shoulders;<\/p>\n According to Mother Jones earlier today, the incident you see above was posted to YouTube on May 19 by the San Antonio chapter of Open Carry Texas, then removed along with another similar incident at a Sonic. The gun-toters weren’t allowed to dine at Chili’s while fully armed. There’s a very good reason for that, says a Brinker International spokesperson: “Long guns are not permitted in our Texas restaurants based on [Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission] regulation, which prohibits a business that is licensed to sell or serve alcoholic beverages from allowing shotguns or rifles into the building.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As a result, four of the organizations involved in these pointless tactics have issued a joint statement<\/a>;<\/p>\n Whereas, our mission is to get open carry of handguns passed in Texas, we must once again adjust in a way that shines a positive light on our efforts, our members, and our respective organizations. We have decided the prudent path, to further our goals, is to immediately cease taking long guns into corporate businesses unless invited.<\/p>\n * * * <\/p>\n CJ Grisham -Open Carry Texas<\/p>\n Terry Holcomb, Sr -Texas Carry<\/p>\n Murdoch Pizgotti \u2013 Come And Take It \u2013 Texas<\/p>\n Eric Reed \u2013 Gun Rights Across America<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of course, this doesn’t mean that they plan on ending the practice of walking around Texas communities with thier long guns openly displayed. They’re still going to try and force their openly armed visages down Americans’ throats. According to the Open Carry Texas website<\/a>, they want to “condition Texans to feel safe around law-abiding citizens that choose to carry them”, for whatever reason. I don’t get it, actually. As I’ve said in the past, if we carry weapons in public for personal safety, why would we need long guns to do that? Most personal safety issues happen within about 7 yards, and you don’t need a gun with 450 meters maximum effective range to deal with that.<\/p>\n As a result of these open carry people, Starbucks has asked all of it’s customers to refrain bringing in all guns, concealed or otherwise. I always respect property owners’ wishes in regards to my concealed gun, so I won’t be going into Starbucks, nor do I go to any of the Denny’s in the area. Now more and more corporate businesses are being forced to craft policy that isn’t going to go our way.<\/p>\n In my opinion, these people who open carry long guns are the bullies of the gun rights folks. Anyone whose mission statement is to “condition” me into accepting something that I wouldn’t otherwise is a bully. The NRA should abandon any connections to them and focus on concealed carry issues instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"