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[align=center]OpenCarry.org[/align]
[align=center]For Immediate Release - December 8, 2008
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[align=center]Operation Lone Star Thunder” Targets San Antonio and Representative Castro [/align]
[align=center]Petition to Restore Rights Surges Past 45,000 Signatures[/align]
[align=center]"Texas Open Carry Working Group" Now Operational[/align]
[align=center]FBI Study Concludes: Bad Guys Don't Open Carry[/align]
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In most states adults may openly carry handguns in public without any license.[1] But not in Texas. Texas is one of only 6 states completely banning the open carry of handguns, even if you stop by a friend’s home on the weekend.
Since OpenCarry.org's billboards went up San Antonio,[2] and on I-45 in Houston[3], and on a Taxi fleet in Austin, our online open carry rights restoration petition signature count has skyrocketed to over 45,000 signatures[4]. And now starting Monday December 8, 2008, “Operation Lone Star Thunder” AUGMENTS its ongoing ad campaign over 6 radio stations across the Dallas-Ft. Worth radio airwaves with ads for one week over San Antonio on WOIA, KTKR, KAJA, and KZEP targeting Representative Joaquin Castro's recent remarks urging gun owners to stay in the closet (radio spot attached).[5]
The word in Austin is that there will be at least one open carry bill this year - the only question is, will the bill(s) merely seek to allow Conceal Handgun License holders to open carry? Or will the bill seek to restore Texans' rights to the same level as folks who live and travel in most states and can open carry without any license?
OpenCarry.org calls on the Dallas-Ft. Worth members of the Texas Legislature to come to work in January prepared to conform Texas law to the Second Amendment's right to openly carry handguns.[6] After all, a recent FBI study essentially concluded that dangerous criminals never open carry, and don't even wear holsters![7]
NOTE: The "Texas Open Carry Working Group" is now formed and its Legislative Operations Officer Aaron Poffenberger will give a short talk entitled "Decriminalizing Open Carry" at the Seabrook Rotary Club on December 18, 2008. See details at [url]http://www.clubrunner.ca/CPrg/home/homeD.asp?cid=3951[/url].
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Media Contacts:
OpenCarry.org co-founders:
John Pierce: John@OpenCarry.org
Mike Stollenwerk: Mike@Opencarry.org
Texas Open Carry Working Group:
Ian McCarthy, Petition Founder and Chair of the Texas Open Carry Working Group, TexasOpenCarry@gmail.com, (San Antonio)
Duane Suddeth, dksuddeth@gmail.com, Vice-Chair of the Texas Open Carry Working Group (Dallas-Fort Worth)
Aaron Poffenberger, Legislative Operations Officer, akp@hypernote.com (Houston)
Ralph Carroll, r-carroll1@ti.com, (Van Zandt County)
Dennis Patterson, dpatterson2095@hotmail.com, (Austin)
Lori Dodson, LoriDodson@gmail.com(Houston)
Sean Johnson, seanjohnson@att.net(Dallas-Ft. Worth)
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[1] See map at [url]http://www.opencarry.org/opencarry.html[/url].
[2] [url]http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/forum66/15001.html[/url].
[3] [url]http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/forum66/18160.html[/url].
[4] [url]http://www.petitiononline.com/texasoc/petition.htm[/url].
[5] [url]http://www.ksat.com/news/18190630/detail.html[/url]: "State Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-San Antonio) said he would not vote for an open carry law [because] 'I don't think people want to walk into a restaurant or movie theater and see five or six people who have guns on their waist.'"
[6] District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S.Ct. 2783, 2793-2798 (2008) (“bear means to carry” but concealed carry is not constitutionally protected).
[7] An FBI study recently documented that, essentially, bad guys don't open carry, or even wear holsters: Anthony Pinizzotto, et al., Violent Encounters: A Study of Felonious Assaults on Our Nation's Law Enforcement Officers, FBI (2006) (finding that violent criminals carefully "conceal" their guns and "eschew holsters"), summary available at http://www.forcesciencenews.com/home/detail.html?serial=62.
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[align=center]OpenCarry.org[/align]
[align=center]For Immediate Release - December 8, 2008
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[align=center]Operation Lone Star Thunder” Targets San Antonio and Representative Castro [/align]
[align=center]Petition to Restore Rights Surges Past 45,000 Signatures[/align]
[align=center]"Texas Open Carry Working Group" Now Operational[/align]
[align=center]FBI Study Concludes: Bad Guys Don't Open Carry[/align]
[align=center]----------[/align]
In most states adults may openly carry handguns in public without any license.[1] But not in Texas. Texas is one of only 6 states completely banning the open carry of handguns, even if you stop by a friend’s home on the weekend.
Since OpenCarry.org's billboards went up San Antonio,[2] and on I-45 in Houston[3], and on a Taxi fleet in Austin, our online open carry rights restoration petition signature count has skyrocketed to over 45,000 signatures[4]. And now starting Monday December 8, 2008, “Operation Lone Star Thunder” AUGMENTS its ongoing ad campaign over 6 radio stations across the Dallas-Ft. Worth radio airwaves with ads for one week over San Antonio on WOIA, KTKR, KAJA, and KZEP targeting Representative Joaquin Castro's recent remarks urging gun owners to stay in the closet (radio spot attached).[5]
The word in Austin is that there will be at least one open carry bill this year - the only question is, will the bill(s) merely seek to allow Conceal Handgun License holders to open carry? Or will the bill seek to restore Texans' rights to the same level as folks who live and travel in most states and can open carry without any license?
OpenCarry.org calls on the Dallas-Ft. Worth members of the Texas Legislature to come to work in January prepared to conform Texas law to the Second Amendment's right to openly carry handguns.[6] After all, a recent FBI study essentially concluded that dangerous criminals never open carry, and don't even wear holsters![7]
NOTE: The "Texas Open Carry Working Group" is now formed and its Legislative Operations Officer Aaron Poffenberger will give a short talk entitled "Decriminalizing Open Carry" at the Seabrook Rotary Club on December 18, 2008. See details at [url]http://www.clubrunner.ca/CPrg/home/homeD.asp?cid=3951[/url].
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Media Contacts:
OpenCarry.org co-founders:
John Pierce: John@OpenCarry.org
Mike Stollenwerk: Mike@Opencarry.org
Texas Open Carry Working Group:
Ian McCarthy, Petition Founder and Chair of the Texas Open Carry Working Group, TexasOpenCarry@gmail.com, (San Antonio)
Duane Suddeth, dksuddeth@gmail.com, Vice-Chair of the Texas Open Carry Working Group (Dallas-Fort Worth)
Aaron Poffenberger, Legislative Operations Officer, akp@hypernote.com (Houston)
Ralph Carroll, r-carroll1@ti.com, (Van Zandt County)
Dennis Patterson, dpatterson2095@hotmail.com, (Austin)
Lori Dodson, LoriDodson@gmail.com(Houston)
Sean Johnson, seanjohnson@att.net(Dallas-Ft. Worth)
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[1] See map at [url]http://www.opencarry.org/opencarry.html[/url].
[2] [url]http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/forum66/15001.html[/url].
[3] [url]http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/forum66/18160.html[/url].
[4] [url]http://www.petitiononline.com/texasoc/petition.htm[/url].
[5] [url]http://www.ksat.com/news/18190630/detail.html[/url]: "State Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-San Antonio) said he would not vote for an open carry law [because] 'I don't think people want to walk into a restaurant or movie theater and see five or six people who have guns on their waist.'"
[6] District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S.Ct. 2783, 2793-2798 (2008) (“bear means to carry” but concealed carry is not constitutionally protected).
[7] An FBI study recently documented that, essentially, bad guys don't open carry, or even wear holsters: Anthony Pinizzotto, et al., Violent Encounters: A Study of Felonious Assaults on Our Nation's Law Enforcement Officers, FBI (2006) (finding that violent criminals carefully "conceal" their guns and "eschew holsters"), summary available at http://www.forcesciencenews.com/home/detail.html?serial=62.