(Twitter/ShootersGrill)Posted on 08/16/2014 4:09:15 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
They love a theme at Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado. The menu features the Swiss and Wesson and Guac 9 burgers, and owner Lauren Bobert and most of the waitstaff are armed, in Bobert's case with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun.
"I wanted to start carrying just for my protection," Bobert told Nightline. "This is my establishment, so I didn't see anything wrong with that. I began to open carry." Bobert, a 27-year-old mother of four, opened Shooters Grill last year. While she says it's "not a gimmick," the theme does bring in customers from hundreds of miles away. Those who can't make it to Shooters show their support from afar. One man, who said he was a U.S. Marine from California, called and offered to buy a gun for any waitress without one; that's how Carsyn Copeland ended up with a Kimber .45 three days ago.
(Twitter/ShootersGrill)
Not everyone is a fan, and Bobert said she regularly receives angry phone calls, letters, and posts on social media. Dave Hoover of Lakeview, Colorado, lost his nephew in the Aurora theater shooting in 2012, and is afraid people might forget about the impact of guns. "This is America, they're allowed to [open carry], but you can't glamorize the gun," he said. "What we need to worry about is keeping the guns out of [the hands of] those who shouldn't have firearms."
Bobert would like it to become "normal" to see people carrying guns around, and says she believes that would keep violence down. She argues that everyone who comes into Shooters Grill is safe, and nobody in the establishment has to be concerned about getting shot: "I'm more worried about my cooks getting burnt in the kitchen than a firearm going off in the restaurant."
2 out of 5 have their fingers on the triggers. I guess I don’t understand?
A local there just won $90 million in the lottery.
> Bobert would like it to become “normal” to see people carrying guns around, and says she believes that would keep violence down. She argues that everyone who comes into Shooters Grill is safe, and nobody in the establishment has to be concerned about getting shot: “I’m more worried about my cooks getting burnt in the kitchen than a firearm going off in the restaurant.”
Now that she has said that 0 will get Jarrett on it. Either dispatch a confederate in their midst to shoot the place up making sure they aim for children or go through Medical Information Bureau and ATF files to find someone on psychotropic drugs that owns a handgun that they can pester using focused audio beam technology to make them hear voices in their head until they finally snap...
Always a good idea to encourage improving safe handling.
Yup. Powerball winner.
(Wasn’t me, sadly)
I bet none of the customers pat them on the bottom.
I can see business potential there.
Next Wall Drug?
She is the blonde in the middle. God bless her and her stance for the 2A.
I’m more worried about a frivolous lawsuit over discriminating against ex-cons (who can’t work there if they can’t carry) than about someone losing their temper in a restaurant full of armed citizens. The far left is evil, and they cannot tolerate good.
Peter Boyles, a Denver talk show host, broadcast his show from there yesterday. I plan to stop in on vacation next month.
There is nothing finer than a fine woman with a gun.
Ban stoves and grills, it's the only sensible answer.
This is definitely more mainstream America than Ferguson MO. I love it! The Great OZ has spoken.
Mr. Hoover, if you don’t like them armed, don’t go there, I boycott place where I can’t bring in my weapons.
The blond in the middle is hot enough to be on Foxnews.
They don't like reporters. (Even then, not good.)
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