After Oklahoma Beheading and ISIS Threats, Arkansas Firing Range Becomes First To Exclude Muslims

Bearing Arms ^ | Sept 29, 2014 | Bob Owens

[DJ Frisat]

Betcha this ban doesn’t last long...

[theDentist]

There will be a lawsuit by Muslims based on 1st Amendment, and they *could* win.

[Maceman]

While FFls and range operators have a great deal of latitude in their business dealings, it is doubtful that a blanket ban based upon religion is remotely viable on First Amendment grounds.

The First Amendment only applies to government -- meaning that the government cannot infringe on our God-given right to free speech and freedom of religion.

Nobody has free speech, or freedom of religion, on somebody else's private property.

To argue otherwise is a typical tactic of totalitarian leftists, and is a big reason why all our Constitutionally protected rights are today under siege.

[ViLaLuz]

I understand her sentiment but this is a stupid move.

[katana]

Convert (pun sort of intended) the range to a private club requiring a membership fee and selection process. And never utter the word Muslim overtly as a reason for refusal. Golf courses and other institutions have ridden that right to free association horse to exclude all sorts of people for years.

[shibumi]

"While Morgan may have a valid concern than some Islamic terrorists may attempt to use firing ranges or gun shops to acquire weapons, it isn’t acceptable to ban an entire religion from service under our Constitution. The Constitution and Bill of Rights must apply equally to all of us, or they aren’t worth anything at all."

(To the author ...)

If Islam was a religion, you'd have a point.

But it's not.

So you don't.

[Jagdgewehr]

People in this country are absolutely free to pray to whichever god they wish, and those same people are free to own and use firearms for their self-defense, recreation, hunting, or any other lawful purpose.

And a private business should be free to refuse product or services as they see fit.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Requirements for entry into the facility shall include making the sign of the cross and eating a pork tenderloin sandwich.

[WellyP]

I doubt this is legal. As much as I under her concerns wouldn’t it be better and more effective and cost efficient if she were to served bacon at the front door?

[Yorlik803]

Cant ban people in regards of religion. But just mandate that everyone entering has to pet a dog or a pig.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I’m sorry, there needs to be more of this.

After all, Muslims see fit to exclude non-Muslims from their mosques and from their neighborhoods, and the government won’t do a f’n thing about it. Yet, we’re supposed to sit by and let them play with firearms in our presence, and any tension they cause be damned?

In this case, the Muslims could have done the necessary paperwork to legally obtain arms, and searched for a place to learn to use them. After all, Muslim-only militia training grounds exist all over the United States. Our government won’t touch them—it only cares about so-called right-wing militias.

[Crazieman]

Bacon strips will be provided at the entrance.

[Yorlik803]

But that might keep Jews out. Muzzies thinks dogs are unclean, which proves they are unworthy of living.

[showme_the_Glory]

Don’t they go to a knife range?

[Nervous Tick]

>> There will be a lawsuit by Muslims based on 1st Amendment, and they *could* win.

You should be able to exclude anyone you want from your private business for any reason at all, or for no reason, according to the same 1st Amendment. Although I agree with you, in the current political climate her legal ice is thin.

If it were MY range, I would exclude muslims a different way. I would put up posters denigrating allah and mohammed, and I would sell targets depicting mo. I would encourage the presence of dogs and maybe even have a pig or two on site. I would advertise for muslim shooters, and I would make sure that there was always an eloquent pastor or two to preach to obvious muslims, and pray over them (loudly).

That reverses the equation. If you try and fight me on this, you’re treading on MY first amendment rights!

[McGavin999]

It’s her gun range, she can refuse service to anyone. I’m so sick of people being forces to service people they don’t want to serve.

[SECURE AMERICA]

(While FFls and range operators have a great deal of latitude in their business dealings, it is doubtful that a blanket ban based upon religion is remotely viable on First Amendment grounds. This is no more legally viable than a ban on Baptists or Catholics.)

Baptists and or Catholics have not openly declared war and openly engaged in war against the United States. Islam has and is.. You can except this fact or you can sit back and watch your country perish.

[Jagdgewehr]

Remember when conservatives used to believe in that kind of freedom?

I guess not so much anymore.

[SECURE AMERICA]

“Here’s an important point: yes, there are terrorists. There are quite a few terrorists who are followers of this or that sect of radical Islam.

WRONG. There is no “radical” Islam. That is a construct of the Islamist and their enablers like President Obama and the MSM. It is Islam period. Nothing the soldiers of Islam are doing falls outside the Koran which is the guiding document of Islam. Yes there are various factions that believe they are the ones that must destroy civilization and then rule the earth but it all comes down to the same thing. You must die for them to succeed......