> ... he first armed rally in a national park since the law passed.
Armed? They didn’t bring ammo. How is that being armed. The only thing an ammoless rifle is good for is for use as a club.
Yes they did.
The pistols are loaded. The rifles are unloaded but the participants have loaded magazines with them.
A good rifleman can insert a mag and drop the bolt faster than most people can get a pistol out of a holster.
How does this make them unarmed?
For those of you that cannot read what has been pointed out many times in the thread, we had loaded pistols, with Rifles slung, and a bandoleer of loaded magazines.
The Rally went off without a hitch, except for the Recon on Sunday... when the SWAT team showed up! luckily we had a National Park Service Police SGT (In civvies), she had to hold her badge up in the air as she approached the Team, that was suiting up in the middle of the open field, to defuse the situation.
We even got an 8x10 glossy of a SWAT officer flipping off the rally members, which should be posted soon so hopefully he can start looking for a new job. :-) gotta have a few A-holes in every profession.