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  • Gun-rights advocates stage protest at Norfolk council meeting

    08/29/2007 11:29:14 AM PDT · by Altura Ct. · 63 replies · 1,567+ views
    The Virginian-Pilot ^ | 8/29/2007 | HARRY MINIUM
    More than 100 gun-rights advocates, most carrying handguns on their hips and wearing buttons saying "Guns Save Lives," came to the City Council on Tuesday night to protest what they called harassment of law-abiding gun owners by city officials. The protest was called by the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a gun-rights group, after Chet Szymecki of Yorktown was arrested in June at Harborfest for carrying a gun. Szymecki was arrested for violating a city ordinance banning guns at Harborfest - an ordinance that officials now acknowledge violates state law. City Attorney Bernard A. Pishko said city officials were unaware of...