No, The NRA Isn’t Banning The Carry Of Guns At Its Convention

Read the full story here:
http://bearingarms.com/nra-isnt-banning-carry-guns-convention/

There’s an old saying that, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”Presently, there is a bit of fiction sweeping through the media and left wing blogs pointing out supposed hypocrisy by the National Rifle Association.The best we can tell, the lie seems to have originated with a woman who has become an expert at making fools out of the mainstream media, Shannon Watts of Michael Bloomberg’s Moms Demand Action.
[quote888]The @NRA is all about #gunsense at their upcoming #Nashville convention http://t.co/eKVhTiYxjN @momsdemand pic.twitter.com/nLu8SOFQuo— Shannon (@shannonrwatts) April 6, 2015[

Watts quoted some of an article in The Tennesseean by reporter Karen Grigsby that was factually accurate, if incomplete.
[quote888]A multilevel security plan went into works not long after Nashville was chosen as the convention destination. All guns on the convention floor will be nonoperational, with the firing pins removed, and any guns purchased during the NRA convention will have to be picked up at a Federal Firearms License dealer, near where the purchaser lives, and will require a legal identification.[

Watts then hinted that this amounted to a ban on guns—”The @NRA is all about #gunsense at their upcoming #Nashville convention”—and her hysterical followers and lazy media alike were both off to the races to claim that the National Rifle Association was being hypocritical.Here’s an example of this fake outrage from Dan Friedman in the
NY Daily News:
[quote888]The National Rifle Association wants guns at schools, but not its own annual convention.The NRA has banned working guns from its annual convention this year in Memphis, Tenn., according to a report in The Tennessean. Instead the group will require the thousands of firearms displayed at the event to be nonoperational, with their firing pins removed to ensure safety.The group will use the event, with an expected attendance of 70,000, to boast of its opposition to gun regulation of all kinds, including background checks, as well as to host GOP presidential hopefuls who agree with their stance.[

It would be stunning hypocrisy if the NRA was banning working guns… but it simply isn’t true, a fact that Watts knows from last year’s NRA convention in Indianapolis, Indiana.Watts is  suggesting that the NRA is putting additional restrictions on gun owners, which simply isn’t true.

This year in Tennessee, that means that attendees can indeed carry firearms in the Music City Center with the proper license in accordance with Tennessee law.

Bridgestone Arena prohibits the possession of firearms, and always has. Attendees to the concerts held there are not allowed to carry weapons according to these pre-existing laws. Is it really news that the NRA asks members to follow laws?[
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Last edited by Common Sense (4/15/2015 7:57 am)

The New York Times Is Blatantly Lying About Guns At The NRA Annual Convention

http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/10/the-new-york-times-is-blatantly-lying-about-guns-at-the-nra-annual-convention/In a scathing editorial this morning, the New York Times editorial board excoriated the National Rifle Association (NRA) for banning all working weapons from its annual convention in Nashville this weekend:
[quote888]Seventy-thousand people are expected to attend the National Rifle Association’s convention opening on Friday in Tennessee, and not one of them will be allowed to come armed with guns that can actually shoot. After all the N.R.A. propaganda about how “good guys with guns” are needed to be on guard across American life, from elementary schools to workplaces, the weekend’s gathering of disarmed conventioneers seems the ultimate in hypocrisy.[

There’s only one problem: this claim is blatantly false. It is a complete lie. There is no ban, NRA-instituted or otherwise, on the carrying of working weapons at the NRA convention in Nashville this year.[/quote888]

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So, the bottomline is that if I attend the NRA Convention, I can walk in packin' heat?  That true?

Ok, I'm a bit confused.  So, I could carry a gun into the convention as long as the gun is not operable, or can I attend the convention with a loaded weapon that is operable?

If I'm carrying a weapon that can't discharge a bullet, then is it really any different from not carrying a weapon at all?  I guess I could throw it if that is the case.

Somebody help me out here.