A few days ago, I went to a picnic in the park. It wasn’t anything too unusual. All the fixings for burgers and hot dogs were set out on the pavilion tables. A few kids were running around while the adults chatted and swatted yellowjackets away as they waited for the charcoal to get hot enough.
The only reason I was at this picnic was this: Almost every adult had a handgun in plain sight.
© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. With his Colt 1991-A1 pistol in his holster, Matt Dubois of York Township grills burgers for those who attended the open-carry picnic on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011, at Glen Rock Community Park in Shrewsbury Township. About a dozen individuals gathered for the picnic with their open-carry firearms.
All the adults said they support and respect open-carry laws, and all were members of a firearm owners association and participate in the organization’s online forum, which is how they decided to have an inaugural picnic so they could all meet each other. If the comments in Teresa’s article are any indication, there’ll probably be a few more such gatherings in the future.
© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Elizabeth and James Parson of Windsor Township wait for more people to arrive at the open-carry picnic at Glen Rock Community Park on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011, in Windsor Township. The Parsons and about a dozen other people who showed up are all members of the Pennsylvania Firearms Owners Association and participate in the association's online discussion forum.
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Nice Post… Great Photos !
Nice job Chris. I know Jim, he is a good guy. Even though I’m not a fan of OC, I’ve hung out and gone to the range with this group. I’m sure the sight of so many guns didn’t scare a girl like you from Texas 🙂
Excellent to see people excercising their rights and freedoms…. Unfortunately up here in Canada those rights and freedoms have been stripped from us years ago… I live in a rural area within 1/2 hour drive of what some would refer to as wilderness…. I never venture very far from home without short barreled pump gun or sometimes rifle in the truck as black bears are prevalent and grizzly bears and cougars are also around… Even though it is a semi rural area, 2 legged predators are not unheard of either…. There are concerted efforts to bring back open carry, wilderness carry and CCW, but it will be a long and uphill fight for us… So my words of advice are to excersise your rights and fight hard to maintain them… They are much harder to re-aquire than maintain….
Steve L