Well, NRA gets back a few of my with-held points on this news:
From The Buckeye Firearms Association e-letter:
Texas bank posts sign encouraging concealed carry
Submitted by cbaus on Fri, 09/24/2010 - 07:00. Guns in the News
The Brenham Banner-Press in Texas reported recently that a bank in Chappell Hill, TX (about half-way between Houston and Austin) removed a "no-guns" sign over the summer and put up a sign of an altogether different kind.
From the article:
Any would-be robbers looking to walk into the bank here had best think twice.
There's a new sign in town.
About a month ago, Chappell Hill Bank president Edward Smith looked at a sign on the front door prohibiting concealed weapons from his business and decided to make a policy change.
Licensed to carry a handgun? Come on in, and bring your weapon.
The sign, now prominently displayed on the bank's front door, says, "Lawful concealed carry permitted on these premises. Management recognizes the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as an inalienable right of all citizens. We therefore support and encourage the carrying of licensed concealed weapons."
Smith told the newspaper he made the policy change to send a warning to potential robbers, and also to express support to Americans' right to bear arms.
"We had the sign on the window, the red circle with the pistol inside and a line through it. And I started thinking, 'We've got this no gun sign up and the guy (robber) can come in and do what he wants.
"But if you've got a policy allowing handguns, he won't know how many people are going to be in here carrying a concealed weapon."
According to the story, the bank has been robbed twice in the last three years, including last March when a Western-attired man walked in, ordered bank employees to fill a canvas bag with money and then fled in a pickup truck. The man, who did not brandish a weapon, has not been caught.
The sign has made Chappell Hill Bank and Smith somewhat of an Internet sensation. A photo of the sign has made its way around the world, and Smith has even been interviewed for
the National Rifle Association's radio network (
http://www.nranews.com/#/nranews).
He's also been contacted by other media outlets wanting to do stories.
"It's kind of gotten a life of its own," he said.
Expressions of support have far outnumbered criticism.
That said does the OP have a better recommended lobbying group for 2A rights that I should be investigating??
