Grass Roots North Carolina / Forum For Firearms Education
Post Office Box 10665, Raleigh, NC 27605
877.282.0939 (Phone) 919.573.0354 (Fax) www.GRNC.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: 704.907.9206
E-mail: President@GRNC.org
Release date: July 31, 2013
Gun Group Targets Restaurants
GRNC ‘Safe Restaurants Project’ will admonish gun rights supporters to report restaurants that post against concealed handguns
Recently signed by Governor Pat McCrory, on October 1 House Bill 937 will expand North Carolina’s concealed handgun law into restaurants. Under the statute, restaurants may still elect to post signs prohibiting firearms.
Although concealed handgun permit-holders will still be prohibited from imbibing alcohol, gun control advocates are already planning to pressure restaurants to prohibit concealed carry.
Accordingly, and with great reluctance, GRNC is responding with its “GRNC Safe Restaurants Project,” to ensure the new law will provide its intended deterrent to violent crime.
The 3 objectives of the “GRNC Safe Restaurants Project”:
- Provide education for concealed handgun permit-holders to avoid accidental violations;
- Provide “Protection Preferred” signage enabling supporting restaurants to subtly identify their support to permit-holders and supporters; and
- Create a “Restaurant “Don’t Buy List” which:
- Allows thousands of gun owners to report posted restaurants;
- Sends restaurants notification they have been reported and requests them to remove signs or inform GRNC that a mistake has been made;
- Provides contact information for posted restaurants, enabling thousands of supporters to contact those restaurants to explain that they will not patronize posted establishments.
GRNC will distribute Restaurant Don’t Buy lists and relevant materials to tens of thousands of gun owners via:
- GRNC’s email alert network, comprising 87,000 supporters;
- Gun shows in Asheville, Hickory, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Lexington, Concord, Greensboro, Raleigh, Fayetteville and Jacksonville;
- GRNC’s distribution network of nearly 50 gun shops;
- Concealed handgun permit classes statewide; and
- GRNC’s highly popular website.
Said GRNC president Paul Valone:
“It’s unfortunate GRNC must counter gun control activists’ attempts to undermine a law intended to deter restaurant crime and save lives. We fully sympathize with restaurant owners caught in the middle of a battle we’d rather not fight, but they should understand that, according to the Pew Research Center, gun rights supporters donate four times more and are more politically involved than gun control advocates. They should ask themselves whether they want to alienate the 399,268 North Carolinians who have applied for concealed handgun permits.”
Grass Roots North
Carolina / Forum For Firearms Education
Post Office Box
10665, Raleigh, NC 27605
877.282.0939
(Phone) 919.573.0354 (Fax) www.GRNC.org
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: 704.907.9206
E-mail:
President@GRNC.org
Release
date: July 31, 2013
Gun Group Targets Restaurants
GRNC ‘Safe
Restaurants Project’ will admonish gun rights supporters to report restaurants
that post against concealed handguns
Recently
signed by Governor Pat McCrory, on October 1 House Bill 937 will expand North
Carolina’s concealed handgun law into restaurants. Under the statute, restaurants may
still elect to post signs prohibiting firearms.
Although
concealed handgun permit-holders will still be prohibited from imbibing
alcohol, gun control advocates are already planning to pressure restaurants to prohibit
concealed carry.
Accordingly,
and with great reluctance, GRNC is responding with its “GRNC Safe
Restaurants Project,” to
ensure the new law will provide its intended deterrent to violent crime.
The
3 objectives of the “GRNC Safe Restaurants Project”:
1.
Provide
education for concealed handgun permit-holders to avoid accidental violations;
2.
Provide
“Protection Preferred” signage enabling supporting restaurants to
subtly identify their support to permit-holders and supporters; and
3.
Create
a “Restaurant “Don’t Buy List”
which:
·
Allows
thousands of gun owners to report posted restaurants;
·
Sends
restaurants notification they have been reported and requests them to remove
signs or inform GRNC that a mistake has been made;
·
Provides
contact information for posted restaurants, enabling thousands
of supporters to contact those restaurants to explain that they will not patronize
posted establishments.
GRNC
will distribute Restaurant Don’t Buy lists and relevant materials to tens of thousands of gun owners
via:
·
GRNC’s
email alert network, comprising 87,000 supporters;
·
Gun shows in Asheville, Hickory, Charlotte,
Winston-Salem, Lexington, Concord, Greensboro, Raleigh, Fayetteville and
Jacksonville;
·
GRNC’s
distribution network of nearly 50 gun shops;
·
Concealed handgun permit classes statewide; and
·
GRNC’s
highly popular website.
Said
GRNC president Paul Valone:
“It’s unfortunate GRNC must
counter gun control activists’ attempts to undermine a law intended to
deter restaurant crime and save lives. We fully sympathize with restaurant
owners caught in the middle of a battle we’d rather not fight, but they should
understand that, according to the Pew
Research Center, gun rights supporters donate
four times more and are more politically involved than gun control advocates.
They should ask themselves whether they want to alienate the 399,268
North Carolinians who have applied for
concealed handgun permits.”
