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Open carry/firearm walk scheduled for Saturday afternoon in downtown St. Louis
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Oct 20, 2014 07:49 PM
ST. LOUIS • A St. Louis Open Carry/Firearm Education Walk is scheduled to take place in downtown St. Louis on Saturday afternoon.
Participants are asked to openly carry slung long guns and holstered pistols in an effort to “raise awareness of the right to keep and bear arms under the Federal and Missouri State Constitutions.”
In August, Missouri voters passed Amendment 5, which strengthened the state's gun laws, making it an “unalienable” right for citizens to bear arms.
The walk starts at 1 p.m., starting at downtown's Citygarden and Gateway Mall and continue to the Arch grounds, then will return to Citygarden and the Gateway Mall area.
Organizer Jeffry Smith, a gun activist from Ohio, encourages and welcomes children to the event but discourages “Don't Tread On Me” flags and clothing, camouflage wear, and “grungy clothes” at home. “This is an educational walk,” he writes in a Facebook event page, “not a militia gathering.”
About 100 people had responded by Monday night that they were attending.
"not a militia gathering" my ass...