Open Carry event in Birmingham Michigan for protest

[TaunTaun]

Link from MS-DNC actually covered an OC event.

Michigan gun enthusiasts protest arrest in Birmingham - PhotoBlog

Whoever it was took some good pics.

Story linkage clicky...

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120612/METRO02/206120376#ixzz1xatAzsES

 

[Bondhead88]

Link from MS-DNC actually covered an OC event.

Michigan gun enthusiasts protest arrest in Birmingham - PhotoBlog

Whoever it was took some good pics.

Story linkage clicky...

Gun-toting advocates protest charges against teen in Birmingham | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com

The Police Cheif said he was "creating a disturbance and he wasn't cooperating" I would not be surprised to find out:

That creating a disturbance meant he was walking down the street with his gun, by the way which is legal.

That by not cooperating meant he refused to give the police his information which in Michigan he is not required to do when open carrying.

So who is going to sue for malicious prosecutionthe DA , enact a recall on the mayor and see to it that the police chief who is willfully breaking the state law is prosecuted?

 

[Bondhead88]

The Police Cheif said he was "creating a disturbance and he wasn't cooperating" I would not be surprised to find out:

That creating a disturbance meant he was walking down the street with his gun, by the way which is legal.

That by not cooperating meant he refused to give the police his information which in Michigan he is not required to do when open carrying.

So who is going to sue for malicious prosecutionthe DA , enact a recall on the mayor and see to it that the police chief who is willfully breaking the state law is prosecuted?

By the way, another reason to end appointed public police forces and hand law enforcement over to elected sheriffs.

I can vote out a sheriff. A police chief who ignores the law gets a pension.

 

[TaunTaun]

By the way, another reason to end appointed public police forces and hand law enforcement over to elected sheriffs.

I can vote out a sheriff. A police chief who ignores the law gets a pension.

Elkhart County has a pretty good Sheriff here. I got both city and county in the cell phones. If we're in town and have a problem with the local PD we have the game plan to call county brownies.

 

[Pyriel]

I do applaud the peaceful response by the local gun community.

 

[mrortega]

I like that lady dressed in black with the AR who also had a couple dandy 38s!

 

[Bondhead88]

I like that lady dressed in black with the AR who also had a couple dandy 38s!

Don't I hear you constantly talking about your wife?

 

[Whosyer]

Why did I even read the comments section? Same illogical bs and name calling from the "enlightened " anti gun crowd. Makes my blood pressure jump twenty points.

 

[Scutter01]

For those who don't know, Birmingham is very similar to Carmel or Zionsville. Very upscale and very NOT Detroit.

 

[griffin]

Birmingham open carry protest trending on MSN

This is now attracting attention and comments from around the country.

Advocates flaunt their guns to support rifle-totin' teen

 

[TaunTaun]

Nothing like walking down the street and getting harassed by somebody becoming a national news event...

 

[pig957]

I like that lady dressed in black with the AR who also had a couple dandy 38s!

Yeah, I noticed her also!!!!

 

[mrortega]

Don't I hear you constantly talking about your wife?

Wife? What wife? BTW, she thinks she's hot too.

 

[Loganwildman]

Were those 38's or 44's? I couldn't tell for sure. I'm thinking a closer examination is in order.....

 

[griffin]

Here are some pics from a guy that attended. I understand at the height of attendance there were 40 people (people kept coming and going), but the news people weren't there then, and these pics also do not reflect that number. The guy getting interviewed by the news media in the last picture is Sean (not Puff Daddy) Combs, the one who is being prosecuted for OC. Some video should be forthcoming.

 

[NDguido]

I am shocked that anybody was able to take pictures considering all the bullets that were flying out of these gun toting hillbillies' guns.

I read quite a few of the responses and they were pretty much what I expected. One, however, bothered me more than the others.

Kevin Q
"So, let me get this straight.....the good people of Michigan are having their civil rights subverted by their Governor by taking over cities and throwing out the elected mayors, city councils, and hired city workers and these kooks are worried about some dumbass 18 year old being arrested for: if not a crime it's at least an act of outright stupity at least, and illegal at most"

Does this idiot even realize he gave his support for the police to arrest somebody even if no crime was committed?

 

[griffin]

Does this idiot even realize he gave his support for the police to arrest somebody even if no crime was committed?

One woman wrote that although it wasn't against the law, the police still should have taken him to the edge of the city and forbid him to come back.

 

[griffin]

New article on the event, including new pics. This event was acheduled to coincide with the Commission Meeting.

The family that shoots together: Sean Combs, 18, (second from left) stands beside his mother Pam Mytnik and brothers, Patrick Combs, 27, and Chris Combs, 30, (far right) during Monday's gun rally at Shain Park.

Monday's City Commission meeting in Birmingham was literally up in arms, as gun advocates spoke in support of Sean Michael Combs.

Gun rally sends message on civil rights | Observer and Eccentric Newspapers and Hometown Weeklies | hometownlife.com

 

[Will H]

While I have never been a fan of going OC, and do not do it myself, I would have attended this event and done so. It's great that there are still people around sticking up for the rights of others.

 

[btownie]

Maybe this has been said before.. Couldn't someone technically sling a rifle over their shoulder and go about their daily business? I mean.. that is OC.

Posted before I even saw this thread. Now I know the answer.