DALLAS (AP) — Attendees at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Dallas can carry their firearms — except during the forum where President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence speak Friday.
A White House official said Monday that Trump will attend Friday. Pence had already been slated to speak at Friday’s leadership forum.
The NRA has said on its website that due to Pence’s attendance, the U.S. Secret Service is responsible for security then. It’s standard for the Secret Service to bar firearms from being carried into places visited by the people they protect, regardless of state laws.
Some students at the Parkland, Florida, high school where 17 people were killed in February criticized the NRA on social media for what they see as hypocrisy.
Guns were also banned during Trump’s appearance at the NRA’s annual meeting in Atlanta last year.
Hypocrisy, RIP
I can’t imagine what they are worried about. There would be so many good guys with guns it would be the safest place on earth
Of course not. OMIGOD. Some ‘crazy’ could be out there. I bet they check Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin when they visit the WH too!
No kidding!
NRA condemns student survivors of a mass shooting for trying to keep weapons of war out, but still feels entitled to promote its own event with an opposite standard for Trump and Pence.
Maybe the Secret Service is a troupe of paid “crisis actors.”
How can we expect this gathering to be civil? I thought pervasive gun ownership promoted civility?