Locked and loaded: Open-carry activists defy police calls to leave their guns at home as they parade assault rifles and handguns while backing Trump outside the Republican National Convention
Cleveland police union had called for suspension of open carry laws during the Republican National Convention
Ohio governor John Kasich said he were powerless to act because right is enshrined in state law
Pro-Republican demonstrators made show of weapons in Settlers Landing Park with AR-15-style weapons among those being openly carried
They say they are exercising Second Amendment Right and pose no danger to law enforcement
Security is tight at Cleveland venue for convention which will make Donald Trump party’s official White House candidate
By Shekhar Bhatia In Cleveland, Ohio
Dailymail.com
18 July 2016
An assortment of gun fanatics, anti-Islamists and Trump lovers and haters combined with heavy police numbers and demonstrators from across America to mark the start of the Republican National Convention today.
Gun-toting men exercising their rights under the Second Amendment and making their point showed off their weapons while supporters of civil rights campaigners group Black Lives Matters gathered in their hundreds close by.
Thousands of police personnel were drafted in from as far as California and Indiana to try and prevent trouble with the advice from senior officers to be ‘especially cautious’ against the threat of sniper fire.
The open-carry activists defied a plea by the Cleveland police patrolmen’s union for no guns in the vicinity of the RNC.
The union wrote to Ohio Governor John Kasich asking him to temporarily suspend the state’s open carry laws for the four-day convention fell on deaf ears.
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