I’m going to post this here so folks can see a story that Jim Hoft and his ilk may use as an “OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE!!” story tomorrow or over the weekend. This article is a straight piece of journalism, but other versions of the story may well not be:

Huey P. Newton Gun Club stages open carry rally through Dallas (VIDEO)

A group of some 30 African-American gun rights advocates marched in South Dallas Wednesday evening to promote self-defense and protest police shootings.

The newly formed group, calling themselves the Huey P. Newton Gun Club after one of the founders of the 1960s Black Panther party, open-carried rifles and shotguns on their evening walk along Malcom X and Martin Luther King boulevards. The peaceful activists, clad in black, according to the Dallas Morning News, chanted “Black Power” and “Justice for Michael Brown” along their route.

“We think that all black people have the right to self-defense and self-determination,” said Huey Freeman, a march organizer. “We believe that we can police ourselves and bring security to our own communities.”

After announcing plans for the rally earlier this week the group began its march around 8 p.m. at a carwash on Malcom X Boulevard and wound through the neighborhood for about 90 minutes. Walking and talking to local residents throughout its rally, the group stopped at a restaurant and ate alongside a Dallas Police Department deputy chief and shift lieutenant who were already patronizing the establishment.

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To be fair to Open Carry Texas (OCT) and Open Carry Tarrant County (OCTC), both expressed support for new open carry group.

As for me, I maintain my position that this sort Open Carry activity will long guns is counter-productive and unwise.