VA-ALERT: A Virginia gun owner gets "SWATTED"

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VA-ALERT: A Virginia gun owner gets "SWATTED" - more at meeting tonight

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In the first case that I know of in Virginia, a gun owner who was open carrying has gotten “SWATTED” - where someone makes a false report to 911. In this case the claim was that the gun owner had robbed a 7-11. In reality the gun owner simply went into the 7–11 to purchase something and then left.

The good news is that due to the professionalism of the Fairfax County Police, the gun owner, when found and stopped, was not put in unreasonable danger while FFC PD investigated the charge.

At tonight’s VCDL meeting I will play the 911 recording, which I just received. The victim, Robert Dickens, as well as some representatives of the Fairfax County PD will be there and will talk to the group about the incident and SWATTING.

For those who can’t attend tonight, I will have more information on the incident, how VCDL is going to handle any other such events, etc. in the next Alert.

Also, Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis, who is the only Senate candidate out of three to return the VCDL survey, will address the group. VCDL (and GOA, BTW) have not received a survey response from either Ed Gillespie or Mark Warner (an open invitation remains for either of them to speak at a VCDL meeting). Eric Cantor ignored grassroots, too, and we know how that worked out for him.

I wonder if Ed Gillespie and Mark Warner are going to release their NRA survey? (I won’t be holding my breath in anticipation.)

See you tonight!

Fellowship starts at 7:30 PM and the meeting is called to order at 8:00 PM.

The meeting is open to the public, so bring along some friends and family!

Directions: http://vcdl.org/node/180




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