Armed Second Amendment activists with the "Boogaloo" movement and @BLM757 approached the Capitol building in Richmond, Virginia this afternoon and were confronted by police over a new state gun law preventing firearms on the premises, effective July 1.
"I hope you have some other way to defend yourself or avoid the situation" a VA Capitol officer suggested to @BLM757 activists. "If you don't like the laws enacted, talk to your elected leaders.
One describes being shot at by Trump supporters explaining why he needs the 2A.
A boogaloo activist told a Capitol Police officer that the United States was started by "people like us."
Both sides agreed to back off from one another, and the Boogaloos & BLM stepped a block back from the area where guns are forbidden as of July 1.
One boogaloo member noted that it was just last year that 20,000+ Second Amendment activists gathered in Richmond chanting "We will not comply" but that they are indeed complying as new local ordinances and state laws affect gun rights in the area.
Still, a local ordinance in Richmond makes it a misdemeanor to carry a firearm anywhere in the city at a demonstration that has or would require a permit.
The activists posed with their guns next to the sign banning them where they stood.
That ordinance went unenforced.
Activist "Pops" (who carried four firearms today) asked the people in attendance about their magazine sizes.
20+ round mags are illegal in Richmond, but the boogaloos showed off that they defied that as well.
Pops also pointed out that the anti-gun ordinances in Richmond passed "all of a sudden" following social justice demonstrations this summer, he believes, to repress their gun rights.
He concluded by lighting a blunt, which he said is "legalish" and told me it's CBD, with a wink.
Here's my full @N2Sreports raw video summary of today's confrontation between Virginia Capitol Police and armed Boogaloo & BLM757 activists over the new gun ordinance banning firearms around the state capitol.
As always, all footage available to license.
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