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Title: T-shirts feature realistic guns in shoulder-strap holsters
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upi.com
URL Source: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/02 ... -strap-holsters/2631424206556/
Published: Feb 17, 2015
Author: Ben Hooper
Post Date: 2015-02-17 17:31:53 by Gatlin
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Views: 2598
Comments: 7
The "Open Carry T-shirts" website says the image of a gun in shoulder strap holster on the shirt "looks like a real gun, at a short distance."
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., Feb. 17 (UPI) -- A Colorado business owner said his T-shirts bearing realistic pictures of guns in shoulder holsters are a statement about gun rights. Paul Liebe, owner of Nitelife Billiards and Supply in Grand Junction and co- creator of the T-shirts with Sean Strand, posted a warning on the website for the "Open Carry T-shirts" saying the image of a gun in shoulder strap holster on the shirt "looks like a real gun, at a short distance."
"Law enforcement officers may overreact to your shirt," the warning reads. "Listen to the officer. If he says, 'freeze, halt, stop,' just listen to him."
Liebe said he started by selling the shirts locally, but he now gets orders from as far away as Italy and Afghanistan.
He said the T-shirts are a statement about Second Amendment rights, but he has some safety tips for wearers.
"Don't put your hand on the shirt on the gun," he told CBS Denver.
A Facebook page Liebe set up to sell the shirts says they "drive anti-gun nuts crazy," but supporters of gun control haven't been the only ones critical of the T-shirts.
"But open carry advocates that we are, even we would think twice about donning one of these and strolling down, say, 8th Avenue in New York," reads a post on the pro-gun blog The Truth About Guns. "Wear what you want. Just be prepared for the very real potential for pearl clutching and, depending on your location, leather clearing."
Liebe said he has not heard of anyone wearing one of his shirts having a negative experience with law enforcement.
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Liebe said he has not heard of anyone wearing one of his shirts having a negative experience with law enforcement.
I'll double-damn betcha it won't be long.
#2. To: tpaine (#1)
I'll double-damn betcha it won't be long.
Isn't Colorado an open carry state?
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
#3. To: Gatlin (#0) (Edited)
"Law enforcement officers may overreact to your shirt,"
Sooner or later some gutless idiot cop will shoot someone wearing one of these shirts because he "feared for his life".
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts#4. To: Gatlin (#0)
Cool!
#5. To: GrandIsland (#2)
Isn't Colorado an open carry state?
Yes, for the must part. You would get in trouble in Denver if you did.
потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
#6. To: (#0)
"Here lies John Gray. He died defending his right-of-way."
#7. To: Gatlin (#0)
Does it come in an edition with simulated bullet holes as well or are those strictly an after-market accessory?
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