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Hello everyone,
I am a board member of a cun club in northampton county and I could use some help.
We have had a "no loaded guns in the clughouse" rule for decades do to our insurance carrier. We also have rifle,pistol, archery and trap ranges, along with a catering club liquor lic. The clubhouse is open 7 days a week, as are the ranges. In the past 10 years we have had 1 or 2 members come inside the clubhouse wearing unloaded sidearms, open carry. I have always thought , no big deal it is a gun club, no harm, no foul, the guns were unloaded. Recently, we have had a few more members coming into the club house, open carry, unloaded. I was approached by another board member this evening, and he explained that he asked the members that are currently coming into the clubhouse with open carry side arms, to come to our board meeting on monday. Then I am told that some members that frequent the clubhouse only to drink, feel uncomfortable about the open carry of side arms in the clubhouse, and that we (the board) need to put a stop to it. I explained that the club by laws state that the club will always support the 2nd amendment in every way possible. Since the members are not breaking the law carrying in the open, and they are not breaking the no loaded gun rule we need to just leave it alone, and let it pass. He tells me that 5 or 6 members left the club house because they felt uncomfortable about the open carry of unloaded guns, and that the club is losing money when this happens. I said that the members felt uncomfortable when we installed security cameras, but we installed them anyway, and that the members that that felt uncomfortable and left, have every right to leave, just as the open carry guys have every right to stay, as long as the guns are unloaded.
So know I have this meeting to look forward to on monday. I have to explane to some of the other board members that this is a gun club with a bar, and not a bar that happens to be next to a gun club. This club has different classes of membership, active and life, wich can use the ranges and grounds and vote, and social, wich cant vote, or use the grounds, they can only frequent the clubhouse.
I do not want this situation to come to a membership vote, it would tear the membership apart with a "us" vs "them" vote, but I just cant just lay back swallow the hypocritical dogma that I fear is coming. It will sound something like this,
" no guns inside the clubhouse except:
during block shoots,
when guns are being raffled inside the clubhouse,
club owned guns used at block shoots,"
And so on. I feel that I might as well be back in new jersey with all the "exceptons" to carrying a gun.
I need any and all opinions on this issue, please, so I can better understand, and then, be better understood.
depending on how this works out, I may be a ex-board member the next you hear from me.
thanks to all who can reply,
Sincerly,
Roland45
I am a board member of a cun club in northampton county and I could use some help.
We have had a "no loaded guns in the clughouse" rule for decades do to our insurance carrier. We also have rifle,pistol, archery and trap ranges, along with a catering club liquor lic. The clubhouse is open 7 days a week, as are the ranges. In the past 10 years we have had 1 or 2 members come inside the clubhouse wearing unloaded sidearms, open carry. I have always thought , no big deal it is a gun club, no harm, no foul, the guns were unloaded. Recently, we have had a few more members coming into the club house, open carry, unloaded. I was approached by another board member this evening, and he explained that he asked the members that are currently coming into the clubhouse with open carry side arms, to come to our board meeting on monday. Then I am told that some members that frequent the clubhouse only to drink, feel uncomfortable about the open carry of side arms in the clubhouse, and that we (the board) need to put a stop to it. I explained that the club by laws state that the club will always support the 2nd amendment in every way possible. Since the members are not breaking the law carrying in the open, and they are not breaking the no loaded gun rule we need to just leave it alone, and let it pass. He tells me that 5 or 6 members left the club house because they felt uncomfortable about the open carry of unloaded guns, and that the club is losing money when this happens. I said that the members felt uncomfortable when we installed security cameras, but we installed them anyway, and that the members that that felt uncomfortable and left, have every right to leave, just as the open carry guys have every right to stay, as long as the guns are unloaded.
So know I have this meeting to look forward to on monday. I have to explane to some of the other board members that this is a gun club with a bar, and not a bar that happens to be next to a gun club. This club has different classes of membership, active and life, wich can use the ranges and grounds and vote, and social, wich cant vote, or use the grounds, they can only frequent the clubhouse.
I do not want this situation to come to a membership vote, it would tear the membership apart with a "us" vs "them" vote, but I just cant just lay back swallow the hypocritical dogma that I fear is coming. It will sound something like this,
" no guns inside the clubhouse except:
during block shoots,
when guns are being raffled inside the clubhouse,
club owned guns used at block shoots,"
And so on. I feel that I might as well be back in new jersey with all the "exceptons" to carrying a gun.
I need any and all opinions on this issue, please, so I can better understand, and then, be better understood.
depending on how this works out, I may be a ex-board member the next you hear from me.
thanks to all who can reply,
Sincerly,
Roland45
