By WILLIAM STEVENS
Staff writer
The president of the Pennsylvania Gun Owners Association attended Wednesday’s Sugarcreek Borough Council meeting and told the panel about an upcoming rally in Harrisburg.
Jerry Woods said the event will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, April 30, in Harrisburg. A flyer promoting the rally says it is designed to “protect your right to keep and bear arms.”
The flyer also says that Gov. Tom Wolf’s state of emergency declaration in January in response to the opioid crisis “activated an automatic trigger in state law that criminalizes the open carrying of any firearm.”
“It’s a way to make sure that people will actually attend the event,” Woods said after the meeting.
The rally used to bring in around 1,000 people, but Woods said there were only 268 people there last year.
Council listened to Woods but did not speak further on the matter.
Council will next meet Wednesday, March 21.
