ON TARGET

Gun Activists Pack Heat at More Target Stores

 The retailer has a gun problem on its hands, and now it's spreading beyond Texas.

—By Mark Follman| Thu Jun. 26, 2014

 

 

A battle over gun politics that first put Target in the crosshairs in Texas has begun to spread around the country. Over the past week, several people have openly carried handguns into Target stores in Virginia and Oklahoma and posted pictures of themselves on Target's Facebook page, using the hashtag #OnTarget and thanking the retailer for "their decision to not ban guns in their stores or lots." The armed people were responding to mounting pressure on Target from Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, which has used a social-media campaign (hashtag: #OffTarget) to denounce a string of open-carry demonstrations first involving stores in Dallas-Fort Worth and Corpus Christi.
This week's 2A activists—who included two men and another person who appeared to be a woman—posed with the chain's signature red-and-white shopping carts, Target receipts, and their holstered handguns. Then they uploaded the photos to Target's Facebook page: "#OnTarget will continue to shop Target while they support the Second Amendment," the woman who packed heat inside an Oklahoma store commented in her post on June 21, adding, "#OffTarget is for idiots who think the government can protect them."
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