DALLAS (AP) — The National Rifle Association has tweeted at followers to avoid patronizing a Dallas restaurant that said it's donating a portion its proceeds this week to "organizations dedicated to implementing reasonable and effective gun regulations."
- Dallas restaurant is donating a portion of its proceeds to "organizations dedicated to implementing reasonable and effective gun regulations."
- The NRA annual meeting is being held in Dallas this weekend
- NRA asks members to boycott the restaurant
- Restaurant owner says he's received death threats
The restaurant, Ellen's, is located in downtown Dallas, where the NRA is holding its annual meeting this weekend.
Owner Joe Groves told KTVT television station that no NRA member wants kids or police officers to get killed and that "people like me don't want to take their guns away either. Can we not have both?"
Ellen's began printing the message on receipts Friday. It later added that such regulations should protect Second Amendment rights and "help reduce needless gun violence."
But NRA member Patricia Ferguson wasn't having it. She told KTVT, "we don't want any more gun regulations."