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Advocates carry handguns, rifles at Va. rally

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Dan W:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100419/ap_on_re_us/us_second_amendment_rallies




By MATTHEW BARAKAT and NAFEESA SYEED, Associated Press  

ARLINGTON, Va. ? Carrying loaded pistols and unloaded rifles, dozens of gun-rights activists got as close as they could Monday to the nation's capital while still bearing arms and delivered what they said was a simple message: Don't tread on me.

Hundreds of like-minded but unarmed counterparts carried out a separate rally in the nation's capital.

The gun-carrying protesters in Virginia rallied on national park land, which is legal thanks to a new law signed by President Barack Obama that allows guns in national parks. Organizers said it's the first armed rally in a national park since the law passed.

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