10,000 People To March On DC With Loaded Rifles?

Activist Is Trying To Get 10,000 People To March On DC With Loaded Rifles

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Adam Kokesh being arrested in 2007 after protesting the Iraq War in the Senate Hart Office Building, Washington, DC.

Independence Day in Washington, D.C. may see bigger fireworks if the “Open Carry March” put forth by a Marine veteran turned libertarian activist actually goes forward.

Adam Kokesh, 31, is planning a July 4 rally of pro-gun activists openly carrying rifles from Virginia to Washington as an act of “civil disobedience.” The plan, according to his Facebook event page, is to march across Memorial Bridge with rifles loaded and slung across the back “to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated [and] cower in submission to tyranny.”

The invite continues, stating, ” … This will be a non-violent event, unless the government chooses to make it violent.”

Kokesh writes that if 10,000 attendees RSVP by June 1st, “we have the critical mass necessary to pull this off.” He said he wants to have at least 1,000 actually marching in the event, and as of this writing, more than 1,400 have said they were going.

A Marine veteran of Iraq, Kokesh received the Navy Commendation Medal after fighting in Fallujah. He later became a prominent anti-war activist and started his own show, Adam vs. The Man.

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