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By Elizabeth Coe

Rappahannock

News Staff Wnter

Five men sat around a table at Giovannis New York Pizza in Leesburg recently; eating pizza, sipping iced tea and sharing stones of what it's like to be a gun owner.

A gun was hols te red on each man’s hip, in plain view of the customers dining at the family-style restaurant.

The men, who are regular citizens, not police officers, were openly carrying their firearms, mainly to exercise their right to do so in the State of Virginia

“There are a lot of reasons,'’ said Vienna resident Bill Garman, who carries a gun pretty much everywhere it is allowed. “You never know when a crime might happen. It’s better to have it and not need it than the other way around.”

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