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4. The Newsweek story cites an LA Times report about
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 05:10 PM
Aug 2017

2 different statements, although the LA Times doesn't provide either statement in its entirety or link to them, but these statements (which I can't actually find) seem to be limited to white supremacist groups. According to the Times, the national ACLU says:

The national organization said Thursday that it would not represent white supremacist groups that want to demonstrate with guns.


Then, separately, the Times says that the 3 ACLU chapters in California say:

“If white supremacists march into our towns armed to the teeth and with the intent to harm people, they are not engaging in activity protected by the United States Constitution


So this is also about white supremacists. Since CA is a "no-open-carry" state, the CA statement isn't really about guns at all.

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