According to Guns Save Lives, the leaders of Open Carry Texas are now officially coming out against the counterproductive carry of long guns into restaurants and other businesses:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Come and Take It Texas, Texas Carry, Gun Rights Across America and Open Carry Texas Joint Statement on OC of Long Arms – May 21, 2014

Over the past year, our members have done what no other organization has been able to do – put open carry at the forefront of the fight to restore gun rights for all Texans. As we have grown, we have had to adjust our efforts based on lessons learned through hundreds of open carry events, big and small.

Looking back, it has become clear that there is one area in which we have gotten the most resistance and suffered the largest setbacks: open carry of long arms into private businesses. This is not a new phenomenon. Early on, because of our efforts, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) sent a message to all TABC licensees warning them about allowing our members to open carry into their businesses. This resulted in places like Smashburger asking us to leave our guns at home. Since then, Starbucks, Wendy’s, Jack In The Box, Applebees and most recently, Chipotle have come out asking we not carry our firearms into their establishments.

Whereas, our mission is to get open carry of handguns passed in Texas, we must once again adjust in a way that shines a positive light on our efforts, our members, and our respective organizations. We are humbly and emphatically imploring our members to cease taking long arms into corporate businesses unless invited.

Guns Saves Lives has the full press release, which does not appear to be posted yet on the Open Carry Texas Facebook page.

If this is indeed the official position of these groups and open carriers do indeed heed their call, then Moms Demand Action From Illegal Mayors In Everytown must be terrified.

Virtually every “success” the anti-gun cult has been able to claim recently has been tied into vilifying long-gun open carriers. If OCT, Texas Carry, and other carry groups are indeed beginning to understand how to wage a public relations campaign, then Shannon Watts is going to actually have to work to earn her money from Mike Bloomberg.