They're having another rally today (the third), but I haven't seen reports just yet. A week or so ago the DHS picked up, locked up, detained, did NOT Mirandize, did NOT allow an attorney, and for hours questioned in an intimidating manner one of the leaders, disabled vet Anthony Bosworth, of the group sponsoring and organizing these protests.
http://www.examiner.com/article/federal-agents-catch-and-release-open-carry-activist-washington (includes brief video)
An hour-long radio interview with Mr. Bosworth is here:
We in Hawaii have laws many
times more restrictive than the people in Washington are dealing with (protests center around I-594 "mandatory background checks on all gun transfers" [as a "backdoor" registration scheme. While we here in Hawaii sheepishly bleat into the police station and ask permission if we can please register/inform the government of our desire to purchase a firearm that they might grant us permission to own something from their approved list, as long as we don't bear it or use it in any way or location except those approved by our elite betters...], while they have Constitutional open carry and a "shall issue" CCW licensing scheme). Despite Hawaii's clear status as tyranny in respect to the right to keep and bear arms, the attitude here, for the large majority of gun owners, seems to be "whatevahs". As I've said in other threads, I suspect our only relief from the tyranny suppressing our rights here in Hawaii will be from the courts (eventually, maybe), and all the denied CCW applications and emails and phone calls and FAXes won't ever make any difference, but "large scale" public civil disobedience
could have an effect by educating and informing (via the publicity generated) a large number of citizens who are currently uninformed that
might then exert some pressure on public officials. I don't think two or three people will cut it. Or probably even 15 or 20. Need at least 100, and 500 would be better.