Jan Morgan, the owner and operator of the Arkansas-based Gun
Cave Indoor Firing Range, said business has been booming since
September, when she first announced that she would no longer allow
Muslims to utilize her services, as a matter of public safety.
She also said that the threats of lawsuits that have loomed
since she announced the ban on Muslims have drifted away, the Daily Mail
reports.
The American-Islamic Relations, for instance, recently
called on Attorney General Eric Holder to look into her ban as a case of
racial and religious discrimination, accusing Ms. Morgan of fueling "a
hostile environment for ordinary Muslims in Arkansas," the Daily Mail
reported. But Ms. Morgan said she's not backing down -- that such
lawsuit threats have no teeth because Islam is not a genuine religion,
worthy of constitutional protections, and that many Muslims want to kill
people like her, she said, the news outlet reported.
In that sense, her ban is a "public safety" issue, she's
said, in past interviews. And some attorneys agree that she stands on
firm legal ground, particularly if she maintains her range is private --
which could therefore exempt it from certain federal civil rights
regulations, the Daily Mail reported.
"We are dealing in lethal firearms," Ms. Morgan said to
FoxNews.com. "I'm not going to let a Nazi shoot in here, or a Ku Klux
Klan member in here, either."
Her message -- and ban -- has apparently been resonating with area gun enthusiasts.
Ms. Morgan said her range business has "quadrupled" since she first announced the ban on Muslims, in September 2014.
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