Group calls for open-carry ban at Frandor Kroger

LANSING – A small group met this morning in front of the Frandor Shopping Center Kroger to demand the grocery chain ban customers from openly carrying guns in its stores.

The eight women, including East Lansing resident Linda Brundage, asked shoppers to shop elsewhere until Kroger prohibits customers from openly carrying guns. Protesters were members of the nationwide Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America. Brundage heads the group's mid-Michigan chapter.

Kroger's 124 stores and 64 gas stations in Michigan will continue following state law, which does not prohibit open-carry of guns, said Ken McCLure, spokesman for Kroger's Michigan division. McClure said lawmakers, not retailers, should decide the issue. He said any change on Kroger's party would from its Cincinnati offices, not at the state level.