FORT WORTH -- A conservative activist and state Rep. Briscoe Cain decided to crash the Texas Democratic Party convention Friday and were thrown out in the process.

Cain, R-Deer Park, and Aaron Harris of Direct Action Texas distributed signs to convention attendees that read, “This home is a gun-free safe space.”

In a Facebook Live video, Harris and Cain said Fort Worth police gave them a warning for criminal trespassing and removed them from the convention center.

The pair, who are both strong proponents of gun rights, claimed their prank worked, mocking Democrats who appeared to support the message on their signs.

“The only person who yelled at me was a lady who was upset that we ran out. She wanted more.” Harris said in the video.

They said some Democrats caught onto their joke, calling the signs stupid because if you put one out at your house, you’d get robbed.

“That’s what we’re trying to point out to you,” Cain said.

Cain shared the video on his Facebook page with the caption, "Got kicked out of the Democrat convention today. They wouldn't give us asylum." It was an apparent reference to immigrants applying for asylum at the border, a story that has dominated headlines after reports of the separation of more than 2,300 children from their families.

Harris later posted that one of the officers asked if he was carrying a weapon, and he answered, "Of course I am! You don't think I'm dumb enough to believe the stuff on this sign do you?"

Cain, first elected in 2016, is a member of the House Freedom Caucus, a small yet vocal minority that represents the most conservative in the party. He is running unopposed in the November general election.

Harris' group, Direct Action Texas, states that its focus is on government transparency and ethics, public debt and civil liberties. He has been known to antagonize certain lawmakers, once goading Dallas Republican Rep. Jason Villalba into a Twitter rant.