Rep. Lauren Bobert (R-Colo.) and her husband announced Thursday that their gun-themed restaurant Shooters Grill is closing.
The pair said in a statement posted on Twitter that their landlord had decided not to renew their lease and noted that the move had “no political motivation” but was a “purely business decision”.
“There is a time and season for everything, and God has called us to focus our time and energy elsewhere. While Shooters Grill is closed, stay tuned. The Shooters brand is not going away. Exciting things are in the works,” they said.
“Many with a political agenda will try to make this happy transition into something it is not. Rest assured, we will not allow them to steal our joy for all that this restaurant has meant to our family.”
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Established in 2013 in Rifle, Colo., the restaurant serves mostly American fare, according to menus listed on Shooters Grill’s Facebook page. Servers were allowed to carry their own firearms, with many carrying semi-automatics, according to Boebert, who spoke to the Post Independent.
Employees asked if they could carry firearms after a man was believed to have been beaten to death outside Shooters Grill, which served as the impetus for the restaurant’s theme, according to the news outlet. The man actually died of a drug overdose.
Milken Enterprises, the landlord of Boebert’s restaurant, notified her last month of the decision not to renew the lease, according to the Post Independent. She and her husband hope to reopen a store on Third Street in Rifle.
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