Church concerned, owner responds after gun shop opens near daycare, school [Video]

ESSEX, Md. — Some in an Essex school and daycare community expressed concern after a store selling firearms opened directly across the street from it.

A handful of people at the St. Stephens Christian Academy held a demonstration against the store on Tuesday afternoon.

Nick Blitz, a military veteran, recently moved his ‘BMore Tactical’ store to a building on Old Eastern Ave; it’s been open about three weeks.

“We do everything we can, because we want safe areas for everybody, too,” Blitz told WMAR.

“I want people to know we’re not here to cause a problem,” he told WMAR. “That was never an issue we had. We do everything by the book.”

The school and daycare’s land is owned by the St. Stephens AME Church, which has been in the community for decades.

“The biggest concern, is just, a great discomfort of dropping off your child, period, across from a …