There are exactly three customers sitting in Shooters Grill the day after its owner, Lauren Boebert, created a national brouhaha when she heckled President Joe Biden during the State of the Union address – as he spoke about his dead veteran son.
The Republican congresswoman’s restaurant is on Main Street in Rifle, Colorado, sandwiched between her constituency office and an interesting business that’s a tattoo parlour/pawn shop. Shooters has been home to controversy for even longer than Boebert has been making headlines with her outspoken, far-right views; after an incident in the town, Boebert bragged that she and all her waitresses were openly carrying weapons. The restaurant also flouted Covid lockdown laws and subsequently got into trouble.
