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Some gun shows canceling after Conn. mass shooting
Times Herald-Record Middletown, NY ^ | 1/5/12 | CHRIS CAROLA and MICHAEL HILL

Posted on 01/05/2013 10:06:14 AM PST by Impala64ssa

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) -- Four gun shows, all about an hour's drive from Newtown, Conn., all canceled.

A show in White Plains, N.Y., - brought back a few years ago after being called off for a decade because of the Columbine shooting - is off because officials decided it didn't seem appropriate now, either. In Danbury, Conn. - about 10 miles west of Newtown - the venue backed out. Same with three other shows in New York's Hudson Valley, according to the organizer.

Gun advocates aren't backing down from their insistence on the right to keep and bear arms. But heightened sensitivities and raw nerves since the Newtown shooting have led to toned-down displays at gun shows and prompted some officials and sponsors to cancel the well-attended exhibitions altogether.

Some of the most popular guns will be missing from next weekend's gun show in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., after show organizers agreed to bar the display and sale of AR-15 military-style semiautomatic weapons and their large-clip magazines.

"The majority of people wanted these guns out of the city," said Chris Mathiesen, Saratoga Springs' public safety commissioner. "They don't want them sold in our city, and I agree. Newtown, Conn., is not that far away."

The mayor of Barre, Vt., wants a ban on military-style assault weapons being sold at an annual gun show in February. Mayor Thom Lauzon says he supports responsible gun ownership but is making the request "as a father." The police chief in Waterbury, Conn., just a few miles from Newtown, has halted permits for gun shows, saying he was concerned about firearms changing hands that might one day be used in a mass shooting.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
Rhetorical question of the week: since the gun grabbers and politically correct not-sees are supposedly so big on compromise and "finding middle ground" would the Brady Campaign and all the other usual suspects call on "responsible" theater owners to not show Django, Jack Reacher or any similar flicks in the cinemas within a 300 mile radius of Newtown, CT?
1 posted on 01/05/2013 10:06:20 AM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

I can’t imagine dealers having the stock to make it worth the cost of a gun show booth right now. The shelves are bare at the gun shops as it is


2 posted on 01/05/2013 10:16:55 AM PST by Figment
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To: Figment

maybe this is the time to sell my DSA STG-58...?


3 posted on 01/05/2013 10:18:31 AM PST by RitchieAprile (the obstreperous gentleman..)
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To: Figment

Quite possibly, trade shows in general are very costly and time consuming. Oftentimes companies loose $$$ on these venues.


4 posted on 01/05/2013 10:21:03 AM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Makes as much sense as canceling a car show because of a massive freeway pile up somewhere.


5 posted on 01/05/2013 10:22:07 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: Impala64ssa
"...bar the display and sale of AR-15 military-style semiautomatic weapons and their large-clip magazines. "



Yup.

Looks pretty dangerous to me.

Cover the whole magazine it would.

6 posted on 01/05/2013 10:23:26 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Impala64ssa

I’m concerned that the idiot police chief in Waterbury, Connecticut and/or the officers under his command might someday use THEIR weapons in a “mass shooting.”

This joke of a police chief should set an example and turn in all of the tax-payer supplied weapons in the Waterbury police department. Just give them to all the Waterbury tax payers who want them and can pass a quick background check.


7 posted on 01/05/2013 10:28:03 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (November 6, 2012.....A day that will live in infamy!)
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To: shibumi

You raise a good point. A 12 gauge shotgun shell is deadly, therefore 12 gauge wire must be deadly too.


8 posted on 01/05/2013 10:32:34 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Lion Den Dan
Makes as much sense as canceling a car show because of a massive freeway pile up somewhere
LOL EXCELLENT POINT! I gotta share this with my fellow motorheads ;) I wouldn't put it past the greenies and safety nazis to picket Hershey, Rhinebeck, Lake George, the Syracuse Nationals, the turkey run at Daytona, etc.
9 posted on 01/05/2013 10:39:23 AM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Nothing like exploiting murdered children to advance your political agenda...must be that "the end justifies the means" thingy...


10 posted on 01/05/2013 10:54:03 AM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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11 posted on 01/05/2013 11:22:01 AM PST by RedMDer (Those that believe in gun free zones should put GUN FREE ZONE on their property and persons.)
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To: Impala64ssa

A show about an hour’s drive from me had people waiting for a half an hour to get in when the doors opened this morning. All that discretionary spending the MSM claimed was happening until they told us it really didn’t? I think I know where the money went and who the Salesman of the Year is.


12 posted on 01/05/2013 11:26:09 AM PST by niteowl77 (Oh, crap.)
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To: Lion Den Dan

Good one!


13 posted on 01/05/2013 11:33:30 AM PST by panaxanax
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To: shibumi

And here are some large magazine clips.

14 posted on 01/05/2013 11:41:51 AM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Figment
I can’t imagine dealers having the stock to make it worth the cost of a gun show booth right now.

The shelves are bare at the gun shops as it is.

That is exactly the way it is here in my area.

After 0bama's speech one shop had a person sitting by the phone for two days to tell people that their were sold out. The calls were non stop.

15 posted on 01/05/2013 12:07:56 PM PST by TYVets
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Guy behind the counter at the local Gun shop had an Obama sticker on his vest.

I said WTF?

He said O bummer is the best thing to happen for his business in years.

16 posted on 01/05/2013 4:35:21 PM PST by jaz.357 (Welcome to hell. Here's your accordion.)
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To: Figment
I can’t imagine dealers having the stock to make it worth the cost of a gun show booth right now. The shelves are bare at the gun shops as it is

Yep - empty walls and empty ammo shelves all over. .22LR almost extinct. I was surprised to find some .22LR (CCI standard velocity) in 500 packs (10 50-rd boxes in a larger box) at a local Dick's. I also heard that Academy acquires ammo twice a week with .22LR as part of shipment.

17 posted on 01/06/2013 2:18:36 AM PST by trebb (Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
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