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20 Percent down, 80 percent to go. This list of canceled vendors is growing very fast.
1 posted on 01/23/2013 8:28:29 AM PST by marktwain
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I don’t attend gun-shows, but fully support and understand those that do.

I couldn’t understand why a gun show wouldn’t allow “assault” rifles to be shown, until I saw that it was a British Exhibition Management company that was involved, and then it all made sense.

They need to be dumped ASAP.


2 posted on 01/23/2013 8:31:44 AM PST by PGR88
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20 Percent down, 80 percent to go. This list of canceled vendors is growing very fast.

Soon I expect to see the demonization of this industry to the point where it relocates overseas....more loss of American jobs, more stress on the economy, one more step to de-industrialize America, one step closer to Obama's goal of tyrannical communism for the disarmed American people.

3 posted on 01/23/2013 8:35:17 AM PST by Rapscallion (How's that tyranny working out for you now, hmmm?)
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I gather that it’s a British company of some kind that was sponsoring the show. It seems to be a case of ideology trumping common sense, given the type of people who would usually attend.

Is there some other audience to the extreme left whom they are worried about offending? Because this sure seems dumb to me. Stupid and dumb. You aren’t going to get a lot of effete metrosexuals attending such a show, I wouldn’t have thought.


4 posted on 01/23/2013 8:35:28 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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20 Percent down, 80 percent to go. This list of canceled vendors is growing very fast.

Soon I expect to see the demonization of this industry to the point where it relocates overseas....more loss of American jobs, more stress on the economy, one more step to de-industrialize America, one step closer to Obama's goal of tyrannical communism for the disarmed American people.

5 posted on 01/23/2013 8:36:13 AM PST by Rapscallion (How's that tyranny working out for you now, hmmm?)
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I know I won’t be going.


6 posted on 01/23/2013 8:36:13 AM PST by MeganC (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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The show organizer already has their money for the booth fees.

Good short term for Reed. Long term future business doesn’t look so good.


10 posted on 01/23/2013 8:42:44 AM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: marktwain

As Ben Franklin noted years ago, American gun owners better hang together or they will be hanged separately.


11 posted on 01/23/2013 8:44:30 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name! See new paintings!)
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“Clearly, we strongly support the 2nd Amendment. “

Clearly they would make Goebbels proud with their lies, damned lies, and baldfaced lies.
IF they supported the 2nd Amendment, they would not have changed a darn thing!
So CLEARLY they are baldfaced lying in an effort to promote the current propaganda against the AR-15 platform.


13 posted on 01/23/2013 8:52:46 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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The promoters should bill this as:

“THE LAST EASTERN SPORTS AND OUTDOOR SHOW”


16 posted on 01/23/2013 9:17:48 AM PST by Iron Munro (I Miss America, don't you?)
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In most companies 20% of the merchandise generates 80% of the Sales.

Same is true with suppliers. The top 20% of the vendors account for 80% percent of sales.

Yes, Scotty, it is dead.


17 posted on 01/23/2013 9:28:42 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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The NRA/GOA and others should picket outside too


18 posted on 01/23/2013 9:32:44 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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The bottom has fallen out on the Brittish company Reed.
Theses bloody Brits are finished.


23 posted on 01/23/2013 10:40:37 AM PST by tennmountainman
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Suicide with the jawbone of an ass!


25 posted on 01/23/2013 11:07:51 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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this year we have made the decision not to include certain products that in the current climate may attract negative attention

Wanting to avoid drawing negative attention?

I think they really messed up in their approach to that.

26 posted on 01/23/2013 11:16:37 AM PST by ansel12 (Cruz said "conservatives trust Sarah Palin that if she says this guy is a conservative, that he is")
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Haha!

So sad, too bad.


28 posted on 01/23/2013 11:37:37 AM PST by tickedoffnow (No more...)
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Any news about these companies:

Colt
Remington
Marlin
Beretta
Winchester

Bushnell
Leitz
Zeiss
Swarovski
Other optics companies (binos, scope, range finders, red dot sights

Brownell’s


29 posted on 01/23/2013 11:49:11 AM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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Clearly, we strongly support the 2nd Amendment.

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Liars.

32 posted on 01/23/2013 2:25:14 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Ping for keeping track of the good guys

The show had about 1200 vendors, according to media reports, and nearly 20% of them have cancelled plans to attend, including big names like Cabelas and the NRA.

33 posted on 01/23/2013 2:31:32 PM PST by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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The guy that runs their US operations lives in Connecticut. He graduated from Baylor and started his career in journalism. I would be extremely surprised if he isn’t a lib.

Also, they are part of Reed Elsevier Group, a huge media conglomerate, and they show strong growth in their exhibition business. Hopefully this will damage that growth a bit, but I strongly doubt it will see them change their euroweenie attitude.


34 posted on 01/23/2013 2:43:03 PM PST by Ironfocus
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Have been going to that show twice a year most years since the late 1990's.

Now suffering withdrawal symptoms...gladly...

Lots of smaller shows in south-central PA...Hopefully this allows them to expand their attendance base..

Even if those marxist scumbag brits recant, I'm not sure I'll go back to their Farm Complex show again. Too bad. Was definitely one of the best shows in the Nation.

35 posted on 01/23/2013 3:56:10 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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