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Gun Show Cancelled After Ban on Assault Weapons
NewsMax ^ | Jan 25, 2013 | Matthew Auerbach

Posted on 01/25/2013 10:57:19 AM PST by EXCH54FE

Organizers of a Pennsylvania outdoors gun show have cancelled the event after a backlash over a ban on assault rifles.

The nine-day Eastern Sports and Outdoor show was scheduled to begin in Harrisburg on Feb. 2. In a notice posted on its web site, Reed Exhibitions said an "emotionally charged atmosphere" had been created that would make it impossible to hold an event "designed to provide family enjoyment."

The company’s reasons for a ban were laid out in a statement issued by Chet Burchett, Reed Exhibitions' regional president.

"Our original decision not to include certain products in the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show this year was made in order to preserve the event's historical focus on the hunting and fishing traditions enjoyed by American families," he said.

Burchett said banning “modern sporting rifles” was "a product decision ... of the type event organizers need to make every day."

According to Burchett, most of the show’s 1,000 exhibits would have been unaffected by the ban.

Reed Exhibitions said the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting prompted the ban. Initially, the company claimed the decision was made because of concerns that the "current climate" would distract from the emphasis on hunting and fishing "and possibly disrupt the broader positive experience of our guests."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; gunshow; secondamendment
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1 posted on 01/25/2013 10:57:27 AM PST by EXCH54FE
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To: EXCH54FE
That article so doesn't tell the real story...
2 posted on 01/25/2013 11:00:09 AM PST by Oberon (Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
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3 posted on 01/25/2013 11:02:12 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Oberon
Newsmax, giving the liberal whitewash only.
4 posted on 01/25/2013 11:03:12 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Oberon

Just a fancy way of saying that “We thought our vendors, exhibitors and customers wouldn’t care if we wussed out over PC pressure. But they did.”


5 posted on 01/25/2013 11:09:02 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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6 posted on 01/25/2013 11:09:25 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Sweet !


7 posted on 01/25/2013 11:12:32 AM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Yeah, the truckers channel (steve sommers) was talking about this early this am. Made me happy


8 posted on 01/25/2013 11:16:00 AM PST by ncpatriot
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To: EXCH54FE

***”... in order to preserve the event’s historical focus on the hunting and fishing traditions enjoyed by American families,”****

Does anyone remember the storm over the use of modern designed muzzle loading rifles during muzzle loading season?

The claim was that the season was opened to allow “Traditional Style Muzzle Loading rifles” and not the new fangeled muzzle loaders.

Same storm with modern sports rifles. Looks non traditional, is non traditional.

BUNK.


9 posted on 01/25/2013 11:20:41 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name! See new paintings!)
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To: EXCH54FE

NSSF Statement on the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show
http://www.nssfblog.com/nssf-statement-on-the-eastern-sports-and-outdoor-show/

January 24, 2013

We have just learned that Reed Exhibitions has decided to postpone the 2013 Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show.

In the days following Reed Exhibitions’ announcement that modern sporting rifles would be prohibited from the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show, the leadership of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has been in intense, frank discussions with Reed Exhibitions management in an effort to reverse this unacceptable decision. These discussions reached an impasse.

NSSF is in no way affiliated with, nor does it participate in or exhibit at this show in any way. Reed Exhibitions does, however, manage the NSSF-owned SHOT Show (though Reed manages the SHOT Show, all SHOT Show decisions, policies and actions are made at NSSF’s direction).

Because of Reed’s recent actions, NSSF is considering all options regarding the management of future SHOT Shows.


10 posted on 01/25/2013 11:32:55 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

During the “Primitive Weapons” part of the Mississippi deer season we are allowed to use single shot exposed hammer rifles made on pre 1900 patents that will fire metallic cartridges of .38 cal. or larger. I use a Handi-Rifle Buffalo Classic 45/70 govt.


11 posted on 01/25/2013 11:34:19 AM PST by duffee (NO poll tax, NO tax on firearms, ammunition or gun safes. NO gun free zones)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Outstanding!


12 posted on 01/25/2013 11:34:43 AM PST by Gator113 (Leave my guns alone and REGISTER THE DAMN LIBERALS!!)
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Strange, you wouldn’t think a ban on select fire, full auto capable machine guns would cause a whole show to shut down.

There’s still plenty of modern sporting self-loading magazine fed rifles to sell.

Makes one wonder, doesn’t it?


13 posted on 01/25/2013 11:37:43 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: EXCH54FE
"We hope that as the national debate clarifies, we will have an opportunity to consider rescheduling the event when the time is right to focus on the themes it celebrates," he said.

Obviously, they are not familiar with the term "goodwill" but they've totally squandered/destroyed any goodwill anybody who is concerned about 2A might have and if they think the customers are coming back in droves ..... well, people have long memories when it comes to companies who spit on a person's 2A rights.

14 posted on 01/25/2013 11:43:20 AM PST by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: EXCH54FE

I guess these guys never heard of the Dixie Chicks.


15 posted on 01/25/2013 11:46:41 AM PST by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got eight? NRA Life Member])
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To: EXCH54FE

Was Bass Pro scheduled to exhibit? If so, they didn’t pull out?


16 posted on 01/25/2013 11:57:47 AM PST by PA BOOKENDS
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I don’t see them listed in the original site:

http://ess11.mapyourshow.com/3_0/search.cfm?let=B&CFID=70793913&CFTOKEN=42885f4f5b978de6-80F1D34D-C4E6-B6C0-704EC03D8DFC5FC0


17 posted on 01/25/2013 12:07:15 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: EXCH54FE

So . . .
Do our patriotic Manufacturers and Retailers who protested this cheap thuggery by refusing to be silenced get their MONEY BACK?
Reed Exhibitions better start writing the checks.
Oh that’s right, it’s just “postponed” . . .
What a bunch of Maroons!


18 posted on 01/25/2013 12:09:30 PM PST by Macoozie (1) Win the Senate 2) Repeal Obamacare 3) Impeach Roberts)
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To: rmh47

The interesting part of this is that the city was set to see thousands drive in....some staying in hotels....eating local restaurants. They lost a ton of tax revenue money from this cancellation. Apparently, they didn’t care.


19 posted on 01/25/2013 12:11:40 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: EXCH54FE

Auerbach, you apparently haven’t learned the history of how loyalists were regarded and dealt with in early America.


20 posted on 01/25/2013 12:12:37 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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