[E. Pluribus Unum]

Figures. He's a Chuck Schumer look-alike.

[Threepwood]

$57,938, is the price of one, maybe two, young policemen, or new body armour, or new investigative equipment. Just thought I'd point that out while we're talking about reducing crime and all.

[jrp]

What wrong message? That Americans are a free and independent people with the inalienable right to keep and bear arms? That wrong message?

[robertpaulsen]

"This is a public facility, and we don't want to give the impression that the city is promoting these gun shows," he said.

Next week, the Glendale Civic Auditorium will host NAMBLA. According to Mayor Rafi Manoukian, this is a public facility, and we don't want to give the impression that the city discriminates against any organization.

[thorshammer]

"would ban possession or sale of firearms and ammunition on city property, including the Civic Auditorium"

They did this several years ago in the Austin, Tx. Worked out for the best. We now have a larger, better gun show every month.

[fremont_steve]

Thanks for the post - I always find your info about my home town interesting. I grew up just below Brand Park so Burbank and Glendale were both old haunts.

The Gun show has been there since at LEAST the 70's when I lived in town. This is just a typical politically correct decision, i.e. not based on any merit. They need to figure out that owning and carrying a weapon is a constitutional right!

[RogueIsland]

Off topic, but I'm surprised anyone even goes to gun shows anymore. I stopped going to the ones around my area -- I can get anything I want online at better prices and way too many of the vendors are simply trying to take advantage of folks with ridiculous prices (note to gun show vendors: those beater 30 round AR mags from 1975 aren't worth 20 dollars a piece anymore, and that questionable parts rifle, yeah the one without a single matching number anywhere on it and a barrel devoid of any discernable rifling, that you're selling as a C&R rarity, is not worth $450.00).

[Chinito]

Here's what SC Justice Scalia had to say (in part) about "The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed...,"

An avid outdoorsmen who's hunted with Vice President Dick Cheney, Scalia spoke Saturday at the National Wild Turkey Federation's annual convention.

"The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed," Scalia told the audience of about 2,000.

"I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms," said Scalia, noting that as a youth in New York City he was part of a rifle team at the military school he attended.

"I used to travel on the subway from Queens to Manhattan with a rifle," he said. "Could you imagine doing that today in New York City?"

[TC Rider]

That loss of revenue would translate to up to $57,938, which is what the city received from the four gun shows hosted at the Glendale Civic Auditorium in 2005. City staffers have suggested that such losses could be offset by raising fees for other users of the auditorium.

Instead of punishing the other users of the facility, why not just deduct it from the mayor's pay and all those city staffers who thinks it's such a good idea.

[Mulder]

Is it not a federal crime to conspire to deprive American's of their individual Rights, as this assclown is doing?