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America’s largest outdoor sports show to ban AR-15s
The Daily Caller ^ | 1/18/2013 | Mike Piccione

Posted on 01/18/2013 10:06:01 AM PST by Godebert

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To: cyclotic
"I WAS thinking of going but they just made my decision for me."

Good. Spread the word.

21 posted on 01/18/2013 10:27:10 AM PST by Godebert (No Person Except a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!)
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To: Godebert
I posted about this the other day. Typical of so-called journalists that they can write a sentence without a glaring mistake. I work in Harrisburg, I live five miles away. I have been going to the Eastern Sports and Outdoors show for years. It is not known as the Harrisburg Gun Show. Most folks around here call it the Eastern Sportsmen's show, or Sportsmen's show for short. There is a Harrisburg Gun Show, which is a completely different event. I also go to the gun show.

Guns do not dominate the Sportsman's show, although it may seem that way to many if they are not around guns often. The show is divided up into multiple large rooms, typically with a major theme. There are outfitters for fishermen in one room. Outfitters for hunters in an other. Then there is the room with boats, another with ATVs and trucks. And yes, there are some displays of weapons. What is most noticeable to me are the darn turkey calls (I hunt turkey, so don't get me wrong) that cluck non-stop. and them there are the whirlpool tubs and home items that seem out of place.

I am not going to the show this year because of the ban on tactical weapons. I refuse to pay for parking and admission to an event sponsored by liberals. They will not get my money.

I do feel bad for the vendors, some of which have travelled from all corners of the global. I am not booking a trip this year, so I would only be there to kill some time and make it more crowded than it normally is.

22 posted on 01/18/2013 10:27:58 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe)
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If anyone posts on AR-15.com please post this information there. It may already have been posted there.


23 posted on 01/18/2013 10:29:27 AM PST by Godebert (No Person Except a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!)
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To: Godebert
ARs this year. Fishing tackle next year...after that, it will be nationally renowned as the Badminton Expo.

"Appeasement is the vainglorious hope the tiger will eat you last."
- Winston Churchill


24 posted on 01/18/2013 10:30:45 AM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: Godebert

Vendor’s of assault style weapons should rent a nearby venue and set up signs saying where they are. They’ll gut the show and sell even more produc.


25 posted on 01/18/2013 10:31:14 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Godebert

It was already posted on ar-15.com and on pafoa.org.


26 posted on 01/18/2013 10:34:04 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Outstanding. Thanks for the info.


27 posted on 01/18/2013 10:35:32 AM PST by Godebert (No Person Except a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!)
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What are dealers going to have to show? I’ve found exactly one AR in my neck of the woods and the price tag with no goodies is $2,000. My local gun store looks a post-Katrina New Orleans Best Buy..


28 posted on 01/18/2013 10:36:49 AM PST by IamConservative (The soul of my lifes journey is Liberty!)
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To: Godebert

It may be a bad move, but from a business point of view, the next several years worth of production is probably spoken for. Why pay all that money to be in a show and advertise what is already sold?


29 posted on 01/18/2013 10:37:05 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All
Have you seen the following AR-15 versus duck hunting shotgun video posted in a related thread?
Duck Hunting Shotgun Proven To Be more Dangerous Than A Huldra AR-15

Given that anti-2nd Amendment factions seem to be basing their disdain for the AR-15 on appearances, let's make the AR-15 politically correct by giving 2A-hating liberals a dose of their own medicine as follows.

AR-15 owners need to feminize their AR-15s by painting it hot pink, trimming it with splashes of pink synthetic ostrich feathers, and referring to it as the "gay" AR-15. Then it will be off-limits to liberals. And I wish that I was being sarcastic, but remember that we're dealing with the liberal mindset.

30 posted on 01/18/2013 10:40:53 AM PST by Amendment10
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Don't worry, they plan on outlawing duck-guns too, they're just starting with the scary-looking ones that are easier to demagogue.
31 posted on 01/18/2013 10:50:27 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)
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To: Godebert

The purpose of all this hype on guns is to keep the right and conservatives focused on what the Demo-Coms describe as issues through their propaganda arm known as the MSM (mainline socialist media) not on the problems created by the “Libs” on their road of good intentions or the socialist/fascists/communists successors to comtrol over todays Democrat party; Which is the cost ,waste, and corruption of his administration which had led to a 16 trillion dollar deficit.

Not one word will address or offer a solution about the hundreds of gangland murders and shootings using illegaly obtained mostly handguns and revolvers .Using code words like “assault rifles” which are really single shot per trigger pull semi automatic rifles, used for small game hunting or target practice. That are legal in every state but made to look like their military counterpart..Called AR’s since Viet Nam and a DOD decision ARs are really medium caliber (22.3) machine guns designed to wound not necessarilly kill which is why they are automatic and fire as many rounds that are in its magazine once the trigger is kept in the pulled position. .They replace quick kill 30 caliber semi automatic (single shot) M-1, Springfield rifles and carbines used during WWII and Korea and approved in most states for use in big game hunting.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2977901/posts NY Post pix of shooter using handgun

Obama certainly can’t critique a system created by his ilk .Ignored in his 23 edicts is that when once caught, perps get set free with lenient sentencing from “liberal” judges or sob sister plea bargain prosecution (which Obama supports for when a Illinois state senator while introducing legislation to sentence any 15 year old as an adult, Obama voted “absent” with others on roll call ) promoted by the MSM,The New York Times CNN, NBC and,ABC. There’s certainly no criticism of “no snitch” mentality partcularly in areas where these shootings are rampant.


32 posted on 01/18/2013 11:08:51 AM PST by mosesdapoet ("To punish a province let a professor rule it." Frederick The Great paraphrased)
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America's Largest Outdoor Sports Show strives for sustainable development by reducing its footprint.
33 posted on 01/18/2013 11:32:24 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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To: Godebert

Do potato guns attract negative attention? Free the spuds!

Here’s to the show being a bust.


34 posted on 01/18/2013 11:47:26 AM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: Red Steel

British? Connecticut? There’s two strikes against you...


35 posted on 01/18/2013 11:52:00 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Godebert

No point going then.


36 posted on 01/18/2013 12:09:50 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: Godebert

Never heard of it.


37 posted on 01/18/2013 12:15:31 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: Godebert

I suspect one of the behind the scenes reasons is that they cannot find any AR-15s to display. Sales in them are probably backlogged for the next few years.


38 posted on 01/18/2013 12:28:12 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: mosesdapoet

Post 32 is correct. The anti-gun dog and pony show by Obama and the media is a diversion from our country’s biggest problem. Insane, out of control federal government spending and borrowing. This will break our economy and society quicker than just about all our other problems. Our government has turned into Zimbabwe on the Potomac River.


39 posted on 01/18/2013 12:56:24 PM PST by RicocheT (Eat the rich only if you're certain it's your last meal)
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To: Amendment10
AR-15 owners need to feminize their AR-15s by painting it hot pink


40 posted on 01/18/2013 6:42:11 PM PST by superloser
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