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27 people dead in Newtown, Connecticut school shooting

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Let me write the truth, where few will dare to go:

Guns were not responsible.

An evil human being, beyond description, was responsible.

You’ve likely noticed the number of persons killed as statistically incorrect.  But I count only the worthy.  Hence: 27 persons were killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.

Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, CTInformation is still rather sketchy and inconclusive but — despite that — massive conclusions are already being drawn.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, in this statement:

With all the carnage from gun violence in our country, it’s still almost impossible to believe that a mass shooting in a kindergarten class could happen. It has come to that. Not even kindergarteners learning their A,B,Cs are safe. We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to talk about gun laws. We heard it after Virginia Tech. After Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek. And now we are hearing it again. For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered with guns. Today, many of them were five-year olds. President Obama rightly sent his heartfelt condolences to the families in Newtown. But the country needs him to send a bill to Congress to fix this problem. Calling for ‘meaningful action’ is not enough. We need immediate action. We have heard all the rhetoric before. What we have not seen is leadership – not from the White House and not from Congress. That must end today. This is a national tragedy and it demands a national response. My deepest sympathies are with the families of all those affected, and my determination to stop this madness is stronger than ever.

Rupert Murdoch, billionaire, wrote on Twitter:

Terrible news today. When will politicians find courage to ban automatic weapons? As in Oz after similar tragedy.

5:26 PM – 14 Dec 12 ·

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino also provided a similar statement:

As a parent and grandparent, I am overcome with both grief and outrage by the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. This unspeakable act of violence will forever imprint this day in our hearts and minds. My heart goes out to the families impacted by this senseless tragedy and the many others we have recently witnessed across the United States. As a Mayor who has witnessed too many lives forever altered by gun violence, it is my responsibility to fight for action. Today’s tragedy reminds us that now is the time for action. Innocent children will now never attend a prom, never play in a big game, never step foot on a college campus. Now is the time for a national policy on guns that takes the loopholes out of the laws, the automatic weapons out of our neighborhoods and the tragedies like today out of our future.

What might there be in common with all three of these reactions?  Plenty.

They were issued by wealthy Demorats who each have their own personal protective retinue.  They can have theirs; apparently you cannot have yours.  Because if you conjure that Menino or Bloomberg or Murdoch make one move in public absent an armed protective contingent, you would be horribly wrong.

Further, two of them are mayors of major American cities where people are packed like herring and treated like herring, with a majority clamoring for Free Cheese.  The price for Free Cheese is, obviously, loss of independence, enhancement of parasitism, lethargy of the proles, and an unwillingness of said involved governments to trust their baseline electorate.  I submit: perhaps with good reason, due to voting history.

[A quick question for my readers about recent cultural events: does the current emphasis and popularity in the visual and written media with “zombies” have anything to do with a reflection of the American electorate in general?] 

Make no mistake; elementary school children involved in this kind of trauma will be inexorably scarred for some time, perhaps their entire lives — depending on what they saw and felt and were told — and will be told — to see and feel.

Newtown 2 It was heartbreaking to watch the live feeds of children attempting to relate what they saw and experienced, covered by all the major American media maggots.  Whilst watching the immured reactions of the children, I formulated two immediate questions: 1) What unfeeling bastard could hold a camera in the faces of these kids? and 2) What unfeeling parent could keep from smashing a fist into the throats of these media whores — and, further, would allow their children to be interviewed in the first place?

Answer: immature parents and dupes who are media whores themselves and to whom their children were nothing more than temporary tools for reverse fame.  Infamy.

I won’t waste my time writing about the shooter or his name or influences or his upcoming victimology.  Frankly, he doesn’t deserve the consideration nor do I care if he was abused or had autism or perhaps three nipples.  Because, when the Amercan maggot media is done with him, he will be a victim.  Of his circumstances, of his upbringing, of his environment.

He was Evil, pure and simple.  Evil has its nature, and he fulfilled those metrics.  I have seen Evil, I have faced it, I know its smell, the taste of it on my tongue.  I know how it walks, how it talks, how it lies, and how it revels in its obscenity.  I have arrested Evil.  I have booked Evil.  I have ridden with it up elevators, pushed it into the back of marked units, had it shoot at me, and shot at it.  I have had Evil hit me, punch me, cut me, spit on me, and smile at me with its maniacal grin.

Evil is the topic.  And guns comprise only a miniscule portion of the tools it utilizes, in the past, now, and in the future.

A gun is a tool.  And only that.  A means to an end.  Tools change, circumstantially-dependent.  A tool used one way can harm.  The same tool used another way can liberate and save.

Oddly enough, in a massive thrust of irony — ON THE SAME DAY — that only our Lord God seems to appreciate:

Knife-wielding man injures 22 children in China

BEIJING (Reuters) – A knife-wielding man slashed 22 children and an adult at an elementary school in central China on Friday, state media reported, the latest in a series of attacks on schoolchildren in the country.

The man attacked the children at the gate of a school in Chenpeng village in Henan province, the Xinhua news agency reported.

Police arrested a 36-year-old man, identified as villager Min Yingjun, Xinhua said. It did not give further details of the extent of the injuries.

And this in a country where no personal possession of a firearm is allowed, in any way, for any reason.

A Glock, a Sig, a Bushmaster.  A knife, a machete, a sabre, a broadsword.  A rock.  A baseball bat.  A series of highly-evolved and technologically-advanced drone aircraft.

Check history.  Remember history.  Because this important fact is true: one highly motivated individual, properly prepared, with mental singularity of mission, dedication, and a willingness to die for an ideal, can kill or cause to be killed any person on the planet.

No matter the tool involved.

BZ

 

 

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Black sports writer Jason Whitlock: “The NRA is the new KKK.”

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Serious sports writer Jason Whitlock.

First, some brief history for those unfamiliar with the story.

This past Saturday, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, 25, killed his 22-year-old girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, at their home.  He shot his girlfriend, who was planning to leave him, nine times in the torso and neck.  Their 3-month-old daughter, Zoey, was unharmed.  Belcher then drove about five miles to the Arrowhead Stadium parking lot, and shot himself in the head after speaking briefly to various KC Chiefs coaches.

A tragedy for sure, but in a very small way.

However, American media and the Left are making this a major issue, with the DEM/MSM paying the situation far more attention than it deserves, far overshadowing the Benghazi attacks where four Americans were killed on foreign soil.

First, FoxSports writer Jason Whitlock said this on a CNN-related podcast:

“Sports gets so much attention, and people tune out the real world, that I try to take advantage of the opportunity to talk about the real world when sports lends itself to that and try to open people’s eyes.”

“You know, I did not go as far as I’d like to go because my thoughts on the NRA and America’s gun culture — I believe the NRA is the new KKK  [My emphasis. – BZ] .  And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don’t have our best interests [at heart].”

“I think it’s obvious if you’ve traveled abroad, and traveled to countries where they have legitimate gun laws, that we don’t have to have what we have in America, where people somehow think a gun enhances their liberty, and that people somehow think a gun makes them safer,” he continued.

“It just doesn’t. A gun turns some kids listening to music into a murder scene. And uh, you know, if you don’t have a gun, you drive home. You know, kids listening to some loud music, you don’t like it, you go home and complain to your wife. But when you have a gun, you open fire, potentially, and take the life of a child.”

That said, Bob Costas felt it incumbent upon himself to take up the issue as well during this past NBC Sunday Night Football game involving the Eagles and Cowboys.

Frankly, Costas was condescending and opportunistic.  If I wished to know his opinions, I’d read whatever blog or column he wrote.  Otherwise, I dislike being held captive to another Leftist journalist who spouts unsubstantiated pablum aimed at the Lowest Common Denominator viewer during a football game.

Whitlock was bad enough.  Costas put the silliness over the top.

Let me cut to the proverbial chase, if I might.

I enjoy football.  I played it briefly in high school, as a center.  I enjoy watching it.  My interest in football harkens back to the 60s when my favorite team became the Green Bay Packers.  Because I liked their uniforms.

But to link the NRA to the KKK is simply ignorance at its finest, with an extra heaping helping of Victimology, coupled with the continual bleating of blacks as lacking any control whatsoever of “their” individual or collective destiny.  This racist view diminishes blacks and makes them nothing more than empty-headed pawns in the game of everyone but themselves.  And that is the furthest from the truth.

Let’s first take race out of the formula.  Let’s just examine the issue of guns.  If Jovan Belcher hadn’t possessed a gun, and was the same psycho he became, he would have used a nice Louisville Slugger.  Or perhaps the nearby table lamp.  Or perhaps a machete he’d recently purchased from KnifeDepot.com.  Or perhaps a Cadillac Escalade or a GM Yukon Denali.  Or perhaps a rock.  Because:

Here’s an Important Safety Tip: crazy people are actually crazy.  And pissed people are actually pissed.  Human beings are by their very nature flawed and sometimes critically flawed.  They are also emotional and sometimes unthinkingly, reactionarily emotional.

That said, Jason Whitlock has chosen to take the situation above and past an emotional issue into a racial issue.  He equates our Constitutional Second Amendment to an embracement of the Ku Klux Klan.  An organization, by the way, started by Democrats — you know, those loving persons who opposed Lincoln in terms of granting black slaves their freedom.  Try reading some history.

Poor chops, that.  Too base, too “convenient” and, in truth, too wrong.

Here is the truth that few if any will write or speak of:

Popular young black male culture is that of a dead culture.  It is a losing and a bankrupt “culture.”  Please note the quotes.

When young black males start valuing themselves and begin to strive towards excellence instead of the LCD in terms of emotions and guns and turf and issues that mean nothing to anyone else, then perhaps I’ll start increasing their personal value.

Bottom line: let’s put the murder/suicide of Jovan Belcher in perspective.  He is only one of hundreds of black males killed at their own hands or the hands of their own.  This year.

Further: he possessed advantages not afforded to literally hundreds or thousands of likely-abled young black males in this country.  And, with that, he still decided to collapse his personal House of Cards.

So, no, frankly, I don’t cry one tear for Jovan Belcher.  He made his bed.  He needs to be discarded.  Move on.  Nothing to see here.

So tell me: WHY is it that HE is “more important” than the other hundreds of black males, killed daily, at the hand of OTHER black males — ?

It isn’t a matter of guns.

Ladies and gentlemen: it is a matter of a bankrupt culture of depravity, violence, turf.

Nothing more.  Nothing less.

Belcher was coddled and nurtured and told what a “wonderful player” he was.  He believed his own press and then took the incredibly SELFISH way out.

The true story should actually be: why do young black males have such an absolutely bankrupt and virulently violent culture?  And why do they do their best to continue this culture?  Besides them, who is responsible?  I would suggest: the bulk of no-load, non-judgmental excuse-providing Leftist Caucasoids.  GOWPs, all of them.  Guilty, Over-educated White Persons.

Don’t cry for Jovan Belcher, that dead asshole.

Cry for the mother of his child.  And that child itself.

BZ

 

 

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Gun confiscation? Violence UP! Just ask Australia and the United Kingdom:

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“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms .  .  . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.  Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
~Thomas Jefferson

In the past month there have two major US incidents which one again focused attention on firearms by those determined to remove guns from the American public.

Liberal billionaire and mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has pulled amazing anti-gun fecal material out of his ass from these incidents.  Go here and here.  He can afford to do this.  He has his own security force both afforded by NYPD and privately.  He is transported by armored limousine.  His home is protected by state-of-the-art security systems.

I suspect that yours is not.  I know that mine is not.

In truth, Bloomberg refuses to acknowledge the fact that he has, per capita, THE largest police force in the entire nation in terms of citizen-to-cop ratios.

Go here for the NYC Homicide Map, which breaks down stats by year, race, sex, weapon and borough.  NYC homicides between 2003 and 2011?  4,161.  US troops killed in Iraq?  4,414.  NYC kills more people than does a purposeful war in a foreign country.  The Iraq war began in 2001, as a gentle reminder.

People killed by firearms in NYC between 2003 and 2011 by percentile?  Check this graphic:

There’s your firearm ban efficacy, Mayor Bloomberg.  And yet you continue to rail again and again against firearms.  You cannot see the abject failure of your stance in the city with the hardest line against guns in the entire nation.  There were 193 murders in just the first six months of your administration this year, Mr Bloomberg.  At a time when major crime is DOWN across the nation.  YOUR COPS have helped make YOU look good, Mayor Bloomberg.  Yet you continue to spout off about gun control.

Plus, we haven’t even addressed the issue in Chicago.

John Avlon writes in The Daily Beast:

As the sun rose Sunday, New York City hit a remarkable milestone, recording just 193 murders in the first six months of the year. In that same span, more than 250 murders were recorded in Chicago—a city just one third as large.

Of course, Chicago sports rampant gun control as well.

Chicago hasn’t seen murders at this pace since 2003, when the city suffered 283 homicides by the end of June, and 601 over the year.  The violence that began to explode in neighborhoods across this city this spring represents a 36 percent increase in murder over the same stretch of last year.

But here’s the deal: NYPD instigated “stop and frisk.”  That stance is being attacked.  Yet it clearly yields:

New York City’s historic success comes at a time of increased critical scrutiny of the NYPD and its commissioner, Ray Kelly.  Last month, the NAACP held a silent street protest to draw attention to its demand that the controversial “stop and frisk” policy be ended. In addition, there have been allegations of widespread padding of crime statistics.

Padding stats in CompStat, in NYPD?  Perish the thought!

But here is the proverbial Turd In The Punchbowl — the proverbial Cat Down The Toilet:

The fact that homicide rates in New York and most big cities have continued to decline during the Great Recession is itself a notable refutation of the “root cause” theory of crime long cherished by liberals —namely, that crime was an inevitable byproduct of tough economic times and income inequality, solvable only by welfare-state schemes. It turns out that proactive quality-of-life policing, stemming from the Broken Windows theory, ultimately does far more to reduce violence and save lives, especially in inner-city neighborhoods. The current Harlem renaissance is Exhibit A in this national evolution.

In the UK, it’s too little, too late:

Once again, governmental confiscations under the guise of “banning fox hunting.”

You can clearly see how well it’s working for both the UK and Australia.

Ladies and gentlemen, per Robert Heinlein, do you truly Grok this?

Crime is DOWN in America.  Gun violence is, overall, DOWN in America.

Yet, DESPITE THIS, government believes it MUST enact even GREATER restrictions on guns in the hands of lawful citizens.

I can only reach one conclusion: this is PURPOSEFUL.

It has NOTHING to do with actual VIOLENCE.

It has EVERYTHING to do with governmental CONTROL.

Hello?

Are you reading appropriately “between the lines” here?

“If you don’t do anything, you will lose your liberties.”

BZ

P.S.
Now, India blames the White House for the Sikh shooting:

Indian government officials and Sikh leaders across India were outraged by the attack that left 6 dead, including 4 Indian nationals, at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee and called on the U.S. to do more to protect Sikhs living in the United Sates. Clinton called Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna from her stop in South Africa Monday after Krishna criticized the U.S. for failed policies and a growing trend of violent incidents against religious minorities.

 

 

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What you WON’T read in the DEM/MSM: guns PREVENT crime

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In the video below, a 71-year-old man at an internet cafe in Ocala, Florida on Friday, July 13th, takes umbrage with two purposely-hooded “youths” who decided to rob said cafe via handgun and baseball bat:

From The Washington Post.com:

OCALA, Fla. — Authorities in central Florida say two men were trying to rob an Internet cafe when a 71-year-old patron began shooting his own gun, wounding the suspects.

Surveillance video shows two masked men entering the Palms Internet Cafe around 10 p.m. Friday. The Ocala Star-Banner reports one pointed a gun at customers while the other swung a baseball bat.

Nineteen-year-olds Duwayne Henderson and Davis Dawkins were later arrested and face attempted armed robbery with a firearm and criminal mischief charges. Both posted bail and were released.

The video shows patron Samuel Williams pulling a handgun and shooting. He continues firing while the suspects fall over each other as they run out the door.

Williams has a concealed weapons permit. Bill Gladson of the Marion County State Attorney’s Office says the shooting appears justified.

Because race means everything to the DEM/MSM and Leftists, I should care to point out that the aged shooter was white, and the “youths” were black.

To Mr Williams I say: nice crouch, nice two-handed Weaver stance, sir.  And nice aggression.  Take the fight to the enemy.  Keep moving.  You were textbook.

God bless you sir.

Now that’s a Seasoned Citizen who clanks when he walks.

BZ

P.S.

My “Rules of a Gunfight” here.

Number of guns UP and crime down here.

The Heller decision here.

US gun-grabbing history here.

The UN definitely wants your guns, here.

How to shoot a handgun accurately by Massad Ayoob here.

Finally, this most interesting tidbit from UK’s The Telegraph (indicating, once again, that if you wish to discover what’s really occurring in this country, I strongly suggest scouring UK news):

According to the FBI, over 1.5 million background checks on customers were requested by gun dealers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in December. Nearly 500,000 of those were in the six days before Christmas.

It was the highest number ever in a single month, surpassing the previous record set in November.

On Dec 23 alone there were 102,222 background checks, making it the second busiest single day for buying guns in history.

The actual number of guns bought may have been even higher if individual customers took home more than one each.

Explanations for America’s surge in gun buying include that it is a response to the stalled economy with people fearing crime waves. Another theory is that buyers are rushing to gun shops because they believe tighter firearms laws will be introduced in the future.

In that light, I would suggest that under a Leftist administration such as Mr Obama’s, tighter firearms laws are an absolute guarantee. Further, I submit that you can count on a vicious clamp on ammunition, restrictions to include the types and amount of ammunition purchased and lengthy backgrounds checks, as with firearms, involving sales of rounds.

The trend had already started in 2008 (again, UK’s The Telegraph) just before the November presidential election.

“I’ve sold probably four times as much in the last six months as I have in 20 years combined,” said Cliff Hunter, owner of Tommy Bronson Sporting Goods in Memphis. “Hand guns and the tactical weapons, they’re absolutely off the charts.”

Most of his gun sales used to be for hunting, or personal protection in a city riddled with crime. But just before the November election, anxiety that Mr Obama would win and enact a radical programme of curtailing gun rights began drove business right up.

“Obama’s a liberal socialist and I think he’s proven quickly how extreme he is,” he said. “When they get through healthcare, guns are on the table. They’re not talking about it but it’s going to happen.”

The FBI recorded a 49 per cent rise in gun background checks during election week compared to the same week a year earlier.

This should come as no shock to any right-thinking individual.

Finally, a brief summary of federal gun control in the United States:

1791
The Bill of Rights, including the Second Amendment — “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” gains final ratification.

1837
Georgia passes a law banning handguns. The law is ruled unconstitutional and thrown out.

1865
In a reaction to emancipation, several southern states adopt “black codes” which, among other things, forbid black persons from possessing firearms.

1871
The National Rifle Association (NRA) is organized around its primary goal of improving American civilians’ marksmanship in preparation for war.

1927
Congress passes a law banning the mailing of concealable weapons.

1934
The National Firearms Act of 1934 regulating only fully automatic firearms like sub-machine guns is approved by Congress.

1938
The Federal Firearms Act of 1938 places the first limitations on selling ordinary firearms. Persons selling guns are required to obtain a Federal Firearms License, at an annual cost of $1, and to maintain records of the name and address of persons to whom firearms are sold. Gun sales to persons convicted of violent felonies were prohibited.

1968
The Gun Control Act of 1968 – “…was enacted for the purpose of keeping firearms out of the hands of those not legally entitled to possess them because of age, criminal background, or incompetence.” — Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms The Act regulates imported guns, expands the gun-dealer licensing and record keeping requirements, and places specific limitations on the sale of handguns. The list of persons banned from buying guns is expanded to include persons convicted of any non-business related felony, persons found to be mentally incompetent, and users of illegal drugs.

1972
The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is created listing as part of its mission the control of illegal use and sale of firearms and the enforcement of Federal firearms laws. ATF issues firearms licenses and conducts firearms licensee qualification and compliance inspections.

1977
The District of Columbia enacts an anti-handgun law which also requires registration of all rifles and shotguns within the District of Columbia.

1986
The Armed Career Criminal Act (Public Law 99-570) increases penalties for possession of firearms by persons not qualified to own them under the Gun Control Act of 1986.

The Firearms Owners Protection Act (Public Law 99-308) relaxes some restrictions on gun and ammunition sales and establishes mandatory penalties for use of firearms during the commission of a crime.

The Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act (Public Law 99-408) bans possession of “cop killer” bullets capable of penetrating bulletproof clothing.

1989
California bans the possession of semiautomatic assault weapons following the massacre of five children on a Stockton, CA school playground.

1990
The Crime Control Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-647) bans manufacturing and importing semiautomatic assault weapons in the U.S. “Gun-free school zones” are established carrying specific penalties for violations.

1994
The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Public Law 103-159) imposes a five-day waiting period on the purchase of a handgun and requires that local law enforcement agencies conduct background checks on purchasers of handguns. (ATF’s Brady Law web site.)

The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-322) bans all sale, manufacture, importation, or possession of a number of specific types of assault weapons.

1997
The Supreme Court, in the case of Printz v. United States, declares the background check requirement of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act unconstitutional.

The Florida Supreme Court upholds a jury’s $11.5 million verdict against Kmart for selling a gun to and intoxicated man who used the gun to shoot his estranged girlfriend.

Major American gun manufacturers voluntarily agree to include child safety trigger devices on all new handguns.

1998 – June
A Justice Department report indicates the blocking of some 69,000 handgun sales during 1977 while Brady Bill pre-sale background checks were required.

1998 – July
An amendment requiring a trigger lock mechanism to be included with every handgun sold in the U.S. is defeated in the Senate.

But, the Senate approves an amendment requiring gun dealers to have trigger locks available for sale and creating federal grants for gun safety and education programs.

1998 – October
New Orleans, LA becomes the first US city to file suit against gun makers, firearms trade associations, and gun dealers. The city’s suit seeks recovery of costs attributed to gun-related violence.

1998 – November 12
Chicago, IL files a $433 million suit against local gun dealers and makers alleging that oversupplying local markets provided guns to criminals.

1998 – November 17
A negligence suite against gun maker Beretta brought by the family of a 14-year old boy killed by an other boy with a Beretta handgun is dismissed by a California jury.

1998 – November 30
Permanent provisions of the Brady Act go into effect. Gun dealers are now required to initiate a pre-sale criminal background check of all gun buyers through the newly created National Instant Criminal Background Check (NICS) computer system.

1998 – December 1
The NRA files suit in federal court attempting to block the FBI’s collection of information on firearm buyers.

1998 – December 5
President Clinton announces that the instant background check system had prevented 400 illegal gun purchases. The claim is called “misleading” by the NRA.

1999 – January
Civil suits against gun makers seeking to recover costs of gun-related violence are filed in Bridgeport, Connecticut and Miami-Dade County, Florida.

1999 – May 20
By a 51-50 vote, with the tie-breaker vote cast by Vice President Gore, the Senate passes a bill requiring trigger locks on all newly manufactured handguns and extending waiting period and background check requirements to sales of firearms at gun shows.

1999 – August 24
The Los Angeles County, CA Board of Supervisors votes 3 – 2 to ban the the Great Western Gun Show, billed as the “world’s largest gun show” from the Pomona, CA fairgrounds where the show had been held for the last 30 years. (Typical Gun Show Rules & Regulations here.)

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