Anti-Gunners, Media Appear Outraged Over SHOT Show’s Vegas Location

By Tom Knighton

The firearm industry’s biggest show each year is the SHOT show. Gun enthusiasts from all over the country who can’t get into the show eagerly await posts on blogs and social media with the latest and greatest goods on them. It’s a great time for the gun community.

However, it seems the media and anti-gunners don’t think it’s location is appropriate following the Las Vegas massacre in October.

The gun industry is holding its biggest annual trade show this week just a few miles from the site where a gunman slaughtered 58 concertgoers outside his high-rise Las Vegas hotel room in October using a display case worth of weapons, many fitted with bump stocks that enabled them to mimic fully automatic fire.

Gun control advocates, meanwhile, pointed to the irony of the location and planned a protest to renew calls for tighter gun sale regulations, including expanded background checks.

“We’re trying to show the connection between the industry that makes all the money and the damage that their products cause,” Lee Goodman, an organizer with Chicago-based Peaceful Communities, said Tuesday. His organization advocates for a rewrite of the constitutional Second Amendment right to own guns.

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Source:: Bearing Arms