Posted April 17, 2019 6:30 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

After more than a decade of efforts by Bay Area Democrats and anti-gun activists, the Cow Palace is dropping gun shows starting in 2020. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
Bending to an extended push from local Dems and gun control groups, the board of California’s Cow Palace on Tuesday voted unanimously to stop hosting gun shows.
Located just outside of San Fransisco, the historic venue is owned by the state Department of Food and Agriculture, and its board said this week they will discontinue all gun shows beginning Jan. 1, 2020. Cow Palace has been the subject of a number of failed bills in the state legislature over the years — brought by Bay Area lawmakers and backed by groups such as the Brady Campaign — to halt the otherwise popular shows.
“In establishing this policy the Board is mindful, although not necessarily governed by, the existence of policies prohibiting such shows in the cities of Daly City and San Francisco and the counties of San Mateo and San Francisco as well as public input from citizens of these jurisdictions in favor of and opposed to such shows,” the Board said in a statement. “This action in no way shall be taken to indicate that the Board has

Source: Guns.com

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