This is a local gun show in my "Free State" of Maryland. This local MMM'r
reveals the true end game for MMM and the other gun grabbers. The last four
paragraphs are telling. THEY @$#%^&* LIE! http://www.gazette.net/200039/bethesda/news/26862-1.html
Gun control group plans to protest
by Myra Mensh Patner
Staff Writer
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Sep. 27, 2000
A newly created chapter of the Million Mom March plans to organize a
demonstration against gun shows at the Montgomery County fairgrounds on Oct.
21 and 22, when the next show is scheduled to take place.
"We object to the fact that tax dollars help support the Montgomery County
fairgrounds while there are gun shows there," said Tierney O'Neil of Chevy
Chase, who organized the Montgomery County chapter of the Million Mom March.
The chapter is one of about three dozen chapters that have sprung up around
the United States since the Million Mom March in May, when about 800,000
people marched on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to show support for
tighter gun control.
Organizers of that event created a national nonprofit group based in San
Francisco with the goal of keeping the momentum established during the May
demonstration.
After learning from a Sept. 13 Gazette article that biannual gun shows have
taken place for a decade at the Montgomery County Agricultural Center and
Fairgrounds in Gaithersburg, O'Neil raised the topic at the local chapter
meeting on Sunday.
The 25 people at the meeting voted unanimously to stage a protest at the
fairgrounds' entrance.
JoAnne Leatherman, executive director of the Montgomery County Agricultural
Center and Fairgrounds, referred calls to attorney James Clifford of the
Gaithersburg firm of Debelius, Clifford & Debelius. He did not return calls.
The 59-acre fairgrounds is owned and operated by a private, nonprofit
organization with an independent board and staff.
The fact that in the past two years, the fairgrounds has received more than
$700,000 in state, county and City of Gaithersburg funding for renovations
has prompted some people to say that the public should have a say in whether
gun shows should take place on the fairgrounds.
County Councilman Blair G. Ewing (D-At large) of Silver Spring plans to hold
a public discussion on whether the fairgrounds, or any place in the county
that receives public money, should be the setting for gun shows.
O'Neil said her group plans to offer Ewing and other politicians a petition
objecting to public funding for the fairgrounds as long gun shows take place
there.
Some counties around the United States have moved to stop gun shows at
fairgrounds. Last year, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed an
ordinance banning gun and ammunition sales on county-owned property.
After gun show promoters obtained an injunction that stopped the ordinance
from taking effect, the fair operator -- a private group that leases the
fairgrounds from Los Angeles County -- continued renting to several gun show
organizers.
Later in the year, however, the Los Angeles fairground operator did not renew
gun show contracts and the shows ended at the fairgrounds. A trial is
expected on the challenge to the ordinance.
Councilman Ewing's legislative aide attended Sunday's Million Mom March
meeting in Chevy Chase as did Del. William A. Bronrott (D-Dist. 16) of
Bethesda, who is a member of the Million Mom March organization.
It is Bronrott's cousin, Frank Krasner, who for a decade has been the
promoter of the county's two gun shows at the fairgrounds. Krasner's company,
Silverado Promotions, also holds gun shows at the Frederick County and Howard
County fairgrounds, as well as in Prince George's and Wicomico counties.
Krasner, who has scheduled a second Montgomery fairgrounds show for Jan. 6-7,
features new and antique firearms, handguns, rifles, shotguns, military
hardware, assault weapons, bows and arrows, knives, ammunition, holsters and
other gun paraphernalia.
Contacted by The Gazette on Monday, Krasner declined comment.
Maryland closed key gun show loopholes in the last decade, requiring that
unlicensed gun dealers obtain temporary gun transfer permits to sell handguns
and certain kinds of assault weapons. Maryland laws also requires unlicensed
dealers to conduct background checks and enforce seven-day waiting periods,
just like licensed dealers.
But that's not enough, O'Neil said. If shows continue, promoters should be
required to register them with state and federal authorities, who should also
be made to check dealers' licenses, O'Neil said.
Promoters should also be required to file security plans before shows, O'Neil
said.
"Gun shows and our taxes don't mix well. County fairs create good memories
for families and selling guns at the fairgrounds shouldn't be part of that,"
O'Neil said.
reveals the true end game for MMM and the other gun grabbers. The last four
paragraphs are telling. THEY @$#%^&* LIE! http://www.gazette.net/200039/bethesda/news/26862-1.html
Gun control group plans to protest
by Myra Mensh Patner
Staff Writer
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Sep. 27, 2000
A newly created chapter of the Million Mom March plans to organize a
demonstration against gun shows at the Montgomery County fairgrounds on Oct.
21 and 22, when the next show is scheduled to take place.
"We object to the fact that tax dollars help support the Montgomery County
fairgrounds while there are gun shows there," said Tierney O'Neil of Chevy
Chase, who organized the Montgomery County chapter of the Million Mom March.
The chapter is one of about three dozen chapters that have sprung up around
the United States since the Million Mom March in May, when about 800,000
people marched on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to show support for
tighter gun control.
Organizers of that event created a national nonprofit group based in San
Francisco with the goal of keeping the momentum established during the May
demonstration.
After learning from a Sept. 13 Gazette article that biannual gun shows have
taken place for a decade at the Montgomery County Agricultural Center and
Fairgrounds in Gaithersburg, O'Neil raised the topic at the local chapter
meeting on Sunday.
The 25 people at the meeting voted unanimously to stage a protest at the
fairgrounds' entrance.
JoAnne Leatherman, executive director of the Montgomery County Agricultural
Center and Fairgrounds, referred calls to attorney James Clifford of the
Gaithersburg firm of Debelius, Clifford & Debelius. He did not return calls.
The 59-acre fairgrounds is owned and operated by a private, nonprofit
organization with an independent board and staff.
The fact that in the past two years, the fairgrounds has received more than
$700,000 in state, county and City of Gaithersburg funding for renovations
has prompted some people to say that the public should have a say in whether
gun shows should take place on the fairgrounds.
County Councilman Blair G. Ewing (D-At large) of Silver Spring plans to hold
a public discussion on whether the fairgrounds, or any place in the county
that receives public money, should be the setting for gun shows.
O'Neil said her group plans to offer Ewing and other politicians a petition
objecting to public funding for the fairgrounds as long gun shows take place
there.
Some counties around the United States have moved to stop gun shows at
fairgrounds. Last year, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed an
ordinance banning gun and ammunition sales on county-owned property.
After gun show promoters obtained an injunction that stopped the ordinance
from taking effect, the fair operator -- a private group that leases the
fairgrounds from Los Angeles County -- continued renting to several gun show
organizers.
Later in the year, however, the Los Angeles fairground operator did not renew
gun show contracts and the shows ended at the fairgrounds. A trial is
expected on the challenge to the ordinance.
Councilman Ewing's legislative aide attended Sunday's Million Mom March
meeting in Chevy Chase as did Del. William A. Bronrott (D-Dist. 16) of
Bethesda, who is a member of the Million Mom March organization.
It is Bronrott's cousin, Frank Krasner, who for a decade has been the
promoter of the county's two gun shows at the fairgrounds. Krasner's company,
Silverado Promotions, also holds gun shows at the Frederick County and Howard
County fairgrounds, as well as in Prince George's and Wicomico counties.
Krasner, who has scheduled a second Montgomery fairgrounds show for Jan. 6-7,
features new and antique firearms, handguns, rifles, shotguns, military
hardware, assault weapons, bows and arrows, knives, ammunition, holsters and
other gun paraphernalia.
Contacted by The Gazette on Monday, Krasner declined comment.
Maryland closed key gun show loopholes in the last decade, requiring that
unlicensed gun dealers obtain temporary gun transfer permits to sell handguns
and certain kinds of assault weapons. Maryland laws also requires unlicensed
dealers to conduct background checks and enforce seven-day waiting periods,
just like licensed dealers.
But that's not enough, O'Neil said. If shows continue, promoters should be
required to register them with state and federal authorities, who should also
be made to check dealers' licenses, O'Neil said.
Promoters should also be required to file security plans before shows, O'Neil
said.
"Gun shows and our taxes don't mix well. County fairs create good memories
for families and selling guns at the fairgrounds shouldn't be part of that,"
O'Neil said.