Eight days after the massacre of 20
first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary, where each child was shot with a
Bushmaster .223, The Nation's Gun Show, the biggest east of the Mississippi,
opened.
"A line already snaked around the
building shortly after the three-day event began at 3 p.m., and the parking lot
was jammed" at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Va., wrote Justin
Jouvenal of The Washington Post:
"With an AK-47 slung over one
shoulder, Marco Hernandez offered one word when asked why he was in the
overflow crowd at the gun show."
"Obama," he said. "I
wouldn't be here if it weren't for the possible gun ban."
And this is the story across America
since Sandy Hook.
The weapon most in demand at Chantilly?
The AR-15 black rifle, a version of
which was used to slaughter the innocents in Newtown. At Chantilly, their price
doubled in hours to $1,800. Gun stores have sold out their inventory.
Yet for weeks after Sandy Hook,
journalists and politicians from the president to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who
were making the case for a new assault weapons ban, dominated the airwaves.
Those calling for reinstatement of the ban that was in effect from 1994 to 2004
had the national audience almost entirely to themselves.
The National Rifle Association was
largely silent. Not until nine…
Source: Town Hall
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