Texas Gun Show Closed For Refusing Private BCs

[gun sane]

Since they couldn't get legislation passed for private sale background checks, the anti-gunners are doing it another way.

 

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/gun-show-at-travis-county-expo-center-will-be-no-m/ncfQL/

[RobertNashville]

I suspect that the county's refusal to budge will hurt them FAR more (financially)  than it will hurt the gun show owners/promoters. 

[enfield]

Austin - that says it all.

[QuietDan]

I've been to the Saxet (Texas spelled backwards) Gun Shows in San Antonio. They're pretty good.

 

There are plenty of small towns near Austin that would be glad to host a Saxet Gun Show, Buda perhaps, and other places. It's a loss for Austinites, and no others.

[RobertNashville]

Austin - that says it all.

Yuup...as a city it's as progressive/liberal as any in the country so their taking this action really isn't surprising at all.

[bersaguy]

I'm sure there are many privately own properties that are large enough to allow a gun show to be held that will be stepping up to the plate and they will be the ones that profit from holding the shows that the county will be losing..............jmho

[Worriedman]

Austin is a Liberal enclave surrounded by Texas!

[Oh Shoot]

Austin is a Liberal enclave surrounded by Texas!

 

It's also the capitol, and this is how some states get bent toward liberalism even though the majority of the citizenry is not. Cross reference to Denver, for example.

 

- OS

[QuietDan]

Austin is a liberal enclave because the libs went out of their way to register the 50,000 idiot children at the University of Texas at Austin as dems. Their votes are bought off with bike paths and parks and the developer-influenced City Council runs the city any old way it wants to.

[i1afli]

"If you use a public facility to sell guns, we really oughta have background checks done. Or don’t use the facility,” County Judge Sam Biscoe, the chairman of the commissioners, told reporters after the meeting.

And that's a judge saying that. It's a public facility...that means it belongs to the people. See, you don't need to pass laws before infringing upon people's rights...it's all in how some judge chooses to interpret the existing laws.

[netmindr]

More legislation from the bench.