Sigma40, The gun show being held at The Red Barn in Evansville this weekend was shut down Saturday evening by the Rock County Sheriff. I've heard that a local resident complained about the noise and traffic and Sheriff Spoden found a loophole in their liquor license (class B, I think) which prohibits establishments from running any other kind of business on the premises. Due to the bar building being connected to the display hall building, they are in violation. If they had the more expensive class C liquor license, there would not be grounds for the sheriff to shut the show down. I was told the owner of the Red Barn thinks this will probably put him out of business.

I've been attending gun shows at The Red Barn for well over 3 decades. I don't know if this was started by a generic idiot - the type that builds a home in the rural farming country and then complains about the smell of chickens and pigs, the type that buys a home in a sub-division next to an airport and then complains about the jet noise, or if this was started by an anti-gun jerk, forcing the Sheriff to take action. I was at the show yesterday afternoon, and it was packed. People were parking on the road as the parking lot was full. It wasn't noisy and everyone arriving and leaving when I did was driving very cautiously due to the crowded parking.

I also heard that other gun shows conducted at similar establishments are going to be checked, but I have no confirmation of that. I haven't seen it reported in the news yet, but I did drive over there this morning and found a nearly empty hall with the last couple of dealers still packing up.

If the owner of The Red Barn hasn't thrown in the towel on doing business in Evansville, I'd like to know what he might think of a fund drive to get his liquor license and/or whatever other conditions need to be met to allow him to continue to have gun shows (and other types of shows) at his location. It's a conveniently short drive from Janesville and a nice location for smaller shows of any type, not just gun shows.

Other than what I observed at the show yesterday, this is all second-hand information. I was not present when the show was shut down. It will be interesting to read the news coverage of this incident.

Evansville gun show was shut down by Rock County Sheriffs dept last night. Anyone know why?

This is what liberals want to stop, parents protecting their families...pathetic.

"LOGANVILLE, Ga. — A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety Friday.

The incident happened at a home on Henderson Ridge Lane in Loganville around 1 p.m. The woman was working in an upstairs office when she spotted a strange man outside a window, according to Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman. He said she took her 9-year-old twins to a crawlspace before the man broke in using a crowbar.

But the man eventually found the family.

"The perpetrator opens that door. Of course, at that time he's staring at her, her two children and a .38 revolver," Chapman told Channel 2’s Kerry Kavanaugh.

The woman then shot him five times, but he survived, Chapman said. He said the woman ran out of bullets but threatened to shoot the intruder if he moved."
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/wom...

Typical liberal reaction nvgrf, support aborting children but rage against an object used by criminals instead of focusing on the criminals. More faux left fringe outrage.

Mooshoo, after you manage to convince us that you really do own an AK-47, we might consider your suggestions for licensing guns like cars. Of course, you will have to let gun-owners have 5th, 6th, 11th and 12th convictions of wrongfully shooting someone, the way drunk drivers are getting repeatedly let off with little jail time, before we would consider voting for changes in the gun laws.

I was at the gun show at The Red Barn in Evansville today. The parking lot was full and dozens of cars were parking on the street. The display area was packed with people and numerous AR-15 style rifles and hi-capacity pistols were in sight. It was nice to see at least one sector of the American economy is Booming (pun intended).

The show is open again tomorrow from 9:00am to 3:00pm. http://gunandknifeshowfinder.com/events/...

LOL RAF refers to stronger gun control as a "knee jerk reaction" to the recent slaughter of children. Has this guy been asleep for the last umpteen years while calls for stronger gun control measures rang out across the nation? LOL

Just another day in America. Imagine the crime rate with gun free civilians....the sandy hook incident would be like a disney movie compared to how this country would be.

"Police: 4 dead, including gunman, in Aurora, Colo., hostage situation" More celebration of the 2nd ammendment.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/...

AR15 in .223 The most popular Coyote Rifle Ever Made

Yep Might as well cancel the Gun show cause there wont be any AR 15 for sale there under $1200.00 and those 30 rounders are gonna run ya $80 & up .

Mooshoo.....you are the moron do you think by banning guns that criminals won't have them?? Also how many idiots drive around with no license no insurance ect. You can put as many safeguards in place as you want if someone wants to get something they are going to get it no matter what.....news flash criminals don't obey the law. How are guns the problem the problem is the stupid ass people that chose to go insane. People are to quick to put the blame on someone our something else......

RetiredAirForce
as to your point; far more children drown in bathtubs each year..we need to ban the tubs it will save many lives..

carlitosway
"and do not belong in the hands of citizens."
too late.they already are..
and people are buying them up like hotcakes...
as we type...

carlitosway, where in any of those links did you prove my comment and source were wrong? All three articles showed that gun sales are up, but none of them showed that new gun owners were increasing. One article made a comment about one new gun owner, but that was the only reference to it.

So my comment is deleted because i said the whole sandy hook shooting was staged??? Why? People do your own research and see... dont just take what the media feeds you. Make your own decisions and quit being sheeple.

And if you listen to our WI Attorney General who does not want to have a "KNEE-JERK" reaction on gun laws due to the Newtown shooting.
"Attorney General Questions Needs For New Gun Laws"
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepoliti...

"NRA Awards Scott Walker For Pushing Concealed Guns And The ALEC Related CASTLE DOCTRINE"

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/04/1145...

"NRA Put Big Money In Walker Campaign"
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquart...

Don't forget requiring insurance for guns.

Carlitosway, the ar-15 functions no differently than any other semi auto hunting rifle, one bullet for every pull of the trigger. They don't like them because they look scary, cosmetics. And if I have to defend my life with a fire arm, I want more than 5 rounds!!!! You would to.

Gun owners need to keep there guns locked up when they are not using them. fine example in new town where the boy had access to these guns and killed the gun owner. now you will say what good is a gun if you have to unlock the case for a break in. I believe the gun owner will have plenty of time to retreive the gun from the case besides does the gun owner always carry his or her gun on them at all times. If so sick people would not have access to the guns

We don't blame cars for drunk driving deaths do we??

http://www.gunpolicy.org

http://www.lewrockwell.com/green-p/green...

Sigma40 pathetic you are as to your comment Assault weapons and multi clips are of no purpose and should be ban They are not a weapon for anything but Mass murders and do not belong in the hands of citizens.

*use* not yse

concernedwi well your comment is untrue and please yse sites that do not favor guns, here is a few sites that say different,, http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Gun-.... http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-.... http://news.yahoo.com/record-gun-sales-d...

Janesvillecomments, you are wrong. While gun sales have increased, the amount of households with guns have decreased. What that means is that less people are buying more guns.

http://www.dw.de/fewer-americans-own-mor...

The gun show organizers were mistaken to bar AR-15 style firearms. If the sight of military design firearms bother you, don't go to a gun show! I hope the Waterbury, Connecticut, police chief winds up in court over halting the issue of gun show permits.

Back in 2008, the prospect of having Billary or Bama as president caused such a massive buy-out of existing gun and ammunition supplies by newbies that many regular shooters couldn't buy target or recreational shooting ammunition for months. The prospect of 4 more years of Obama socialism and GOP dithering are causing more former non-gun-owners to buy firearms and ammunition to get a sense of self-determination in their personal security. It's more apparent than ever that those controlling our nation's government have no self-control and no concern and/or clue that they are spending and legislating America to death. It's bad enough when some middle school drop-out spouts drivel about "free" Federal money. It's terrifying when your Congressional Representatives, Senators, and President (nearly all college graduates and lawyers) do so term after term.

"Gun shows face new scrutiny after school shooting"

Another fine "journalistic" piece by a fine "news" organization.

Let us speak of gun shows and the Newton school mass murder by a madman in the same sentence, to imply that gun shows and the mass murder were in any way related.

Let's conveniently ignore the fact that the firearms used by the mentally ill mass murderer were stolen from the legal owner after the mentally ill mass murderer murdered said rightful, legal owner.

You see, the leftists, liberals, and "news" media has an ongoing thing about gun shows, they can't stand to think that rightful legal owners of firearms are able to sell a firearm to another law abiding citizen in a totally legal manner.

The left has been after this so called "gun show loophole" for decades. They are so morally bankrupt that they will not hesitate to dance in the blood pools of innocent victims to advance their agendas. Nasty, nasty people, and they're ignorant too.

JozeMozes I agree on both the stats and morality comments. I shudder at the knee-jerk reaction to events instead of looking at the root cause. The idea that evil can be controlled in our country by a new law remains a laughable proposition.

Almost RAF, the UCR stats are misleading at times in how they are reported. Rifle could mean of the hunting variety in certain jurisdictions while Assault Weapons might be classified Other
guns or type not stated. Regardless the disease is in the human mind and not the implement. Pandora's box.
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With that said the ONLY way we will ever come to any type of responsible legislation is through that scientific process. Why then are politicians once again doing the knee jerk mommy fix routine? I call for a consortium of well respected sociologists take a deeper look into how and why we kill one another and what the meek can do to protect themselves without the tools for the task at hand.

"ought not be published in any serious work of journalism"

That is why you are able to read it on gazetteextra.com.

Sunshine time. In 2011, 323 murders committed in this country used a rifle while 496 murders were committed with hammers and clubs. Wonder why the folks wanting more gun control don't want registrations for hammer purchases...

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/cri...

Those guns and 'large clips" wont be there cause THEY ARE ALL SOLD OUT OF THEM.

How can a supposed leader in a community make a remark as careless as that? "...the majority of people wanted these guns out of the city." Bollocks!
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Unless he has results of a bonafide survey, using scientific method, the result of which show that most of the citizens do, in fact want "...these guns out of the city.", the man is just spewing hyperbole to pander to a certain demographic in his area.
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For all any reader might know, Mathiesen might well be remarking about the people in his bridge club, using that "survey" to bolster his own bias.
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For any position you and I might take, on any given topic, comments that lack substance such as this, ought not be published in any serious work of journalism. It's simply emotion, devoid of reason and fact.