{"id":13793,"date":"2013-04-28T08:49:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T15:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=13793"},"modified":"2013-04-28T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T15:49:12","slug":"remember-that-big-outdoor-show-where-the-exhibition-company-banned-ugly-black-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/28\/remember-that-big-outdoor-show-where-the-exhibition-company-banned-ugly-black-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember that big outdoor show where the exhibition company banned ugly black guns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah. You remember how Reed Exhibitions, run by those quivering, politically correct Brits, tried to ban ugly black guns from the huge Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show early this year. They got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2013\/01\/24\/reed-postpones-esos\/\" target=\"_blank\">got clobbered, slammed, obliterated, run out of town<\/a> by gutsy vendors and presenters &#8212; most of whom had nothing to do with the banned items.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fabulous display of unified support for gun rights.<\/p>\n<p>Well, guess what? After Reed &#8220;postponed&#8221; the show, they eventually abandoned it altogether. And the NRA, which had opposed the cowardly ban, took over the show and will be producing it next year under a new name, the Great American Outdoor Show.<\/p>\n<p>Yippee, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Um, not quite. It seems that while the NRA will allow vendors to <i>display<\/i> guns, <a href=\"http:\/\/lancasteronline.com\/article\/ap\/842013_NRA-won-t-allow-sale-of-guns-at-Great-American-Outdoor-Show.html\" target=\"_blank\">there will be no actual, you know, firearm <i>sales<\/i> allowed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Time to give the NRA&#8217;s crippled show the Reed treatment?<\/p>\n<p>(Tip o&#8217; hat to <a href=\"http:\/\/brianwilsonspeaks.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Wilson<\/a>, whose blog I&#8217;m adding to the blogroll as soon as I post this.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah. You remember how Reed Exhibitions, run by those quivering, politically correct Brits, tried to ban ugly black guns from the huge Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show early this year. They got got clobbered, slammed, obliterated, run out of town by gutsy vendors and presenters &#8212; most of whom had nothing to do with the banned items. It was a fabulous display of unified support for gun rights. Well, guess what? After Reed &#8220;postponed&#8221; the show, they eventually abandoned it altogether. And the NRA, which had opposed the cowardly ban, took over the show and will be producing it next&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/28\/remember-that-big-outdoor-show-where-the-exhibition-company-banned-ugly-black-guns\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remember that big outdoor show where the exhibition company banned ugly black guns?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}