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hardcase60
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Today's front page story in the Austin American Statesman. Below is the first half dozen or so paragraphs and the link to the online article is at the bottom.
City of Austin and Travis County officials plan to take steps to ban gun shows on city- and county-owned property — and potentially even curtail them on private property within the city limits, the American-Statesman has learned.
Less than a month after the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting that killed 26 students and staff, Council Member Mike Martinez said he and at least two other council members are considering bringing to a vote this month their unprecedented proposal.
The measure would primarily affect several well-attended gun shows typically held at the Travis County Exposition Center as well as any other city-owned property.
The city owns the land on which the expo center is located, while the county has a long-term lease for the facility.
Travis County commissioners are set to consider a measure at their meeting Tuesday that also would no longer allow gun shows on county land or at county facilities, Commissioner Sarah Eckhardt said.
“This isn’t a silver bullet that is going to solve all of our problems, but this is our way of saying, ‘What we do have control over in terms of the Austin City Council, we should take a proactive stance to not further enable the distribution and sales of guns through public property or through public facilities,’” Martinez said.
Eckhardt said, “It is all that we can do. It is a drop in the bucket, but if everybody does what they can, in aggregate, I think we will have made a difference.”
City, county to consider restricting gun shows | www.statesman.com
Anybody not see this sort of thing coming??
hardcase60
City of Austin and Travis County officials plan to take steps to ban gun shows on city- and county-owned property — and potentially even curtail them on private property within the city limits, the American-Statesman has learned.
Less than a month after the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting that killed 26 students and staff, Council Member Mike Martinez said he and at least two other council members are considering bringing to a vote this month their unprecedented proposal.
The measure would primarily affect several well-attended gun shows typically held at the Travis County Exposition Center as well as any other city-owned property.
The city owns the land on which the expo center is located, while the county has a long-term lease for the facility.
Travis County commissioners are set to consider a measure at their meeting Tuesday that also would no longer allow gun shows on county land or at county facilities, Commissioner Sarah Eckhardt said.
“This isn’t a silver bullet that is going to solve all of our problems, but this is our way of saying, ‘What we do have control over in terms of the Austin City Council, we should take a proactive stance to not further enable the distribution and sales of guns through public property or through public facilities,’” Martinez said.
Eckhardt said, “It is all that we can do. It is a drop in the bucket, but if everybody does what they can, in aggregate, I think we will have made a difference.”
City, county to consider restricting gun shows | www.statesman.com
Anybody not see this sort of thing coming??
hardcase60
