The largest sports and outdoor show in the United States has been postponed indefinitely following severe backlash over a recently enacted policy banning the display and sale of “modern sporting rifles,” or semi-automatic rifles. The Harrisburg Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show was originally scheduled for Feb. 2-10 in Harrisburg, Pa.
To put it into perspective how quickly gun owners pushed back, consider that the new policy was implemented on Monday and just five days later, on Friday, the show was postponed indefinitely amid the outcry.
Reed Exhibitions, the British-based organizer of the event, has not showed any sign of backing down on its ban of “modern sporting rifles.” Chet Burchett, president of Reed Exhibitions for the Americas, released the following statement:
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