Indy quietly booked NRA convention
Source: Indy Star
Indianapolis tourism officials expect to host one of the largest conventions in city history this April when more than 70,000 National Rifle Association members arrive for three days of gun-rights strategizing, country music and one of the nation’s largest gun and ammo exhibits.
Didn’t know about it?
No surprise. Visit Indy, the city’s tourism arm, normally promotes its convention bookings. But it has yet to publicize the NRA gathering — an event that in other cities has sparked public protests, tight police security and calls to go elsewhere.
Visit Indy spokesman Chris Gahl said Visit Indy and the NRA wanted to announce the April 25-27 Indianapolis convention in 2010 when it was booked but couldn’t get all top officials of both groups together to do it. Once that initial announcement didn’t happen, Gahl said, Visit Indy tried several times to get clear direction from the NRA on when to announce the convention. Finally, late last year, the NRA suggested sending out a public release in early February, Gahl said.
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The shameful pariah known as the NRA is beginning to crawl into the shadows they deserve.
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70,000 gun nuts here in one place. Lovely. 
... they need to move that Mason-Dixon Line up over the Indiana. The KKK was prominent there back in the day, and it still is a bastion of bigotry. Don't ask me why I relate the NRA the the KKK, but I always have. 
