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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 09:28 PM Jan 2019

Gun show operators file lawsuit against board that oversees state-owned Del Mar Fairgrounds

The family-owned company that operates the Crossroads of the West gun show filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Del Mar Fairgrounds, challenging its suspension of the weekend event that has been held there for more than 30 years.

The 22nd District Agricultural Association board of directors, which oversees activities at the state-owned fairgrounds, voted to stop the shows after December until staff members develop a policy that could ban the sale and possession of firearms on the property.

Any decision in the case is likely to take years and have far-reaching effects.

Gun-show owners Russell and Ann Sallie Nordyke filed suit against Alameda County after it banned weapons from the public fairgrounds there in 1999. That case went on for more than 12 years and cost millions of dollars in legal fees before a settlement reached through mediation allowed guns if they were secured to exhibit tables with wire cables.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-no-gun-show-lawsuit-20190122-story.html

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Gun show operators file lawsuit against board that oversees state-owned Del Mar Fairgrounds (Original Post) Zorro Jan 2019 OP
I hope they go bankrupt from all the lawsuits they are filing. BigmanPigman Jan 2019 #1
Recommended. guillaumeb Jan 2019 #2
And Just Maybe The River Jan 2019 #3
Do they love their guns that much? BigmanPigman Jan 2019 #4
Let's find out how much Russian money the Nordyke's get each year for their cause. TeamPooka Jan 2019 #5

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
1. I hope they go bankrupt from all the lawsuits they are filing.
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 09:33 PM
Jan 2019

If it takes years to resolve maybe fewer people will be buying guns via the Del Mar Fairgrounds until then and that is fine with me!

The River

(2,615 posts)
3. And Just Maybe
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 12:49 AM
Jan 2019

when the lawsuit is shot down and settled,
all the hard-core gun nuts will leave the state in protest.

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