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Technosavant · May 13, 2013, 08:01 PM

Bart, it goes back to the brew-up over the no longer politically acceptable AR-15 in the aftermath of Sandy Hook. Reed Exhibitions also put on the Eastern Sports show, and they prohibited makers from bringing AR pattern rifles (as well as other eeeeeevil modern autoloaders) to that one, causing many makers to pull out of the show (S&W led the parade, but a rather significant number of attendees bailed on the show, basically killing it, IIRC).

Reed also was the promoter for SHOT, but as you can imagine, if they are going to prohibit such things it's going to pretty much end the "shooting" part of SHOT.

May 13, 2013, 08:01 PM	#3
Technosavant Senior Member Join Date: May 29, 2007 Location: St. Louis, MO area Posts: 4,040	Bart, it goes back to the brew-up over the no longer politically acceptable AR-15 in the aftermath of Sandy Hook. Reed Exhibitions also put on the Eastern Sports show, and they prohibited makers from bringing AR pattern rifles (as well as other eeeeeevil modern autoloaders) to that one, causing many makers to pull out of the show (S&W led the parade, but a rather significant number of attendees bailed on the show, basically killing it, IIRC). Reed also was the promoter for SHOT, but as you can imagine, if they are going to prohibit such things it's going to pretty much end the "shooting" part of SHOT.