Gun Show to Return to Westchester County Center

WHITE PLAINS, NY — After a four-year hiatus, a gun show will return to the Westchester County Center.

According to the Journal News, Westchester Collectors will come back to White Plains with a sportsman firearm and knife show and sale in January.

Gun shows were banned at the facility after the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado and in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut.

Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner, a Democrat, said he doesn’t think it is appropriate to promote the sale of guns in a government-owned building.

“If people want to purchase guns they should purchase the guns from reputable dealers at privately owned gun shops,” he said in an email.

Feiner said an online petition asking County Executive Robert Astorino, a Republican, to permanently ban all gun shows at the county facility now has more than 3,400 signatures.

County Board of Legislators Chairman Michael Kaplowitz, a Democrat, said it was unacceptable that he had not been informed through official channels that the show had been scheduled when the Journal News contacted him for a comment.

For more details, including the dates of the show and a comment from the county executive’s office, read the complete Journal News article here.

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