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Gun show to make first stop since fatal accident
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Gun show to make first stop since fatal accident
Associated Press
GAINESVILLE -- A traveling gun show will make its first stop this weekend since a 13-year-old Alabama boy was accidentally shot and killed at a show in Gwinnett County.
Matt Eastman, president of Eastman Gun Shows, will bring his show to the Georgia Mountains Center on Saturday. Gun enthusiasts will gather for 15 hours over two days.
It was at an Eastman show in Norcross on July 14 that Steven Bray King of Prattville, Ala., was shot in the head with a single bullet from a .38-caliber revolver. He died later at an Atlanta hospital.
Police have said they may never know who pulled the trigger -- the boy's father or a Florida man who was selling holsters at the show.
"Nothing like that has ever happened in any gun show," Eastman said. "We all pray it will never happen again."
The Gwinnett shooting caused no policy changes at the Gainesville center, City Manager Carlyle Cox said. He said liability for the Gainesville show rests with Eastman's company, which is leasing the center.
Eastman's attorney, Joe Wargo of Atlanta, said it was too early to tell what impact the shooting would have on his client.
"I don't see why it would have an impact on the gun show," he said. "There's no indication whatsoever Eastman Gun Show is run inappropriately. In fact, it's to the contrary. Our discussions with police confirmed not only do they have rules in place to avoid such incidents, but the rules are enforced."
Promoters of events like the gun show buy event insurance, including liability coverage, said Carl Rogers, vice president of Turner, Wood and Smith Insurance Center in Gainesville.
He said the shooting in Gwinnett caused insurers to rethink premiums.
"It sent shock waves throughout the country," he said.
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/0702/26gunshow.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Associated Press
GAINESVILLE -- A traveling gun show will make its first stop this weekend since a 13-year-old Alabama boy was accidentally shot and killed at a show in Gwinnett County.
Matt Eastman, president of Eastman Gun Shows, will bring his show to the Georgia Mountains Center on Saturday. Gun enthusiasts will gather for 15 hours over two days.
It was at an Eastman show in Norcross on July 14 that Steven Bray King of Prattville, Ala., was shot in the head with a single bullet from a .38-caliber revolver. He died later at an Atlanta hospital.
Police have said they may never know who pulled the trigger -- the boy's father or a Florida man who was selling holsters at the show.
"Nothing like that has ever happened in any gun show," Eastman said. "We all pray it will never happen again."
The Gwinnett shooting caused no policy changes at the Gainesville center, City Manager Carlyle Cox said. He said liability for the Gainesville show rests with Eastman's company, which is leasing the center.
Eastman's attorney, Joe Wargo of Atlanta, said it was too early to tell what impact the shooting would have on his client.
"I don't see why it would have an impact on the gun show," he said. "There's no indication whatsoever Eastman Gun Show is run inappropriately. In fact, it's to the contrary. Our discussions with police confirmed not only do they have rules in place to avoid such incidents, but the rules are enforced."
Promoters of events like the gun show buy event insurance, including liability coverage, said Carl Rogers, vice president of Turner, Wood and Smith Insurance Center in Gainesville.
He said the shooting in Gwinnett caused insurers to rethink premiums.
"It sent shock waves throughout the country," he said.
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/0702/26gunshow.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878