Posted by Phil Lee (216.250.238.34) on October 06, 2000 at 20:37:
Fairgrounds officials, state lawmakers to talk about gun shows
by Myra Mensh Patner, Montgomery Gazette
Staff Writer, Oct. 6, 2000
...
State legislators attracted the attention of Montgomery County fairgrounds officials this week with aggressive letters calling for an end to gun shows at the fairgrounds.
But now Teitelbaum (D-Dist. 19) of Silver Spring, Sen. Brian E. Frosh (D-Dist. 16) of Chevy Chase and others are saying they would have blocked a $400,000 bond bill for the fairgrounds two years ago if they had known about the gun shows.
"I am extremely unhappy that public money has gone to an institution which, by hosting gun shows, encourages the proliferation of firearms in our State," wrote Frosh in a letter to Ron Magaha, president of the board of the fairgrounds.
Frosh also wrote: "In 1998, I joined six other Senators in sponsoring a bond bill ... Coincidentally, that same year, firearms accounted for 339 murders in Maryland and figured in 4,407 aggravated assaults."
...
for complete story see: www.mcrkba.org/LeonardHTeitelbaum/2.html