Gun show watch
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a district judge was wrong in ruling that a county law that prohibited a gun show in Maryland should be struck down.
The law, passed by the county council in May 2001, denies county support to any organization that “allows the display and sale of guns” at one of its facilities.
The case began in the spring of 2001 when Frank Krasner, owner of Silverado Promotions, applied to host his biannual gun show at the Montgomery County (Md.) Agricultural Center. The center turned him down, saying that under a new county law, it would lose county money if it approved the show.
But county attorneys argued that only the agriculture center was affected by the threat of lost funds, and only it had a right to sue — not the gun groups.
One bright spot was that gun shows have continued in the county.
