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Cow Palace will end gun shows after 2019


The Cow Palace will no longer host gun shows after this year, but the move has not quelled a legislative effort to replace the leadership at the arena and potentially redevelop the property.

Following years of community activism against the gun shows, which bring thousands of buyers and sellers to the Daly City event center five times a year, the governing board of the Cow Palace voted Tuesday not to hold shows after 2019, when a contract with the exhibitor Crossroads of the West expires.

Lori Marshall, chief executive officer of the Cow Palace, said in a statement that the decision was “mindful, although not necessarily governed by,” bans on gun shows in surrounding cities and counties.

“This action in no way shall be taken to indicate that the board has found there to be any improprieties on the part of the promoters of past gun shows,” she said.

Gun-control groups ramped up their protests against the events after the February 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., that killed 14 students and three staffers.

Activists argue that the gun shows glorify violence for children, who receive free admission until age 12, and that state agencies should not “facilitate or profit from the proliferation of firearms.”

The Cow Palace, which was built in 1941 to provide a pavilion for livestock exhibitions, operates under the California Department of Food and Agriculture and its board is appointed by the governor. All seven current directors were named to the panel by former Gov. Jerry Brown.

The Cow Palace board has also been under pressure because of a bill to prohibit gun and ammunition sales at the venue, which is moving through the Legislature this session. Similar proposals have been vetoed three times in the past decade, but Gov. Gavin Newsom endorsed a ban in 2007, when he was mayor of San Francisco.

Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, still intends to pursue his measure, SB281, which would also transfer control of the Cow Palace to a joint powers authority consisting of San Francisco, Daly City and San Mateo County. The new agency would be charged with redeveloping the 68-acre property for housing and commercial space, though it could leave the arena in operation.

Victor Ruiz-Cornejo, a spokesman for Wiener, said it was important to replace the board to prevent future officials from going back on the ban.

“It shouldn’t take this kind of action to get the board to listen to the local community,” Ruiz-Cornejo said.



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More time available for the hemp and tattoo shows! w00t!

Hopefully they rename the place, the current name doesn't sound like it supports the green new deal at all.
No cow pie palace
Methane free palace

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“facilitate or profit from the proliferation of firearms.

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IIRC, California taxes the shit out of guns and ammunition. Been to this show many times. Used to be good, but then, CA used to be good, too.

A couple of places up here have made gunshows non-grata. Riley Rink at Hunter Park (town owned) in Manchester Center, VT, tossed the NEACA shows after the whole Fair Haven "threat" in 2/18. Great venue they'd been renting for years but apparently contracts mean nothing.

More recently a non-profit that runs a rink in Keene, NH, (college town) reneged on a deal with New England Events for a gunshow there. Board initially in favor but apparently one "influential" ($$$?) board member bullied the rest to deny the rental.

wow, I remember going to gun shows there about 30 years ago. At the time, it was one of the best around.

Gun shows are only for free States.

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Originally posted by smschulz:
Gun shows are only for free States.

When I lived in CA, it was kind of a pain, because with the 15 day waiting period, one had to buy the gun, and then somehow catch up to the dealer 15 days later, and many didn't have a shop or storefront.

But it was good for accessories, Mags, holsters, and all kinds of other stuff that didn't need a waiting period. Dare I say.... Beef Jerky

There was an Ammo reloading outfit called Load-X. Sold ammo cheap in plastic bags with yellow labels. I bought tens of thousands of rounds from them at the time.

Just wondering, but with all the restrictions in Cali what is the big draw to the gunshows, ie, when you go what things do you go to see and what gets the endorphins running for it?

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Originally posted by hambony:
Just wondering, but with all the restrictions in Cali what is the big draw to the gunshows, ie, when you go what things do you go to see and what gets the endorphins running for it?

It's like a teenage Saturday night - fondling stuff and beef jerky.

Banning gun shows should effectively fix every single problem the citizens of San Francisco face today. I’m glad they finally figured out what they needed to do.

The Dems in Cali are banning everything they can that revolves around guns. However the NRA and Cali. Rifle and Pistol Assoc. are battling them in the courts and are winning. Takes a while, but with Trump nominating conservative justices to the 9th Circuit, and the Supreme court now being reasonable. the days of the GDCs running roughshod over California residents may be over.

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Originally posted by c1steve:
The Dems in Cali are banning everything they can that revolves around guns. However the NRA and Cali. Rifle and Pistol Assoc. are battling them in the courts and are winning. Takes a while, but with Trump nominating conservative justices to the 9th Circuit, and the Supreme court now being reasonable. the days of the GDCs running roughshod over California residents may be over.

The problem is all these court cases cost the NRA, CRPA and ultimately the gunowner a lot of cash. Think about the hourly cost of a lawyer, and you realize that getting something done is at an enormous cost.

Problem is the lawmakers know this and are willing to put forth unconstitutional crap knowing to costs involved to the gunowner. And it costs them NOTHING.

sucks big time.

I went to the last last Gun Show at the Cow Palace.

This was the first gun show that I had ever attended.

I was underwhelmed and disappointed at the selection of goods...

If you were looking to build your own rifle and needed an upper you might have been in luck. NO LOWERS to be found.

Another crazy thing is that the Cow Palace is in Daly City. It's not even in SF city limits. SF owns the land. SF owns a lot of land in the surrounding Bay Area and they bully the cities with their polices.

My town that is about 45 minutes East of SF got into a tussle with SF over a plot of land they own in our city limits. They wanted to build a bunch of high density "Affordable Housing" units on the land.

We were able to block the move by buying the land from them.

Yah, I know California sucks...