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This story is a bit troubling.

Four gun shows, all about an hour’s drive from Newtown, Conn., all canceled….the venue backed out. Same with three other shows in New York’s Hudson Valley, according to the organizer.

Gun advocates aren’t backing down from their insistence on the right to keep and bear arms. But heightened sensitivities and raw nerves since the Newtown shooting have led to toned-down displays at gun shows and prompted some officials and sponsors to cancel the well-attended exhibitions altogether.

Some of the most popular guns will be missing from next weekend’s gun show in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., after show organizers agreed to bar the display and sale of AR-15 military-style semiautomatic weapons and their large-clip magazines.

“The majority of people wanted these guns out of the city,” said Chris Mathiesen, Saratoga Springs’ public safety commissioner. “They don’t want them sold in our city, and I agree. Newtown, Conn., is not that far away.”

Now shows and venues have the right to cancel or limit what can and can’t be sold. Still what worries me is that this may be controlling the message. No gun show, and no semi-auto rifles? What “Majority” has spoken out about this?

I suspect its all BS and Knee-jerk reactions, and what troubles me is that the uninitiated will think its true.

This is why we need to be out there, talking to people, and spreading the truth.

By Publishing Gun Owner Information:

Lawmakers in Connecticut – still stunned from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting – are moving forward with legislation that could make public the names and addresses of 170,000 handgun permit holders in the state.

The measure, introduced by state Rep. Stephen Dargan, is the latest effort to clamp down on guns in Connecticut. If passed, the bill would reverse a 20-year decision by state lawmakers to keep the personal information confidential. The legislation would make the information fair game under the state’s Freedom of Information Act.

Dargan told FoxNews.com on Friday the measure was not intended to pit gun control activists and pro-gun groups against each other. Instead, it’s “to get a broader discussion going on gun issues and mental health in the state.”

And how might it do that? I hate these laws. First up, its none of your damn business WHAT I own, still I know many people who suddenly got the whole gun ownership thing when they started reviving death threats. Now their threat will know where they live, and what they own.

Also while I haven’t seen any stories about this, I can see criminals using this as a shopping list. It would be no different than publishing the addresses of people who get prescriptions to pain killers. These items have a high street value, and can be assumed are in the home even when the owner is at work.

Here’s another exposure of an anti-gun lie. The big #1 is that they aren’t going to take our guns away. They are. #2 is they want us to be safer…they don’t.