I’m one to stand up for freedoms, but this is just common sense.” “Immediately I was horrified, I had no idea that was being sold,” Mark Lynn, chairman of the Kentucky State Fair Board, told The Courier Journal after the photographs were published.
Previous coverage: Nazi Christmas ornaments and KKK robe sold at Louisville gun show Those photographs sparked outrage by some in the community, who noted the timing of the 2018 gun show: Three days after Gregory Bush allegedly gunned down a Black man and woman outside a Jeffersontown Kroger and on the same day a white supremacist killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue. “We’re gonna have a great show,” Dickson told a reporter before refusing to answer additional questions. The show’s manager, Ron Dickson, declined to speak with a reporter when reached by phone last week, saying he was angry about photographs published by The Courier Journal in 2018 that showed vendors selling or displaying racist memorabilia, including a KKK robe and glittery Nazi Christmas ornaments.
The plan, obtained by the Courier Journal through a public records request, states face masks will be required for all attendees and “additional staff will be patrolling the facility to help remind everyone” of that requirement.Īisles will be added and widened, hand sanitizer stations will be placed throughout the area and attendees will be required to give their names and phone numbers before entering, presumably to help with contact tracing in the event someone tests positive for the virus. The show will be held in the Expo Center’s 218,000-square-foot North Wing, roughly double the space needed to comply with state health guidelines of 36 square feet per person, according to the plan submitted by the gun show and the Kentucky Exposition Center. 3 and 4, advertising 1,650 tables of firearms and accessories sold by vendors from across the country. The National Gun Day show is expected to draw 2,000 to 3,000 people over two days, Oct. It's the second billboard in the same stretch of freeway to be targeted since the Florida school shooting, as well as a school shooting in Marshall County, Kentucky, in January that left two people dead.Īs of this writing, it remains unclear who is responsible for hanging the crosses from the billboard, but the Courier Journal reports other incidents in the area over the last year, including some by an individual or group tagging billboards with the phrase "Resist 45" and "Kill the NRA."Īs of this writing, it remains unclear who is responsible for hanging the crosses from the billboard, but the Courier Journal reports other incidents in the area over the last year, including some by an individual or group tagging billboards with the phrase "Resist 45" and "Kill the NRA.Watch Video: KKK, Nazi memorabilia were sold at a Kentucky gun showĪ Louisville gun show at the center of controversy two years ago when vendors sold Nazi Christmas ornaments and a Ku Klux Klan robe is set to return to the Kentucky Expo Center in October after its coronavirus-safety plan was approved by Governor Andy Beshear’s office. The company that owns the billboard, Outfront Media, and the Kentucky Exposition Center did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment sent Sunday morning. The names and ages of the victims of the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, are written in black text on the crosses. The billboard was advertising the "National Gun Day Gun Show," an enormous weapons expo that brags being "the size of three football fields," which has a home in Louisville.Īccording the Louisville Courier Journal: Just days ahead of a national day of action planned in response to last month's mass shooting that left 17 people dead at a high school in Florida, gun control advocates in Kentucky overnight hung 17 crosses-each marked with the name of one of the victims-from a large billboard in Louisville advertising one of the nation's largest gun shows.
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