Gun show owner, police at odds over recommendations

Tony Plohetski
AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

An Austin police effort to curtail the illegal sales of firearms at a weekend gun show sparked an angry response from the event’s organizer and raised concerns about whether the department overstepped its authority.

Several police recommendations about the operation of the show were intended to curtail crime there and should not have been viewed as requirements, authorities said Tuesday.

But the show organizer said he thought that law enforcement officials were instructing him to adopt rules that violated state and federal law, including a requirement that only licensed gun dealers be allowed to sell firearms. He said he begrudgingly enforced the recommendations.

The dispute, which began late last week, has since sparked a controversy that is playing out on Web sites and radio talk shows.

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