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Suburban Chicago Sportsman's Show Won't Allow AR-15s

The Pioneer Valley Sportsman's Association has also agreed to prevent vendors from selling bump stocks

A group holding a sportsman's show this weekend at the DuPage County Fairgrounds has agreed not to raffle off or sell any AR-15 semi-automatic weapons.

The Pioneer Valley Sportsman's Association has also agreed to prevent vendors from selling bump stocks or any other attachments that make semi-automatic weapon shoot faster, the Naperville Sun reported.

Sunday's Sportsman's Show in Wheaton is being held days after the massacre at a Florida high school in which 17 people killed with an AR-15 assault rifle.

But the manager of the fairgrounds, Jim McGuire, said he started talking to the show's organizers about preventing a raffle or sales of the weapons after a gunman armed with similar weapons killed 58 people and injured hundreds more at a Las Vegas Music festival.

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