Baca, Parks Back Ban on Gun Shows
The two top police officials in Los Angeles County announced their support Monday for banning gun shows on county property.
Sheriff Lee Baca and Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard C. Parks joined a majority of the Board of Supervisors at a packed news conference to praise the proposed ordinance, designed to end what is billed as the world’s largest gun show, held four times each year at the county fairgrounds in Pomona.
“L.A. County is not a frontier county anymore,” Baca said.
A majority of supervisors announced Monday that they support the law barring the sale of firearms on county property, which will be formally voted on at today’s meeting. Representatives of Great Western Shows, which runs the event, could not be reached for comment, but in the past have defended the show as legal and safe and vowed to fight the law in court.
“The county of Los Angeles should not be the place you should come to buy a gun,” said Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, who also is proposing a task force to trace the high-powered weaponry used by criminals in Los Angeles.
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