Syracuse.com - Gun show set for Sept. 14, 15 at the New York State Fairgrounds

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Show organizers tout it as "the biggest show" in the state, and note this year it's celebrating its 50th anniversary in Syracuse.

Jim Noll of Rochester at right gets his Winchester 22 caliber rifle tagged by a gun checker before entering the April 2013 Gun Show held in the Center of Progress at the fairgrounds.Mike Greenlar | [email protected] 

The annual fall gun show hosted by the New York State Arms Collectors Association is set for Sept. 14 and 15 in the Center of Progress Building at the New York State Fairgrounds.

Show organizers tout it as "the biggest show" in the state, and note this year it's celebrating its 50th anniversary in Syracuse.

"More than 1,000 tables featuring things for sale, exhibits and displays will be provided by our collectors and dealers from all over the United States and Canada," said Sandy Ackerman, the show's manager.

Ackerman said the show will feature displays and tables on U.S. Military arms, Colt revolvers, high-grade double barrel shotguns, Remingtons, muskets, Smith and Wesson firearms, Kentucky rifles, gun parts and accessories, Native American items, frontier and western paraphenalia, swords, Springfields, Winchesters, bowie knives, powder horms, civilian and military weapons from many nations, custom-made and factory-made knives, military relics and equipment from before the Revolutionary War to the present.

Admission is $6 per day, $5 for senior citizens and children under 12, with parents, free. The show will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 14, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 15.

The show will follow "Model Gun Show Procedures" announced earlier this year by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Ackerman said. The procedures were followed without problems at spring gun shows held this year by Ackerman's group at the state fairgrounds and at the Empire State Plaza in Albany.

The procedures include a rule that ensures all guns brought into the show by private sellers are tagged so that the show operator can determine whether those guns were sold and a proper background check performed before the weapons leave the premises.

The procedures also require gun show operators to:

- Post conspicuous signs throughout the shows and give written notice to all dealers that state law requires a National instant Criminal Background Check be completed before the transfer of a gun at a show.

- Provide access to a dealer who is authorized to conduct such a background check at cost.

- Limit the number of access doors at the show so sellers and buyers have to enter and exit through an area where the NICS procedures can be monitored.

- Use reasonable means to prevent illegal gun sales outside of the building, including the parking lot.

- Alert law enforcement that a show will be held in the area, request periodic patrols in the parking lots to deter illegal sales and call law enforcement if illegal sales are observed or suspected.

For further information, call Ackerman from 1 to 6 p.m. at 607-748-1010.

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