Defiant gun dealers ignored protesters and put their wares on sale at a controversial arms expo yesterday just an hour’s drive from the site of the Newtown, Conn., elementary school massacre.
The eighth annual East Coast Fine Arms Show, held at the Stamford Plaza Hotel in Stamford, features about 250 tables and was held despite the objections of Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia, who called it “untimely and insensitive.”
“I don’t see it as a problem, because it’s the person who did it, not the gun,” said vendor Stuart English, 51, who hawks antique guns made before 1899.
“No one shoots up places with antique guns. If it was a modern gun show, I’d say it was insensitive.”
William Vollmer, husband of Sandy Hook Elementary teacher Janet Vollmer, told The Post that the gun display was “in very poor taste.”
Janet Vollmer locked her classroom door, saving 19 young lives, as Lanza rampaged through the school. She and her students survived the attack.