MSI, Chantilly gun show 20-22 Nov

Chantilly does seem to be back in business, the next show will be 20-22 Nov at the Dulles Expo Center in VA. If you are able to volunteer please send an e-mail to events at marylandshallissue with a .org


Chantilly Gun Show
Dulles Expo Center
Friday - Sunday, 20-22 Nov
4320 Chantilly Shopping Center
Chantilly, VA 20153

Show open to the public:
Friday - 1:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Saturday - 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sunday - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM



Friday 20 Nov
1:00 - 5:00 PM
1. ShafTed
2. Mike OTDP
3.
5:00 - 8:00 PM
1. ShafTed
2. Mike OTDP
3.

Saturday 21 Nov
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
1. Biggfoot44
2.
3.

1:00 - 6:00 PM
1. Biggfoot44
2.
3.

Sunday 22 Nov
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
1. Michael B.
2.
3.

1:00 - 5:00 PM
1. ShafTed
2.
3.


If you're a first-timer, there is good info here:

https://www.marylandshallissue.org/...ry/4-public-documents/56-msi-show-primer-2018


Volunteers get free admission to the show. (And there's nothing to prevent a little shopping before or after your shift.) Another thing worth mentioning, some vendors, upon seeing you have a vendor badge, will give a few $$ off a purchase. Not all vendors will do this, but it could be an added bonus for volunteers.

MSI now also has a volunteer incentive program, if you volunteer for a total of four shifts at gun shows (all day Saturday or Sunday counts as two shifts) you will get a FREE membership renewal!

Check it out Folks ! With two shifts on Friday , even more Volunteer opportunities .

E-mail sent. I'm in for Friday.

Thanks, Mike!

Anyone else, especially for Saturday.

The show is definitely ON!

The promoter got the county health department to realize the show is a "retail establishment" and so falls under the same rules as the Walmart across the parking lot.

(Apologies if this doesn't work, I don't do Feces-book and just tried to paste the URL.)

https://www.facebook.com/DullesExpoGunShow/


PS Still plenty of room for volunteers!

Saw something on twitter... is the show shut down again?

It's cancelled

Whiplash, anyone?

It does indeed seem to be cancelled.

https://www.facebook.com/DullesExpoGunShow/posts/3806716979379492?__tn__=-R

Well ain’t that a crock of crap.

Looks like the above could be The Nation's Gun Show at Dulles Expo Center
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Late yesterday Attorney General Mark Herring sent out a press release in response to the lawsuit that we filed in Fairfax county to allow us to open this weekend. He claims that we will be a super spreader, that we have a blatant disregard for the Covid virus, and that we could cause damage to the community. We are simply asking to be open like the Walmart is right across the parking lot from us and other Walmarts all over the state.
If you ever go into any Walmart there is usually an average of 400 people inside at any given time. Let’s say they’re only open 10 hours a day, that means 4,000 people per day. We are open three days and will have 4,000 people, maybe, per day which adds up to 12,000 people for the weekend. That is the same number of people that went through the show in August this year, and we had a third less than that at the show in October.
We just want to be able to operate on the same business model that Walmart is. We are arguing that we be classified as business retail under brick and mortar, and not entertainment and amusement. They are taking a broad brush across the state and labeling all event centers this way. Many people and businesses have been damaged and deemed nonessential. The Nation’s Gun Show is a place where like-minded people can get together to buy, sell and trade firearms, train and learn how to use them safely, which is protected by the 2nd amendment in the United States Constitution as well as the Virginia Constitution. We here at Showmasters still believe in the Constitution.
The Dulles Expo Center is 130,000 sq ft building and the Walmart beside us is an 80,000 sq ft. building, we are 50,000 sq ft. bigger. The Walmart beside us has one giant aisle and the all the rest of the aisles are an average of 6ft or less. We have wider aisles, 14 ft average, so we have more space to social distance. Also, our show and the building management are self-imposing a 50% occupancy limit.
We are bigger and better able to social distance. We limit our occupancy, everyone wears a mask and follows the COVID REQUIREMENTS. We have also had two shows already and have not been a super spreader. All we ask is that we are allowed to operate on the same type of business model and at the same level as the Walmart across the road. We are not entertainment and amusement. We will have at our show roughly the same number of people that will be going through any average Walmart in the state of Virginia and across the country every weekend.
The show takes months to put together and it is too late a notice for most of these businesses to recoup their losses. It will cause irreparable damage to all involved from the building, auxiliary businesses, the exhibitors, the promoter, the hotel, convenience stores, restaurants, and the strip mall. Exhibitors have significant investments in inventory, as do restaurants and convenience stores, much of which cannot be recouped. We will be releasing a GoFundMe and another type of crowdfunding for legal defense expenses.
Annette Elliott
President
Showmasters, Inc.

Yep...cancelled.

another source Maryland Shall Issue
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Unfortunately, the Chantilly Gun Show is cancelled.