{"id":3378,"date":"2012-04-10T02:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/04\/10\/busy-weekend-for-st-louis\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:18:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:18:12","slug":"busy-weekend-for-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3378","title":{"rendered":"Busy Weekend For St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15953,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/fox2now.com\\\/2012\\\/04\\\/09\\\/st-louis-prepares-for-busy-weekend-downtown&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190809194015\\\/https:\\\/\\\/fox2now.com\\\/2012\\\/04\\\/09\\\/st-louis-prepares-for-busy-weekend-downtown\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 17:31:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 17:31:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15954,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Francis_G._Slay&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Francis_G._Slay&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15955,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/stlouis-mo.gov\\\/government\\\/departments\\\/mayor\\\/profiles\\\/Jeff-Rainford.cfm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/stlouis-mo.gov\\\/government\\\/departments\\\/mayor\\\/profiles\\\/Jeff-Rainford.cfm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fox2now.com\/2012\/04\/09\/st-louis-prepares-for-busy-weekend-downtown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox2 Now St. Louis<\/a> reports that it will be a busy weekend in downtown St. Louis over the weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It\u2019s going to be a busy week downtown.  The National Rifle Association Convention starts Wednesday.  The Blues also host playoff games Thursday and Saturday.  And the Cards home opener is Friday against the Cubs.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the report by Charles Jaco (who you may remember from CNN), the Mayor&#8217;s Office claims that the biggest security concern will be the NRA members and their guns.<\/p>\n<p>I have a very simple suggestion for Jeff Rainford, the Chief of Staff to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_G._Slay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor Francis Slay<\/a>, and that is to allow NRA members to conceal carry in America&#8217;s Center and the Edward Jones Dome. If people are allowed to carry, most won&#8217;t have to leave their firearms in their cars. Mayor Slay, if you haven&#8217;t guessed it by now, is a member of Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s Illegal Mayors.<\/p>\n<p>If you find Mr. Rainford&#8217;s suggestion that we who are bringing millions of dollars to his fair city offensive &#8211; and I do &#8211; then you can send him a polite little note. It is actually very simple. <a href=\"http:\/\/stlouis-mo.gov\/government\/departments\/mayor\/profiles\/Jeff-Rainford.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go here<\/a> and use Mr. Rainford&#8217;s handy email tool to send him a message directly.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE: <\/b>I received a response from Mr. Rainford which I am printing below in its entirety. It paints a little different tune than that shown on the TV interview. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It will make you feel better to know that not only did I not say NRA members posed the greatest security risk, I did not say NRA members posed any security risk.<\/p>\n<p>I did say the following:<\/p>\n<p>1. We would hope that if NRA members leave their guns in their cars, they secure them.<\/p>\n<p>2. We expect traffic will be tight.<\/p>\n<p>3. We are taking steps to require parking lot operators to have attendants in place to be the eyes and ears for the police.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Jeff<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>KVTI Fox News 2 does seem to be trying to create more controversy than any other media outlet about the NRA Annual Meeting as evidenced by a later report which I posted a few minutes ago.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox2 Now St. Louis reports that it will be a busy weekend in downtown St. Louis over the weekend.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3838,3844],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nra-annual-meeting-2012","tag-saint-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7886,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/7886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}