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court, from a judge, telling me that is illegal to do that, I will abide by the law.”
Horrified Park Slope moms and dads had said the event was not welcome in their neighborhood.
“I would prefer that they cancel it altogether,” Maricarmen Barrera, 40, said. “This area is very parent-, kid-friendly. They don’t fit well here.”
Halkias changed his mind after phone calls and emails poured into his business.
“The Park Slope people were very, very upset, and the NRA people understood my predicament,” he said.
He asked them to cancel the event, and they agreed not to sue him for breach of contract, he said.
Halkias said his hall was the group’s first choice, but the price was too high for them.
“They came back to me (after Gargiulo’s canceled), and I had to be a nice guy, because it’s a fundraiser,” he said.
The hall’s owner said opposition to the club and the National Rifle Association is a lot of hype.
“I know certain people do not understand. The NRA sounds very bad. It’s propaganda, you know?” he said.
He handed a Daily News reporter a printout from the gun group’s website.
“The Constitution says you can have a gun wherever you are. So you have a license so you have to know how to use it. Makes sense,” Halkias said.
The event had touted a gun auction and raffle. Among the prizes was a “2018 Gun of the Year set” featuring a Kimber .45-caliber pistol engraved with the words, “Defending Freedom.”
Not everyone in Park Slope opposed the fund-raiser before it was shot down.
“I’m all for it,” Heidi Poch, 52, said. “I’m just saying, it makes sense. People don’t bother people if they are equipped with some way to prevent something from happening.” ALBANY — An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers support new gun control measures in the state, though they oppose the idea of arming schoolteachers, a poll released Monday morning found. The Siena College poll comes after last month’s mass school shooting in Parkland, Fla., and at a time when Gov. Cuomo and Assembly and Senate Democrats have pushed a variety of new gun control measures. Nearly 70% of New Yorkers statewide like the idea of posting officers at all New York City public and private schools, including 71% in the city. But New Yorkers oppose, by 69% to 28%, allowing teachers to carry guns in the classroom. “While by 11 points Republicans support allowing teachers to be armed, Democrats, independents and downstaters overwhelmingly oppose it, as do a majority of upstaters and a narrow majority of gun owners,” said Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg. The poll also found that 90% of those surveyed support expanding the current maximum three-day firearm background check waiting period to 10 days. WHEN STUDENTS are marching in Washington in support of gun control, President Trump will be at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, an advisory from the Federal Aviation Administration suggests.
Flight restrictions associated with presidential visits will be issued from Friday through Sunday, according to the advisory.
The White House has not confirmed whether Trump will be visiting South Florida this weekend.
Organizers are preparing for as many as 500,000 people to attend the March for Our Lives rally Saturday in Washington.
More than 800 rallies are planned worldwide, including one in West Palm Beach near Trump’s estate, according to the March for Our Lives website.
Anti-gun-violence groups will also rally in New York, where protesters are expected to gather at 72nd St. and Central Park West for a protest march that’s scheduled to start at 10 a.m.
Moms Demand Action, Gays Against Guns, Everytown for Gun Safety, Guns Down Life Up and other groups will attend the protest march.
In response to the Parkland school shooting that killed 17, Trump has advocated arming teachers and banning bump stocks, a device that causes a semiautomatic weapon to fire more rapidly.
But he’s pulled back support for raising the age to purchase a rifle from 18 to 21, a measure opposed by the National Rifle Association.