The biggest gun show in all of Pennsylvania is cancelled, for now.
The Hershey Harrisburg Regional Visitors Bureau says every year the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show at the Farm Show Complex, brings in $44 million in direct spending.
But the actual amount that the show brings in, is close to $80 million when you add-in things like shopping and spending on gas.
On top of that, you have the hotel room tax the area is missing out on.
But the Mayor Linda Thompson, doesn't seem too worried about losing that money. "The City is still open for business and still doing business and if the gun show pulls out it won't put a huge dent in our economic base. We have existing retail, restaurants, hospitals, schools, I think we're doing well without the gun show."
One local business owner is worried. Artie Tafoya has brewed beer at the Appalachian Brewing Company in Harrisburg for close to 20 years. "I tell you what, it's a great event for the area. We really have benefited every year. We don't know what it's like, because the show has been going since we've been here, so we don't know what it's going to be like with out having it."
The Hershey Harrisburg Regional Visitors Bureau says every year the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show at the Farm Show Complex, brings in $44 million in direct spending.
But the actual amount that the show brings in, is close to $80 million when you add-in things like shopping and spending on gas.
On top of that, you have the hotel room tax the area is missing out on.
But the Mayor Linda Thompson, doesn't seem too worried about losing that money. "The City is still open for business and still doing business and if the gun show pulls out it won't put a huge dent in our economic base. We have existing retail, restaurants, hospitals, schools, I think we're doing well without the gun show."
One local business owner is worried. Artie Tafoya has brewed beer at the Appalachian Brewing Company in Harrisburg for close to 20 years. "I tell you what, it's a great event for the area. We really have benefited every year. We don't know what it's like, because the show has been going since we've been here, so we don't know what it's going to be like with out having it."
Mayor Linda Thompson adds that cancelling the show is sending the NRA and gun makers a loud message, one she agrees with.