Gun laws hit venues where it hurts: their pockets
With some US music venues losing upwards of $50,000 a year as a result of 'open carry', guns and gigs prove a confusing mix for venue managers
News By | 10 August 2016
American venue managers are feeling the effects of the US’s liberal gun laws, with half of those living in ‘open-carry’ states – the 45 that allow the public carrying of a firearm in plain sight – revealing that they’ve had to take preventative measures to counteract the threat of gun violence.
Fifty per cent of venues surveyed by the 2016 Firearms in the Venue Study, commissioned by the International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM) and presented at its recent VenueConnect…
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