Earlier this week, an Iowa indoor football team prepared to raffle off an AR-15 at their game on Saturday.
Last night, the owner wisely, yet reluctantly, postponed it.
The deadly assault weapon giveaway was part of the Sioux City Bandits’ annual “Military Night” celebration, with the proceeds benefitting veterans and veterans’ services.
The raffle was scheduled to take place roughly three weeks after the acts of domestic terrorism in Buffalo, NY and Ulvalde, TX where a combined 34 victims were murdered.
Those events were enough to put the raffle on hold, but not enough to cancel it.
And from the words of team owner J.R. Bond, you can tell that as soon as he’s ready, he’ll re-launch it.
“Right now, it’s the hot topic with a loud group of people,” said Bond. “It makes people uncomfortable. The Bandits have never been about controversy. We’ve done this is the past without any issues at all. And I guess our front office didn’t think through the whole situation with Texas and everything.”
The Bandits are part of the Champions Indoor Football league.
Earlier in the week, Bond began finger-pointing in his adamance that the raffle would proceed as planned.
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