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Larry Fowler, of Animas, checks out an antique Charles Daly laminated steel double-barrel shotgun Saturday during the Sunrise Lions Club annual charity knife and gun show held for the first time at the Las Cruces Convention Center. Fowler later purchased the antique firearm. The show benefits the Lions Survivor Camp, a summer camp for deaf and hard-of-hearing children that lets them ride horses, camp, swim and climb the rock wall at New Mexico State University.
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LAS CRUCES -- The Sunrise Lions Club gun show drew quite a crowd to the Las Cruces Convention Center on Saturday. By noon, more than 1,600 people had visited the event to browse goods displayed on more than 250 tables. Guns weren't the only items for sale -- vendors traveled from all over the Southwest to set up shop and sell homemade quilts, books, leather holsters, knives, ammunition, jewelry and other items. The show continues 9 a.m. to 3 p.m today at the Las Cruces Convention Center.

If you go

• What: Sunrise Lions Club gun show

• Where: Las Cruces Convention Center, 680 East University Ave.

• When: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. today

• Admission: Adults $5 and children $3

• Info: (575) 647-8802


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