Puyallup Fair Board Bans Bomb Pamphlet

The Puyallup Fair board has asked an arms collector group to stop allowing instructions on making home-made bombs to be sold at their shows.

Less than three weeks after a bomb killed 167 people in Oklahoma City, an exhibitor at a Washington Arms Collectors’s show was selling pamphlets that included step-by-step instructions on how to build a bomb.

“The board didn’t feel comfortable with those materials,” fair spokeswoman Karen LaFlamme said.

Bruce Turner, legislative chairman and board member of the Washington Arms Collectors, said the group will cooperate with the fair board.

The exhibitor had “268 square feet of table space with books on it. One was found objectionable,” Turner said.

The next arms collectors show at the fairgrounds will be June 4, LaFlamme said.