Brooklyn Friends of the NRA gather at Dyker K of C while protest proceeds outside
A small but passionate protest took place outside of the Dyker Heights Knights of Columbus Thursday evening after this paper broke news that the Brooklyn Friends of the NRA, whose event was booted from two other southern Brooklyn venues after residents and politicians expressed strong objections, would finally get to hold its second annual fundraising dinner.
Holding such signs as “NRA, Sashay Away” and “Dads Demand Action Too,” a crowd of about a dozen protesters from groups such as Gays Against Guns, Rise and Resist, the Coney Island Anti-Violence Collaborative and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America showed up outside the K of C, 13th Avenue and 86th Street, to let the roughly 100 attendees inside know where they stand.
Over the last few months, two prominent Brooklyn venues — Gargiulo’s in Coney Island and the Grand Prospect Hall in Park Slope — pulled out of hosting the event, originally slated for April 12, amidst mounting pushback.