NRA 500: Promoters Want April 13 NASCAR Race Focused On Racing, Not Debating Gun Control
Anna M. Tinsley
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
FORT WORTH -- April 13 will be business as usual at the Texas Motor Speedway.
The signature race that day has drawn national media attention for its new name and sponsor: the NRA 500, for the National Rifle Association gun-rights advocacy group.
But race promoters say they want America's attention focused on racing, not debating gun control.
"It's another race for us and it's just like all the others in so many ways," Eddie Gossage, president of TMS, said Friday. "It's not going to be a gun rally. It's going to be a race."
Officials announced last month that the NRA will be the title sponsor for the April 13 Sprint Cup race at TMS, igniting a firestorm of controversy among some because gun rights have been a nationwide issue since the Dec. 14 massacre in Newtown, Conn., that left 20 children and six educators dead at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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