The Rocky Mountain Gun Show and Second Amendment fan clubs (photos)

AT the Rocky Mountain Gun Show:

Dan Davis, of Bad Ass Tactical, holds a Spikes Tactical Anniversary with launcher during the 2013 Rocky Mountain Gun Show, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, in Sandy, Utah. In spite of the recent school shooting in Newtown, Conn., gun enthusiasts packed in by the hundreds to purchase weapons and ammunition.

Rifles, foreground, and handguns are displayed for gun show participants in Marietta, Ga. on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. As gun control talks heat up in Washington, more than 1,000 people lined up Saturday morning outside the exhibit hall at Jim Miller Park in Cobb County for the Eastman Gun Show.

People wait in line to enter a gun show in Marietta, Ga. on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. As gun control talks heat up in Washington, more than 1,000 people lined up Saturday morning outside the exhibit hall at Jim Miller Park in Cobb County for the Eastman Gun Show.

A sign at the Saratoga Springs City Center advertises an upcoming arms fair in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

A sign is posted for an upcoming gun show in Leesport, Pa. Gun advocates aren’t backing down from their insistence on the right to keep and bear arms. But heightened sensitivities and raw nerves since the Newtown, Conn. shooting are softening displays at gun shows and even leading officials and sponsors to cancel the popular exhibitions altogether.