Park Slope will host controversial NRA fundraiser

They’ll make the NRA’s dreams come true!

The Grand Prospect Hall in Park Slope — known for its ubiquitous commercials on NY1 with the tag line, “We’ll make your dreams come true” — has stepped in to host a controversial NRA fundraiser^[1] that was too hot for Coney Island.
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That’s right — left-leaning Park Slope is hosting a gun show.

The Second-Annual Brooklyn Friends of the NRA fundraiser and gun raffle was planned for Coney Island icon Gargiulo’s on April 12 as The Post first reported, but the seaside catering hall decided not to pull the trigger^[2] after it came under fire for hosting the event on the heels of the tragic school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School^[3] in Florida last month.

A separate NRA event slated for Staten Island’s The Vanderbilt was also cancelled amid backlash^[4].

But now Grand Prospect Hall is quietly taking over hosting duties.

“We will not be advertising so we need everyone to try to encourage friends to join us in this fight to keep both our first and second amendments alive,” reads an email the NRA group sent to ticket-holders that was shared with The Post. “It would also nice gesture to contact The Grand Prospect Hall and thank them in advance for standing with us.”

The news left Park Slopers shell-shocked — especially Stoneman Douglas alumna Claire McCue.

“It’s surprising also an event that has already been chased out of Coney Island, Staten Island and for them to be successful and have an event here [Park Slope] in my backyard is just something I don’t understand,” an emotional McCue told The Post.

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“I am an alumna of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, class of 1993, a Park Slope resident, mother to a young daughter about to start public school, and wife to a NYC first responder so this event has disturbed me on many levels,” she said. “I do not want any money raised in my neighborhood to go to anyone lobbying on behalf of the NRA or any of the NRA efforts.”

Fumed 67-year-old Sloper Celeste Haynes: “The NRA is out of control and they shouldn’t be anywhere near these nice, liberal people in Park Slope.”

Critics flooded the catering hall’s Facebook and Yelp pages with messages urging it to cancel the event, and a woman who identified herself as a sales director said she could not comment.

“Getting a lot of phone calls and totally overwhelmed, we don’t know much,” she said, refusing to give a name.

A flyer for the event circulated when Gargiulo’s was hosting promised $50 raffle tickets for prizes such as the “2018 Gun of the Year Set” — which includes the gold-plated Kimber engraved with the words “Defending Freedom,” a Silver Stag hunting knife and the BB gun — as well as a Henry Lever Action