By Associated Press PUBLISHED: 17:00 EST, 13 October 2013 | UPDATED: 17:01 EST, 13 October 2013 A smiling Gabrielle Giffords toured rows of tables loaded with rifles and handguns today in her first visit to a gun show since surviving a 2011 shooting, and pleaded afterward for people to come together to stop gun violence. The former Arizona congresswoman visited the Saratoga Springs Arms Fair with her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to highlight a voluntary agreement that closely monitors gun show sales in New York. The trio mixed with a gun show crowd that was mostly welcoming - with a few hostile undertones before calling for people to build on the cooperative effort.
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The former representative from Arizona attended a gun show in Saratoga Springs, New York today with her husband
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Ms Giffords was showing support for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's increased safeguards at gun shows
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