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The SWAT team affair happened at [[Disclave 24]] in Crystal City, VA (a mile from the Pentagon) on Memorial Day weekend in 1980. 

[[Joe Mayhew]] described this thusly: "For me the highlight of the [[con]] happened while I was auctioning. The room was a ground level exhibition area with two vast doors in its back. While [[Jack Chalker]] had his back turned, sipping coffee, the doors opened and a SWAT team with loaded machine guns barged in. Someone had been seen on a balcony of the hotel with what looked like a gun. It was a very security minded area. We don't know how many attended with or without the G-Men."

Nothing bad happened that day, but responsible [[con-runners]] shuddered collectively and wondered what might have happened if some jerk with a toy guy had pulled it suddenly on one of the members of the SWAT team.  This provided part of the impetus towards tightening [[convention]] [[weapons policies]].



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