Allison Merrill and Nancy Lugo were part of a group at the Cameron Park Fire Department Crab Feed on Saturday night when they saw something being raffled off that they thought was in poor taste — an AR-15.
The annual event is to benefit the Cameron Park Firefighters Association.
“He was encouraging people to come over and look at the AR-15, saying that it was going to go fast,” Lugo said.
This year’s crab feed was just days after officials say Nikolas Cruz used a similar weapon to kill 17 people at a high school in Florida.
“Poor taste, I would say,” Lugo said. “That doesn’t even describe it.”
Merrill says she was shocked to see the rifle.
“It just felt extremely wrong,” Merrill said.