SOUTHINGTON, CT – The management of the Aqua Turf Club has posted an open letter to the community defending the banquet facility's business amid calls for a boycott by gun control advocates.

The Aqua Turf on Friday hosted a Connecticut NRA event — a group that has booked the same dinner for about two decades — on the eve of a gun control march in Washington coat tailed in some Connecticut locations.

Some gun control advocates took to social media to demand a boycott of the business, Aqua Turf management said Monday.