Posted on 12/18/2012 9:54:09 AM PST by mnehring
Texas online gun superstore Cheaper Than Dirt posted on Facebook today:
Cheaper Than Dirt! is suspending online sales of firearms effective immediately. We are reviewing our policy internally, and will continue to be the leader in the outdoor industry with our full line of gear and accessories.
They have also removed all firearms from their website.
Another business capitulates. We don't need gun grabbers when our own side will bend over and do whatever they want. I have spent thousands at CTD but will hold off on any further spending until they do the right thing. Tell them what you think on their Facebook page
Thanks to all for prompting me to change all my contact info there, and sending them a note as to why they lost a multi-thousand dollar customer.
I imagine they have already donated their customer list to Eric Holder and Butch Napolitano, but if not done already, the DOJ and DHS are going to be surprised how much ammo and guns a certain ‘Mao Mau’ist in government has purchased in the last decade.
Not sure what you mean? Are they required to track our information on who bought what accessories? No, not by law. However, as with the original Red Dawn, the bad guys used the 4473 forms to find the gun owners. So, with on-line sales, yes, sellers maintain the information on non-firearm sales, but I would think it would take a court-order to get at them.
They don’t say why? I’m not on FB so I can’t see what it says or reply.
I would imagine CTD could not be trusted to not simply turn over the information.
Consider how google just hands things over without subpoena.
Who to trust?
The Marxist gun grabbers are coming , and they are coming up FAST. They want to disarm the American public so they can get on with their ultimate plans.
Nice thought. I did not connect that. I have seen the power insurance agents have when you are forced by law to purchase your product from them and they enjoy a “monopoly”
They are kind of high anyway. I went to Impact and got a better deal.
I haven’t ordered anything from CTD since they tripled their prices after obama got elected the first time. Anyone remember that?
I just ordered a bunch of stuff from these guys last night too. ARRG.
Brothers in Arms Tactical made the most of it. They posted their link on the Cheaper Than Dirt Facebook and wound up with a new customer base. How is that for marketing?
Yup, I noticed that after my post. And some states have waiting periods for rifles. I forgot how different it is in each state.
That said, I'm sure we all wish the Sandy Hook principal had been able to rush the mad gunner with a loaded Colt's Baby Dragoon instead of just her bare hands. She'd be alive today, and that SOB would still be dead, but without taking all those little kids and teachers with him, the sorry b@stard.
Who're they getting the calls from, FRiend? Individual lefties calling up and ranting? Or from officialdom and Dim officeholders? ATF?
Or shut down through various types of "audits"? This kind of thing looks like a win-win for the obamathugs, because if they can't plug the dealers on obscure tax and regulation "crimes" or threats, they can cause businesses to go belly up as a result of [predictable] boycotts. Naturally they start with the most "odious" of merchants, the gun dealers.
The Obamacare Angel of Death death panel is already in business well outside of doctors' offices and hospitals. Obama likes the name Obama"care" because it isn't limited to literal health services. It describes the all-encompassing work and character of the Destroyer himself.
Anonymous.. Another wing of Team 0bama, just like Wikileaks and OWS.
Works; just bought some AK magazines from them.
That would certainly have canceled his check ... my point is legal, not mechanical or tactical. Folks are sometimes surprised to see muzzleloaders sold by internet, or over the counter with no forms, no NICS, etc.
http://www.dailypaul.com/255148/obama-wants-to-arrest-your-weapons
The guns can be arrested- so I wonder how long it is until the gun makers are also held responsible?
There was a case somewhere, last week, where the wife called in about her husband making a threat of some kind- and they came in and took all of his weapons and ammo.
Just like that.
There is probably something under “Obamacare” that makes guns people.
Who knows? Back door dealings, and Huge bills passed without reading them.
Hillary did that -- the Violence Against Women Act (unconstitutional on its face, since it makes law for Paul that it doesn't make for Paula) provides for instantaneous, procedureless and rightless felonization of a citizen. A magistrate swings a gavel to grant a Temporary Restraining Order, and bang! The subject of the TRO is a felon, if he owns a firearm.
That's what his dragon of an ex-wife did to Dr. Emerson, the Amarillo dentist, whose case fell off the radar after it was returned by SCOTUS for a "do-over and this time find him guilty" to the U.S. District Court for northern Texas after the judge had resoundingly found Emerson innocent and the VAWA unconstitutional, and then the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans held up their opinion for two years waiting on election results before convicting him on appeal (basically). That was such a roust .... and SCOTUS did it, let all of us recent admirers of Heller remember.
Footnote: Slick and Beastwoman had selected Dr. Emerson's case, to establish precedential case law for VAWA. It was to be the VAWA's equivalent of FDR's picking on a cripple in U.S. vs. Miller (1939), in which FDR sicced his solicitor general on a defense brief that had no advocate, in a case in which one of the defendants was dead and the other a penniless prison inmate, lawyerless save for the resigned author of the brief.
That's apparently why Fifth Circuit temporized so outrageously ... one did not wish to cross the coldly vindictive Beastwoman, y'know.
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