Posted on 03/18/2015 1:38:59 PM PDT by matt04
Last week, sandwiched between a row of shops and apartments, you may have noticed that a store hawking firearms miraculously opened for two days on Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Had you ventured inside and asked the gruff-sounding owner whether you could take a closer look at, say, a revolver, you probably would have encountered the following sales pitch:
“…this revolver, it’s the easiest gun we have to use. It’s our most popular one. It’s a 22-caliber, six-inch revolver,” the clerk begins. “It’s also a gun that a five-year-old found in his parents’ bedroom, went down and shot his nine-month-old baby brother with it.”
If that sounds a lot like the least effective sales pitch of all time, there’s a reason for that.
An overwhelmingly depressing and frank sales pitch — the kind you won’t hear at any other gun store in the country — was exactly what States United To Prevent Gun Violence was, well, shooting for when it did the unimaginable last week and opened a pretend gun shop in a city known for having some of the strictest gun-control laws in the nation.
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Numerous customers walked into the store, Barrett said, most seeking a gun for self-protection.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Did they have the eeeeevil AR-15 the older brother used to defend his younger sister form the home invader?
Did they have the eeeeeevil pistol the women used to defend herself from the rapist while walking down the street?
Sounds like this little experiment backfired on them.
Because they were selling fear of guns.
Were the weapons at the phony gun store registered, stored, and handled in accordance with NYC gun laws? Where was the NYPD to make sure of this?
“Gun Violence™”
“Climate Deniers™”
“Violent Extremists™”
I want my damn language back.
They don’t sell any guns but they have to pay rent, salaries, etc.
Who is paying for this?
Wild guess, is it the taxpayers?
I think if you open a store and claim to be selling guns you MUST have a Federal Firearms permit, as well as state and local permits.
I’m not a lawyer but there may have been laws violated in this.
Imagine if somebody opened an abortion clinic with that kind of theme?
And I would respond "Good, at least we know it works properly. I'll take it. "
We should not even pretend to be civil to these bastards.
So could I have eventually bought a gun or not? If not I would have sued.
They used prop guns per the article.
My bet is that all of the “customers” will turn out to be actors, either paid ones or anti-gun volunteers. Their responses and comments were just too perfectly scripted to be genuine.
Sounds like they’re simply LYING about all the guns they show, there.
Just had a annual Dr. appointment and the nurse asked several questions pertinent to my health, then she asked if I had any firearms in the house. I told her not any more, they all fell into an unmarked mine in the desert. She was totally confused.
In NYC/NYS even if they did, nothing would come of it. Guaranteed.
Who’s keeping the banglist these days? Is Joe doing okay?
Manhattan’s Lower East Side is the place where...
The residents actually think.. removing guns from the decent law abiding folk will PROTECT them from the NON law abiding folk..
The logic of this is indeed insane..
UNLESS 90% of those folks are non law abiding..
it just depends what the LAW IS....
Fraud certainly comes to mind.
good idea
“The residents actually think.. removing guns from the decent law abiding folk will PROTECT them from the NON law abiding folk..”
That is the fairy tale that is the “official” reason for the law. The real reason the law was passed was to protect the organized criminals from those people to “stupid” or stubborn to “know their place” and pay the protection money. It was passed by Big Tim Sullivan, one of the Tammany Gang Bosses in 1911.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-strange-birth-of-nys-gun.html
Their kind are so dramatic.
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