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Maine Lawmakers Urge Cabela’s to Stop Selling ‘Assault Rifles’ After Attacker Bought Handgun There
Breitbart ^ | 02/22/2024 | AWR HAWKINS

Posted on 02/22/2024 7:09:21 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

They should close the ONE store they have in ME and move it right over the border into NH.

North Conway or Newington, NH would be a great location. NO sales tax. Then all the outdoor hunting, fishing, hiking enthusiats from ME can drive over the border to make their purchases.

NH only has one Bass Pro Shops in Hookset. IF they closed the ME store and moved it to Newington, NH it would compete directly with Kittery Trading Post just across the ME border.


21 posted on 02/22/2024 8:09:10 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963
They should close the ONE store they have in ME and move it right over the border into NH.

They are supposedly building one close to me, in Saratoga County. https://wnyt.com/top-stories/new-bass-pro-shops-cabelas-one-step-closer-in-clifton-park/

22 posted on 02/22/2024 8:12:04 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The screamers got Walmart to stop selling handguns back in the early 1980s, then in the 1990s they demanded Walmart stop selling semi-auto rifles. I don’t even stop at the counter anymore.

I remember many variety stores that sold firearms back in the 1960s that have now given up even trying to sell firearms. Mass killings were rare back then.

Guns were more available then as you could get a gun at a gas station, pawn shop, hardware store, clothing store, record shop, book store, liquor store, feed store, grocery store. They were everywhere! Cash and carry. No background check, no waiting period, no paperwork. No ID, Just look old enough.
Or you could drop a check in the mail and one would be shipped to your door.

Then came the 1968 Gun Control act to “control crime” and when the mental hospitals were closed and the inmates dumped on the streets, mass murder took off like a rocket.


23 posted on 02/22/2024 8:13:58 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: EEGator
***What happens when there isn’t another place to runaway to?***

We take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. I’s the only way to be sure.

24 posted on 02/22/2024 8:14:01 AM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: lgjhn23

***the state has been invaded by RATs from NY, MA, CT, etc.***

Much like the Rocky Mountain states have been Californicated by those fleeing that state but bringing their anti-gun culture with them.


25 posted on 02/22/2024 8:16:14 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Right Brother

I’m down with that.


26 posted on 02/22/2024 8:17:56 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Yo-Yo

“ Man, I got a lot of good deals with closeout .223 ammunition from WallyWorld.”

When our local Dick’s got out of the ammo biz I was grabbing Winchester AA loads for $40 a case. I should have gotten a pallet of it. Can’t find it for less than $120 now if you can find it at all.

L


27 posted on 02/22/2024 8:23:21 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wouldn’t it be better to refrain from selling guns to democrats? Seems like they are the ones doing all the shooting.


28 posted on 02/22/2024 8:50:39 AM PST by wbslws
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To: eyeamok

I was selling guns for Cabelas in Connecticut when two NY State troopers in uniform came in to buy some fairly common ammunition. They had been delivering an accused to CT authorities. I had to break it to them that under CT law they need a CT ammo permit to complete the sale.

Hilarity ensued as I looked at them and they looked at me and we laughed at a state that trusted them to bring in a prisoner but not to but ammunition.


29 posted on 02/22/2024 9:14:16 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What is the current income of Dick’s Sporting Goods since they refuse to sell guns/ammo???


30 posted on 02/22/2024 9:21:00 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I believe you can still buy an M1 Garand through the CMP. That’s a battle field rifle, not an “assault rifle”, whatever the hell that is.


31 posted on 02/22/2024 9:37:26 AM PST by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lawmakers say, “Derp, derp-derp,derp. Derpitty, derp!”


32 posted on 02/22/2024 10:46:02 AM PST by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: hanamizu

If you live in a blue state, yes, democrat jackasses will be more than happy to retaliate and ruin you.

Not the case still in the Red states, for now. The real fun will begin when the blue states start demanding red states punish those that live in red states for any trivial nonsense and the red states say “PISS OFF”. That has actually been happening more lately if you’ve noticed.

The sides are slowly segregating themselves for another showdown.


33 posted on 02/22/2024 10:53:37 AM PST by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

People’s Republic of Portland and Agusts State Reps. Fixed.


34 posted on 02/22/2024 11:09:07 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GFLOBALISM ! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: wbslws

“..Wouldn’t it be better to refrain from selling guns to democrats? Seems like they are the ones doing all the shooting....”

^THAT^ right there would probably have stopped, or at least hindered, 99% of the mass shootings that have already occurred.
IF one over 60 years old, one can probably remember the state mental institutions that existed throughout the country. To put it in perspective of how it was then, compared to now: most likely 90% of today’s RATs would more than qualify to be inmates in those institutions back then.
All one has to do is just listen to what these stupid insane basstids say.... They’re nuttier than a fruitcake.


35 posted on 02/22/2024 11:20:28 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: Pox

The sides are slowly segregating themselves for another showdown.


The split appears to me to be more profound that what we faced in the mid 19th century. While the north and south disagreed over slavery and tariffs, both sides accepted basic facts as reality.

Today, someone will testify before Congress and say that she really doesn’t have the scientific background to be able to define ‘woman’. We are told that millions a year flooding the country shows that the ‘border is secure’. We are told that Trump somehow swindled the state of New York out of a half billion dollars by taking out a loan that he repaid.


36 posted on 02/22/2024 11:53:20 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
" Maine Lawmakers Urge Cabela’s to Stop Selling ‘Assault Rifles’ ...."

Cabela's does not and never has sold "Assault Rifles."

Because, unlike "Assault Weapon," "Assault Rifle" is a real thing that has a real definition. The U.S. Army defines assault rifles as "short, compact, selective-firing weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between sub-machine gun and rifle cartridges."

Nothing Cabela's sells or ever has sold was "selective-firing" (i.e., capable of firing fully automatically) ergo Cabela's does not and never has sold "Assault Rifles."

37 posted on 02/22/2024 2:51:20 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli
Yep. Cabelas should issue a press release: All Cabela employees must abide by the NFA 1934 act and stop selling assault rifles until this terrible law is revoked!

Call your Congress and demand them to repeal the NFA act of 1934 and GCA of 68!

38 posted on 02/22/2024 2:53:14 PM PST by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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To: CodeToad
"Liberal stupidity: Criminal bought pistol so stop selling rifles."

Especially "Bug A-Salt rifles".

A person in Kalifornica ordered one of these; and FedEx refused to deliver it.

Bug-A-Salt

39 posted on 02/22/2024 8:54:13 PM PST by guest7
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To: Bob434

I live in Maine.

Maine is one of the biggest pro-Second Amendment states in the country. Constitutional carry, private sales of firearms, etc.

The problem in the southeast corner of the state....20% of the land area of Maine, and too close to Massachusetts.

This is CD-1, and has lots of moonbats.

The rest of Maine is the Second Congressional district, mostly rural, and covers 80% of the state, 27,000 square miles. Trump carried this district in 2016 by 10 points and by 9 points in 2020. He and his family made many trips here. He received one electoral vote each time.

Most of the problems in the state spring out of CD-1, which skews statewide and national elections.


40 posted on 02/23/2024 8:52:25 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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