Posted on 05/21/2008 11:30:29 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
BUTLER, Mo. -- A local car dealer is holding a controversial promotion involving guns.
Max Motors in Butler is offering anyone who buys a car the choice of $250 in gas or a free semi-automatic handgun.
"Like I say, it's a choice -- protection or gas," said Walter Moore with Max Motors.
(Excerpt) Read more at kmbc.com ...
What kind of good semiauto for $250?
buckmark maybe?
Watch the video at the link, perhaps you can tell what kind it is.
Way back in 1960 my dad got a new Remington model 742 semi-auto rifle in 30.06 with the purchase of some cheap plastic living room furniture.
A used Glock.
probably a hi-point 9mm
or, perhaps a S&W Sigma...
Looked like a Kel-tec. Price is about right too.
Also, the site has a survey: “Do you think offering a free gun with the purchase of a new car is a good idea?” current vote- Yes= 55% No=45%
There’s a poll to freep too. Right now “good idea” is winning, 55%-45%
A while back, there was a bank in Wyoming offering a rifle if you purchased a Certificate of Deposit.
a new Kel-Tec
Damn... if only I had the money for a new car.
I’d have him ship the pistol.
Get him to hand over the pistol first and you get a free car.
FReeped
IS HE WEARING A NAVY SEAL HAT?
Even if it wasn’t a firearm I wanted I would still take the gun to piss off the liberals.
"controversial" is the word the news media uses to describe things that they don't like. Notice that gun control legislation is never "controversial" no matter how draconian it is; however, the slightest lifting of restrictions is always "controversial."
Probably not, since it reads NRA.
Apparently they already thought about that because you get a 250.00 certificate for the purchase of a gun, not the actual gun. But you had me laughing.
WOW! If he were in my area he would be getting my business.
Notice, also, that the word “handgun” is always preceded by the words “semi-automatic.” Supposed to be more scary.
Freeped, currently it is 60/40.
>>What kind of good semiauto for $250?>>
$300 gets you a new Taurus Milennium Pro 45ACP 10+1. If you haven’t owned a Taurus lately, you wouldn’t know. Mine performs well unless firing cheap ammo for practice, then I get 1 stovepipe in 50. Mine has 5,000 rounds through it, no issues.
Just heard that some “unemployed aging hippy types” came to the dealership to protest.
The good ol’ boys met them in the parking lot and told them to “leave before they got stomped”.
Note to Obama - Guns are good for business
KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 22 - A Missouri car dealer has a message for Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama: Midwesterners love their guns.
Mark Muller, the owner of Max Motors in Butler, Missouri south of Kansas City, on Thursday said sales have soared at his auto and truck business since launching a promotion this week that promises buyers a $250 credit for a handgun or a $250 gas card with every purchase.
Every buyer so far “except one guy from Canada and one old guy” has elected to take the gun, Muller said in an interview with Reuters. He recommends his customers select a Kel-Tec .380 pistol.
“It’s a nice little handgun that fits in your pocket,” he said.
Muller said he came up with the promotion after stewing over comments made last month by Obama at a fundraiser for his presidential campaign in San Francisco. The Illinois senator, who narrowly defeated Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton in Missouri’s primary, said that small-town Americans bitter over hard economic times sometimes “cling to guns and religion.”
“We did it because of Barack Obama. He said all those people in the Midwest, you’ve got to have compassion for them because they’re clinging to their guns and their Bibles. I found that quite offensive,” said Muller.
“We all go to church on Sunday and we all carry guns,” Muller said in the interview. “I’ve got a gun in my pocket right now. I have a rifle in my truck. We’ve got to shoot the coyotes out here, they’re attacking our cows, our chickens. We’re not clinging to nothing. We’re just damn glad to live in a free country where you can have a gun if you want. This is the way it ought to be.”
Muller said the dealership, which has as its logo a grimacing cowboy wielding a pistol, has sold more than 30 cars and trucks in the last three days, far more than its normal volume. Phone calls and inquiries on car purchases from people around the country have poured in, Muller said.
He’s also had six protesters show up outside his business.
There may be more on the way because Muller said his next promotion is going to be a King James Bible for any car-buying Muslim.
He recommends his customers select a Kel-Tec .380 pistol.
There's your answer.
If I only had $250 to spend, I'd spend it on a revolver. If I had money of my own to put with it, I'd get a Springfield XD or a Walther PPS at a $250 discount.
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