Posted on 10/27/2015 8:31:42 AM PDT by Theoria
One of the best-selling items right now at the High Bridge Arms gun shop in San Francisco is not a firearm or ammunition, says general manager Steven Alcairo. It's souvenir T-shirts that say "San Francisco's Last Gun Store."
Alcairo says people around the country are buying them to support the shop, which is closing at the end of the month.
"They're blowing out of here. We've been boxing them and sending them off to different states," he says.
High Bridge Arms has been open for 63 years, and it has sentimental value for customers like Steven Walker.
"My wife, she bought her first rifle here. Actually I bought my first handgun here," Walker says. "It's pretty amazing we're losing this shop."
The store announced on Facebook that it would close for "a variety of reasons" — among them, gun regulations in San Francisco. Specifically, new measures the city is currently considering would require the store to videotape gun purchases and report ammunition sales to the police. Alcairo says the store doesn't want to deal with the hassle of these regulations, which have already upset customers.
"We're getting phone calls: 'So if I buy a box of bullets from you, are you going to report us to the police department?' " he says.
The store's closing has riled gun enthusiasts in and outside the city. Customers like Chris Cheng say San Francisco politicians are targeting the gun community, a local minority.
"They just want to make San Francisco a gun-free zone, a gun-free city with no gun shops," Cheng says.
San Francisco Supervisor Mark Farrell proposed the new regulations.
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They can all hit each other with their purses.
“They just want to make San Francisco a gun-free zone, a gun-free city with no gun shops,”
The only part of that, that will happen is the no gun shops part, the rest is fantasy.
Good, more guns for us.
I have a great idea!!!
You know all those “Syrian refugees” that Jughead wants to bring here???
They can re-settle in San Francisco!!!!
A liberal’s dream. One down. Thousands to go.
Resistance was futile in the liberal utopia. It won’t be so easy elsewhere. At least, not yet.
Ya’ll can make your own bullets. My family has
always done that. You have to pour the melted
metal into the bullet molds and let it cool.
Daddy always did that; even when he got old.
Momma got that old shakin’ disease and got to
where she couldn’t pour melted metal. It’s
cheap. - Of course, Daddy didn’t make his own
bullets during WWII.
Open season on the gringos in SF.
The MS-13, Tong and Mexican Mafia thugs who all live there have every automatic weapon known to man.
And they now know that there’s mostly no resistance left.
Good hunting for them.
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