Posted on 08/01/2018 5:36:43 AM PDT by marktwain
-One format of radio show that is common around the nation is classifieds, the garage sale, yard sale, trash and treasure, or other nomenclature used to describe similar shows. The shows have callers offer items for sale, along with a telephone number for contact.
In deep blue, Madison, Wisconsin, I was listening to the local conservative talk radio station. I was pleased to see the show accepted individual callers who had guns for sale.
A local radio station in Yuma has a similar show. But firearms are specifically excluded from the items that are allowed to be advertised for sale on the show, as are automobiles. Maybe it is because Yuma is on the border with Mexico and California. At least one station owner in Yuma is politically left of center.
At the Madison station, in the first few minutes of the show, there were callers with a Mossberg .410 shotgun, a Ruger Standard model .22 pistol, two black powder rifles, an 870 pump shotgun, .22-250 and a .220 Swift varmint rifles (model not mentioned), and a .300 ultramag Remington 700.
That's a pretty good cross section of firearms for a few minutes of show.
The path is pretty clear. Make private sales illegal and difficult. Then require registration of all guns. After that, make possession of any non-registered gun
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“Has anyone else noted the rising level of advertising for firearms, ammunition, and training? “
They are on Chicago radio...of all places...all the time. Very encouraging.
The radio industry is pretty desperate for revenue.
If they’ll take ads for herbal male enhancements and shady house-flipping seminars, they’ll book an ad for anything.
These shows are almost like a Craig’s List over the air. I worked at a small station that had such a program. In the 70’s it was called Tradio. No charge to callers who called in to sell garage sale type items over the air. Sometimes it was to announce a garage sale with a short list of items that might attract people to the event. But even then, the station excluded firearms, bedding, food and soft goods which I believe referred to things like stuffed animals from being marketed.
It shows how ideologically driven the TV networks are.
I generally do not watch TV, but I do not recall seeing ads for firearms on the TV, and I remember a high level NRA executive told me the TV networks refused to sell them time. That was about 1992, as I recall.
Gun range in the Seattle area has been advertising on KVI radio for years - guns, training and shooting range.
WIBA in Madison is an unusually good talk radio station. Vivki McKenna is sharp, deicated, very well read, and solid conservative/libertarian.
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