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Nation sees a sharp drop in gun dealers
Star Tribune ^
| March 22, 2006
| Kevin Diaz
Posted on 03/24/2006 12:38:44 AM PST by neverdem
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03/24/2006 12:38:48 AM PST
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neverdem
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03/24/2006 12:49:33 AM PST
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freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
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Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here
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posted on
03/24/2006 12:50:05 AM PST
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: neverdem
From the article:
"... the number of gun dealers in the United States has plummeted 78 percent in the past 10 years".
If the government sends jack-booted-thugs to investigate every instance of issuing library cards, the number of libraries will also shrink. If they burn down the buildings and kill all the occupants, they will have even more effect.
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03/24/2006 12:53:15 AM PST
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William Tell
(RKBA for California (rkba.members.sonic.net) - Volunteer by contacting Dave at rkba@sonic.net)
To: neverdem
Gun sales are way past the point of ridiculous!
I picked up a couple of .22's (from two different stores) a couple of weeks ago and COULD NOT BELIEVE the paperwork required. They made me feel like I was purchasing an atomic bomb and would not let me hold the rifle box until I had been officially escorted to the parking lot!
One of the purchases was at Walmart, the other at Gander Mountain.
I also don't see how the stores can even make a profit on gun sales. The .22 from Walmart cost me $99 and I'm sure that the employee time to do all of the paperwork and jump through all of the hoops more than ate up any profit margin that Walmart should have gotten.
The second amendment (like the rest of the constitution) is just a bunch of words on paper now and has really become meaningless.
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Someone asked me about the New Orleans confiscation videos. I forgot who it was. I would appreciate any help I can get to spread the info.
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posted on
03/24/2006 1:07:28 AM PST
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: neverdem
We stopped selling guns last year. For us it wasn't the laws, it was declining profits that has virtually killed the industry.
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posted on
03/24/2006 1:41:09 AM PST
by
kingu
(Liberalism: The art of sticking your fingers in your ears and going NANANANA..)
To: neverdem
Someone asked me about the New Orleans confiscation videos. I forgot who it was. I would appreciate any help I can get to spread the info.Click the picture:
I closed my firearms business in 2002, after 19 years of fighting ever-metastatizing costs, fees, laws, regulations, and zoning changes. It just was not worth it.
And article I read in American Firearms Industry ( google it ) in the late 1990's claimed 3 out of 4 FFL businesses closed due to ever-increasing hassles, during Clintoon's corrupt reign.
More taxes, regulation, hassles=less business. Who'd a thunk it?
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posted on
03/24/2006 2:27:11 AM PST
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: neverdem
Looks like Clinton's agenda for gun dealers has been continued by Bush. Guess Bush agrees with Clinton on this one.
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posted on
03/24/2006 2:29:23 AM PST
by
Modok
To: neverdem
I had a few friends who had FFLs. None do now because of what's in the article.
Then is a small family gun shop in town that is very friendly. Generally I see something I want in the Shot Gun News and take it down there and point it out. They order it and handle the paperwork for a small fee.
I "reward" that service by giving them the rest of my gun related business.
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posted on
03/24/2006 2:31:16 AM PST
by
PeteB570
(Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
To: neverdem
"In a little-noticed victory for gun control advocates in Minnesota and across the nation, the number of gun dealers in the United States has plummeted 78 percent in the past 10 years as tens of thousands of home-based dealers surrendered their federal licenses."So, the ones that survive after their small-time competitors have been thrown out of business will be dealing with more business and higher revenues. Exactly how does the MSM call this a victory for gun-grabbers if the business of selling guns legally suddenly becomes more profitable? Do they somehow think that demand tracks to the numbers of suppliers?
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posted on
03/24/2006 2:35:49 AM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: PeteB570
I've known LEO's who had an FFL just because they were collectors. They gave them up because there was a constant barrage of letters threatening legal action against them because they were "dealers". Because of this they just gave up the licenses. Their situation was really know different than the person who buys and sells too many cars for personal use, but needs to register as a used car dealer. However the used car dealer doesn't get constantly threatened with nationwide class action suits.
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posted on
03/24/2006 3:12:51 AM PST
by
Woodman
("One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." PW)
To: neverdem
Sherry Duval, of the St. Paul ATF office, said gun dealers are like any class of sellers. "I'd love to tell you they're all legitimate, just like I'd like to tell you every car dealer is legitimate. Our job is to find the ones who are not."
Duval said the federal gun dealer's license was never intended to be a "personal collector's license." It's amazing to find someone at BATFE who doesn't know what a C&R license is for.
Or maybe it's not.
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posted on
03/24/2006 3:47:15 AM PST
by
George Smiley
(This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
To: neverdem
The numbers really started dropping when Clinton raised the cost of the license tremendously. Now, does everyone know what happens to the dealers records when he "surrenders" his license? They get sent to the BATF. What do you think the BATF is doing with the records of every firearm transaction? Sounds like they had a plan all along, doesn't it.
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Not good.
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posted on
03/24/2006 6:01:35 AM PST
by
Joe Brower
(The Constitution defines Conservatism. *NRA*)
To: Joe Brower
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03/24/2006 6:09:30 AM PST
by
backhoe
To: politicket
"The .22 from Walmart cost me $99 and I'm sure that the employee time to do all of the paperwork and jump through all of the hoops more than ate up any profit margin that Walmart should have gotten."
Retail sales force efficiency still escapes WalMart. They're there more to re-stock the shelves with the goods people scatter all over the store.
To: neverdem
bah, 90% of those "kitchen table" guys that had their FFL, did 90% of their "business" for self, family and friends and rarely turned a profit. having an FFL allowed you to get the "dealer" discounts, and you could get everything mailed right to you. also, when there's so many more "small time" dealers, the bigger shops have to keep their prices down to compete with mail order shops. now that these dealers are gone, shops can jack up their prices and not worry about mail order, knowing that if you want something from mail-order, you have to goto them, and they can charge you a $25 fee for 5 minutes of work.
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posted on
03/24/2006 6:22:23 AM PST
by
absolootezer0
("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
To: jim_trent
You get it. This was started under the auspices of folks like Lloyd Bentsen and Janet Reno during the Clinton Administration, for the express purpose of shutting down most gun dealers.
Considering that the same administration was sitting on a database of NICS data over 6 months old which was supposed to have been discarded within 24 hours. There is no doubt in my mind that their intent was to create a registry of firearms and/or owners, and that may continue to this day, albeit illegally.
The yellowsheet data from smaller dealers now defunct contributes greatly, no doubt.
Many others are being pushed out of storefront operations by insurance costs, which is the reason one hardware store in my town no longer has firearms, and they used to have the best selection.
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posted on
03/24/2006 6:27:29 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: neverdem
"The drop shows how the gun debate has moved from a national stage -- where gun control advocates lost congressional battles to ban assault weapons and to sue gun manufacturers -- to local zoning boards that are creating a growing web of fees and regulations that indirectly restrict firearms sales." Time for more "state pre-emption" legislation to forbid this kind of BS.
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