Posted on 11/18/2012 6:10:07 PM PST by Evil Slayer
It was reported over the weekend that the owner of a gun store in Arizona is telling Pres. Obama's supporters he doesn't want their business.
Cope Reynolds, the owner of Southwest Shooting Authority, a gun store located in Pinetop, Arizona, took out a full page ad in a local newspaper that read: "If you voted for Barack Obama your business is not welcome."
The New York Daily News reports that Mr. Reynolds also posted a sign on the store's front door:
"If you voted for Obama, please turn around and leave! You have proven you are not responsible enough to own a firearm."
It is not known how Reynolds will identify Obama supporters and it doesn't seem likely that one would admit to having voted to reelect the president if they wish to purchase a gun at his store.
In an emailed statement, Reynolds wrote: "Obviously, this is nothing more than a political statement. Of course, it would be impossible to enforce. If they don't say anything, we'll never know. They could purchase whatever they wanted, and they would probably get a big kick out of thinking they are rubbing it in our face as they walk out the door."
Despite Mr. Reynold's personal attempt at "gun control," it has been widely reported that gun sales are on the rise though the reason behind demand varies from source to source. One theory suggests that citizens are stockpiling arms out of concern that President Barack Obama will tighten regulations on assault weapons, even ban them outright in his second term.
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Choosing not to engage in a commercial transaction is not commerce; only the act of selling is.
Of course that was before the court decision that not buying health insurance is engaging in interstate commerce.
We now live in a new world where the law changes from day to day and only means what the powers that be says what it means.
Buy RGR stock.
an unpredictable government/laws is a third world trait.
Buy RGR stock.
It’s a fact that most criminals are likely to vote democrat if they vote.
the owner isn’t wrong.
Ban “assault weapons?” However such may be defined, are they now being sold by U. S. dealers?
I want to put out an ad that says..
NOW HIRING!
Liberals/Marxists and Obama supporters need not apply.
“It is not known how Reynolds will identify Obama supporters”
That’s easy. Its the ones wearing the baggy pants, a backwards ball hat and wanting to buy a TEC-9.
This situation might seem funny, or something you agree with (on the surface), but it really hurts gun owners and sellers in the long run. We ARE better than the dark side.
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Obama’s supporters should be wearing hockey helmets
That’s just it, I don’t think they WOULD apply. A job would only mess up their assistance.
Explain ‘Dark Side’
“While I understand the sentiment, we must hold the Second Amendment higher than than voting history,”
The second amendment does not require any gun retailer to do business with anyone. Leftist democrats are completely free to open a gun store too. Nobody’s second amendment rights are imperiled when a man will not sell a gun to a person who voted for Obama. Obama has a stated goal of ending the firearms ownership.
True Obama supporters wouldn’t be caught owning a gun to begin with....
Some Leftist is going to claim that this is racist.
The right to keep and bear arms is a constitutional right and the right to purchase, lawfully, firearms and ammunition is, as a reasonable person would see it, a civil right.
Not selling a product to a person on the basis of political affiliation runs against all that, does it not?
Slightly changing the topic, I want to take Dems and gun grabbers shooting, and encourage them to own a piece (for home protection). They just might learn that gun ownership is a solid comfort (as we know), and asking anti-gun folks to take a few steps in our shoes is more likely to convince them than all the verbal arguments we might have.
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Here, I'm thinking Democrat/Marxist/anti-colonialist/anti-Second Amendment, haters of the American Way.
You know, Dark Side.
You have a civil right to own a gun, but this in no way demands a dealer who detests you, to sell you one.
For example, we have a right to free speech, but if i demand DU let me post conservative articles lest they violate my free speech rights, it would be seen as incorrect of me. They would correctly say that my rights can be satisfied by any number of other avenues.
A civil right, demands nothing from another person. Free speech doesn’t require that i listen or give you a soapbox.
Your right to a gun, doesn’t mean a specific someone must sell you one if they think it’s bad business. What if they disagree on the price? What if a businessman decides that he cannot in good conscience, sell an 85 year old woman a .460 Weatherby Magnum for home defense? He knows her family will spread stories that he sold her something she cannot lift, and will hurt her with recoil. He thinks it will hurt his business, because people will think he was unethical. His decision as a businessman does not violate their civil rights.
And in this case he does not want to empower the very people who want his business closed.
Your right to be free from search without a warrant, or double jeopardy doesn’t require anyone to lift a finger. Freedom of religion doesn’t mean San Francisco bookstores must sell Bibles.
And maybe he’s just a good businessman. He just got free advertising coast to coast and ensured his core customer base will be even more loyal.
As to encouraging Dems to own guns, i think that is good on a few levels. In a functional adult, it encourages independent thought, the view that they are an individual.
Second, William Raspberry situations are bound to occur where leftists use a gun to protect theirselves. This is a huge teachable moment.
They will sometimes interact with the shooting community when they need an accessory, when they need ammunition, if it needs a repair, or when they want to practice.
Last, as laws grow more restrictive, they will slowly experience government as their adversary who restricts them and steals from them. Everytime they hear something bad about gun owners, they will have a moment where they think “Say, I own a gun and I’M nothing like that!”.
So your idea is not without merit.
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