Posted on 02/18/2013 6:42:29 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
CONCORD, N.H. - Police chiefs in New Hampshire wanted more money for a youth training program. A youth hockey team in North Dakota needed ice time.
Both saw giving away guns as the answer.
From car dealerships to political parties to hockey teams to, yes, even police chiefs, gun giveaways are an attractive way to make money or draw in customers. But in the wake of the deadly Connecticut school shootings, such raffles are drawing criticism as the ease of obtaining firearms fuels gun-control debates nationwide.
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Perhaps the math challenged dolts in the press and in politics (are there any other types?) might want to give some examples and some percentages of the number of raffle guns that have been won by criminals.
Tick....tick....tick....crickets chirping, old dogs passing Obamagas out of their Obamaholes.....
From the raffles I’ve seen. The gun is given as a credit at a local firearms dealer and it is picked up from the dealer with a background check.
Every gun raffle in which I participated required a background check and form 4473 for the winner.
Yes, they know, full well that these prizes are not handed out without an NICS check. They don’t care. It’s just a matter of bad taste, doncha know.
The last firearm I bought a raffle ticket for is a Remington 870 Turkey 12 ga. 3 1/2” mag. pump w/thumbhole stock, vent rib , full camo. This last one is for the Coles Point Mississippi Volunteer Fire Department.
Drawing Feb. 22nd.
The weapon of choice for criminals.
I would have thought that. I have a lot of experience at buying raffle tickets but none at winning.
Exactly! It's as if you purchased it a a gun store.
These folks would get really riled up if they knew what the MN chapter of DU did with this year’s calendar raffle...
In both cases a background check and form 4473 was required.
The story is about feelings and not about facts. It is meant for consumption by no/low intelligence voters.
I have won 2 firearm raffles
Or he could go out and shoot a strawman.
I know the organizers of the one here locally in ND, they will make 10x what they thought due to the publicity. Of course all winners will have to go through a local gun retailer as if they were purchasers.
Raffles are not under fire. Whatever that means to one so-called writer who references two small nonprofits that hate anything to do with guns.
This kind of “news story” is no story at all. All one has to do is google the name of the writer, Lynne Tuohy to see that this article and the words are meaningless because this is all contrived. Tuohy has never covered news, only liberal press releases.
Liberal entity issues press release>>Tuohy sees press release>>Tuohy reformulates press release in to “news story”>>liberal newspaper prints it as if it is news>>morons think it is news and worth treating seriously.
Bottom line?
PROPAGANDA or as we say in Texas -BULL$HIT
Raffles are not under fire. Whatever that means to one so-called writer who references two small nonprofits that hate anything to do with guns.
This kind of “news story” is no story at all. All one has to do is google the name of the writer, Lynne Tuohy to see that this article and the words are meaningless because this is all contrived. Tuohy has never covered news, only liberal press releases.
Liberal entity issues press release>>Tuohy sees press release>>Tuohy reformulates press release in to “news story”>>liberal newspaper prints it as if it is news>>morons think it is news and worth treating seriously.
Bottom line?
PROPAGANDA or as we say in Texas -BULL$HIT
Exactly! Our local Moose lodge does a couple a year
You get a dollar amount and have to go through the dedignated FFL holder
Still.have to do.the 4473
The problem is, these bedwetters just don't like guns period, so anything that portrays guns posititively or that pro-rights, pro-gun people enjoy must be stopped. Well, guess what? Their feeeeeelings don't have the force of law, and even etiquette doesn't require us to pretend that their opinion has any value.
I think conservatives fall down there a lot. Liberals aren't afraid to stand up and say "Stuff we don't like is at least controversial, if not bad, and if you're going to do it anyway, you're required to pay lip service to our concerns, as if it were a given that they were well founded." And conservatives don't have the guts to say "Your opinion isn't to be viewed as valid merely because you were able to form it. How about you guys walk around in fear of OUR opinions for a while?"
Amateur...
;-)
When I lived in Alaska, our church used an annual auction to help raise money.
I remember loosing a bidding war on a Parkerized 12 gauge that three of us were determined to own.
Not quite a raffle, but still a fund raiser many would not associate with a modern church.
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