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Staples Office Products Says Gun Store Owners Cannot Enter Their Contest
Fox News ^ | 5/30/13 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 05/30/2013 12:28:07 PM PDT by Student0165

A small Nebraska gun shop has decided to buy its ink pens and post-it notes somewhere else after they said Staples rejected their entry into a marketing contest because they are in the firearms business.

Travis Vonseggern and Bill Jackson own Maple Creek Gunsmithing in Fremont, Neb. The store offers gunsmithing, guns, ammo, and firearms training.gunsmith

They recently entered the Staples PUSH It Forward Contest – hoping to win a $50,000 marketing campaign for their small business. But a few days later, the men received a rejection email:

“We’re sorry, but your small business entry into the Staples PUSH It Forward Contest has been rejected for the following reason(s): Entry contains content that promotes alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing); promotes any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous; promotes any particular political agenda or message; is obscene or offensive; or endorses any form of hate or hate group.”

More at link (sorry, I'm not sure if I could post the entire article).

(Excerpt) Read more at radio.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; democrats; guncontrol; guns; liberalism; rights; secondamendment; staples
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1 posted on 05/30/2013 12:28:08 PM PDT by Student0165
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To: Student0165

If true, I and my wife will discard our Staples card.


2 posted on 05/30/2013 12:28:53 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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” “We’re sorry, but your small business entry into the Staples PUSH It Forward Contest has been rejected for the following reason(s): Entry contains content that promotes alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing); promotes any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous; promotes any particular political agenda or message; is obscene or offensive; or endorses any form of hate or hate group.” “

LOL....Leftist rubbish.


3 posted on 05/30/2013 12:29:48 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Student0165

Well, gun owners need not shop at Staples...


4 posted on 05/30/2013 12:30:00 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Student0165

Bought my last item at Staples.

I am sure a few hundred thousand less customers won’t bother them.


5 posted on 05/30/2013 12:31:09 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
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To: Student0165

Guess we know where not to shop


6 posted on 05/30/2013 12:31:47 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
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To: Da Coyote
If true, I and my wife will discard our Staples card.

Ditto that

7 posted on 05/30/2013 12:32:08 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: Irenic

Or any one else win a brain...


8 posted on 05/30/2013 12:32:09 PM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Student0165

Spread it far and wide. Now gun owners are considered as bad as “illegal drug users?”

I wont buy a thing from Staples ever again after hearing this.


9 posted on 05/30/2013 12:32:25 PM PDT by eXe (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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So much for Staples. They just nailed themselves to the wall.


10 posted on 05/30/2013 12:33:01 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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Staples is now officially off my list of places to buy stuff.......


11 posted on 05/30/2013 12:33:09 PM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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https://www.facebook.com/staples
https://twitter.com/staples
http://www.youtube.com/staples
http://www.staples.com/office/supplies/customercommunity


12 posted on 05/30/2013 12:33:11 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Student0165

Time for a national boycott against Staples.


14 posted on 05/30/2013 12:36:44 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: Student0165

EFF ‘em!


15 posted on 05/30/2013 12:37:33 PM PDT by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: Student0165

This will be shared with my blog followers and my entire contact list. Thank you for posting it!


16 posted on 05/30/2013 12:38:01 PM PDT by MeganC (You can take my gun when you can grab it with your cold, dead fingers.)
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To: eXe

“Spread it far and wide. Now gun owners are considered as bad as “illegal drug users?”

I wont buy a thing from Staples ever again after hearing this.”

Didn’t Holder say that gun owners must be shamed? Glad to know you’re aboard, Staples! One has to wonder if some corporations have been forced into this kind of Un-American activity.


17 posted on 05/30/2013 12:39:23 PM PDT by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
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You are so welcome. I’m glad I caught the news. I just sent Staples a message via their FB page.


18 posted on 05/30/2013 12:39:45 PM PDT by Student0165
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“...or endorses any form of hate or hate group”

I guess they don’t count hoplophobia


19 posted on 05/30/2013 12:40:19 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Irenic

They’re getting smoked on their Facebook page. I predict a rapid, crab-like move by some executive while throwing a marketing schlub under the bus.


20 posted on 05/30/2013 12:43:17 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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