Posted on 03/18/2015 1:38:59 PM PDT by matt04
Last week, sandwiched between a row of shops and apartments, you may have noticed that a store hawking firearms miraculously opened for two days on Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Had you ventured inside and asked the gruff-sounding owner whether you could take a closer look at, say, a revolver, you probably would have encountered the following sales pitch:
“…this revolver, it’s the easiest gun we have to use. It’s our most popular one. It’s a 22-caliber, six-inch revolver,” the clerk begins. “It’s also a gun that a five-year-old found in his parents’ bedroom, went down and shot his nine-month-old baby brother with it.”
If that sounds a lot like the least effective sales pitch of all time, there’s a reason for that.
An overwhelmingly depressing and frank sales pitch — the kind you won’t hear at any other gun store in the country — was exactly what States United To Prevent Gun Violence was, well, shooting for when it did the unimaginable last week and opened a pretend gun shop in a city known for having some of the strictest gun-control laws in the nation.
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Numerous customers walked into the store, Barrett said, most seeking a gun for self-protection.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
They were also selling lies.
Executive Director Leah Gunn Barrett told The Washington Post. “Gun owners often believe that firearms make them safer, but having a gun in your home actually makes you far less safe for homicide, suicide and domestic violence.”
LOL. A “pretend” gun store fails to sell guns.
And the last time I checked, they disabled comments on YouTube.
Cowards.
Their stunt was about as bad as that of the recent Funny or Die “comedy” troop sketch that used warped logic.
did not anti abortion “clinics” get in trouble for this?
(Instant awareness of what's going on, and quick shift into stereotypical rethug gun hugger mode)
"So we know it works. Cool. What are you asking for it?"
POP! ('splodey lib head)
GMTA! Posted mine before I saw yours....
can you open a business to lease guns?
Really? You have a .22 Revolver used in a killing? May I see it? May I ask HOW YOU got it? It’s not common to resell guns used in killings, is it? Are you BULLSHITTING me?
Exactly. :)
I understand your comment. May I add that a fear of guns, really a respect for what can happen with careless handling of one is a good thing. I have handled rifles, shotguns and pistols for most of my adult life and still fear them greatly.
Regards, Bat
Technically all fake guns that aren’t completely pink or green are illegal in NYC.
They are already committing a crime simply by holding them.
What you have is respect. Fear is an emotion.
isn’t selling a gun used in a crime illegal? should it not be reported?
I have yet to be asked that question. I am not sure what I am going to say when it happens. “No”, with a big insincere grin, I guess, but how dare they ask it.
I wonder if there’s laws or ordinances in New York regarding prop guns.
These gun-hating, castrated wimps are the reason why President Buckwheat will never realize “...a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded as the army.”
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