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Why this Manhattan gun store didn’t actually sell guns
The Wahington Post ^

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; newyork; nyc
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To: matt04
Never mind the liberal buffoonery, what I want to know is what their prospective business was like.

The moment that a genuine legal gun shop opens in New York City, finally allowing decent law-abiding citizens of NYC their first chance at legally acquiring a firearm without constraint of the Sullivan Law, that gun shop will have more people lining up and camping outside than the Apple store on Fifth Avenue the night before the last iPhone release. There'd be celebrities and glitterati wearing pulled down hats and giant sunglasses, hair bunched up and no makeup so as to preserve anonymity. People posting Instagram shots of them camping next to that hot chick who was in the Harry Potter films.

In a city of 8.5 million people, that gun store won't be big enough to handle the crowd. They'd only be able to see you by appointment only. For the first year, it would be harder to get in that gun store than to get a seat at the sushi bar at Masa over in Time Warner plaza.

Studio 54 at it's peak would have *nothing* on that legitimate NYC gun store. You better believe.

NYC anti-gun liberals know it, too.

41 posted on 03/18/2015 3:44:21 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: matt04

And they didn’t allow the NRA to open a gun store in NY.


42 posted on 03/18/2015 4:11:53 PM PDT by Rappini (Veritas Vos Liberabit)
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To: Rappini

I was in Main Street Guns on 3/17/2015 @10:48 A.M. in Lilburn GA. 30044. ATF was doing a total store inventory and one agent was copying the 4506-40 at a time right out in the open.


43 posted on 03/18/2015 4:44:36 PM PDT by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!.)
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"The moment that a genuine legal gun shop opens in New York City"

Beretta has a gallery in New York City.

True, "Please note that, due to New York City laws, the New York Gallery does not have handguns on display" but it's Beretta's flagship and it's in New York! (And unlike the props in that fake gun store, these are the real McCoy! Do note that the shades are drawn, lest neighbors become too aware of what Beretta makes and sells.)

http://newyork.berettagallery.com/


44 posted on 03/18/2015 4:45:14 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: Bob

That and they got really good audio of their reactions, almost too good from some random person walking in off the street.


45 posted on 03/18/2015 5:18:19 PM PDT by matt04
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That and they got really good audio of their reactions, almost too good from some random person walking in off the street.

Good catch -- I was going more on what they said and how they said it. I completely missed the fact that the audio quality was superb. I wonder how many "takes" had to be done to get such high production values.

46 posted on 03/18/2015 5:22:46 PM PDT by Bob (Violence in islam? That's not a bug; it's a feature.)
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To: matt04

And here I thought Monty Python was retiring.


47 posted on 03/18/2015 5:39:48 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: USNBandit

Opens All kinds of Possibilities ,,,hmmm .!


48 posted on 03/18/2015 5:40:07 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Bob

I’m willing to bet everyone filmed was wearing a bodypack. I didn’t recall hearing any street noise that a hidden microphone would normally pick up.


49 posted on 03/18/2015 6:29:06 PM PDT by matt04
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