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.
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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.
And they didn’t allow the NRA to open a gun store in NY.
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.
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/
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.
And here I thought Monty Python was retiring.
Opens All kinds of Possibilities ,,,hmmm .!
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.
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