An Open Letter to Kalifornia Gun Stores

This just in from a friend who has had it:

kalifornia gun stores are succeeding where the state NEVER could - They are making me sick and tired of buying guns. I have been collecting guns for 35 years. From the gunstore(s) I have watched the decline of the industry and freedom in general over that period of time.

I am writing you as a kalifornia boiled frog.

I am sick and tired of doing business with, paying out money to, providing income for sullen, superior, can't give a crap petite federal agents operating gun stores. Let's face it, the owner of your local gun store and his employees are federal agents light. Instead of paying homage to the constitution for the right to operate a gun business in a "free country" They (at least in practice) suck up to the BATFU, State DOJ's and police at every level bending over backwards to satisfy government agents over their paying customers for fear of suffering the consequences. Make no mistake, the counter person at your local gun store is a fed light.

It is so hard to do gun business in kalifornia that as a customer you are a captive and your gun store knows it and treats you that way - like you have no choice, take it or leave it

Two recent experiences at kalifornia gun stores illustrate where the gun business is at in the state. Last week I purchased a Colt Gold Cup from a private party and met him at Marin Firearms in Novato to do the required private party transaction. The store personnel were frowning sullen people that could not care less about having a customer. At the end of the transaction the sales person took the gun out of the case and refused to use my case to hold it in the safe (for the required 10 days) unless I bought a case from him - which I did - the only money I will ever spend in his store ever again - I hope he made out on the sale. They also have a policy of making you wait 11 days to pick up a firearm because as long as you have to bend over anyway, being good little apparatchiks, they want you to bend over a little farther.

Again, yesterday at Irvington Arms in Fremont - picking up another Gold Cup, the sales person would not accept my lock, made me buy one for $10, refused to take it back when I wanted to return it and another sales person who had more than a dozen times accepted my lock, turned his back on me when I asked him to intercede - And I have purchased two dozen guns in this store and at least a dozen from this sales person over the last two years. AND HE TURNS HIS BACK ON ME!!! I Hope they made out on the $10 lock because they will never see a dollar from me again. Ever.

I'm a serious collector, a serious buyer and I am pretty damn easy. I am in my peak earning and spending years and I spend but.....Why should I help provide an income to people who are surly and contemptuous and act like they could care less if I did business in their store(s) or not? I'm sick of kalifornia gun stores. You apparently don't need my money - I don't NEED to buy your products, I got plenty, I'll hold, F*** you! If I treated my customers in the common manner of kalifornia gun stores I would be out of business by Christmas. (and I would not deserve the business I did get)

The fact is that gun stores give all the time and dignity in the world to counter sitters who read gun magazines and own no guns. The biggest group of alleged customers I see in gun store are the crowd whose "wife won't let me have one". They are there to remember what testosterone smells like. You don't see the real, repeat buyers at the gun store any more because they are in and out, have their paperwork together and don't hang out in what has become a hostile environment. The REAL gun buyers, the ones that value and understand the second amendment, the constitution and understand freedom and BUY LOTS OF GUNS come closest to witnessing freedoms loss with every visit to a kalifornia the gun store.

From what I see as a 35 year BUYER in the industry, I can only figure that kalifornia gun stores are counting on new customers and ripping off uninformed people selling their used guns in a state with nowhere else to go. The only reason to have a gun store in kalifornia seems to be to mine the state for collectibles to sell out of state and to sell plastic guns to the (must be) endless stream of new gun consumers. Regular buyers who spend real money repeatedly - they can go to hell. No inventory, polymer guns only, rigid fed representatives (store employees) - WHO NEEDS EM? F' em. I know why the business is dying.

Recently my daughter moved to Arizona and it is night and day. She has 14 gun stores within seven miles of her house - all of them friendly - all of them acting like they want your business - all of them having inventory!!! She can purchase a firearm and be out the door with it in 15 minutes from people who are happy to see her and happy to have her business. They return her calls!!

And while we're on the subject - This could not happen if kalifornia gun owners weren't in the majority such peer pressured pussies. We are where we are because kalifornia gun owners put up with it and allow it to happen.

All you have to do is look on Cal Gun to see gun owners who act like they have never seen a free market "Price is firm - no low ball offers" - "Price reduced". "Price reduced", "Price reduced" - "only 10 rounds down the tube fired by little old lady wearing gloves" - and my personal favorite, "If you don't buy it at this price it's going back in the safe". Are we such pussies that we are insulted by an offer? As adults don't we understand that the value of an item is "what a ready, willing buyer is willing to pay"? Not being on the kalifornia "approved list" doesn't make your gun a valuable or rare collectors item - Come back to earth!!!

I have to say that after years of the slow boiling that is putting up with kalifornia at every level, I am overcooked and dry and I am going to withhold my further participation (i.e. $$$$$) from the industry. I hope all the gun stores in kalifornia close, the owners go bankrupt and their personnel become unemployed.

Yours in total disgust,

I think some gun store owners need to hear that. Amazing how being polite, interested and helpful seem to be some kind of great, impossible-to-master mystery for some, and how many people completely lacking in any kind of social skills are placed in customer service positions.

Speaking of Aptronyms

The problem is — and I’m hardly alone in thinking this — that the NRA doesn’t really support me, at least anymore. Their mission, once focused on education, safety and proficiency, seems to have narrowed to a fixation on the preservation of both Republican politicians and the unfettered ability to buy, sell and carry any and every kind of firearm in every conceivable time and place. [More]

So says "Greg Hunter," Fudd and Democrat apparatchik. Way to give aid and comfort to the enemies of gun owners, Quisling. If I were an FFL and I knew this guy, I'd tell him to get the hell out of my store.

You want the NRA's original mission? It was to train American citizens to become proficient in keeping and bearing “weapons of war.”

Here's where being marginalized by the media and the search engines kills us-- by having this disinformation appear on NBC News, this will get thousands of times more eyeballs than niche "gun advocacy" sites can draw, and influence thousands of times more voters. That's the reason behind the only thing I ask of readers, not that most will bother.

[Via Roger J]

Halfway Measures

David Mark Williams, a farmer in Halfway, Ore., described guns as “a tool. If you’re hunting or living a rural lifestyle, you’re going to have a firearm.” But Williams, who came to Washington this fall with MoveOn.org to meet with members of both parties, said he resigned his NRA membership after its president opposed stricter gun laws in the aftermath of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. [More]

Yeah, present a Prozi as a typical "reasonable" gun owner. Using MoveOn shills is an old damn trick, one WaPo is happy to exploit. If I were a gun dealer and this gunkapo came in, I'd tell him to get the hell out of my store.

The bottom line is, nothing will change in terms of reducing "gun violence" because they're dealing with the wrong end of the spectrum. And while there will definitely be new burdens on the "law-abiding," there may also be an unintended consequence that Obama's legal fine tooth combers never thought of. I don't want to say any more just yet, lest they sidestep a pitfall. Depending on what he imposes, I'll either say more about that later or I won't.

Rope-Selling Cheap Labor Capitalists

 U.S. Chamber to Biden: You can help Americans by importing foreign workers [More]

It's not like we've not got plenty of our own people out of work thanks to the utter China virus bungling and exploitation. And the demand is not just for white-collar workers.

What you won't see for tech "migrants" is an admission that many of those jobs can be done via remote access/telecommuting, something we're seeing many companies and government agencies rely on. That would also be much more humane in terms of not separating families, and also of having higher wage foreign workers pump their prosperity into their local economies.

But then they wouldn't get to come over here, jump onto that "pathway to citizenship" and vote Democrat, would they?

In terms of the blue-collar workers (i.e., amnesty for illegals) the treasonous Chamber is applauding, let's examine a case study:

Meet Instacart Founder Apoorva Mehta, a young and recent billionaire born in India, raised in Canada, and now heading a wildly successful grocery delivery service headquartered in that bastion of "progressive" economics, San Francisco. Talk about an American success story that's, as the Chamber puts it, "contribut[ing] to our economy driv[ing] growth, and in turn, creat[ing] jobs for hardworking Americans."

That must be why he's "firing every employee who voted to unionize" in a move that will "will impact nearly 2,000 of the company’s 10,000 grocery store workers."

Wait a sec: Aren't the Democrats supposed to be about "the working man"? Didn't "Biden promise... to be ‘the most pro-union president’" and doesn't he have a "PLAN FOR STRENGTHENING WORKER ORGANIZING, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND UNIONS"?

Who thinks these fraudulent bastards are sincere about anything except grabbing everything they can for themselves, and the hell with useful idiots they can swindle votes out of? Do you think if they cared about working Americans they'd be doing everything they can to destroy Mike Lindell and "My Pillow" because of his political beliefs, and to hell with the 1,500 American workers dependent on those jobs for their livelihoods, their rent, their food, their children...?

Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue"!

[Instacart tip via Steve T]

Survey SAYS...

 

The Gun Feed Poll: How will the first time gun buyers affect the election? [More]

I'd like to see some numbers based on asking them.

Hell, if I were an FFL they'd have to get the answer right or I'd tell them to get the hell out of my store.

More on the Great Gun Rush of '08

Here are two videos from ABC News that give a nationwide perspective on what I'm talkin' about here.

Firearm Stockpiling:
First off, if I ran a gun shop and anybody came in wearing a damned Obama button, I'd tell him to get the hell out of my store.

And the "expert" professor is there to soothe the herd. Note he qualified Obama wasn't going to try anything against guns "in his first term," which really means as soon as the opportunity presents itself as a political risk where the benefits are perceived to outweigh the costs by an acceptable margin.

His Heller talking point is also just that,and one we see all the antis jumping on. One Supreme Court "justice" is all it will take to reverse that.

Gun Sales Soar with Obama Win:
It's OK. Nothing to worry about. Not only does Obama deny "these worries are on target," he's even been endorsed by Fudd's Fifth Column!

And just to prove ABC News brings us "Authorized Journalism" at its finest, 13 Eyewitness News "correspondent" Erik Barajas dutifully parrots characterizing the campaign's gun platform as "common sense."

[Via Dan S]

"A True Champion of the Second Amendment"

Senate sources said Reid’s office reached out last month to Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), which is the most politically active group pushing for tighter gun regulations. Reid wanted the group, funded by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, to help push back against the NRA. [More]

Gee whillikers--Harry trying to collaborate with Mike. Who could have foreseen that?

You ready to retract that "true champion" nonsense and give him an "F" yet, Wayne?

And if I were a Nevada gun shop proprietor, I'd tell every one of these kapos to get the hell out of my store.

In an Ideal Scenario

In an ideal scenario, Barron said, congress would pass a law that would require gun makers to include Lockdown’s technology on weapons [More]

In an ideal scenario, ignoramuses who don't even know enough to keep their booger hooks off the bang switch would be pointed and laughed at every time they presumed to offer "common sense gun safety" legislation.

Gosh, and what ever happened to that other bit of advice for giving the advantage to home invaders: keeping your ammunition stored and locked separately form your firearms?

Right, pal, you keep appealing to Piers Morgan and ignoring what we know about the government's ability to track smartphone data.

I don't know who sold this kapo his gun collection, assuming it's his, but if I were an FFL, I'd tell him to get the hell out of my store.

[Via Russ S]

One of the More Sinister Sights

[Watch]

I won't lose any sleep if this effete Limey [Aussie] son of a bitch ends up sodomized to death by "refugees."

As for "first-time buyers," if I were an FFL and could determine they voted for gun-grabbers, I'd tell them to get the hell out of my store.

[Via Jess]

Kapos for Kristallnacht

[More]

It's not the NRA these domestic enemies are against.  And the comments are no better.

Denying guns and ammo to them, along with a hearty "F*** you, now get the hell out of my store, douchebags!" is "gun control" I could support.

Gun Owners for Disarmament

Horner told me he doesn’t consider himself political, but he said he’s planning to vote for Biden. [More]

Horner is an idiot. if I were an FFL I'd tell him to get the hell out of my store.

Gunkapo Bob

Bob Mokos is a passionate gun owner who on the surface would seem like a card-carrying National Rifle Association member...But Mokos has grown so disillusioned with the NRA over the years that he has joined forces with a rival organization - the gun control group founded by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. [More]

Oh, bull. If liking guns was the criterion, we'd have no better pal than Lon Horiuchi.

This useful idiot was never "one of us," not ideologically. He's a Lord Haw-haw, a Tokyo Rose, an Axis Sally, except he's more absurd than those, making him more like a Howard W. Campbell, Jr. He's an exploitable face for well-financed Astro-Turfers, whose purpose is to divide and conquer by redefining forbidden infringements as "commonsense" and "reasonable." Where have we seen that before.

If I were an FFL and he came into my store, I'd tell him to get the hell out.

Nipping Tuck

Mary Parker of Ken Caryl, who has a concealed-carry permit, opposed the bill. [More]

If I were an FFL and Mary Parker walked into my store, I'd tell the stupid, freeloading kapoette to get the hell out.

Not that the bill has a snowball's chance...

[Via cydl]

Less is Moore

My pistol permit allows me to "carry concealed." That's right, I can legally carry a handgun, and you wouldn't even know it. [More]

So why do you even have one?

Because the rest of your pussified diatribe is nothing but a lame cover for ceding all moral responsibility to defend yourself and your charges to the "Only Ones" if evil ever visits. If you'd be incapable in a school situation, why should you be trusted anywhere? Does something magical happen when artificial property lines are crossed?

And why should any parent who loves their children trust them with a useless, gutless excuse-maker like you?

If I were an FFL and you came into my gun store, I'd tell you to get the hell out, and I'd probably use a different word than "hell."