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sarisataka

(20,992 posts)
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 08:14 PM Sep 2015

Surrender: San Fran's iconic, last gun shop to close over new regulations

Surrender: San Fran's iconic, last gun shop to close over new regulations

Ever since it was opened in the 1950s by a celebrated Olympic shooter, High Bridge Arms has been a defiant fixture in San Francisco's Mission District, but a coming wave of new firearms restrictions has prompted the last gun shop in the liberal City by the Bay to pack it in.

The proposed new city regulations, which could only be aimed at High Bridge Arms, would have required the shop to take and preserve video of all transactions and turn customers' personal data over to police on a weekly basis. General Manager Steven Alcairo said the shop's owners finally threw in the towel after years of what they consider being unfairly targeted with burdensome rules and regulations. Past regulations have required the shop to bar ads and displays from its windows and install cameras and barriers around its exterior. The shop has 17 cameras as it is, and turns video over to police on request, he said.

"This time, it's the idea of filming our customers taking delivery of items after they already completed waiting periods," Alcairo said. "We feel this is a tactic designed to discourage customers from coming to us.

"This year, it's this and next year will probably be something else," Alcairo added. "We don't want to wait for it."
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/24/surrender-san-fran-iconic-last-gun-shop-to-close-over-new-regulations/
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Surrender: San Fran's iconic, last gun shop to close over new regulations (Original Post) sarisataka Sep 2015 OP
kick! RandySF Sep 2015 #1
Disgusting. GGJohn Sep 2015 #3
I hope he or another will Duckhunter935 Sep 2015 #4
Brothels and meth labs employ people as well. RandySF Oct 2015 #19
Would you like one on each side of your house? oneshooter Oct 2015 #20
glad you are celebrating the loss of jobs Duckhunter935 Sep 2015 #5
How many people were working there? RandySF Sep 2015 #6
At least three from what I have quickly found Duckhunter935 Sep 2015 #8
Countyline Liquors. Another fine business brought to you by Prohibition.© Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #9
I know of three liquor stores situated just as you mentioned... friendly_iconoclast Sep 2015 #11
In Alachua Co. (Gainesville), it was Ruby's Steakhouse, just over into Marion Co. Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #12
No doubt UF was a bastion of sobriety and clean living before that friendly_iconoclast Sep 2015 #13
Yes, I contributed 4 yrs to that legacy. Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #16
So much for gun controllers not supporting absolute prohibition. benEzra Sep 2015 #17
I must point out... discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2015 #18
Now, people will simply virginia mountainman Sep 2015 #2
Chicago hasn't had a gun store in decades - no more gun violence now DonP Sep 2015 #7
"...unicorns fart rainbows on Michigan Avenue..." Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #10
LOL indeed. I'm stealing the UFR line for sure!!! :-) NT pablo_marmol Sep 2015 #15
Far as I know TeddyR Sep 2015 #14

GGJohn

(9,951 posts)
3. Disgusting.
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 08:39 PM
Sep 2015

You cheer on the loss of a business and the resulting jobs just because you disapprove of the product they sell?
Truly amazing.

 

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)
4. I hope he or another will
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 09:08 PM
Sep 2015

just move out of the city limits. The firearms will still go back to the city and they will just lose the tax revenue. It is so funny the controllers think now now weapons will be in the city.

 

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)
8. At least three from what I have quickly found
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 09:27 PM
Sep 2015

That now longer has a job. Does it matter? At least two men and one lady, not to mention the owners. I am sure it does to them. My guess it is more if they did gun smithing.

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
9. Countyline Liquors. Another fine business brought to you by Prohibition.©
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 01:01 PM
Sep 2015

I wonder if the forced-out owner will sue, or move... just over...

 

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
11. I know of three liquor stores situated just as you mentioned...
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 01:53 PM
Sep 2015

...located on the nearest available commercially zoned land to supposedly "alcohol-free"
Wellesley, Massachusetts. Two of them are just over the border.

Isn't feel-good legislation wonderful?

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
12. In Alachua Co. (Gainesville), it was Ruby's Steakhouse, just over into Marion Co.
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 02:42 PM
Sep 2015

(Ocala) where you could get liquor. Can you believe that hard liquor sales were verbotten in the county for the University of Florida until 1961? The mind reels.
When hard liquor went legal by vote, Ruby's (and others) went under.

 

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
13. No doubt UF was a bastion of sobriety and clean living before that
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 02:48 PM
Sep 2015

I almost managed to type that with a straight face...

benEzra

(12,148 posts)
17. So much for gun controllers not supporting absolute prohibition.
Mon Sep 28, 2015, 08:04 PM
Sep 2015

This gun shop pretty much sold only politically correct, gun-control-lobby-approved firearms, many of which would even be legal in Australia and England (never mind mainland Europe), and yet it must be SHUT DOWN because gunz are of the devil, sinners need to be shunned, et cetera.

And you wonder why responsible gun owners don't trust gun control advocates?

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,577 posts)
18. I must point out...
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 07:57 AM
Sep 2015

...a quote with applicable wisdom from a movie. In Enemy of the State, the main antagonist Thomas Reynolds says:

You know what I've seen?

I've seen killers walk free...
...because the eyewitness
...was an alcoholic.

I've seen sex offenders that couldn't be touched because the victim was a call girl.

Credibility... It's the only currency that means anything on this kind of playing field.


With every confiscation and closure of business pro-control credibility is eroded. People are often their own worst enemy.

virginia mountainman

(5,046 posts)
2. Now, people will simply
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 08:32 PM
Sep 2015

"take their business" elsewhere, then...bring it back into the city..

People will still get what they want, when they want it, and the city, will loose out on tax revenue! it's a real "win win"!



 

DonP

(6,185 posts)
7. Chicago hasn't had a gun store in decades - no more gun violence now
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 09:22 PM
Sep 2015

The brain trust that runs this broke, anti union city made sure there were none for the safety of the citizens. Now there are only 3 or 4 gun stores left in the whole county.

But the results are sure worth it. All the gun violence is gone now and unicorns fart rainbows on Michigan Avenue.

"Weekend shootings leave 6 dead, 31 wounded"

"Police found a 38-year-old man bleeding from head and shoulder wounds in an SUV on the Northwest Side early Monday morning while two pre-teen children sat with him in the car.

He was the 37th person shot since Friday afternoon across the city, according to police. Six of the 37 died from their wounds, including a 19-year-old woman and a 20-year-old woman shot in the early hours of Sunday."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-shootings-20150906-story.html

Typical weekend. Amazingly, none of the shooters had a concealed carry permit or a FOID card.

I'm sure San Francisco can look forward to the same results, then start blaming other states and counties for their violence, just like the dumbasses blame Indiana for Chicago guns, as if they can buy across state lines.

 

TeddyR

(2,493 posts)
14. Far as I know
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 03:33 PM
Sep 2015

There are no gun stores in D.C. either and of course it is a haven of peace. Or perhaps not, and maybe controllers should stop blaming guns and focus on criminals.

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