Oh this one is going to be good. Free AK-47s everyone!!!

[Deadric Damodred]

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/07/dealer-offers-ak47-with-each-new-truck-purchase.html

"A Missouri truck dealer hopes to reverse a nationwide slide in sales with a catchy offer: An AK-47 with every new truck purchase."

I doubt this thread is going to last long, because it's going to piss off a LOT of the gun-grabbers. I had to post it, because it makes me giggle with glee. First off, for you anti-gunners out there, it's not a real AK-47, it's a semi-automatic clone; it can not and will not shoot automatic. Secondly, the person with the voucher still has to go to a licensed dealer to pass a background check. Of course I know I know, you antis hate anything semi-automatic.......ESPECIALLY if the rifle looks cool.....the cooler it looks, the more "bling" it has on, the more you want to ban it. I'm nearly pissing myself with excitement about the complaining that's about to follow........so...with out further ado...let the bitching begin...

[geckosfeet]

1. Pre-emptive anti hating. Nice.

Keep up the excellent public relations work.

[rfranklin]

2. I keep hearing this term, "gun grabbers." Has there been...

some incident of confiscation that I missed?

[Deadric Damodred]

3. In America? Yes.

In the state of California, they had gun registration on "assault weapons", and then years later had people turn in certain ones. In the state of New York, they are currently trying to pass legislation that makes people turn in their registered .50 caliber rifles.

[rfranklin]

4. How many were actually turned in?

And what percentage of the total number of firearms in circulation?

[Deadric Damodred]

5. I don't know what the numbers are.

But what does it matter? They had people turn in their legally bought firearms that they spent their hard earned money on. That's confiscation, plain as day. I'd like to see gun-grabbers try to pass federal gun turn-in legislation and see how well that works out on a national level; just to see what kind of response you get from peope that have thousands of dollars invested in their collections.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

16. The confiscation or registration scheme failed. Largest act of civil disobediance in California

The anti gun bigots in Sacramento were truly irate and could not believe that we were not being good sheeple

[slackmaster]

22. Very few if any - The state has an evidenciary (sp?) problem with the confiscation order

Everyone who got the confiscation letter from the DoJ also received one saying their rifle was legally registered. The state would look very stupid in court if it tried to press the issue.

[Howzit]

26. Close to 100% of the ones that were registered were turned in

If you lose your job, that is only one person and a small percentage of the population, but to you that is everything.

If one class of registered guns can be confiscated then all of them can eventually be dealt with the same way.

[paulsby]

14. and don't forget new orleans

that was a true heinous gun grab

[sfwriter]

20. That's it? But the NRA says...

they'll be kicking my door down any second?

[Dogmudgeon]

6. But can you take it into church?

--d!

[Deadric Damodred]

7. Conceal & Carry, as well as Open Carry, refers...

...to handguns. Regardless of what the Brady Campaign says, you can not run around with rifles strapped to you. And, just for your reference, when the Brady's say that people will be walking around with AKs now that handguns are allowed in D.C., they are lying, as there is no conceal & carry or open carry allowed in D.C.

[rfranklin]

9. Sounds like they are using the same hyperbole that you are...

when you use that "gun grabber" meme.

[eqfan592]

24. Except it's not hyperbole if it's true.

There are people on this very board that promote the forced confiscation of all privately owned firearms, with harsh penalties for those who do not comply. The term "gun grabber" is sadly not hyperbole.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

17. The Brady Bunch always lie. At times they are as bad as Rove etc

[Hoopla Phil]

40. Well, they ARE a bunch of rethugs.

[Turbineguy]

8. Lighten up, Francis.

"Gun-Grabbers"

Indeed.

[DrDan]

10. your only goal is to stir things up

go back to your toys . . . er, your guns. At least they can bring you some satisfaction and joy.

[Locrian]

11. hmmm... guns and trucks

why dont they just cut to it and pass out free viagra and penis pumps?

just saying.... ;-)

[TPaine7]

12. There are sites dedicated to guys like yourself

who are interested in strange men's penises and erections.

Or so I've been told, anyway. Google is your friend.

Just saying.... ;)



PS: that's a strictly platonic wink

[Chulanowa]

13. Ignoring for the moment your nugentian babble...

Anyone else notice something odd about a floundering business adding extra swag to a product they already know nobody wants?

Well, seems it's working to bring attention to the place. Whether this translates into actual money remains to be seen.

[iverglas]

23. heh

His last stunt was buy one get one free -- pickup trucks, that is.

What's of note, though, is the swag selected.

I would have thought he'd do better if he were offering vouchers for a month's worth of groceries with every truck purchased.

Either he has an agenda, or his potential customers really would rather have guns than butter.

I tend to the former notion, myself.

[E-Mag]

27. Or he likes the free advertising (N/T)

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Screw the guns. Why is he pushing gas guzzling trucks !!!!!!!!!!!!

Everybody 'round here has dozens of guns.
What we need are good milage trucks, preferably twice the size of the F-10's.
Yeah.....and cheap ones.
with noisy mufflers and GIGANTIC tires.

trust me...I know what sells in these parts.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

18. Because that is what he has on his lot to sell...

[slackmaster]

19. Nice misleading, inaccurate, inflammatory subject line, DD

:nuke:

[aikoaiko]

25. agreed.,

Plus, we've already seen this story a couple of times I do believe.

[iverglas]

21. well I've been meaning to post this one for days

First off, for you anti-gunners out there, it's not a real AK-47, it's a semi-automatic clone

Interesting how the dealership owner himself refers to it as an AK-47 in every single interview/article I have seen/read about this, eh?

Somebody really needs to give that man a good talking to.

Interesting, too, what a right-wing piece of shit he reveals himself as at every opportunity.

"Guns, God, Guts and American Pick-Up Trucks"

You do know what a laughingstock people like this make of your country, hm?

[AtheistCrusader]

29. It's a marketing ploy in an area where that sort of thing appeals to the consumer.

Wouldn't work here in Seattle.


So if I can find something silly happening somewhere, anywhere in your country, we can call Canada a laughingstock right?

[iverglas]

30. check google news

So if I can find something silly happening somewhere, anywhere in your country, we can call Canada a laughingstock right?

This little tale is all over the media in other countries, and you can bet people there are shaking their heads and having all their stereotypes about the USofA confirmed for them.

Yes, he is making a laughingstock of his country.

[Deadric Damodred]

32. And we care what they think because...???

[iverglas]

33. I dunno

A bunch of you seem to think I care what you think about me, so I could only imagine that you are sensitive souls and were projecting your sickly self-esteem onto me, I guess.

[AtheistCrusader]

28. Offer me a Prius with a ring mount, and I'm interested.

Preferably one with the extra battery conversion.

[iverglas]

31. hee hee hee

While doing that google news check, look what I found.
(Forgive the Toronto Sun link.)

http://www.torontosun.com/news/weird/2009/07/19/10184266-sun.html
"I think that Muller's just perpetuating the idea that people who drive pickup trucks want assault rifles. What would do they give a customers who purchased a Prius ... a can of mace?"

:rofl:

[Deadric Damodred]

34. South Park already addressed the hybrid owner issue.

South Park says that hybrid owners are so smug about owning a hybrid that they like the smell of their own farts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLpx_yioYik

[rrneck]

35. That dealer did an interview

on BBC this morning and he sounded like a first rate jerk. It was embarrassing.

[iverglas]

36. what kind of a moron / asshole

says (the emphasized bit):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5865721/US-car-dealer-offers-free-Kalashnikov-with-every-purchase.html

"This is about the right of defending me and my family," said Mr Muller, a 49-year-old father of three. "I have a loaded gun in my pocket now and one in the glove locker of the car with a 12-round clip in it. My wife also carries a weapon."

It boggles the mind.

[iverglas]

37. and somebody really does need to explain to him

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5865721/US-car-dealer-offers-free-Kalashnikov-with-every-purchase.html

Asked why an automatic weapon with a 30 or 60-round magazine was required for self-defence, he cited the case of the Florida couple recently shot dead in their homes by a gang of six robbers.

"I don't know a single shotgun would have worked for them. With an automatic they might have died, but they would have taken some of the bastards down too," he said.

how completely fucked up his brain is.

(a) It isn't an automatic, right?

(b) Whatever it is, it really isn't any good for spray-firing or otherwise shooting lots of people in short order; if it was, the "assault weapons ban" wouldn't have been such a joke, right?


It must be galling to have such morons/assholes on your side!

[jeepnstein]

38. Yeah, but the antis have you.

Nature has a way of balancing these things.

[E-Mag]

39. Yes it is a semi only not full auto

A select fire AK will easily run over $10,000 + the $200 tax stamp and the 3 month wait after being fingerprinted.

[benEzra]

41. A repeating shotgun would have worked fine; a single-shot, not so much.

And "spray firing" non-automatics is for B grade action movies; rifles and shotguns ARE easier to aim than handguns, though. I do shoot a civilian AK myself, remember.

Still, if one was going to construct a box that would be difficult to get out of, that home invasion would be it. Perimeter sensors and a safe room would have worked for a small family, but not if you have 9 special-needs kids in the house to round up; still, he and his wife couldn't have fared worse if they were armed, and might well have fared better, who knows.

FWIW, the victims in that case were killed with a pistol; the invaders also had a pump-action shotgun. Police haven't said what else, if anything, they had.

[trumanh59639]

42. who cares if it's semi-automatic?

It's still a dangerous weapon.

[ManiacJoe]

43. Of course it is dangerous; it is a gun.

Its dangerousness is what makes it useful as a tool. However, its lack of power does place restrictions on its effectiveness in some circumstances.

[iverglas]

44. sadly, our Deadric,

one of the nastiest pieces of work to infest this place in recent memory, has left the building.



Maybe he's still with us in spirit if not under another name, though!

[Glory89fan]

45. Great, more ways to for gun owners to kill each other off

No wonder our country is going nuts.