vendredi 25 septembre 2015

San Francisco's last gun shop to close.

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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.
What kind of crap is this? A weekly basis? I wonder what they hope to do with all of that data?

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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.
I wonder what city officials really hoped to gain other than closure of the shop?

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"This year, it's this and next year will probably be something else," Alcairo added. "We don't want to wait for it."
I suppose they can simply sell the shop to someone willing to bend over and accept another regulation? Probably not going to happen though.

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Ladd Everitt, spokesman for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, said the proposed regulations are not onerous and said “video evidence is a critical component in bringing lawbreakers to justice.”

“If High Bridge Arms is so scared of implementing such a practice, my first question would be, ‘What do you have to hide?,'" he said. "Why in the world aren't we requiring all gun stores to tape sales at this point?”
This guy sounds like a jerk and a half to say the least. I bet he would be singing a different tune if city officials wanted video taken of his driveway/front door and turned in to the police each week.

Ranb


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