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San Francisco's last gun store closing doors for good
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:04 pm
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:04 pm
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The only gun store in San Francisco is shuttering for good, saying it can no longer operate in the city's political climate of increased gun control regulations and vocal opposition to its business.
"It's with tremendous sadness and regret that I have to announce we are closing our shop," High Bridge Arms manager Steve Alcairo announced in a Facebook post on Sept. 11. "It has been a long and difficult ride, but a great pleasure to be your last San Francisco gun shop."
Alcairo said the breaking point came this summer when a local politician proposed a law that would require High Bridge Arms to video record every gun sale and submit a weekly report of ammunition sales to the police. If passed, the law would join several local gun control ordinances on the books in a city still scarred by the 1993 murder of eight in a downtown high-rise and the 1978 assassination of Mayor George Moscone and gay rights activist Harvey Milk.
"I'm not doing that to our customers. Enough is enough," Alcairo said. "Buying a gun is a constitutionally protected right. Our customers shouldn't be treated like they're doing something wrong."
The announcement prompted an outpouring of sympathy and anger online from gun enthusiasts — and a steady stream of customers eager to take advantage of going-out-of-business prices.
The new rifles lining the store's walls are quickly dwindling, and the handguns in the glass cases are going fast. So are T-shirts that boast in English and Chinese that High Bridge is "The Last San Francisco Gun Store."
For years, the High Bridge Arms weathered mounting restrictions imposed by local lawmakers and voters, who passed a handgun ban in 2005 that a judge later struck down. The gun store increasingly stood out in the gentrifying Bernal Heights neighborhood of hot restaurants, trendy bars and a chic marijuana dispensary, while weathering organized campaigns calling for its closure.
High Bridge will close Oct. 31, Alcairo said.
What a crazy town SF is.
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Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:06 pm to RLDSC FAN
San Fran is doing it right
This post was edited on 10/4/15 at 9:08 pm
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:07 pm to RLDSC FAN
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This post was edited on 10/20/21 at 10:39 am
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:08 pm to ipodking
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San Fran is doing it right
First they came for the gun owners, but I didn't own guns...
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:08 pm to RLDSC FAN
Yeah super crazy. I can't think of literally one movement that began or was big early on in Sn Fran that spread across the country.
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:09 pm to RLDSC FAN
I mean honestly I don't see what is so bad about it.
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:10 pm to RLDSC FAN
All those gun control ordinances and they still have illegal immigrants shooting tourists.
This post was edited on 10/4/15 at 9:11 pm
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:10 pm to RLDSC FAN
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video record every gun sale
Found the most delusional place in the USA....Those people are batshit crazy.
Seattle is moving that direction, sadly.
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:10 pm to ipodking
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San Fran is doing it right
Judging from your avatar and choice of image in this post, you seem to be one of those millennial-liberals who get their ideals from the sycophants you idolize on the TV.
I feel sorry for you if you think that is "doing it right" in regards to gun regulation.
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:11 pm to Civildawg
I concur. Good riddance.
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:11 pm to RLDSC FAN
I was in SF in May. Bauetful city, but has a real problem with bums and their droppings.
Too bad they are to weak to solve that problem, but can finally shutter a gun store.
Too bad they are to weak to solve that problem, but can finally shutter a gun store.
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:11 pm to TheChosenOne
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This post was edited on 10/20/21 at 10:39 am
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:12 pm to Civildawg
quote:Are you joking? The wonderful citizens of San Francisco will now have to travel to OAKLAND to buy their high powered weapons.
I mean honestly I don't see what is so bad about it.
Going to Oakland is torture.
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:13 pm to RummelTiger
liberalism is ugly and scary
This post was edited on 10/4/15 at 9:13 pm
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:16 pm to Paul Allen
Pawl,
The first thing you will do if you're ever in a situation where your life is threatened by someone with a gun is pray to God you had a gun to defend yourself. Try and call 911 in that situation and see how far it gets you.
Once you give up the rights covered under the second amendment, your sorry arse may as well mail in every other right you have provided by the Constitution because without the second, every other one is meaningless.
The first thing you will do if you're ever in a situation where your life is threatened by someone with a gun is pray to God you had a gun to defend yourself. Try and call 911 in that situation and see how far it gets you.
Once you give up the rights covered under the second amendment, your sorry arse may as well mail in every other right you have provided by the Constitution because without the second, every other one is meaningless.
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:18 pm to 4LSU2
Drunk drivers kill more people than mass shooters. Why do they get a pass?
Posted on 10/4/15 at 9:20 pm to Bulletproof Lover
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Drunk drivers kill more people than mass shooters. Why do they get a pass?
Drunk driving is legal?
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