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Started by Mudwall Gatewood, October 10, 2014, 12:46:22 PM

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Big J

Quote from: Phil on March 13, 2019, 09:29:35 AMI don't give a rat's ass what Dick's does or doesn't sell. That's their business. I'm going to the range to practice moving/drawing/firing right now. I have guns and ammo from other stores.

I didn't care when Dick's pulled their AR-15 from floor (twice).  I didn't care when they decided to sell to only 21 yo's.  I don't care they are pulling guns from their stores.  This is what pissed me off.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-03/dick-s-sporting-goods-ramps-up-gun-control-push-hires-lobbyist

For some reason the media articles recently are failing to mention the real reason for the boycott.  It's the lobbyist on their payroll pushing anti 2A laws. 

Screw them and their overpriced crap.

Mudwall Gatewood 3.0

It’s been so long since I’ve been in a Dick’s that I forgot they sold guns.  I don’t know if their CEO was acknowledging moral superiority with the decision to not sell firearms.  Heck, others have acted similarly or were “holier than thou” from the beginning.   CVS removed all tobacco products and Tumblr banned all porn.

If I owned an ‘outdoor’ store, I wouldn’t sell firearms --- wouldn’t want to deal with all the peckerheads wanting to talk guns, boast/fib about their accuracy and performance â€" like this 41 page thread, which no one has to read, but if you operated an establishment you’d be forced to hear it regularly.   
"Enjoy every sandwich."  Warren Zevon

Woolly Bugger

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Dick's is changing it's business and realigning it's products and heavily investing in e-store to compete in a changing social environment. I have no beef with their decision not to sell guns in some of their stores, they started with 10 and now added another 125 more out of over 700 stores... 

There are plenty of other retailers willing to take their gun customers... Dunham's for one, will sell you guns all day long.....

Have you been in a Dick's lately... to me it's focus is soccer, golf, exercise, clothing with a little bit of camping, fishing and hunting thrown in to round out the field...
ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Woolly Bugger

ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Mudwall Gatewood 3.0

"Enjoy every sandwich."  Warren Zevon

Beetle

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Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 13, 2019, 10:15:57 AMIt’s been so long since I’ve been in a Dick’s that I forgot they sold guns.  I don’t know if their CEO was acknowledging moral superiority with the decision to not sell firearms.  Heck, others have acted similarly or were “holier than thou” from the beginning.   CVS removed all tobacco products and Tumblr banned all porn.

If I owned an ‘outdoor’ store, I wouldn’t sell firearms --- wouldn’t want to deal with all the peckerheads wanting to talk guns, boast/fib about their accuracy and performance â€" like this 41 page thread, which no one has to read, but if you operated an establishment you’d be forced to hear it regularly.   


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Woolly Bugger

Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 13, 2019, 10:15:57 AMIt’s been so long since I’ve been in a Dick’s that I forgot they sold guns.  I don’t know if their CEO was acknowledging moral superiority with the decision to not sell firearms.  Heck, others have acted similarly or were “holier than thou” from the beginning.   CVS removed all tobacco products and Tumblr banned all porn.

If I owned an ‘outdoor’ store, I wouldn’t sell firearms --- wouldn’t want to deal with all the peckerheads wanting to talk guns, boast/fib about their accuracy and performance â€" like this 41 page thread, which no one has to read, but if you operated an establishment you’d be forced to hear it regularly.   


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Not to mention keeping up all the government paperwork and nightly gun counts
ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

driver

My cousin owns a gun shop. These past couple of years, every time I go in I ask, "How business?" his reply, "Slow".. I then tell him it wasn't me that elected a Republican president! Then he grumbles about liberals, and I remind him how much money he made when the president was a democrat.

Please don't take this post into a political discussion. It's just a funny banter we have. And it's funny how ironic the situation is. And the overall point is that gun sales are also way down right now. No fear of losing them.

Big J

Quote from: driver on March 13, 2019, 20:07:56 PMMy cousin owns a gun shop. These past couple of years, every time I go in I ask, "How business?" his reply, "Slow".. I then tell him it wasn't me that elected a Republican president! Then he grumbles about liberals, and I remind him how much money he made when the president was a democrat.

Please don't take this post into a political discussion. It's just a funny banter we have. And it's funny how ironic the situation is. And the overall point is that gun sales are also way down right now. No fear of losing them.

Yup. A president that is viewed as gun friendly is bad for gun sales. Obama was the best gun salesmen to date. Ironically, I think Trump has been more detrimental to the 2nd than Obama was, but that is getting political.

The gun shop I frequent has been slow but they made a killing in past election and Obama years that I think they aren’t hurting. Plus they know 2020 is right around the corner.

Mudwall Gatewood 3.0

The gun shop I deal with, located across the WV line, is doing very well.  The owner often must order firearms, but the 3 I’ve purchased quickly arrived.  As said, that is WV, and in WV they are always shooting something, no matter who is President.

I believe our founding fathers suggested we evaluate and modify the Constitution every ~20 years.   20 yrs because that was the life expectancy at the time  --- for white men only.    Now we live until age ~77.  Either period, we’re overdue.  It is time to weigh and modify the 2nd to reflect developments/attitudes in present-day society, environment, and science.
"Enjoy every sandwich."  Warren Zevon

Big J

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Not to move the topic off topic, but how do you purchase firearms in WV being a VA resident?  You'd have to get them transferred to a VA FFL before being transferred to you.

rbphoto

Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 14, 2019, 10:48:41 AMThe gun shop I deal with, located across the WV line, is doing very well.  The owner often must order firearms, but the 3 I’ve purchased quickly arrived.  As said, that is WV, and in WV they are always shooting something, no matter who is President.

I believe our founding fathers suggested we evaluate and modify the Constitution every ~20 years.   20 yrs because that was the life expectancy at the time  --- for white men only.    Now we live until age ~77.  Either period, we’re overdue.  It is time to weigh and modify the 2nd to reflect developments/attitudes in present-day society, environment, and science.


I heartily disagree.

First off, cite your source(s) for life expectancy for the era when the Constitution was written.  I believe you are off significantly.

The founding fathers put a process in place to prevent the evisceration the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by requiring a 2/3's majority to ratify an amendment to the Constitution. 

Even at that, we have made at least one colossal mistake that was repealed.

Go ahead, evaluate all of the amendments and tell me which ones of them should be changed.  Or tell me if you would add any others.

Then tell me how you guarantee we enforce any of them as citizens.

Raymond



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Mudwall Gatewood 3.0

Quote from: Big J on March 14, 2019, 10:55:27 AM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 14, 2019, 10:48:41 AMThe gun shop I deal with, located across the WV line, is doing very well.  The owner often must order firearms, but the 3 I’ve purchased quickly arrived.  As said, that is WV, and in WV they are always shooting something, no matter who is President.

I believe our founding fathers suggested we evaluate and modify the Constitution every ~20 years.  20 yrs because that was the life expectancy at the time  --- for white men only.    Now we live until age ~77.  Either period, we’re overdue.  It is time to weigh and modify the 2nd to reflect developments/attitudes in present-day society, environment, and science.


Not to move the topic off topic, but how do you purchase firearms in WV being a VA resident?  You'd have to get them transferred to a VA FFL before being transferred to you.

Damned if I know, but I’ve done it 3 times since I retired in 2016.  Several folks that live along the state line purchase firearms in WV  --- no pistols but hunting firearms.  I complete paperwork, wait for some kind of check, then pick up my gun.
"Enjoy every sandwich."  Warren Zevon

Mudwall Gatewood 3.0

Quote from: rbphoto on March 14, 2019, 11:07:50 AM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 14, 2019, 10:48:41 AMThe gun shop I deal with, located across the WV line, is doing very well.  The owner often must order firearms, but the 3 I’ve purchased quickly arrived.  As said, that is WV, and in WV they are always shooting something, no matter who is President.

I believe our founding fathers suggested we evaluate and modify the Constitution every ~20 years.  20 yrs because that was the life expectancy at the time  --- for white men only.    Now we live until age ~77.  Either period, we’re overdue.  It is time to weigh and modify the 2nd to reflect developments/attitudes in present-day society, environment, and science.


I heartily disagree.

First off, cite your source(s) for life expectancy for the era when the Constitution was written.  I believe you are off significantly.

The founding fathers put a process in place to prevent the evisceration the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by requiring a 2/3's majority to ratify an amendment to the Constitution. 

Even at that, we have made at least one colossal mistake that was repealed.

Go ahead, evaluate all of the amendments and tell me which ones of them should be changed.  Or tell me if you would add any others.

Then tell me how you guarantee we enforce any of them as citizens.

Raymond





I had no idea where I got the 20 years.  It was something I remembered or thought I recalled.  I was off after checking your premise that I was incorrect.

http://virginiahistoryseries.org/linked/unit%206.%20life.growth.development%20of%20va%20colony.slides.pdf

“Disease and hardships took their toll of emigrants & native-born Virginians alike. If children lived past 20, their life expectancy was about 40; but, many children didn’t survive into adulthood.”

I happen to believe we do not need (or no longer need) firearms to “enforce any of them as citizens”.  I also do not fear ‘the man’ confiscating my guns.  I have no fear of registering my firearms.  I don’t believe we will ever be barred from purchasing or limited access to ‘hunting’ arms.  In short, government(s)/societal rule or changes do not occupy my feelings or worries. 

Sure, I’d enjoy playing with, shooting, certain firearms that fire multiple rounds in seconds, but I long ago came to terms that my dick was small and no purchase of or playing with inanimate objects would change or improve my manhood.
 
My biggest fear is I’ll one day succumb to that human trait, the lack of critical thinking, because of the evolutionary gift bestowed on all of us, that talent for being deceived and the subsequent paranoia.
 
Stephen
"Enjoy every sandwich."  Warren Zevon

Big J

We might want to delete some of the comments here.  Out of state firearm purchases have to go through an in state FFL.  Doesn't matter if it is a private transaction, a gun shop, hunting rifles, or an old flintlock.  Being your neck of the woods, and the part of WV you are close to, I'm not sure what happened.  I doubt a WV gun shop could obtain a VA FFL.