The three legs on a liberal stool are harass,
regulate and tax. God forbid you happen
to own a business that doesn’t comport with their sanctimonious ideology. An iconic San Francisco gun store is shutting
down after years of business.
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."
San Francisco is in the United States, right?
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