Gun-lovers go crazy for tax-exempt guns during South Carolina Black Friday sale

[RamboLiberal]

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Happy holidays from South Carolina. Pass the ammunition.

The Black Friday frenzy in parts of the Palmetto State was not about flat-screens, cameras or notebooks. It was all about guns.

Dozens lined up in the pre-dawn chill for a shot at a deal on handguns, shotguns, rifles and bullets.

"I'm here for a pistol," said one shopper, dressed head-to-toe in camouflage outside Sportsman's Warehouse in Columbia, S.C., for the 48-hour tax-free holiday, dubbed the Second Amendment Sale. "I want the Ruger .380."

It was just 5:30 a.m., but employees had already given out tickets for the right to purchase the store's 21 Ruger pistols - even before the doors opened at 6 a.m. Mr. Camouflage, who declined to give his name, was out of luck.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/11/29/2009-11-29_oh_deer_taxexempt_guns_a_hit.html#ixzz0YOAnorGg

[Arctic Dave]

1. I didn't realize the SC was so well of it could pick and choose what it wants to tax.

[OttavaKarhu]

12. They'll get it on the other side of the transaction

Taxing the sellers.

[Tejas]

2. So, is that reporter simply ignorant or deceptive?

"But South Carolina shoppers only had to show a driver's license and fill out a form giving basic details like their name, address, height and ethnicity. Some stores didn't even ask for a Social Security number."

OMFG, stores using back-alley tactics in broad daylight!!1!


Most here know that providing your SS# on a 4473 isn't mandatory but is optional.

[PavePusher]

8. It is illegal to require a SSN as ID.

But it is still the norm all too often. The reporter is an idiot.

[Euromutt]

15. The reporter and sub-editor are being stereotypical New Yorkers

(NYC members, please note that I'm referring to the stereotype of New Yorkers, not necessarily to the way you or your friends and neighbors actually are.)

Neither knows a damn thing about gun ownership or laws in the rest of the country, but think they do anyway because obviously, cosmopolitans like that--even if they do work for the Daily News--must know more than the hicks outside the New York agglomeration. I note especially the use of the phrase "shootin' irons" in the photo caption, even though I don't know a single gun owner who uses the term ever ironically, but obviously, anyone who would want to buy a gun must be an uneducated yokel, right? There are quite a few people who post on here who adopt that same attitude.

[GreenStormCloud]

3. Pocket pistols, such as the Ruger LCP and LCR are extremely popular.

That is a result of the huge number of people getting CCWs and then needing a pistol small enough to easily conceal.

[G. L. Herter]

11. That's for sure.

I couldn't get ahold of an LCP until just a couple of days ago, and they're made in the same town I live in!

[AtheistCrusader]

4. As expected, full of hysteria and unfounded fear.

The reporter, not the people buying guns.

[benEzra]

5. Wow, inflammatory and condecending headline, you think?

And the childish jab at the "rudimentary" call to the FBI to conduct the background check (as if NICS is some third-rate backyard operation)? And dishing on dealers who "don't even ask for social security numbers", when the SSN is not necessary to run an NICS check (lack of it makes you more likely to be DENIED, not wrongfully approved), and it is illegal to mandate use of the SSN?

This is a poorly researched opinion piece disguised as a news article.

[RamboLiberal]

9. New York City Reporting

But then most reporting on guns really stinks. I'd love to see all reporters who report on guns sent to the range for some orientation.

[Tejas]

10. Mild for that publication, there is a link on

that page to an article that pretty much blames South Carolina for all the crime in the Western Hemisphere.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/11/24/2009-11-24_dixie_dopes_shoot_holes_in_gun_battle.html


I did giggle about this part though:

"...was no doubt welcome news to the state's gun shops, which outnumber McDonald's in the Palmetto State by four to one."

[rl6214]

13. As is the OPs post

"Gun-lovers"?

[eqfan592]

14. In fairness, that actually is the title of the article in question. (nt)

[X_Digger]

6. ed: Tejas beat me to it. n/t

[slackmaster]

7. It is required for a purchase in California, but it's only required on the state paperwork

It's optional on the federal stuff.