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US satellite subscribers get offered free guns
DOWNMARKET US RETAILER Radio Shack and Dish Network electronics and satellite TV stores are offering first time subscribers the chance to watch extra-terrestrial television and, possibly, shoot out the screen if they don't like what they see.
The stores are offering free guns to customers, Reuters reports, which has led to increased interest from shoppers in mostly rural US states who like both guns and telly.
The deal is limited to two states, Idaho and Montana, where perhaps people are more comfortable about the practice of handing out free firearms in return for signing a satellite TV contract.
John Marshall, owner of a Radio Shack store in Mountain Home, Idaho near Boise said, "There's no problem with it here; this isn't New York City." Of course, that sort of goes without saying.
In Idaho and Montana though, subscribers are given a voucher that they can use in exchange for a £83 shotgun. By comparison, similar deals in the UK often involve Marks and Spencers vouchers or the like. µ
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Frankly, it's typical bollocks UK journalism from Reuters and the Inquirer when they don't even bother to look up rules on who can get these.
There's a federal level check, as well as a state level check and at times a city level check depending on whether the city sheriff is paranoid before you can even get a license to own one. The sale has pass a federal and usually a state check (and sometimes a city check). Some types of guns aren't allowed by cities or states.
The legal structure is actually fairly convoluted because we have too many lawyers and politicians that enjoy regulating one of our Bill of Individual Rights.
So as long as it's all done legally, it's ok. Not everyone is a psycho killer here...guess UK folks are different since you're too unstable to own anything hazardous ;-)
Oh you Americans and you hard on for guns....
To you-all-American couch-potatoes:
Don't watch re-runs ... reload! Free guns to all Tea-partyers, courtesy of the GOP! I'm not allowed to post any more target-maps on my facebook page, but load them guns and just shoot stuff anyway, like good Americans should!
BTW, a nice man told me yesterday that I was like a sugar-coated plum, without the plum (I guess 'cause of my lovely figure, which has been a real ass-ette to my political career).
Yours truly,
Sarah
XXX,OOO, bang-bang-bang
"As long as they're following all laws, I see no problem with this. " - If whether this is illegal or not is the only problem you can find; you need to add 10 seconds to your thinking time. I can give you some hints:
- People don't take things that are given away for free seriously - not in a dangerous sense, anyway.
- Human nature is the same the world over. Look at any country where they would find such flippant provisioning of weapons appalling. Then look at the numbers of gun deaths.
- If you want a similar comparison of another issue of personal freedom vs people protecting themselves from their own nature, compare driving in the US to driving in India.
Start with those and if you still can't see any problem with this, well...
...we'll all need guns to protect ourselves from the corrupt politicians.
I want to clarify, as another non DISH Network Employee and as a US Citizen who loves the principles enshrined in our Constitution--and as a Liberal:
RIGHT ON, MONTANA AND IDAHO!
As long as they're following all laws, I see no problem with this. Matter of fact, I'd say it's pretty clever way to get people fired up about satellite TV. :-)
Anon Y. Mouse
@Sadie:
I want to clarify, as a non DISH Network employee and as a non US citizen, that I release this statement about what these independent electronics retailers are doing:
WTF!!!
I want to clarify, as a DISH Network employee, that DISH issued this statement about what these independent electronics retailers are doing:
DISH Network is not providing any marketing or advertising support for any promotions relating to firearms, and we require our retailers to adhere to all local, state and federal laws in connection with their promotions and marketing activities.