Home Shopping Channel For Guns Launching In 2016
I can see a couple of former TV hucksters working again. Black Belt Jimbo and Special Forces Michael. The stuff dreams are made of.
http://youtu.be/hp7130Bjec4
mcmohawks wrote:I cant see any major carrier like direct tv or dish network or Comcast would carry that channel.it may be a online streaming channel only
fatman wrote:Surprised it hasn't happened sooner. Gunbroker.com has more traffic than WUS. And that not the only online gun trading.
Mortuus wrote:fatman wrote:Surprised it hasn't happened sooner. Gunbroker.com has more traffic than WUS. And that not the only online gun trading.
Yep, and one of the strange things I've noticed amongst my own smallish group of friends and family members using these sites is that it's mostly the moonbats (far left-leaning, I'm-better-than-you-because-I-wear-awareness-ribbons, democrat party voters, race baiters, etc, for those of you in Rio Lindo and Perth-Fremantle) among 'em who are buying the lion's share of the firearms these days. (That loud, wailing syreen you're hearing is the "Mort's Anecdotal Evidence Alarm," pointing out that this little tale is merely one of Mort's non-sequiturs, so feel free to insert personal attacks HERE.) I guess its something of an insurance policy of sorts for these normally-timid, can't shoot-for-shit "gentle souls," y'know, in case the eeeeeevil konservatives come for their food, water, wives and daughters; after all, and as everyone knows, konservatives have the lowest IQ and the highest beast-to-mini-brain ratio amongst the many egg-samples of homo sapiens.![]()
And the answer will NOT be another set of Fed'rul Gummint Gurn Lores, neither, nosur. We don't enforce the myriad gurn lores that're currently on the books. Either way, it's gonna get a lot more dangerous out there as the moonbats stock up on their gurns and ammo; a lot more dangerous, since they can't shoot for shite...
fatman wrote:I like gun broker but arms list seems more efficient for research. Some scammers though. I baited one, set the hook and then threw the rod In the water. Thought he had a sucker.
Mark1 wrote:I might consider watching. My local gun dealer went out of business a while back. Imagine that, all the mouth breathers in northern Oregon and they couldn't make a go of it. Not so much a lack of sales but the low margin on guns. I can still buy rifles in nearby Washington, and take delivery (after the background check goes through.) But pistols, for whatever reason, need to be mailed to an FFL dealer in Oregon (with a background check) to be transferred to me.
Thunder1 wrote:Christ..thats' all we need!!!
Hawk wrote:Thunder1 wrote:Christ..thats' all we need!!!
Since you self-identified as a "Texas gun collector" I perhaps mistakingly assumed you would know that anything purchased through an online auction house is shipped to a federally licensed dealer in your state to be picked up in person after ID being presented and the background check coming back clean and any other locally required hoops such as waiting periods are jumped through?
Therefor a TV venue wouldn't circumvent any federal, state or local procedures in place.
I expect any "gun collector" to realize that nothing would change just because a TV venue might be in place. I automatically give a "pass" to anyone outside the country because of the confusion on the matter by the international press but I would hope for better from a local, most especially one who has gone through the actual purchase process.
Personally I would hope that TV sales would actually provide an education for the average prohibitionist tuning in as the procedure would have to be explained thus cluing them in, perhaps for the first time in their life, on the fact that regulations are, in fact, in place.
Still I would expect it to be a commercial flop resembling the typical bottom feeding home shopping network trying to sell a Hi-Point as "worth as much as a Colt but brought to you without all that advertising cost built in and with the Reserve Hi-Point only being tuned by the top 10% of Austrian gun makers". The auction houses with an online presence cater primarily to folks looking for pre-lock, pre-MIM S&Ws, limited edition Model 94s and similar with the clientèle at least as spun up as wrist wartch folks over provenance, box and papers, and all that jazz. In general they will cost more than anything local due to the legal paperwork fees being assessed separately along with freight costs. The charm comes from the product not being available locally.
One of the "sounded like a good idea at the time" exercises was ATF form 3310.4 which had to be filled out for sales of more than one handgun. The idea was that someone buying a half dozen Jimenez semi-autos for distribution in Chicago or Belize would leave a paper trail. However what actually happened was the ATF filling up with a pile of forms from people like me buying matched pairs or consecutive serial number Pythons. That's the market the auction houses cater to.
Hawk wrote:Thunder1 wrote:Christ..thats' all we need!!!
Since you self-identified as a "Texas gun collector" I perhaps mistakingly assumed you would know that anything purchased through an online auction house is shipped to a federally licensed dealer in your state to be picked up in person after ID being presented and the background check coming back clean and any other locally required hoops such as waiting periods are jumped through?
Therefor a TV venue wouldn't circumvent any federal, state or local procedures in place.
I expect any "gun collector" to realize that nothing would change just because a TV venue might be in place. I automatically give a "pass" to anyone outside the country because of the confusion on the matter by the international press but I would hope for better from a local, most especially one who has gone through the actual purchase process.
Personally I would hope that TV sales would actually provide an education for the average prohibitionist tuning in as the procedure would have to be explained thus cluing them in, perhaps for the first time in their life, on the fact that regulations are, in fact, in place.
Still I would expect it to be a commercial flop resembling the typical bottom feeding home shopping network trying to sell a Hi-Point as "worth as much as a Colt but brought to you without all that advertising cost built in and with the Reserve Hi-Point only being tuned by the top 10% of Austrian gun makers". The auction houses with an online presence cater primarily to folks looking for pre-lock, pre-MIM S&Ws, limited edition Model 94s and similar with the clientèle at least as spun up as wrist wartch folks over provenance, box and papers, and all that jazz. In general they will cost more than anything local due to the legal paperwork fees being assessed separately along with freight costs. The charm comes from the product not being available locally.
One of the "sounded like a good idea at the time" exercises was ATF form 3310.4 which had to be filled out for sales of more than one handgun. The idea was that someone buying a half dozen Jimenez semi-autos for distribution in Chicago or Belize would leave a paper trail. However what actually happened was the ATF filling up with a pile of forms from people like me buying matched pairs or consecutive serial number Pythons. That's the market the auction houses cater to.
Thunder1 wrote:Good morning Mr. Hawk..
I can understand using the term 'gun collector' sounds like I'm overstating my status...that's probably true and that's my bad....I may own 15 to 20 pieces that are mostly locked away in a large gun safe that I seldom access anymore...compared to the many others I have heard about, I concede that I'm much less a 'collector' than a one time 'accumalator'...when stationed in Bamberg in the early '80s, I purchased a Walther PP Super and a Browning Hi-Power w/ target sites at the local Rod & Gun Club that upon my tours' completion, I had to have shipped back home to a federally licensed dealer(McBrides) in Austin...so, I am aware of that process...
No, my comment "...that's all we need!!!" refers simply to my frustration that this effort my become commercially viable and that it may encourage more Americans to acquire semi- auto rifles/carbines that could be used in future incidents of mass murder domestically...I can appreciate many of us collect firearms that represent past Americana(the 94s, 99s, commemorative .45s,etc) and that their pursuits may mirror the efforts of WISs...I just wish Americans would shift more of their interests away from semi-automatics and towards political and community endeavors...I hope both you and yours enjoy the day...
biglove wrote:Odd that in Star Wars, when Skywalker slaughters the dozens of young Jedi with his light saber, no one blamed the light saber.
We seem to understand the darkness of the heart in movies but in reality we need guns as a scapegoat. Guess it is easier to blame guns, cops, failed mental health services...anything to avoid actually blaming the person doing the killing.
Hawk wrote:Well the Sith had no trouble getting light sabers.
The general populace made do with clumsy and random blasters which, so far as I could tell, were semi-automatic.
Han shot first.
Thunder1 wrote:Good Afternoon Mr. Hawk...
As an effort in educating the populace, I contend it w/b a poor effort…for w/b hunters, state run gun safety courses that involve hands on experience are better efforts and in Texas, are affordable for most…as for self-defense, private courses held at gun ranges, again including hands on training, are better education tools…
I can’t question either the ARs’ place in gun sales or its’ accuracy in the hands of the trained...its’ just been my past experience that if you haven’t hit a deer w/ the 1st shot, you’re wasting $ trying to hit one on the run…this experience negates the advantage a large capacity magazine might have…
You have to know that the Garand is at once both much heavier, bulkier than an AR or AK…coupled with the extra kick from the .06 cartridge, the Garand(or the 7.62 M14) are much less suited for hosing down crowds of people in a closed environment(I would think)…the 3 or 4 round mag capacity of a BLR and its’ Remington counterpart are evidence that they were designed for hunting and not as assault weapons…
I’m not asserting that the answers are easy to digest, but with both theoretical and ‘Right to Bear Arms’ considerations set a side, and if the following 2 statements are generally accepted as true:
1)For self-defense, the average American does not need more than a 12 gauge pump shotgun loaded w/ buck shot and,
2) Large capacity magazines are useless in a hunting environment, then
What rational argument is there for the future sales of AR,AK, and SKS styled assault weapons to the general public if one or more innocent American lives might be saved with their banishment from the retail environment?
Hope you and yours have a wonderful afternoon/evening...
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