Gun stores reaction to alderman’s push: Free shipping
Troupe
It didn’t take long for Aldermen Charles Quincy Troupe’s concealed weapons crusade to spread around the U.S. — and reach some sympathetic ears.
Troupe, as relayed in Tuesday’s paper, is encouraging residents frustrated by crime and violence to obtain a concealed weapons permit and start carrying a firearm.
Now, a gun store in North Carolina is hoping to help out. After reading about Troupe’s effort, the Hyatt Gun Shop in Charlotte is offering free shipping on handguns anywhere in Missouri.
“We’re pleased to see someone of Mr. Troupe’s stature step up and remind people to not allow themselves to be victimized,” the stores Justin Anderson said in a release. “We want to do our part to help St. Louis residents to protect themselves.”
Typically, the cost to ship a pistol is between $29 and $35. (It’s actually sent to a local gun store, which runs the proper background check before turning over the firearm.)
Hyatt has more than 3,000 handguns, many of which can be purchased on the store’s website. The special is set to run until January, though could be extended depending on demand.
“We really want to do everything we can,” added Anderson.
Once again Troupe is an embarrassment to the whole region of St. Louis. When will this bum be voted out of office? Seriously, he is a joke.
How noble of Justin Anderson from North Carolina to help the poor victims of gun violence in St. Louis. Just think of the tremendous help he will bring to our communities by flooding our streets with more handguns from N.C. in an effort to reduce gun violence in North St. Louis. Free shipping! And if you act now, you can receive this handsome picture of Charleton Heston.
Just what the Republican legislature wanted. You just don’t know who’s carrying. I feel so safe now.
When will the Metro-link make it’s way out to Republican territories like Chesterfield? Come on Sussie, let’s take the Metro to the City Museum. Bye Dad…be home around 11 pm.
So City Res says Troupe is a joke. Let’s see … On the one hand, Troupe says that citizens of an area with rampant violent crime should take steps to protect their families. On the other hand, the St. Louis Police Board is going to blow $50,000 on a “gun buy-back” program that won’t take a single working gun out of the hand of a criminal, but will allow people to take rusted old broken rifles out of their basement and cash them in for $100. From where I’m sitting, Troupe looks like a genius, and the police board looks like a pack of idiots.
Even the sidebar on Ann Coulter’s website linked to this story with the satirical note, ‘This is what Plaxico was trying to do’…
If Mr. Troupe is indeed serious, then I agree with him.
Level=headed and law abiding citizens NEED to be armed - particularly if your neighborhood is filled with scoundrels and thugs who are more than happy and willing to attack you.
This is simply common sense.
From where I am sitting it appears that many, including unfortunately Troupe, know little about how to stop violence in city and county neighborhoods. Encouraging gun ownership ranks so low it is irrelevant. Better ways of reducing violence include youth outreach programs, job training opportunities, community policing endeavors and neighborhood block organizing. Of course that would take actual engagement by Troupe and those who have already written off these neighborhoods. It is easier to sit behind the comfort of one’s ideologies than confront tough and complicated situations.
bubba, for any of your proposed projects to work, one would have to feel safe entering the area to implement them. Maybe you and Garrison would be brave enough to work on those solutions in that war zone unarmed, but I wouldn’t want to do so.