Local farm supply store selling AK-47 knockoffs...

[Archae]

I get flyers in my local free newspapers from a store that is primarily a farm supply store, the store is called "Fleet and Farm."

They do sell many other items though.

In the latest flyer are two guns on sale.

A Yugo-Pap 7.62X39, an AK-47 knockoff.

A Saiga 12 gauge shotgun with 5-shot magazine.

Bad timing, guys...

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Corn feed, hay, tools,

Gun...

Sorry, could not help it.

[postulater]

2. I went to the local FleetFarm Saturday and it is the only place

I have ever seen the Salvation Army ringer in full camo outfit.

[jody]

3. AK-47 are select fire automatics tightly regulated by the FBI under 26 USC Chapter 53. Are you sure

the store is selling AK-47s

[Archae]

4. It's one of the AK-47 knockoffs.

Corrected, thanks.

[HooptieWagon]

5. Its probably semi-auto replicas.

There is no way they'd be selling fully automatic AKs.

[Skittles]

6. for cheap cowards

[Lizzie Poppet]

7. Bad timing? Not from a business standpoint, I reckon.

Unless they planned that ad too far in advance and are locked into pre-hysteria prices. There are virtually none of these weapons available in stores or online right now, and used prices have doubled and even tripled.

[jmowreader]

16. Ads are routinely planned months in advance

We print a couple of regional chains' circulars. We're going to print February's circulars on Thursday. They were designed starting in November, and they started ordering the merchandise in October. If they print through one of the national print houses, add another month.

I have dealt with national chains that plan ads a year out. Walmart definitely has to do this.

I would say, right off top of head, this ad was locked in three months before Sandy Hook.

[Hoyt]

26. Yep, gun lovers lined up in Atlanta 7 days after Sandy Hook for chance at an assault weapon.

Source: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2065886


Hope we find a cure for LaPierre Disease soon.

[Lizzie Poppet]

28. The "Law of Unintended Consequences" in action...

Looks like "assault weapons" are now darned near impossible to get...

[Hoyt]

29. I think "LUC" misses the point of just how "sick" some folks are in this country.

[Lizzie Poppet]

30. Gosh, thanks Dr. Hoyt!

...for taking the time away from your busy psychiatric practice to make that diagnosis!

[Hoyt]

31. You are welcome, resident gun apologist.

[Lizzie Poppet]

32. Happy to be of service.

I appreciate the lulz your posts invariably provide...

[Recursion]

8. SKS-variants can't be had for love or money at gun stores right now

Tactical shotguns are a close third (AR's, apparently, are backordered for the next several months).

So, anyone dreaming for a day where you can't buy a Bushmaster in a gun store, that day is now.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

12. While almost everything that goes bang has been sold out, a run on SKSs is hard to fathom

[Lizzie Poppet]

19. No kidding.

10-round fixed magazine (although I realize detachable conversions are readily available...or were), relatively unthreatning-to-the-ignorant appearance, not implicated in high-profile crimes... But I suspect the run has to do with the fact that they're very affordable semi-automatics, and people are taking what they can get and can afford.

[Motown_Johnny]

9. Every time someone talks about new regulations the sales jump

their timing is perfect and they know it

[intaglio]

18. And I suspect the percentage of households owning drops

IIRC even Gallup has gun owning households at about 40% (from above 50% back in the 1970s and '80s)

Which means it is just a few "Second amendment, right or wrong" persons who are buying all the weapons.

[former-republican]

10. I bet they are already gone

[jody]

11. Do they sell NH4NO3 Fertilizer? 20lbs of Diesel-soaked NH4NO3 Fertilizer would kill lots of people.

[jmowreader]

14. Farmers are one of the few groups who can justify AKs

Farmers tend to keep rifles on their tractors to shoot coyotes and AKs are not large.

Most of the buyers at this store...the only "farm" they know about is the one they "sent" their kids' dog to when they caught it digging holes in the yard.

[NNN0LHI]

20. Farmers around here would never kill a coyote

Coyotes prey on the type of small wildlife that eat what the farmer is growing. Coyotes like a steady diet of muskrats or other such varmints. Farmers don't like muskrats. They eat up their fields.

Unless you got farmers who kill coyotes near you just because they like killing stuff? I ain't got any like that here. They wouldn't waste a bullet on a coyote. Never seen a farmer with a gun in the cab with him around here in my life.

Maybe just different farming "techniques", or something by you.

Don

[jmowreader]

21. Around here, farmers pop coyotes routinely

Coyotes also prey on the young of the livestock these guys are raising - a pack of coyotes has no problem taking a calf. The farmers appreciate the role of the coyote in controlling vermin; they also understand coyotes are severely overpopulated and don't have many predators - mountain lions live mostly in the middle of the state and we're in the north.

Every farmer up here could shoot a coyote on the hour, every hour, for the next fifty years and we'd still have too many coyotes.

[Wellstone ruled]

15. The owners of this company

are right wing wackos and bigtime dipshits. Some more of Scott Walker supporters. Welcome to the Mills family another throw back from Northern Minnesota. Aren't the Rethugs money baggers great.

[TheMightyFavog]

17. It's Fleet Farm.

They've ALWAYS sold guns there.

I had my eye on a 1949 Lee-Enfield they had a few months back. By the time I had enough saved up to buy it, it was sold.

[slackmaster]

22. I've never met a real farmer who wasn't well armed

Pest control is always a major issue in agriculture.

[The Midway Rebel]

23. Yes. Just yesterday I was using my SKS to take out a colony of aphids.

I know lots of farmers and some of them hate guns and have little use for them.

[former-republican]

24. What part of the country do you live in ?

I know lots of farmers also. I don't know of one farm that doesn't have a rifle in a barn
or at least in the home.

[The Midway Rebel]

25. I live in Missouri.

And I never said that they did not own a rifle or a shotgun and hate those moments when they have to use them -- typically to put down a sick cow. They do not run around with guns chasing farm "pests".

[former-republican]

27. gotcha