"He's an idiot," said Richard Hill, manager of Bob Moates Sport Shop, where a hand-scrawled sign on the counter tells customers to "Ask about the Bloomberg Gun GiveAway."
A pro-gun group is sponsoring the contest at three stores in Virginia as payback for the mayor's federal lawsuits against four dealers in the state that Bloomberg says are illegally peddling weapons that end up in the hands of New York criminals.
Bloomberg has sued 23 other out-of-state dealers.
"Mr. Bloomberg seems to think we as the dealer have control over that gun after it's bought and leaves the premises," Hill said. "Sorry - criminals cause the problem. Get the criminals. Put 'em in jail and keep them there. They don't do it again. Law enforcement ain't our job."
Hill said the raffle has tripled business since it began 10 days ago. For every $100 spent on anything in the store, customers receive a red raffle ticket.
A drawing will be held this spring, and the winner will receive a Para-Ordnance .45-caliber automatic, a military-style weapon worth about $750.
Dave Hancock, a longtime employee of the store, called the lawsuit an "absolute joke."
"We go above and beyond. It's not about making the sales, it's about making them the right way," he said. "Let's face it, you take a $500 gun that we make about $45 on. Why would we risk anything for that? It's not worth it."
On Tuesday, Bloomberg called organizers of the raffle "sick people."
The store, located on a busy strip next to a bank and across the street from a hotel, has been open for about 45 years, selling hunting, fishing and camping gear. "The lawsuit is stupid," said Glenn Anderson, 46, a contractor from Long Island who was visiting his sister in the area. "Bloom.berg being a Republican is a joke. He never was. He never will be."
When asked if he keeps a gun in his home, Anderson replied, "I have a gun in the car."
"We're basically driving money and customers to the very stores that he's trying to destroy," said Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, which is sponsoring the contest.
Bloomberg "might hold the gospel in New York. He don't make too much waves down this way," Hill said. "He's just the mayor of New York, after all."
It's good to see that someone is profiting from Bloomberg's plea to make the country safe for muggers, murderer's and rapists, and let's never forget that pesky old document that he obviously has never read that contains something called the 2nd Amendment. In NYC, the 1st Amendment is Pay Those High Taxes To Keep The Welfare Checks A' Comin', and the 2nd is Don't Send My Poor Baby To Jail, Ban Those Awful Guns.Funny thing. I'd no idea that rednecks were the sole customers of gun shops. See. Learn something new every day.
UPDATISHNESS
This link will take you to the information necessary to contact Mr. Moates. Don't bother to click the link provided there, as it will open a clumsy page where I do suppose you could find his business listed SOMEWHERE, if you had, say, all the time in the world. Phone numbers and addresses, yes. Pity old Bob isn't internet literate because I'd have ordered a gun through him in a heartbeat if the job of doing so were made easier.
Still might. I'll try and call in the morning to see what he's got.
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