For to live in Texas

Smart Bug

It's times like this I wish I lived in Texas:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/motors/2009/0722/1224251061511.html

US dealer offers free AK-47s with SUV sales

GUN-TOTING truck drivers in the US have a new incentive to upgrade — a free AK-47 with every pick-up purchased.

Throughout August, all sales at Max Motors in Butler, south of Kansas, will be accompanied by a voucher for a complimentary semi-automatic weapon.

It is not the first time the dealership — which goes by the slogan “Guns, God, Guts and American Pick-Up Trucks” — has run such a promotion. Last year, free handguns saw Max Motors sell an extra 35 cars in one month.

Owner Mark Muller sees his promotion as a healthy way to encourage sales and ensure his countrymen are protected.

"We have an obligation to protect ourselves,” said Muller. “The only people being irresponsible are those not protecting themselves.” It is a creed by which Muller lives his own life.

"I’ve got them all – AKs, AR-15s, shotguns, handguns, everything,” he said. “I do not carry a gun because I’m evil. I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see evil. . . I have had to defend my family before.”

In the car game for 32 years, Muller said he knew what his customers wanted – guns.
And he could be right. The pick-up has long been seen as the vehicle of choice for the self-respecting red-neck, gun-loving hillbilly.

Indeed, satirist PJ O’Rourke suggested the constitution should be amended to protect “the right of Texans (and people who act like Texans) to drive around with guns. . . and shoot varmints and critters out of the window”.

Muller said the reaction to the campaign has been overwhelmingly positive. “One customer has put in an order for seven trucks, but told us: ‘I do not need seven AK-47s’. So I’m letting him choose other guns.”

But responses on the company’s website are mixed. One post read: “Love the AK-47 offer!!! God Bless!” Another read: “I think your dealership is crazy and irresponsible,” before criticising Muller’s “crazy, southern views".

One thing is clear – if the giveaway is a success, Muller won’t mind a bit of negative publicity. “I am shamelessly trying to sell trucks,” he said. And what next in the arms giveaway, hand-grenades? “If I could, I would,” he said.

What if all your exes lived there?

My name is URL

That'll come in handy for when the Super Devil shows up

Raze_them_all

Deleted User wrote: »

What if all your exes lived there?

Did you not hear the promotion??? Free ak's man

Cuddlesworth

I really just want one nut to buy a truck, have a whole heap of problems with it and end up shooting the guy with the free gun.

whadabouchasir

Don't worry they will learn their lesson and tighten gun controls when a student goes on a killing spree in a school.

annabellee77

Stuff like this is what make people say "crazy f**king Americans"!!! (whether they're crazy or not!)

Schism

Isn't Muller a German surname?

Karl Hungus

Schism wrote: »

Isn't Muller a German surname?

And the AK is a Russian gun.

Schism

Karl Hungus wrote: »

And the AK is a Russian gun.

I wasn't being random or anything, just in before the 'those Americans, what will they do next?' type thing.

ejmaztec

Getting your free AK is the same as having a disabled sticker - you can park where the feck you like.

K4t

That's why I hope to never live in Texas.

rossie1977

whadabouchasir wrote: »

Don't worry they will learn their lesson and tighten gun controls when a student goes on a killing spree in a school.

you don't know much about texas or texans, if anybody tried bringing in gun control to that state there would be a war :pac: a gun to a texan is the same as a pint to an irish person

hell will freeze over long before gun control in texas and i don't care if there is 100 school shootings

Morlar

Well if we had shooting ranges everywhere I would go for that

This being ireland though after FF/Greens were through with it bullets would cost €5 each and there would be an annual gun licence fee based on muzzle velocity (set to increase 50% every 5 years) while the greens insisted bows and arrows were the future.

murfie

Smart Bug wrote: »

It's times like this I wish I lived in Texas:

Whats it got to do with Texas, Butler is south of Kansas City in Missouri.

Although everything is bigger in Texas i grant you that!

Wertz

Ok so people are going to run out and spend $20K on a truck to get a machinegun that only costs about $700 on it's own?
Way to get that economy back in shape.

This isn't arming anyone that already isn't...it's merely increasing their range.

/lived in TX

Hazys

Smart Bug wrote: »

It's times like this I wish I lived in Texas:

I'd love to live in Texas.

I was down in Fort Worth, TX for a a long weekend this year and the place is awesome. People in cowboy hats, pickup trucks everywhere.

The people in Texas are probably the nicest people you'll meet anywhere probably because they all have guns and are afraid to offend anybody but still.

Also the women were savage, YYYYYEEEEHHHHAAAAWWWW

AnonoBoy

rossie1977 wrote: »

a gun to a texan is the same as a pint to an irish person

Yeah but I can't drive around in my pick-up with two pints strapped to my dashboard - it just ain't practical.

Overheal

Meh. Its Texas. Technially theyre a sovereign state - not secceeded, but not as tied down to Federal Law. Same applies to Montana and (I think) Utah, as of early this year, when they additionally added a new ammendment to the State's constitution further protecting the right to arms, in anticipation that the Federal Government is preparing to greatly clamp down on the 2nd.

Manic Moran

Wertz wrote: »

Ok so people are going to run out and spend $20K on a truck to get a machinegun that only costs about $700 on it's own?
Way to get that economy back in shape.

Probably not a machinegun, but semi-auto. Select-fire versions of the AK currently retail for about $12,000 in the US right now.

probably because they all have guns and are afraid to offend anybody but still.

As they say, an armed society is a polite society.

Same applies to Montana

Montana's firearms law change a few months ago was one which exempted Montana-manufactured firearms from federal law as long as they remained in Montana. Montana always has been a State which liked its guns, last year the Secretary of State published a letter in which he said that the State would consider secceeding if the Supreme Court declared that there was no individual right to arms.

Don't worry they will learn their lesson and tighten gun controls when a student goes on a killing spree in a school.

Ever notice how those killing sprees tend to happen where guns are illegal? On the other hand, when a killing spree starts in a university or school where guns are legal (eg Appalachian School of Law), they tend not to get very far. People just don't learn...

NTM