Exercising the Right
Banning Gun Stores?
The owners of the Southern California retail chain Turner’s Outdoorsman were excited about a new location opening in San Carlos City, California. The owners of the store, whose website describes it as “California’s #1 Hunting, Shooting & Fishing Headquarters since 1971,” had done all the required legal work to comply with local zoning laws and were on track to have their grand opening in November. The owners even signed a 10-year lease and spent $120,000 on the new store. Then the unthinkable happened. Local liberal activists started a campaign against the store, decrying the opening of the store and urging local voters to contact city officials and implore them to do anything in their power to stop it.
Since San Carlos City is a liberal city where registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans two to one, the campaign went viral, and constituents bombarded local officials with complaints about the opening of the store.
The campaign was masterminded by Episcopal Reverend Alan Gates, who told Fox KTVU that “following the shooting in Las Vegas I just decided I didn’t want any more guns in San Carlos, I certainly didn’t want to see another gun store in San Carlos.”
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