C*ck Blocked at the Gun Store

[GTF425]

Some of the biggest whiny babies on this forum are crying in this thread. Entertaining!

It's almost like people could volunteer at their local Fire Department and qualify for Blue Label, but nah.

[LowSpeed_HighDrag]

It's almost like people could volunteer at their local Fire Department and qualify for Blue Label, but nah.

Exactly,

Cops, correction officers, security guards, EMT, firefighters, veterans, active duty, GSSF members, and all variations of the aforementioned fields of current/former/retired status are eligible for the programs. A private company wants to show supports for some career fields where people have volunteered their time to serve their nation/community and a bunch of whiny babies feel they are entitled to whatever they want whenever they want it.

Want to be eligible? Go serve something bigger than yourself....

[LowSpeed_HighDrag]

Why should cops be able to buy anything we cannot? Total bullshit! For years I have refused to do business with anyone who offers LEO discounts.

Damn you Lowes for offering discounts to contractors! Why should a general contractor get a discount that I dont?!?! I'll now refuse to do business with Lowes over this.

One word:

Entitlement.

[joedirt199]

Easy fix. Find a local academy, work hard and graduate, find job in law enforcement - not hard tons of openings these days, get hired, gain benefits. Easy

[Adrenaline_6]

Damn you Lowes for offering discounts to contractors! Why should a general contractor get a discount that I dont?!?! I'll now refuse to do business with Lowes over this.

One word:

Entitlement.

I don't think most are bitching over the discount. It's the stupid inventory availability with the way they are doing it.

Two words:

Reading comprehension.

[Alex V]

Easy fix. Find a local academy, work hard and graduate, find job in law enforcement - not hard tons of openings these days, get hired, gain benefits. Easy

Take a 70% to 80% pay cut to get a Glock?

Yeah, no. LOL

I don't think most are bitching over the discount. It's the stupid inventory availability with the way they are doing it.

Two words:

Reading comprehension.

I'm not really sure why people don't seem to understand something so damn simply.

[sidewaysil80]

If both were equally stocked, I wouldn't either.

So sell the guns that were allocated for first responders for higher price to non LE because demand says so?

[jsbhike]

A couple of issues.

After 11 September 2001, .gov sales average about 35%(prior to 2001 it was about 20%) of US firearms sales. .Gov is typically trying to eliminate well over half of the firearms business so I don't see the upside in selling 35 rifles to one .gov entity that wants to prevent the company from selling 65 rifles to the peasantry.

A few years back Milwaukee PD had an order in with BCM and their rabid antigun chief Ed Flynn(who had been at the top of the Masshole police under Mitt Romney a few years earlier) went on the legislature speaking circuit wanting to ban the rifles Milwaukee was in the process of ordering. Acting outside the norm for the firearms industry BCM canceled their order. Kudos to Paul Buffoni.

I am not aware of any building trades that want(at least openly) to prohibit the sale of construction tools and materials to people not in construction fields. When plumbers, carpenters, and what have you start calling for limitations or out right bans on your average person to buy lumber, plumbing supplies, and tools I will start taking a dim view on the hardware stores that wish to encourage their inexcusable behavior by extending them discounts.

[Diamondback]

I'm not really sure why people don't seem to understand something so damn simply.

"MUH SPEHSHUL BRO-PRIVUHLEGES!" I'm not even a Glock guy, I have no dog in this fight; my perspective is a Recovering Business Major looking at it through Management and Accounting eyes trying to figure out how to administer such a program at same benefit for minimum corporate cost. If they Blue Label a third of the run on a model and BL's decide they hate it, somebody's taking a bath on that inventory.

If *I* were chasing a G48MOS, I'd see about volunteering as a desk clerk at my local FD a few hours a month, just enough to get a cred. Holds no interest to me as a 1911 guy, though, so. Y'all Do Y'all.

[Diamondback]

A couple of issues.

After 11 September 2001, .gov sales average about 35%(prior to 2001 it was about 20%) of US firearms sales. .Gov is typically trying to eliminate well over half of the firearms business so I don't see the upside in selling 35 rifles to one .gov entity that wants to prevent the company from selling 65 rifles to the peasantry.

A few years back Milwaukee PD had an order in with BCM and their rabid antigun chief Ed Flynn(who had been at the top of the Masshole police under Mitt Romney a few years earlier) went on the legislature speaking circuit wanting to ban the rifles Milwaukee was in the process of ordering. Acting outside the norm for the firearms industry BCM canceled their order. Kudos to Paul Buffoni.

I am not aware of any building trades that want(at least openly) to prohibit the sale of construction tools and materials to people not in construction fields. When plumbers, carpenters, and what have you start calling for limitations or out right bans on your average person to buy lumber, plumbing supplies, and tools I will start taking a dim view on the hardware stores that wish to encourage their inexcusable behavior by extending them discounts.

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