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Kick Butt of Newspapers Banning Gun Ads.
tr fox
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OK, here are a few "Guerilla Warefare" ideas to use on those newspapers that totally or partically ban gun advertisements.
#1: Most newspaper companies place their newspaper racks/machines at various places in the community. Many such companies even are bold and thoughtless enough to actually place their racks on public property. Such as chaining them to a light pole along a busy street or intersection or placing them in or near public buildings, etc. We have gotten so used to this that most of us don't notice or think anything about it. But if you want to cause the newspaper company a headache, locate most of the location where the newspaper company is basically making a profit from illegally using public space. Start complaining about this. The practice is not much different than if McDonalds set up a small hamburger stand on public property and started making money selling hamburgers. Force them out of there.
1B: Complain about those newspaper racks being placed at various locations as if they were old, dangerous refrigerators being abandoned and being a danger to children. Because they are a danger. If some older children forced a smaller child (or dog or cat, etc)into one of those machines and shut the door, that child or animal would be trapped there until someone let them out.
#2 Most newspaper companies don't collect or pay sales tax on single copy sales from those newspaper racks/machines. Start complaning until they have to start paying.
#3. Many newspaper carriers, especially the independent contractors/agents will use very small children ( as young as 10 or 11)to help deliver their newspapers. If you complain about this child labor exploration you can seriously embarrass the newspaper company because these children should not be working and expecially at that time of the morning for low pay and facing various dangers.
#4. Try to get your community to think of the newspaper company as major polluters. And they are. They use a tremdous amount of paper (trees) to print and huge amounts of gasoline to drive around delivering their newspaper. They should have be much more responsible about taking care of their pollution than they are. Make it your job to force them to "clean up their act"
#5. This one I have just started doing myself with the local K.C. Star Newspaper because they only allow ads for guns used for hunting or sporting purposes. So no handguns at all and no Ruger mini-14s, AR-15, AK-47, etc. They may be able to ban GUN ads, but can they ban ads for gun MANUALS?
Example. Consider banned ad: Colt AR-15 that features numerous high capacity magazines for $1,200.00.
Reworded ad: OWNERS MANUALfor Colt AR-15 that features numerous high capacity magazines and sold for $1,200.00.
Don't ya think it's likely that the reader of the reworded ad would realize that you were really trying to sell a gun and not just the manual? Especially after this method of getting around the newspaper gun ad ban becomes better known and popular? And how would the newspaper look if they tried to ban something as harmless as a "owners manual"? But if that doesn't work, then advertise a "picture" of the described gun, etc. Or come up with your own idea.
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
#1: Most newspaper companies place their newspaper racks/machines at various places in the community. Many such companies even are bold and thoughtless enough to actually place their racks on public property. Such as chaining them to a light pole along a busy street or intersection or placing them in or near public buildings, etc. We have gotten so used to this that most of us don't notice or think anything about it. But if you want to cause the newspaper company a headache, locate most of the location where the newspaper company is basically making a profit from illegally using public space. Start complaining about this. The practice is not much different than if McDonalds set up a small hamburger stand on public property and started making money selling hamburgers. Force them out of there.
1B: Complain about those newspaper racks being placed at various locations as if they were old, dangerous refrigerators being abandoned and being a danger to children. Because they are a danger. If some older children forced a smaller child (or dog or cat, etc)into one of those machines and shut the door, that child or animal would be trapped there until someone let them out.
#2 Most newspaper companies don't collect or pay sales tax on single copy sales from those newspaper racks/machines. Start complaning until they have to start paying.
#3. Many newspaper carriers, especially the independent contractors/agents will use very small children ( as young as 10 or 11)to help deliver their newspapers. If you complain about this child labor exploration you can seriously embarrass the newspaper company because these children should not be working and expecially at that time of the morning for low pay and facing various dangers.
#4. Try to get your community to think of the newspaper company as major polluters. And they are. They use a tremdous amount of paper (trees) to print and huge amounts of gasoline to drive around delivering their newspaper. They should have be much more responsible about taking care of their pollution than they are. Make it your job to force them to "clean up their act"
#5. This one I have just started doing myself with the local K.C. Star Newspaper because they only allow ads for guns used for hunting or sporting purposes. So no handguns at all and no Ruger mini-14s, AR-15, AK-47, etc. They may be able to ban GUN ads, but can they ban ads for gun MANUALS?
Example. Consider banned ad: Colt AR-15 that features numerous high capacity magazines for $1,200.00.
Reworded ad: OWNERS MANUALfor Colt AR-15 that features numerous high capacity magazines and sold for $1,200.00.
Don't ya think it's likely that the reader of the reworded ad would realize that you were really trying to sell a gun and not just the manual? Especially after this method of getting around the newspaper gun ad ban becomes better known and popular? And how would the newspaper look if they tried to ban something as harmless as a "owners manual"? But if that doesn't work, then advertise a "picture" of the described gun, etc. Or come up with your own idea.
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
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Wow!!! Impressive piece of literature, and I have to admit, that you are even more cunning and inventive than me! [:)] Great ideas, and since my local paper is a Gannett paper (read liberal communist/socialist propaganda sheet) I am going to make it a point to check out where these stands are, and if they are located on public property, I will complain long and loud to my city councilman. Ditto for the sales taxes lost.
Kudos!!
John
A friend will post your bail. A good friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, "man that was fun!"
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
Most of my cunning ideas will land you in jail! [8D]
But have found five newspaper boxes so far..and have already asked my city councilman about the tax revenue. He came in the small diner while I was eating lunch and joined me and a friend. He smiled at me when I asked if the local paper here in Shreveport paid the city sales taxes on revenues generated from the sale of newspapers out of their own vending machines, then asked, "who torqued your jaws down tight this time?"
He's a pretty cool guy, known him for years, but if they are generating one dollar of revenue and not paying taxes, he will make it known that they are in arrears.
Have a great rest of the week..
John
A friend will post your bail. A good friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, "man that was fun!"
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
My local newspaper does, indeed, carry gun ads..rifles, pistols, and shotguns. My complaint with them is that it is owned by Gannett of USA Today fame, and if there is a story that should be on the front page that is positive about President Bush, or the war in Iraq, or the military, it is usually buried deep in the "local" section of the newspaper.
Secondly, they have never met a liberal that they didn't like, and their editorial page has never met a tax it didn't like. That is why I have already bugged my city councilman about the likely loss of sales tax revenues from their vending machines.
Since I last wrote, I have found 2 more! Too bad I don't have a stored supply of the good, OLD M-80's. LOL I told you earlier that a lot of my "cunning" ideas would land you in jail. [}:)]
John
A friend will post your bail. A good friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, "man that was fun!"
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
The newspaper company "wholesales" her the papers.
Thereby relieving themselves of any "tax" liability.
She then fills the boxes.
It is up to her, to pay taxes on them, or not.
If anyone gets in trouble for not paying the tax,
it would be her (an independent) not the paper.
I will be asking her some questions next time I talk to her.
The gene pool needs chlorine.
But if I am to give the newspaper company problems, I will have to cause some heat for the independent delivery people. HOWEVER, those delivery people should be able to dump whatever problems I cause into the lap of the newspaper company. That is how I plan on giving the anti-gun newspaper companies heartburn.
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
Larry? Who's Larry? Never heard of him.
(heheh)
But I have also found out that there are some of the boxes that are owned and serviced by the newspaper, so that info will also be passed along. Wonder what kind of retroactive fine this would entail?
I love doing stuff like this!!!! LOL
John
A friend will post your bail. A good friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, "man that was fun!"
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
Keep up the good work guys[;)]
I am dojng the same type stuff in my area..Recon is the first step, THEN its time for action[8D]
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
Well, thank you! Of course, I think if we got together, we would actually burn the town down to the water line (I'm ex-Navy, so bear with me). LOL
My "hero" when I was growing up was Alfred E. Neuman..for those of you who don't know, try reading "MAD Magazine" and his motto, which I adopted, sometimes rather seriously, is/was "what, me worry?" I have to say that that attitude has negatively impacted me a couple of times, but carried me through positively more times, so it is sort of my mantra.
That, along with having three brothers who are each talented in their own right, has contributed to a sense of what's right and wrong, unlike Clinton who lived in a world where it was based on "what's legal, and what can I get away with." Now my brothers and I have done some really crazy things, especially when we were all much younger and "bullet proof." LOL
At one point in time I had a trap line set up, and would run them every morning about sunrise. One day I found that one of my traps had a bobcat in it. He was anchored down pretty good by one back leg. How his back leg came to be in it is up for speculation, but, nonetheless, I was, I have to admit, a bit reticent about wading in and removing him from the trap. I went home and told one of my brothers about the situation, and as we thought for a moment, he came up with the idea of closing a large suitcase over him, then releasing his leg. Sounded good to me, so we got one out of the garage and boogied back to the bobcat.
It didn't take long to get the suitcase over the feline, and as soon as I released the leg, the bobcat * it up, and as he did, my brother (all of twelve) closed the suitcase up and sat down on it. I latched it up and we hiked about a mile back towards the house, discussing how we were going to open the suitcase, and release the cat without getting clawed, scratched, bitten, killed, eaten, etc.
And it was obvious to us that the cat was getting more and more irritated by being detained in such a manner...but you gotta hand it to whoever built that suitcase, it was tough! [:)]
We finally decided (one of the few times in my youth) that discretion was definitely the better part of valor, and carried the suitcase up to the paved road, a half mile from the house and set it on the side of the road, then decided that we would hide in the brush and see how long it would sit there.
Less than five minutes later, a car drove by, four older guys (juniors in highschool) were in the car. They went on down the road then did a uee and came back. One of the guys in the back seat opened his door and reached out and snatched the suitcase inside, and off they roared. Less than 100 yards down the road, all four doors on the car opened up and all four of them bailed out, along with one very P.O.'d bobcat. The car ran down into the ditch and came to rest against a barbed wire fence.
We laughed until we cried, then, after the occupants of the car had driven off, we retrieved the suitcase and went home.
Thought I would tell you this just to let you know where my psyche is, from time to time.
John
A friend will post your bail. A good friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, "man that was fun!"
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
Uh..no! I'm old and gray now, and definitely not bullet proof! However, something along the line of a nice central american boa in each one might just do the trick. Thought about something venomous, but that could lead, possibly, to charges of manslaughter/murder/depraved indifference. LOL
Nope, I'm just gonna continue to bug my councilman...at least for the time being. Perhaps a MGD induced brainstorm will come to me this weekend.
John
A friend will post your bail. A good friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, "man that was fun!"
I again say I do not want to cause problems for the carrier just out doing his/her job or running their small business. And it might seem at first as if some of these actions I suggest might cause some problems for those innocent carriers. But please remember that is many cases those newspaper racks are actually owned by the newspaper company and only loaned or leased to the carrier. Besides, anytime there is going to be a citywide deliver problem you know that the newspaper company is going to HAVE to protect their selves by stepping in and solving the delivery problem all the carriers are having.
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
I like your idea and will see what I can find lurking around on public property.
I hate to patronize this rag but it's the only paper we have in this area, so how would it work if you had to sell some guns that you just placed your add saying "Gun collection for sale."
I don't care for the idea of animals placed in the boxes. Soft heart I guess.
JESUS
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
make it a cat...they will lie there in a very mellow state, then go totally ape sh** berserk as soon as the door is opened. LOL
Also, one more thing, wear rubber gloves, and make sure that there are no surveillance cameras around...you know, ATM's, Taco Bell drive thru windows...do a complete recon before caging the cat! [8D]
John
PS Borrow the neighbor's car or truck, just in case someone gets a license plate number. Stolen cars work better, but doubt if you want to carry it THAT far! LOL
A friend will post your bail. A good friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, "man that was fun!"
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
You sure you aren't a criminal defense lawyer?
LOL
John
A friend will post your bail. A good friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, "man that was fun!"
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
I guess it's a damn good thing we aren't in politics! LOL Can you imagine a ticket like this?
VOTE FOR FOX/SALVAGE...Neither one wants to be president or vice president..they would be your voice as co-presidents/vice-presidents. Whoever was in the best mood that day would be the "good" president, whoever was in the bad mood would get to declare war.
Like you, I have spent 30+ years in sales/service, and some of my best ideas came while swilling adult beverages with co-workers, didn't have to put up with a "manager" type holding us in bondage to "brainstorm" anything. LOL
But you haven't lived until you have had to stand outside a woman's restroom in a large department store in a major city and ask them if they used the new woman's urinal and how did they like it. [B)] Had to have store security, in uniform, stand there with me to keep from being beaten to death with purses!!! Honest!!!!
John
A friend will post your bail. A good friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, "man that was fun!"
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"