Filed under: Car Buying, Etc.
Dealership offers free gas or gun with new car: 80% choose gun
In a move certain to generate both controversy and publicity, a new and used car dealer in Butler, Missouri, is offering his customers a choice between two sales incentives with their vehicle purchase: $250 in gasoline or a free semi-automatic handgun.
"We got high gas prices, theft, carjackings, innocent people getting hurt," Walter Moore, from Max Motors, told KMBC-TV. It seems the resourceful dealer is offering car buyers a solution for it all -- and the gun is proving to be the popular choice with 80 percent of his customers choosing the firearm over free fuel. As expected, not everyone is happy. Considering most of his customers already own guns, Moore doesn't understand why people's feathers are getting all ruffled. Customers who choose the semi-auto pistol over the gas are handed a certificate that must be redeemed, after the requisite forms and background check are complete, at a local gun shop. This, of course, keeps the local police much happier. Thanks for the tip, mccreery!
[Source: KMBC-TV]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
wormyguy 3:01PM (5/21/2008)
They must be outlaws. They go to the gas station, fill it up, don't pay, then hold up the convenience store.
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tankd0g 3:04PM (5/21/2008)
Katrina style disaster hits. Guy with a full gas tank vs. guy with an empty gas tank and a gun. Who's driving further?
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Jay 3:31PM (5/21/2008)
the guy with the gun pointing it at someone with a full tank of gas and peeling out in his car, duh!
tankd0g 3:52PM (5/21/2008)
That was my point actually, lol
mark.hinman 3:07PM (5/21/2008)
Apparently we are descending into a post apocalyptic Mad Max type world where gas is $4.00 a gallon, so I guess it makes sense.
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Mel. R 3:16PM (5/21/2008)
Note to self: Don't travel to Missouri.
If the media would stop flogging the hysteria about high gas prices and the "new rise" in crime because of them, the world would be a better place.
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Parkerman 3:54PM (5/21/2008)
If the media would stop A LOT of things.. the world would be a much better place. But.. That will never happen.
Whiplash 3:17PM (5/21/2008)
Here we go.... que the self righteous suburbians telling people in rural Missouri how they should live.
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mroverlord 3:22PM (5/21/2008)
I like it..but $250 doesn't buy much in semi-autos...hopefully you can use it as credit toward a more expensive handgun. :)
I'll take an FN Five-Seven please........
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StickShift 3:33PM (5/21/2008)
Dibs on a Luger (though that might get me the grip and little else....)
Greg 3:36PM (5/21/2008)
That was my reaction- a free semi-auto, valued at $250 (according the them...)- I'd rather have the gas and put down a bit more of my own money for a nicer hunk of metal.
Eddy Alvarez 6:57PM (5/21/2008)
lol yeah, i thought, "yay, free p22"
this is awesome though. i wish more people did this to show the world that the media thinks guns are bad but not the citizens who use them to defend their families.
Michael 9:16PM (5/21/2008)
Seriously, $250 won't buy you crap, add a couple more hundred onto that and get a little kel tec.
chris 2:42AM (9/11/2008)
@ Eddy
The majority of which end up injuring family members or owners?
mroverlord 10:14PM (5/22/2008)
"The majority of which end up injuring family members or owners?"
What an assinine statement. THAT is exactly the kind of anti-gun rhetoric that the anti-gun liberals feed to the unassuming public. Out and out lies that piss people like me (the informed) off. There are 80 MILLION guns in America..not including military weapons. Less a tenth of a percent which are involved in accidental deaths...get some numbers and stop drinking the koolaid.
Aprime 3:24PM (5/21/2008)
AMERICUH F'YEAH
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Tester 3:25PM (5/21/2008)
Shouldn't he also offer complimentary nooses to those who choose guns - "Buy a gun and do a favor to the society and hang yourself"?
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TORR 3:39PM (5/21/2008)
Tester-I'd use that noose on you and your stupid comments
Torrent 3:44PM (5/21/2008)
Ditto........
To TORR.........
M 6:01PM (5/21/2008)
I guess there are many gun lovers on this site.
I for one, know too many guys who think they're hot sh$% because they're packing heat. Or they talk Sh$% and start fights thinking the gun will save them if it comes to it.
Seems I know a few too many immature punks who shouldn't be owning weapons at all.