VIDEO: MO dealer offers free AK-47 with truck purchase. How about a rack?
Last year, Max Motors in Butler, MO gave away free handguns with the purchase of a new vehicle. The promotion was such a success that the dealership is at it again, but this time with a more Russian flair. Buy a new truck at Max Motors, and you'll receive a voucher for a free AK-47.
Max Motors owner Mark Muller has generated all kinds of media coverage for his bombastic deal, even appearing on CNN to defend the promotion. Muller explains the dealer isn't simply passing out AKs to anyone who purchases a truck. Instead, truck buyers receive a voucher that can be redeemed at any reputable gun shop, where proper background checks must legally be run, etc.
God, guns, guts and American pickup trucks is Max Motors' motto, and Muller says the firepower is needed in MO due to a persistent Meth problem that has contributed to a high crime rate. For more, follow the jump to view Muller's recent CNN interview.
[Sources: USA Today; CNN]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 8)
JDM Life 11:44AM (7/19/2009)
wow.
Out of everything they could offer with a purchase of a new car...they choose a gun...
Not a smart group of people.
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grett 11:54AM (7/19/2009)
rather have an AK instead of a stupid toaster.
Motor_Yakuza 11:54AM (7/19/2009)
For truck buyers guns are the perfect purchase gift, trust me.
AZZO45b 1:02PM (7/19/2009)
Buy dat 'Merican TRUCK & get a voucher for a Commie GUN???
An AK-47? WTF is wrong with a good ole M-16??
Chibi Chaingun - blackhivemedia.com 1:20PM (7/19/2009)
Pretty damn awesome.
Devin 1:24PM (7/19/2009)
Despicable. What in the hell would anyone need an AK-47 for? Fending off all the terrorists that invade our country? Perhaps shooting quail, pheasant, and deer? The fact is that absolutely no one in this country needs an automatic or semi-automatic rifle. The days of fending off the british are over.
Dr. Spaceman 2:05PM (7/19/2009)
@Devin:
Why would someone need an AK-47, you ask? I'm sure people have different reasons. In case they need to shoot someone or something, because they like shooting targets at the range, because they feel the need to exercise their constitutionally protected right to bear arms. These are all valid reasons to own a gun.
The point I'm trying to make is that we don't have to have a reason to own a gun. It is our constitutionally protected right.
buddy 2:21PM (7/19/2009)
funny...no one ever goes out of their way to exercise their constitutional rights to abortions...which is about as stupid as exercising constitutional rights by going out and getting a fkn AK-47.
What's the definition of a firearm anyway? Can I put a scud missile in my backyard or put a missile launcher on my deck?
Jake B 2:20PM (7/19/2009)
The AK-47 is actually a pretty smart choice. Of course past a hundred yards it isn't very accurate, don't snipe with it. 7.62 x 39 rounds are still kind of common, good like trying to find those .223 rounds with everyone scared that BO is gonna ban Evil Black Rifles.
paul34 2:40PM (7/19/2009)
I love the dripping elitism and ignorance of many of the comments here. I still have yet to see one intelligent comment from anyone actually complaining about this promotion.
Mostly it's just... "umm like PFFT like umm yah AK47 booo mommy come hold me I'm scared of big bad boomstick!"
Of course, maybe I'm biased. But that's the difference between those who know and appreciate the 2A versus the ignorant.
the4thheat 3:10PM (7/19/2009)
I think I'd rather have the 500 bucks so I could buy whatever I want. Why would anybody be dumb enough to fall for this promo over a $500 discount?
You could bundle computers and TVs and refrigerators with a car, but it still makes no sense to be limited to that particular computer/tv/fridge instead of just having the money to buy whatever you choose.
paul34 4:03PM (7/19/2009)
the4thheat - the same reason people always fall for those cheap or free gas promotions. In total, they're worth less than $1,000, usually only maybe $250. The dealer can always quite easily afford that... you're just giving up a discount during negotiation and thinking you're getting a killer deal. Nope.
Most smart people won't take this, a toaster, free gas, cash back, or whatever stupid "promotion" a dealership happens to be running, and will instead use the amount towards their down payment.
smythe 9:57PM (7/19/2009)
@ Spaceman, you sound like Charlton Hestons son, which means you sound like some southerner douchbag. There is no need for someone to have a weapon that was designed for the armed forces, and you wonder why their are so many gun crimes and school shootings in the US.
mike 6:14PM (7/19/2009)
smythe - I think the last school shooting was in Germany. Do they have gun control in Germany?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting
GOT 7:44PM (7/19/2009)
Yes, they probably got a bunch of cheap AK47s from someplace.
Defensive gun use deters 2.4 million crimes/year and or (depending on the study) there are 64,615 times annually where guns are used as self defense. Gun ownership is a protected right, by law 2nd amendment). It's a proven means of self defense. Gun crimes increase with gun-control. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States
http://gunowners.org/just-for-skeptics/
paul34 9:33PM (7/19/2009)
@ Smythe - can you tell me what military on a "foreign battlefield" uses a semi-automatic copy of an AK-47? Can you? Or do you just repeat ignorant dribble without - gasp - thinking about it?
Keep your head in that hole in the ground... I'm sure you'll be fine.
Farmboy 11:13AM (7/20/2009)
Actually, this is great for those who want to build technicals! :)
Joe K. 7:37AM (7/20/2009)
Buddy: "funny...no one ever goes out of their way to exercise their constitutional rights to abortions...which is about as stupid as exercising constitutional rights by going out and getting a fkn AK-47."
Just because it's been judicially upheld does not mean it is in our constitution. The bill of rights does not have a clause for a woman's choice. Maybe you should have gone with the right to due process, because our government has been stomping all over that one for about 7-8 years now.
CB 9:05AM (7/20/2009)
@ Devin
Why would anyone need 400 hp when 100 will get you anywhere you need to go?
Why would anyone need HDTV when SD gets the job done?
Why would someone need an iPod when a walkman does the trick?
These questions are as stupid as you question asking why anyone need an AK. No one needs these things. They want them. Why should you care what other people have or want? Don't say the standard because guns kill garbage. More people are killed by cars and drunk drivers than AK-47's. If someone wants to shoot someone, there are much better choices than an AK-47. A 12 gauge with buckshot, .45, etc.
Anyone that bad mouths semi-automatic rifles has never experienced how much fun it is to shoot bottles with such weapons.
For the record, I do not own an AK-47, but I do own an AR-15 ;)
steveo391 5:33PM (7/20/2009)
@ smythe,
Those who can afford to buy a brand new truck are usually the ones who don't commit these crimes you speak of. Yes, some drug dealers can afford new trucks and may need the AK-47 but they usually get wiped out by somebody else anyways.
@ everybody else pissing their pants over this. Who do you think you are telling people what they can and cannot own? The beauty of a free country is that if your allowed to own a gun and can pass the check to get one, then you get it, simple as that. Most people who legally obtain guns don't commit crimes.