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Over
the weekend, San Francisco will lose its last gun store: High Bridge
Arms.
Why? The city has mandated that gun shops hand over information
about its customers to the cops.
"Just the idea of giving that
information willingly to the police department, for no real reason, seemed very
unreasonable to me." says Steven Alcairo, the general manager of High Bridge
Arms. Alcairo notes that the store already complies with all federal and state
reporting requirements.
Mark Farrell, a member of San Francisco’s Board
of Supervisors, was behind the local ordinance. The ordinance places new
requirements on gun shops like High Bridge Arms, such as videotaping everything
that happens in their stores and providing the San Francisco Police Department
with weekly updates on customers and purchases.
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