“If you voted for Barack Obama, your business is not welcome at Southwest Shooting Authority. You have proven you are not responsible enough to own a firearm.”
A Pinetop businessman is putting his money where his mouth is.
Cope Reynolds, who owns Southwest Shooting Authority, a gun shop and firearms training facility in Arizona’s White Mountain community of Pinetop-Lakeside, has posted a sign banning anyone who voted to reelect Barack Obama. “If you voted for Barack Obama,” the sign states, “your business is not welcome at Southwest Shooting Authority. You have proven you are not responsible enough to own a firearm.” Reynolds also placed a similar message in an ad in the White Mountain Independent newspaper
Pinetop-Lakeside has a population of 4,280, only 736 of whom voted for Obama.
“I can’t imagine, after seeing what this man can do in four years, how stupid do you have to be to vote again to get the same thing. It’s unimaginable to me,” he said.
Reynolds is concerned Barack Obama and his Democrat cohorts will use his final term to punish gun owners, and weaken Americans’ Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Since the sign went up, Reynolds said, so has his business. He says people from all over the country are now ordering from Southwest Shooting Authority in a show of support. The bottom of the newspaper ad lists the gun shop’s phone number: (928) 367-AK47 (367-2547). We’re including it here in case you have a hankerin’ to buy a new firearm. Cope Reynolds is the man to give your business to.
Its unlikely Reynolds’ move will cost him many customers — his town is heavily Republican — but he says if he is forced out of business, he won’t have any regrets. “If we lose the whole business it doesn’t matter,” Reynolds said. “The bottom line is my values.”
That’s what it’s all about, after all. It’s called “integrity.” Here’s a picture of Cope Reynolds — the man who puts a face on that concept:
It is obvious that Cope Reynolds puts profits ahead of principles when he chooses to demonize the office of the presidency to make an extra buck. His ploy is to target this prince of a man who values equality and international harmony over greed. It is types like Reynolds, roughnecks who shoot innocent animals and eat them, who brandish scary firearms in public when any fool knows the police are the only one who need guns, who boast about how much ammunition they own but go ahead and cheat on their taxes, who menace society in every way but don’t care a whit for poor folks, that are keeping our country from becoming all it can be in this post-democratic era.
We are in a New World Order my friends, and we need to adjust our thinking to embrace the wonders of peaceful vegetarian living with free cell phones and plasma TVs, etc. The greatest advancement in modern civilization has been Obama’s decision to put food stamps on a simple gift card that can be used by anyone at anytime for anything.
And, finally, the Constitution is an outmoded concept from an agrarian society that claimed some citizens were only 3/5 human. Let’s scrap the Bill of Rights and begin grooving in Rastafarian Resonance.
Lefty:
You are such a cut-up! Got a good chuckle here.
Lefty, you need a different forum. Most “Seeing Red Arizona” readers are conservative Patriots. It’s not hard to believe Cope has integrity. Only those who don’t know the meaning of the word will criticize him. Those are the ones responsible for the loss of our country to the left.
Oh, I get it. Let’s all preach to the choir. Let’s not let anyone with competing, diversitive ideas invade our turf.
What’s the matter with a little equalitarianism sprinkled around?
(PS, I’d bet most “Seeing Red Arizona” readers also have good senses of humor. I wonder what Cope himself would say?)
Thank you for reporting this story! I am proud to say that Reynold’s was talking about me when he made this quote in the Huffington Post:
“Reynolds said he’s gotten a tremendous amount of support in response to the ad, which KPHO reported on Friday. He said some people had made the five-hour drive from Tucson to his shop in order “to shake our hand, get a picture,” before returning home.”
Bravo, Mr. Reynolds! Freedom rings!
Having a hard time deciding what to get for Christmas gifts? How about self-protection for your loved ones? In today’s world that’s about as thoughtful as it gets.
What a powerful statement of the disappointment and revulsion so many of us feel after the recent elections. Cope Reynolds speaks for me!
Huevos Grande on his Pistola…go Mr Reynolds
Mr. Reynolds deserves a Bottle of “Maker’s Mark”-PRONTO!