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Old 24-05-2008, 11:44 AM   #1
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A car dealership in the United States is offering a free handgun with every vehicle sold. Max Motors in Butler, Missouri, says sales have quadrupled since the start of the offer. Customers can choose between a gun or a $250 (£125) gas card, but most so far have chosen the gun.


The offer is proving popular - sales have quadrupled so far

Owner Mark Muller said: "We're just damn glad to live in a free country where you can have a gun if you want to." The dealership sells new and old vehicles, including General Motors and Ford cars and trucks, and its logo shows a cowboy holding a pistol. It has sold more than 30 cars and trucks in the past three days, an increase which the owners put down to their promotional offer.

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Mr Muller said that every buyer so far "except one guy from Canada and one old guy" chose the gun, rather than the gas card. He recommends a Kel-Tec .380 pistol, which he describes as "a nice little handgun that fits in your pocket". He added that the promotion was inspired by recent comments from one of the Democratic nominees for the presidential election, saying: "We did it because of Barack Obama.

"He said all those people in the Midwest, you've got to have compassion for them because they're clinging to their guns and their Bibles. I found that quite offensive. We all go to church on Sunday and we all carry guns."

The website advertisement for the offer, which continues until the end of the month, mentions that an approved background check on gun ownership is required.
Wonder what we would be getting next ?
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Old 24-05-2008, 11:56 AM   #2
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AK 47s with costlier cars, porsches & mercs
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Old 24-05-2008, 12:04 PM   #3
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Lets all buy a car and then play GTA.
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Old 24-05-2008, 12:12 PM   #4
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And rocket launchers, anti aircraft guns and mini hydrogen bombs with private planes.
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Old 24-05-2008, 01:03 PM   #5
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In India we should get offers like these with bank loans. So that we can tackle agent goondas ha ha ha
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Old 24-05-2008, 01:04 PM   #6
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nice info man ...this actually states the state & art of living in the States

oh wonder all AK47 ,rocket launchers.......lol u guys

I would suggest a bag full of stones to throw at each other
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Old 24-05-2008, 01:19 PM   #7
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U Guys forgot the ol Flame Thrower I love that thing
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Old 24-05-2008, 01:23 PM   #8
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OMG
gimme a sniper rifle
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Old 24-05-2008, 04:22 PM   #9
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LOL I really hope someone rips this off cheaply in India like Bollywood does to Hollywood... Let some car company give diwali crackers with a car... thats the most they can do lol
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Old 24-05-2008, 04:32 PM   #10
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In India we should get offers like these with bank loans. So that we can tackle agent goondas ha ha ha
LMAO.... hahahhahah
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Old 25-05-2008, 11:31 AM   #11
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Gun culture getting out of hand in the US.
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Old 25-05-2008, 02:19 PM   #12
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A country which glorifies all the disadvantages of technology to the fullest extent in a very short period of time and emphatically driving down the drain towards its path of destruction. Seems like Nostradamus might have predicted wrong about the Middle East going to hell
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Old 25-05-2008, 02:43 PM   #13
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I hate USA and west for their liberal policies
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Old 25-05-2008, 02:58 PM   #14
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^ which policy do you prefer?
I hate this country for their this policy and so on.. you end up hating all
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Lets all buy a car and then play GTA.
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Old 25-05-2008, 04:32 PM   #16
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^ which policy do you prefer?
I hate this country for their this policy and so on.. you end up hating all
I personally hate USA and EU countries for their allowing GLBT rights
gay rights suck!
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Old 25-05-2008, 04:57 PM   #17
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It seems an atrocious propensity, a callous rumination, an obtrude subreption and even arcane to me towards having such an attitude. Wait till it hits India and start hating it too!!
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Old 25-05-2008, 05:14 PM   #18
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guns are a need now. Why the fug should ppl not carry guns when every street has a couple of terrorists and a handful of robbers ? Don't so called VIPs go around with gun equiped body guards ?

As long there is proper licencing and regulation of the gun, I see no reason why they should be prevented in the current scenario.

I personally don't favour guns as much as I favour personal martial arts training(esp kairali), but with everyone carrying guns around, it has become quintessential for one I guess.
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Old 25-05-2008, 05:19 PM   #19
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^I got a gun ofcourse a air-rifle. but many here in Kerala got illegal weapons in hand especially in kottayam district
@legolas:follow the forum rules.you should only write in English here man!
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Old 25-05-2008, 07:07 PM   #21
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^I got a gun ofcourse a air-rifle. but many here in Kerala got illegal weapons in hand especially in kottayam district
@legolas:follow the forum rules.you should only write in English here man!
well,I referred gnome-dictionary client to understand what you just wrote
me got an air gun too, but I over did target practice with my home made bullz eye, and with time limiting and all that addons, I tried to reload the gun too quickly. One day its spring just snapped, when I tried to up my shots per minute to a high value by reloading very fast. Its no more, and I am not sure if I am still a good marksman.
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It seems an atrocious propensity, a callous rumination, an obtrude subreption and even arcane to me towards having such an attitude. Wait till it hits India and start hating it too!!
nice one legolas. Did you make those words up yourself ?
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Old 25-05-2008, 07:57 PM   #22
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^No. They're actual english words... and thanks to my SAT prep, I understood em all. xD
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well,I cannot stand there with this type of English.come beat me in malayalam
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^ ha ha.. I know Malayalam too.. may be not that big vocabulary!
^^ "actual English words" glad!!
^^^ thank you, I did not make that up, but yeah, I paired them up yo-hooooo
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^No. They're actual english words... and thanks to my SAT prep, I understood em all. xD
I heard the words alright, but with different spellings.
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so,I hate USA for all the wrong laws they have.like allowing software patents,allowing monopolies like M$haft,apple to exist,allowing stupid orgs like RIAA and other corpns to use DRM in their release software along with numerous other ones.

another thing is,US and EU laws are rewrote by the influence of feminists.esp separative feminists(lesbi@n feminists who want all men to die and female-female reproduction and all other BS's )3-4 decades ago I hate that!

total effect is men are under constant fear of 911 esp any lady even a girl kid can land him in jail for 127 years
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so,I hate USA for all the wrong laws they have.like allowing software patents,allowing monopolies like M$haft,apple to exist,allowing stupid orgs like RIAA and other corpns to use DRM in their release software along with numerous other ones.

another thing is,US and EU laws are rewrote by the influence of feminists.esp separative feminists(lesbi@n feminists who want all men to die and female-female reproduction and all other BS's )3-4 decades ago I hate that!

total effect is men are under constant fear of 911 esp any lady even a girl kid can land him in jail for 127 years
an exageration the bolded part.

but the later part, yes indeed.
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^not really that was an indirect change that occured
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I said "words", because they haven't really been used correctly.
On the issue, I'm not really surprised, with the strong gun and tobacco lobbies within america. I wonder how obama will react to this one?
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^not really that was an indirect change that occured
I don't give a damn to feminists.
Thats because I never make much of a distinction between guys and girls, unless it comes to *certain* things which are certainly not political.

What I want to be ensured is that if you have 10 year jail term for a guy raping a girl, have the same for a girl raping a guy.

In India, in Railway trains, staring at women is termed as harassment :X:X
and there is 2 years of jail term for the men commiting this *offence*.

well, who the hell is intrested in staring at some X, Y or Z ?
and even females stare at men.
but the govt gives no damn to it.
Thats where I get REALLY PISSED OFF.

I am sick of all these "morality" related laws.
the government is not the body which decides what is moral and what is not. If you don't want to see something, then don't see it. Its that simple. But these Indian b@st@rds who are exessively conservative want to intrude on our culture and impose theirs forcefully.
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