Last Gun Store in San Francisco Set to Close After 63 Years in Business: ‘Enough Is Enough’

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Posted October 5, 2015 6:48 am by Comments

By Liz Klimas

In this Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 photo, High Bridge Arms general manager Steve Alcairo reaches into a display case of handguns while being interviewed in San Francisco. High Bridge Arms, the last gun store in San Francisco, is scheduled to close on Oct. 31, 2015. (AP/Jeff Chiu)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The only gun store in San Francisco is shuttering for good, saying it can no longer operate in the city’s political climate of increased gun control regulations and vocal opposition to its business.

“It’s with tremendous sadness and regret that I have to announce we are closing our shop,” High Bridge Arms manager Steve Alcairo announced in a Facebook post on Sept. 11. “It has been a long and difficult ride, but a great pleasure to be your last San Francisco gun shop.”

In this Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 photo, High Bridge Arms general manager Steve Alcairo reaches into a display case of handguns while being interviewed in San Francisco. High Bridge Arms, the last gun store in San Francisco, is scheduled to close on Oct. 31, 2015. (AP/Jeff Chiu)

Alcairo said the breaking point came this summer when a local politician proposed a law that would require High Bridge Arms to video record every gun sale and submit a weekly report of ammunition sales to the police. If passed, the law would join several local gun control ordinances on the books in a city still scarred by the 1993 murder of eight in a downtown high-rise …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze

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