It was almost a religious experience. The grandeur of a giant department store devoted to all things outdoors and shooting. Damsel wanted to camp in the parking lot. Her eyes glazed over with the faraway look of a shopaholic who sees something shiny. Me? I was drooling on the seemingly endless display cabinet of hand guns with lower-than-expected pricing. Oh, and there was that S&W M&P 15-22 that flirted with my brain – I had to avert my glance to avoid being totally mesmerized.
California needs stores like this, but we know the creeps in Sacramento and the idiotic Governator will drive stores and revenues like this away from the Anti-Midas state government – everything they touch turns to sh*t. The “Golden State” paradigm is now a fond memory from the past.
You’re supposed to genuflect afore you enter into the Temple. And in a state where agriculture is as big as it is, the “Midas” touch can be a handy thing. Just have Ahhhnuld crawl through the Valley and you’ll never run out of fertilizer.
Ahnold IS the fertilizer – he might as well change his last name to Kennedy.
I LIKED IT. . . .I wannna live there
DROOL, DROOL!
California isn’t completely devoid of good outdoors shopping stores:
Bass Pro has stores in Rancho Cucamonga and Manteca with another in the works in Bakersfield.
Sportsmans Warehouse (not nearly as touristy, but with a good selection and maybe even better prices) has a store in Rocklin (just outside Sacramento).
Thanks for the good information on California-based outdoors shops.
We also have a small chain here in the Los Angeles area, Turner’s Outdoorsman. They sell guns and ammo, fishing gear and camping/recreational equipment. Except for their store in L.A. where neither guns nor ammo are sold thanks to the dimwits running the city.
It’s not the stores that are the problem, but the rampant hoplophobia common to legislators and policy makers.