Your Pennsylvania Stat of the Day
Saturday September 1, 2007 at 4:08pm
Three Days Without Gun Sales
Pennsylvania is upgrading their computer system.
Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Gun retailers in Pennsylvania can't sell weapons at the start of the hunting season this weekend, and they're not happy about it. Neither are Republican politicians.
The shop owners complain that they will lose business because Governor Edward Rendell, a Democrat, decided to shut down the computers used to run criminal background checks on prospective gun buyers. The system will be off line for an upgrade from Sept. 2 through Sept. 5.
No rifles, shotguns or pistols can be sold during the three-day holiday weekend, from Saturday through Monday. The state's dove and goose hunting season opens Saturday.
`It just seems like the worst possible timing,'' said Chris O'Hara, promotions manager at Bass Pro Shops, a sporting goods store in Harrisburg, the capital. ``Labor Day weekend is a big gun-sale weekend for us.''
Perfect time for the Commies to invade!