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TexasTowelie

(116,509 posts)
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 04:20 AM Jul 2017

Alabama roofing company giving away AR-15 with every roof

One U.S. Navy veteran's north Alabama business is celebrating Independence Day with an unusual special: a free AR-15 with every new roof. Yes, it's legal.

Digital Roofing Innovations is making quite a splash with its early marketing campaigns. The Decatur-based business has only been around about a year. A July 4 ad promoting the special on Facebook had been shared more than 400 times in its first six hours online.

"Donald Trump says make America great again. I say make America gun again. MAGA!" Owner Zach Blenkinsopp says in the ad, shirtless, wearing cowboy boots, an American flag hat and short star-patterned shorts while holding an AR15. "Some of you might be sitting there saying, 'Man, this sounds like a gimmick.' A gimmick you say? Well I'm a gosh darn Navy veteran, active duty eight and a half years. My roofing company's not a gimmick and this baby's not either. It's here to protect you and your family."

Blenkinsopp, a Florence native, served in the Navy from 2004 until 2012. He's seen companies elsewhere give away free guns with purchase, but he's never seen it from a veteran-owned company. The company also offers military discounts.

Read more: http://www.al.com/business/index.ssf/2017/07/alabama_roofing_company_giving.html

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Alabama roofing company giving away AR-15 with every roof (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2017 OP
Good grief! Rhiannon12866 Jul 2017 #1
Those people in Alabama TexasTowelie Jul 2017 #2
I guess I wouldn't fit in very well in Alabama Rhiannon12866 Jul 2017 #4
Not surprised, lived in Alabama awhile. If sales lag, they'll throw in a confederate flag. Hoyt Jul 2017 #3
.... trusty elf Jul 2017 #5
If I had already hired this guy rpannier Jul 2017 #6
they say a picture is worth a thousand words..... Locrian Jul 2017 #7
Love that he feels the need to point out that he has some gay friends Nwgirl503 Jul 2017 #8
WOW my first thought was AR15 was a solar panel!!! angstlessk Jul 2017 #9

TexasTowelie

(116,509 posts)
2. Those people in Alabama
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 04:39 AM
Jul 2017

might not have kind words for you as a woman who wants to change the natural order of things. They will insist that you take the AR-15 or they will make the hole in your roof bigger. Must take gunz!!!

Rhiannon12866

(221,157 posts)
4. I guess I wouldn't fit in very well in Alabama
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 05:11 AM
Jul 2017

Though you'd be surprised that I'm not bad with a gun - though it's been years. In my teens I belonged to a couple of rifle teams, I learned to shoot at summer camp, was on the team there - all girls - and then I was on the team at school, the first and only girl. I was "second man" on the team!

But we only shot at paper targets and the guns were locked up at camp or at school. Like most here, I'm a big proponent of strict gun control, think repeal of the AWB was tragic. I don't need a gun, but at least I know how to use one. Giving just anyone a gun, let alone an AR-15, is horrific.

Nwgirl503

(406 posts)
8. Love that he feels the need to point out that he has some gay friends
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 06:01 AM
Jul 2017

Cause that totally makes this......................make sense.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
9. WOW my first thought was AR15 was a solar panel!!!
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 06:55 AM
Jul 2017

We (US) Democrats think first the best of people...to our defeat!

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