{"id":5198,"date":"2010-09-09T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/09\/09\/san-franciscos-high-bridge-arms-can\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:11:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:11:53","slug":"san-franciscos-high-bridge-arms-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5198","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco&#8217;s High Bridge Arms Can Reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18945,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.sfgate.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/article.cgi?f=\\\/c\\\/a\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/09\\\/BAFT1FARV3.DTL&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20111007173222\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.sfgate.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/article.cgi?f=\\\/c\\\/a\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/09\\\/BAFT1FARV3.DTL&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 03:02:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 03:02:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18946,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2010\\\/08\\\/san-francisco-neighbors-object-to-lone.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260306020015\\\/https:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2010\\\/08\\\/san-francisco-neighbors-object-to-lone.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 03:03:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 03:03:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Despite hundreds of e-mails and letters opposing the re-opening of San Francisco&#8217;s only gun store, High Bridge Arms, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/09\/09\/BAFT1FARV3.DTL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the&nbsp;Police Department granted them a conditional permit to reopen.<\/a> The 3-member panel that heard High Bridge&#8217;s request said that the opponents &#8220;had failed to offer evidence backing their assertion that the store brought crime to the neighborhood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/san-francisco-neighbors-object-to-lone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a post I did on this in August<\/a>, I noted one of the suggestions for the space was a wine and cheese store or a laundry. In virtually any other city in the world, I&#8217;d have said the person making that suggestion was being sarcastic. In San Francisco, they mean it.<\/p>\n<p>The permit does impose some conditions upon High Bridge Arms. They must update their security including increased video surveillance and&nbsp;waist-high crash barriers outside&nbsp;to prevent cars from smashing throught the store&#8217;s front. High Bridge is also being required to lock up all firearms in a safe outside of business hours as well as require a parent or guardian to accompany those under 18 entering the store. In a bone tossed to the neighborhood on appearance, they can&#8217;t have any advertising on their display windows.<\/p>\n<p>The owners had no problem with the requirement to update their security. Steve Alcairo, the store&#8217;s manager, said &#8220;It&#8217;s a fair request. It&#8217;s about following the letter of the law, and that&#8217;s what we do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the e-mails and letters opposing the re-opening, only 4 people bothered to speak against it at the hearing while 10 spoke for it. <\/p>\n<p>This is pretty typical in my opinion given how easy it is to pop out an email opposing something. However, when it comes down to actually going to a hearing and testifying, it becomes too much trouble. Fortunately, the good guys won this round.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite hundreds of e-mails and letters opposing the re-opening of San Francisco&#8217;s only gun store, High Bridge Arms, the&nbsp;Police&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4596,2154],"class_list":["post-5198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nimbys","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5780,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions\/5780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}