
Virginia – -(Ammoland.com)- First – let’s clear up one simple fact: a gun dealer can deny a firearms purchase anytime they want and for any reason. Period, end of sentence. This is often how straw purchases are stopped. A salesman overhears something suspicious and then refuses to do the sale.
In this video, posted by CHRIS KING MASON, a dealer refuses to sell him a gun. When pressed as to why the sale was being denied, the store owner, VANCE HOPKINS, said, “We have to follow all federal guidelines and we’re not gonna sell you a gun.”
In the video, Mr. Mason, who is black, is saying that the gun store, Hopkins Gun & Tackle, is stereotyping him. If, by stereotyping, Mason means not selling a gun to a black man, that accusation fails. In the video, as Mr. Hopkins is walking over to the phone to call the police, the camera briefly shows another black man in the process of buying a gun from another salesman!
Mr. Mason keeps badgering Mr. Hopkins and finally leaves before the police arrive to enforce a trespass charge.
Whether the sale should have been denied or not, I have no way of knowing. But the denial doesn’t appear to be racially motivated, as the ibtimes.com seems to imply in the link that follows.
Virginia Gun Store Refuses Black Customer, Accused Of Stereotyping

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It doesn’t matter if he is black, Mexican, or Muslim, or pink with purple polka dots, all businesses reserve the “Right” to refuse service to anyone. Period! Nobody Has to do business with anyone!!!
Can anyone do their job anymore, without the Cyber Trolls ganging up that person or Company and spinning in into the Race Card ! If I was denied for something, would I whip out my phone and start videoing, while laughing and threatening and accusing? Yes , If I was guilty of what I was being accused of. Otherwise I would probably just feel embarrassed and confused, if I was innocent! Wearing a Tupac Shirt should be automatic denial on gun purchase. People are starting to attempt to get what they aren’t legally entitled to have by the threat of… Read more »
No doubt in store video system will prove the ‘customer’ was up to no good.
That’s how we get liberals pro-gun, deny the sale of guns to:
#1Blacks, #2 Mexicans #3 Muslums and the left will go crazy that we should be selling to these people & start pushing for gun rights.
Compare and contrast with Project Gunwalker, aka Operation Fast & Furious, the news of which was broken by David Codrea and Michael Vanderboegh:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120207121649/https://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker
Wherein gun dealers in border states were expressing concerns about sales of weapons that eventually ended up across the border, and were told – ordered, really – by the government to proceed with the sales.
I followed a link from this story and ended up on YouTube looking at a pro black rights channel that is suppose to support black people. They said in the video it was racism and didn’t mention how little the video showed of what led up to the denial. I scrolled down to the comments and almost every one was the most hateful,racist comments directed towards white people and to only support black business owners. Every comment was the same. If it was reversed YouTube would have suspended the acct and most of the commentors. None were flagged, no one… Read more »