This is an interesting angle to elections having consequences. Apparently, the ultra-wealthy and affluent in Beverly Hills are rushing to purchase firearms at a jaw-dropping rate as they no longer feel safe. It’s worth reading the whole article.
[Beverly Hills] – In Beverly Hills, even the purchase of a firearm comes with certain…expectations. The city’s only gun store, Beverly Hills Guns, is a “concierge service” by appointment only, for a largely affluent clientele. And business is booming.
Since opening in July 2020, the store has seen upscale residents from Santa Monica to the Hollywood Hills increasingly in a panic following several high-profile smash-and-grab and violent home invasion robberies. The apparent siege has brought in a daily stream of anxious business owners and prominent actors, real estate moguls and film execs, says owner Russell Stuart. Most are arming themselves for the first time.
“This morning I sold six shotguns in about an hour to people that say, ‘I want a home defense shotgun,’” says Stuart, whose store is discreetly located in a Beverly Hills office building, with no sign on the doors, down the hall from a diamond dealer. “Everyone has a general sense of constant fear, which is very sad. We’re used to this being like Mayberry.” (read more)
Funny how that happens…
Keep in mind, this is the epicenter of the West Coast donor base for the DNC.
Are we sure we want these fancy liberals to have guns? They might shoot the mailman.
or their producer. wink wink!
or Alex B aldwine…;-) see what I did
Or a director of photography.
Ours are incompetent and cannot read so – not a big loss …..
“You will shoot your eye out!”
Well, given that the US Post office has been spying on us for the DOJ and FBI for the last 4 years. There’s that’
The LA Magazine article never mentions the reason for the need for Beverly Hills to all of a sudden arm themselves? Wonder why? No mention of Soros funded DAs getting elected soft on criminals, no mention of leftist activist Judges favoring the criminal, no mention of low bonds or no bonds allowing criminals to walk free, no mention of the change in laws not charging thefts of less than $1,000, no mention of releasing thousands of criminals from California jails, etc! Like Willie Sutton when asked why he robbed banks he answered because that’s where the money is. This new class of thieves let loose by leftist, progressive DAs and Judges have discovered Beverly Hills is “where the money is”! Everything “woke” turns to shit!
Suspects out on bail kill 150+ in TX county. Nice collage of the perps. Now you know why no mention although the victims appear from the same neighborhoods. https://news.yahoo.com/suspects-bond-killed-more-150-195200294.html
Abbott is a RINO.
Abbott is an IDIOT! There, fixed it for you!
Misstatement. The suspected out on bail (113?) previously killed over 150 people.
Unknown how many new victims.
The sore-owes crime network has inflicted his crooked D.A.’s on large counties in TX. Harris County (Houston) and others.
The vote for DA is rigged waaaaayyy ahead of time by:
Until we stop LEGAL immigration, we cannot correct this problem.
Example: Sore-owes was a LEGAL immigrant.
No, there will be no connecting of the nodes of information such as the millions of military age, male foreign nationals being brought into the country to increases in violent crime. That would be wrongthink and a Thoughtcrime.
Undoubtedly this cartel infiltration will spill over into Arizona and Nevada. Locusts from California have ruined those states.
If irony could kill they would all be dead. They are all hypocrites. No guns for any of the unwashed, need gun control.
Funny thing about reality. It’s one thing to spout theories about removing all guns from American citizens when ensconced behind the walls of your Beverly Hills mansion, and yet another thing entirely when confronted by the real world invading your idyllic personal paradise.
They are really just wanting to protect themselves from Alec Baldwin.
I heard somewhere “You Reap What You Sow”. They probably didn’t hear or understand that….
Hollywood,Washington, DC and Martha’s Vineyard are where our “royalty” live.
I JUST WANT MY LIFE BACK!
I just want my country back
I just want to be left alone
I’ve always thought we won’t see change until they walk a mile in our shoes. They are now half a mile in.
“They” need to suffer painful and horrible economic and personal / family consequences resulting from their political ideology directly tied to the GDC’s, imbeciles and maroons they elect to public office.
Until then nothing will change, and even then these Progressive Useful Idiots will most likely still not be able to connect the dots.
A lot of sage advice about which gun to own here but very few mentions about the most important aspect of self defense which is “training and range time”. Owning a firearm and using it under stress are two completely different animals. There is no substitute for familiarization and operation of a weapon (regardless to how proficient you may have been in days gone by). Under stress you have no time to think, only react. This only happens with frequent practice.
Absolutely.
And you can practice dry firing inside your home.
Helps with small muscle memory, and you can check where your aim is when you quickly point and shoot.
Also, practice release and load on magazines. (This is what my challenge was over the last 6 years, or so. I was raised with
shotguns, handguns, rifles, but no semi autos. Now I love having a 30 rnd mag for one of my handguns 😉)
A friend is a LEO. His area is HEAVY on training… this weapon, that weapon, vehicle, etc. On top of regular duty.
And, aren’t most of these the ones who wanted to take our guns away? Hmmmm?
They didn’t care until it came to them. Then again, I suppose us conservatives have learned a lesson about blindly supporting LEO’s too. When all is said and done, they’re going to follow orders, whether they are lawful or moral. The same goes with most of the military.
These elites are the same ones that told us that we didn’t need guns to hunt or protect ourselves. They of course had their own armed security guards. There are three groups of people that should fear armed citizens. Globalist/elites–politicians —crooks. It is time that they lived in fear.
Inflation. Private security is getting more expensive? Best and cheapest private security is a S&W in the nightstand.
And in my pocket.
Or a purse for us ladies.
I would imagine that a lot of actors aren’t making as much money these days either. Between the wuhan virus and the fact that they have made it a point to insult half the country, not that many people are buying movie tickets anymore.
Beverly Hills residents are as racist and biased as anywhere in America, they’re just better actors and haven’t had to interact with ‘them’ at their luxury stores and swanky clubs. Nothing would be finer than for these break ins and ‘meet and greets’ to continue until they cry ‘Uncle’. Until then, abortion reigns supreme.
“Beverly Hills residents are as racist and biased as anywhere in America”
Wow! That could have flowed right off Kumalla Harris’ tongue
Maybe you should just speak for your own neighborhood.
Everyone that they vote for is trying to take away my guns….thus they should not be able to purchase anything gun related.
Oh man I wish they had a comments section. Of course they don’t.
“In Beverly Hills, the craving for additional security dates to the riot that followed an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter protest…”
They literally can’t help themselves.
I have to wonder how many of these are “straw buyers” to supply firearms to the BLM/antifa types.
Hollywood liberals would never do that right?
This is an everyday thing. A felon gets his “Girlfriend O’ De Week” to buy a firearm for him, he then gets busted for murder but they NEVER, EVER charge or procsecute the “girlfriend” so she goes on to buy one for the next felon she hooks up with, and the next, and the next.
There is a question on the Fed transfer form asking if you are buying for yourself and they have to sign it to buy a firearm.
Nah, Residents are being followed home from daily errands and doors are being kicked in. Outdoor Lunch time diners are being robbed in broad day light. It’s very real.
“He didn’t pull the trigger”.
Right.
The gun aimed itself & self fired. Gotcha.
CAN WE PLEASE SUBPOENA HIS CELL PHONE RECORDS TO SEE WHO HE CALLED IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SHOOTING??
Maybe a lawyer? Did he talk to a lawyer before he gave that answer?
I find this hysterically funny.
Making me laugh along with the thought of blue tarps along their sidewalks.
Good luck.
You can buy all the guns you can afford but if you don’t know how to use them, you’re back to square one.
At least maybe the DNC is missing a few donations.
California is a lawless Banana Republic.
Democrat politicians destroyed California.
California is just a different spelling for Venezuela.
Election Fraud software has been operating in the Voting System of
California & New York for a long time aided by phony mail-in ballots.
Election Fraud software turned California into a one-party rule.
So supposedly everyone in Beverly Hills now have a general sense of constant fear? But I thought that was from the ongoing COVIDIAN PSYOP for the last two years. They aren’t bringing in millions of military age, male foreign nationals for filling the job market and leading productive, tax paying lives.
“We can not continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a Civilian National Security Force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” ~ 2008 Presidential Candidate Barack Hussein Obama
I remember hearing that. I will not give my opinion on BHO as the language will get me kicked off this board and raise my blood pressure too high.
Guess what? You might not pack your bad language box away just yet.
Dems seriously floating the Mrs. BHO for 2024 as they have NO ONE ELSE, well, just maybe…Hillary.
“90210, Lock & Load War Zone” edition
Blindly committed commies always infect their surroundings without realizing that they are not immune to the deadly disease the infection always brings on.
Sad, tragic poetic justice.
If Mayberry was full of people *&%$ing on the streets, hopped up on drugs, teeming will illegals and recently released criminals who have near zero fear of any meaningful punishment for their crimes, a looming race war, and a pending communist takeover aided and abetted by the very corrupt individuals appointed to positions of power to stop them…well yes, that would be just like Mayberry…..
Gulags north of arctic circle will solve these problems. Maybe outsource prisoners to China since China can do it cheaper. Why not? They outsource our jobs without second thought. Most will likely never return, except in body organs, lol.
Don’t know anyone in BH. If their DAs are woke they will have no public security. Police force is only as good as the DA backing them. Wonder how many can afford private security around the clock? Not many I should think.
With this from the Union….
“My message to anyone thinking about coming to Los Angeles, especially during the holiday season, is don’t,” Jamie McBride, the head of the LA Police Protective League, the union representing LAPD officers, said in a television interview.
I say let the Liberal idiots twist in the wind! THEY had a hand in all this!
Law and order begins in the voting booth, and unfortunately in blue cities things will have to degenerate more before there is any realistic hope of improvement. I suspect that there will be no meaningful change until the soccer moms are afraid to go shopping or send their kids out to play. Reality only punctures illusions when you experience it up close and personal.
First observation……….the writer speaks of these crimes like they just happen, similar to the reporting of the mass murder in Waukesha how an SUV plowed through the Christmas parade (like wha? Who DROVE IT?).
EX: “…..Last March, a $500,000 Richard Mille watch was stolen at gunpoint from a diner at the Il Pastaio restaurant. The Dec. 1 home-invasion robbery and shooting death of philanthropist Jacqueline Avant…..”
I’m feeling like I need a dose of Paul Harvey – like where’s the “rest of the story.” Dang, who’s the PERP? Got any photos so we all can be on the lookout for the bum?
“Whatever the police have needed, fortunately we’re a city that we can write a check and get it,” says Todd Johnson, president and CEO at the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce.” Not so lucky if you live in Waukesha with working class stiffs like me.
The reason there are “too few Police Officers” is because while the affluent leftist continue to spew their garbage about de-funding the police is because they’re able to BUY their own protection, unlike working class stiffs like me.
The perp probably got $200 for it at some pawn shop. 😉
An island of wealth and luxury in a sea of rising crime.
The tsunami is coming and they don’t have enough sandbags to protect it.
It appears a Cali-conservative is a leftist that was mugged by reality . . .
I have some very affluent clients. Their community used to be what people called a bucolic bedroom type community in Southern CA. Recently they’ve seen a LOT more crimes and homelessness in the downtown area as well as on parts of peoples property that they’ve paid well over a million dollars to own. A contractor I know told me about how he was leaving a bar downtown alone and was viciously attacked. This is a guy who is 6′ 2″ and about 250. The bouncer would not leave the door to help him when three men beat, and kicked him to the ground. He called them “tweakers” who were living in tents nearby.
When we moved here almost 40 years ago, we never could have imagined in a million years that this would be even remotely possible.
We scaled down our home several years ago and only stayed in CA because we still have family here. Our family has now announced they are leaving the state this coming year (hallelujah) and now there’s nothing stopping us.
Please – folks from surrounding states. We are conservatives. We vote conservative. We voted in every election and tried to do our civic duty to prevent some of these crazy leftists from ruining the state. This is what happens when votes are harvested and non-citizens are paid to DILUTE our voices. We don’t vote for these crazy leftists ideas and have no intention of ruining your state.
Please find it in your hearts to welcome people from California fleeing this insanity.
With your values and priorities, I hope you look for rural county areas which need you. Most city governments across America which have access to capital and are growing, have sold out to Agenda 2030 money. They do not believe in property rights.
As the cities grow they subsume the county districting and commissions, then the rural and free areas are pressured. It is happening all long the urban corridors in NC now.
Subsidized apartment complexes are being built everywhere.
Absolutely welcome in NW AZ !
God bless you
MTeresa,
Here’s some free advice. Just remember that you are REFUGEES, not MISSIONARIES, and really not wanted even then! Don’t ever tell anyone in your new state about “how we did it back in California,” because your new neighbors couldn’t care less about how, or what, you did back in what is arguably the craziest, most screwed-up place in the nation. Those new neighbors of yours, very justifiably, loathe your state and fear that the obvious mental illness of most Cal inhabitants might be contagious.
You came from Leftist Garbageville Central. People from there are suspected of leftist insanity because they’ve long been exposed to it, and willingly stayed in that environment for decades. Most of us have been exposed to more effed-up, arrogant, leftist californicators than we ever wanted to be, and didn’t think very much of the experience. Don’t be surprised when people in your new state check you out pretty carefully before they place any trust in you.
In all honesty, most of us wish that those of you in garbage blue states would just stay there and fix them rather than come to our state.
I don’t even know how to reply to you.
We don’t have any intention of telling folks in our new community “how we did things back in CA”and in general being disrespectful to our new home. We work, pay our taxes, take care of our property, are responsible and caring citizens/neighbors and as my folks used to say, keep our noses clean. I can’t imagine that a community would be hostile to that, but I can see you feel differently. I’m not naive to think that people will accept us automatically and that it will take time for folks to get to know us. I hope most give us the opportunity.
As far as your reply to me, I feel very sad for you. With your attitude, you’re missing out on getting to know some pretty good people.
I’ve already put an American flag sticker on the bumper of my vehicle. When I move out of CA in 2022, I will remove my license plate when I get to the new location. I don’t want to alarm anyone in to thinking that I am a Communist moving to their area.
MTeresa
If you’re still around know that you’re welcomed to take refuge in AK. We won’t trust you at first but if you sincerely show your patriotism to America you will be welcomed with open arms.
God bless you.
FTA:
“…the craving for additional security dates to the riot that followed an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in May 2020…”
Was that sarcasm?
Magazine, not clip. You can empty one too. There are too many libs in ca that don’t believe in guns. Easier to pick on those who do not believe in guns. Why get in heated firefight when there are plenty of easy pickings?
I am glad they are in fear! They have helped facilitate the downfall of a great country. Druggie ridden fake personas and high school drop outs are what they really are. The least educated of society right behind the ghettos. The right people are feeling the heat.
Good, I suppose, as long as they don’t take “shootin’ lessons” from Alec Baldwin. 😉
I marvel at God’s Wisdom of letting Trump lose to a cheated election — the Truth may be slow to put on its sneakers and to catch up with the lies but when it does…. it’s like watching a most glorious Easter sunrise. Music, dancing, birds singing and all.
Well, they’re the pea brains who keep voting the imbicilic morons into office.
We have a phrase in the South,
“Bless their hearts “.
Google it…multi-admonition.🤣
Looks like their chickens (CRT, BLM, other wacko leftist causes they’ve supported) are comin’ home to roost.
As a practical matter, a shotgun makes sense for them. They’d still need training however.
https://nexttobagend.blogspot.com/2021/12/will-mob-continue-to-shop-locally.html
Beverly hills isn’t quite as blue as everyone assumes. Half of it leans blue and half of it leans red. It stands out like an island in a sea of blue though. Them and the core of Glendale… not surprised actually.
2016 was super red and then with all the election fraud it still stayed half pink in 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html
I voted in person at the voting center around the corner here in Brentwood, 90049. The line was full of working class men and women, including several Hispanics. A black guy was joking and he said “who here is for Trump?” and he was pointing at everyone in line and almost everyone nodded yes. I dont believe for one second that voter fraud is not rampant here, even in the so called “blue” sections of the map.
My question is what do you do with the body when they call your bluff?
Read THE BURNING CITY by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The Lords who live in the Lord’s Hills enjoyed inciting the Lordkin to loot and burn when it was just the Kinless who were the victims. The Lords would mercilessly persecute any Kinless who attempted to defend themselves from the Lordkin. Now the Lordkin are turning on the Lords. The Kinless should do nothing to protect the Lord’s. Let the Lordkin loot, burn, rob, rape and murder in the Lord’s Hills until the Lords are unable and unwilling to incite the Lordkin against the Kinless. Then and only then should the Kinless go primeevil on he Lordkin.
It will be easily solved. These people are in charge of everything in the LA area. They will be getting extra police behind new 20 foot walls to keep the illegals out. Out in Orange County, the folks will be getting no police behind old six foot fences designed to keep the illegals out. Time marches on.
Just imagining those that want them will easily get open/conceal carry permits. Even the white collar felons. Yet us lowly peasants will be denied.
The wealthy progressives are setting themselves up for a conundrum from which there is no escape. News videos have revealed that the majority of the smash-n-grab looting savages are not white. It’s likely that about 99% of the Beverly Hills folks arming up, are. When a panicked palefaced progressive shoots and kills a marauding POC, how will the elite react? Will they call in AntiFa and BLM on one of their own? This may prove to be worthy of pay-per-view.
Oddly enough, according to David Cole, an L.A. lifelong resident and regular contributor to Takimag. He says that Beverly Hills is the only area of Los Angeles that went for Trump in both 2016 and 2022. Full disclosure, I never checked it out and he is not a Trump fan but seems to be very thorough in any analysis he does.
It didn’t go for Trump. The closest city to Los Angeles that voted for Trump was Santa Clarita.
I do hope the dealer is following the Slow Jo dictum of selling them the most expensive doubles and over & unders along with concierge service of shortening barrels to 18 inches, more or less ( don’t want ATF showing up at the gate bothering the staff), optimal length for handy mansion usage. The betters should really not be using those plebeian pumps and autos, what would the neighbors think. Just way too much fun. Sounds like future mayhem and much of it self inflicted.
California looking like Latin America more and more. Private security and armored vehicles for the few, slums and living in drug infested streets for the many. The red states better start building border walls soon.
Gee, go figure they’re all arming up!
Man am I glad I live in a sane state where someone attempting to breach my door is fair game.
Not that a body would be found.