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No group of winners enjoyed a more perverse windfall than gun-shop owners, whose showrooms were besieged by militiamen, survivalists, deerstalkers, rifle-range groupies, fans of the cult film Red Dawn, and other Second Amendment bitter-enders loading up on guns, scopes, and ammo as if ready to refight the Battle of the Alamo in the Home Depot parking lot.

The Good, the Bad, and Joe Lieberman Wolcott, James 2009

The Obama tide lifted some clear winners, including polling savant Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight. com, gun-shop owners, Black Eyed Peas front man will. i.am, MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow, and, of course, Oprah.

The Good, the Bad, and Joe Lieberman Wolcott, James 2009

After all, that sweet lil 'old NRA gun-shop owner suggests 'a nine-millimeter' would be best for killing Jews.

Tony Hendra: Pundits' Cultural Learnings Forget! I Say "Borat" Won Congress Last Tuesday! 2008

From what I can see in the published versions, it rests largely on some crass jokes from the shock-jock community, the mumblings of gun-shop customers and a “virulent internet campaign”.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

Last year's most critically praised comedy, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, won Sacha Baron Cohen a Golden Globe for playing a Kazakh journalist who calls Alan Keyes a "genuine chocolate face" and asks a gun-shop owner to suggest a good piece for killing a Jew.

I Sense Your Confusion, TIME ... Rogers 2007

Last year's most critically praised comedy, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, won Sacha Baron Cohen a Golden Globe for playing a Kazakh journalist who calls Alan Keyes a "genuine chocolate face" and asks a gun-shop owner to suggest a good piece for killing a Jew.

Archive 2007-04-08 Rogers 2007

SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Houston gun-shop owner Jim Pruett is fed up with the rise in violent crime in the city.

CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2006 2006

I just feel like I'm talking to a different man than the man who advertised and, you know, exploited the fact that you own a gun-shop and you were asking people to buy weapons in your city.

CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2006 2006

Joining us is talk show host and gun-shop owner Jim Pruett, whom you just saw in that report, and Tyrone Graves, a storm evacuee now living in Houston.

CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2006 2006

That's the inflammatory message of a new gun-shop commercial on the radio that gives Hurricane Katrina evacuees a vaguely alien-sounding name, and advises Texans to take up arms to defend themselves against crimes committed by the newcomers.

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