{"id":2649,"date":"2009-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/missouri-car-dealer-offers-free-ak-47-with-purchase-of-new-truck\/"},"modified":"2009-07-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T00:00:00","slug":"missouri-car-dealer-offers-free-ak-47-with-purchase-of-new-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2009\/07\/missouri-car-dealer-offers-free-ak-47-with-purchase-of-new-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"MISSOURI CAR DEALER OFFERS FREE AK-47 WITH PURCHASE OF NEW TRUCK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The president of Max Motors (slogan: &quot;God, Guns, Guts, and American Pick-Up Trucks&quot;) says the response has been very strong.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mark Muller, the president of Max Motors in Missouri, is offering a gift certificate for a Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle to anyone who purchases a pick-up truck. Muller, whose business slogan is &quot;God, Guns, Guts, and American Pick-Up Trucks,&quot; said the response to the offer has been very strong. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;There is a lot of worry about crime, we have a methamphetamine problem around here and people just want to protect themselves,&quot; said Muller. The UK<em> Telegraph<\/em> notes that there may be other dynamics at play:<\/p>\n<p><em>Never before, however, has the AK-47 been used to sell cars in Missouri. For all its gimmickry, the interest in Mr Muller&rsquo;s newest promotion reflects rising concern among gun owners that President Barack Obama will eventually seek to tighten the rules on ownership, despite his promises to the contrary.<\/em><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/blogs\/peek\/141439\/missouri_car_dealer_offers_free_ak-47_with_purchase_of_new_truck\/\" ><br \/>GO TO ORIGINAL &ndash; ALTERNET<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of Max Motors (slogan: &quot;God, Guns, Guts, and American Pick-Up Trucks&quot;) says the response has been very strong. Mark Muller, the president of Max Motors in Missouri, is offering a gift certificate for a Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle to anyone who purchases a pick-up truck. Muller, whose business slogan is &quot;God, Guns, Guts, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}