{"id":40077,"date":"2015-07-19T08:37:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T12:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=40077"},"modified":"2015-07-19T08:37:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T21:20:39","slug":"big-scary-gun-store-excommunicated-from-town-near-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/big-scary-gun-store-excommunicated-from-town-near-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Big, Scary Gun Store Excommunicated from Town near D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_40078\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1338.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"big-scary-gun-store-excommunicated-from-town-near-d-c\" title=\"Big, Scary Gun Store Excommunicated from Town near D.C.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40078\" title=\"Big, Scary Gun Store Excommunicated from Town near D.C.\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1338-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Nova Firearms was slated to occupy the space once filled by the Curves weight-reduction salon in a strip mall in Arlington\u2019s Cherrydale neighborhood, but the landlord said he backed out of the lease. (Patricia Sullivan\/The Washington Post)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1338-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1338-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nova Firearms was planning on occupying the old curves space. (<em>Photo: Patricia Sullivan\/The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/the-outcry-worked-arlington-wont-be-getting-a-new-gun-shop\/2015\/07\/20\/b7f3778e-2f0b-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"big-scary-gun-store-excommunicated-from-town-near-d-c\" title=\"Big, Scary Gun Store Excommunicated from Town near D.C.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a><\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>U.S. Marine Corps veteran James Gates had grand plans of opening a gun store in Cherrywood, but was met with vehement opposition from local residents and business owners.<\/p>\n<p>Gates wanted to place NOVA Firearms in the small town located in the neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. However, locals were up in arms before the store even opened and Gates and shopping center owner Konstantinos Kapasouris ultimately decided to cancel the lease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knew right away it wasn\u2019t going to work from the community, but the business owners let him know as well,\u201d said Bill Hamrock, co-owner of a bistro located across the street from the would-be NOVA Firearms.<\/p>\n<p>One of those business owners was Kapasouris, who unabashedly told Gates he didn\u2019t want guns in the town, let alone his shopping center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to have a gun store,\u201d said Kapasouris. \u201cI thought it wasn\u2019t a good store.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Kapasouris said he wasn\u2019t the only one who felt that way, pointing also to Cherrydale\u2019s residents, many of whom petitioned against NOVA Firearms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe community, they didn\u2019t like it \u2013 the idea to have a gun store,\u201d said Kapasouris. \u201cEven if it\u2019s down the street, they didn\u2019t want to have it there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cherrydale shoppers threatened to take their business elsewhere if the big, scary gun store was to rear its ugly head near their strip mall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had several customers showing me Facebook [posts] that were telling people not to come to the restaurant,\u201d said Hamrock, suggesting that the space be used instead for a bakery or a coffee shop.<\/p>\n<p>The unfortunate scenario leaves Gates short one gun store, and perhaps even worse, reflects the town\u2019s sentiment towards firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Guns may be loud and frightening to those unfamiliar with them, but squashing potential businesses that sell firearms is a good way to create an enormous \u201cgun-free zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the bad guys share Cherrydale\u2019s anti-gun sentiments, but I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>This article was a submission from freelance writer Brent Rogers<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe knew right away it wasn\u2019t going to work from the community, but the business owners let him know as well,\u201d said Bill Hamrock, co-owner of a bistro located across the street from the would-be NOVA Firearms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":40079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,25,216,240],"tags":[132,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-current-events","10":"category-s-h-blannelberry","11":"category-this-week","12":"tag-buzz","13":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Big, Scary Gun Store Excommunicated from Town near D.C.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cherrydale shoppers threatened to take their business elsewhere if the big, scary gun store was to rear its ugly head near their strip mall.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/big-scary-gun-store-excommunicated-from-town-near-d-c\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Big, Scary Gun Store Excommunicated from Town near D.C.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cHe knew right away it wasn\u2019t going to work from the community, but the business owners let him know as well,\u201d said Bill Hamrock, co-owner of a bistro located across the street from the would-be NOVA Firearms.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/big-scary-gun-store-excommunicated-from-town-near-d-c\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-07-19T12:37:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-18T21:20:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_13381.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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