Newt Gingrich has added a line to his stump speech disdaining energy efficient cars “You can’t put a gun rack in a Volt”. I’ve never seen a gun rack in any sedan, but I don’t see any reason why one couldn’t. I assume most long guns are stored in the trunk - easier access, better security and the only reason trucks have gun racks in the back window is that they lack trunks.
So, can you?
Well, according to your link, GM says you can. I think they’d know.
But in case further evidence is needed
(also, I’d think even hardcore NRA types would find the whole “you won’t like it unless you can somehow attach a gun to it” thing kinda condescending.)
Cool, thanks. Yeah, I’ve never understood the whole “conservative=anti-environmentalist” thing. Most of the hunters I know care deeply about the environment, given that they enjoy spending time in it.
When Dan Akerson said the Volt had become a “political punching bag” he meant it. The GOP is pissing all over the Volt as a proxy for the current administration. As an automotive engineer it pisses me off to hell. The Volt program was given the green light in 2006, and I want anyone with the merest shred of intellectual honesty to try to explain how the fuck Obama had anything to do with that.
I’ve been a gun rights activist for over thirty years and an enthusiastic hunter even longer.
Newt Gingrich is a pustulent, thrombosed hemorrhoid on the USA’s political ass.
You may quote me on that.
Who even uses gun racks any more anyway? I know lots of gun owners, and we all carry long guns in cases that fit behind the seat of our trucks.
One of liberal blogger Atrios’ theorems about conservative politics is that they are for anything that they think pisses off liberals. Gingrich does this more than most among the candidates.
I also carry my guns in cases. But I use the gun racks to hang other items off of. It is easier for me than those little hooks that are in my truck.
Sarah Palin said on Fox News, “Vote for Newt, annoy a liberal.” (Personally, I’m not at all annoyed at the idea that people might vote for Newt Gingrich in the primaries. Far from it; I hope that they do.)
MOving this contentious thread to MPSIMS from General Questions.
It just has too many political overtones to be left in GQ.
samclem, Moderator
With a narrow car, like the Volt, would a gunrack in the rear window be best suited to sawn-off shotguns? 'Cuz that could be properly intimidating.
You’ve never seen a police car with a shotgun or rifle rack either protruding from the dash, or attached to ceiling?
I don’t know about pissed off, but this liberal nearly pissed his pants laughing when he heard that line about the Volt today on the radio. Maybe Newt’s grand scheme is to get all of us liberals actually pissing, in which case - well played sir.
Now, if we can just convince hard-line conservatives that liberals find it really annoying when you vote for smart, sane people…
As you wish.
And here it is, your Moment of Zen.
Sure you can but the real question is what would you strap the buck you’d just shot to?