{"id":407277,"date":"2010-03-09T10:02:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=13559"},"modified":"2010-03-09T10:02:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:02:53","slug":"foul-play-for-gun-dealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/407277","title":{"rendered":"Foul Play for Gun Dealer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The local baseball league might not want Matt Carmel\u2019s money.\u00a0 But he\u2019s found a league that does.\u00a0 After the South Orange-Maplewood Baseball Committee turned down Carmel\u2019s $300 check to sponsor a team, the nearby Morris Rugby Football club said \u201cWe\u2019ll take that.\u201d\u00a0 And so now, there will be a local rugby team called Constitution Arms, the name of Carmel\u2019s gun dealership.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px\" title=\"baseball1_0\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/03\/09\/files\/2010\/03\/baseball1_0-259x194.jpg\" alt=\"baseball1_0\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The baseball committee rejected Carmel\u2019s sponsorship application, without giving him a reason why.\u00a0 But one of the committee members tells Fox News he voted against it because he was \u201ccertain that\u2026it would generate controversy.\u201d\u00a0 Craig Gruber, who\u2019s\u00a0 been on the committee for 7 years told us, \u201cWe are a group of volunteers and quite frankly, we have our hands full running the league and deciding things like whether or not the infield fly rule should apply to 9 year olds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Matt Carmel says that\u2019s not fair.\u00a0 He says people have an irrational fear of guns and that besides, the league allows local wine stores to sponsor teams.\u00a0 He also points to another approved sponsor, a chicken restaurant called Cluck U, as being objectionable considering its risqu\u00e9 advertising campaign and name.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13565\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px\" title=\"baseball2_0\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/03\/baseball2_0-259x194.jpg\" alt=\"baseball2_0\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But the baseball league says it has broad authority to reject potential sponsors based on the well being of the kids who play.\u00a0 And the league just didn\u2019t think a gun dealer was an appropriate sponsor.\u00a0 They tried to negotiate with Carmel to have remove the word \u201cArms\u201d from his application, but that wasn\u2019t good enough for him.\u00a0 Besides, he says, he\u2019s selling legal products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be able to sponsor and have people understand firearms and get some business from it.\u00a0 Obviously, profit is not a dirty word.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know that I will get a lot of business from it.\u00a0 But I want to advocate and agitate for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> amendment,\u201d Carmel told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Well, he\u2019s certainly agitating people in this upscale New Jersey suburb, though perhaps not in the way he intended.\u00a0 Maybe if the Constitution Arms rugby team has a championship season, other teams will petition to allow Carmel to sponsor them next season.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=4094145&#038;w=400&#038;h=249\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/\">FoxNews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local baseball league might not want Matt Carmel\u2019s money.\u00a0 But he\u2019s found a league that does.\u00a0 After the South Orange-Maplewood Baseball Committee turned down Carmel\u2019s $300 check to sponsor a team, the nearby Morris Rugby Football club said \u201cWe\u2019ll take that.\u201d\u00a0 And so now, there will be a local rugby team called Constitution Arms, 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