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Youth Baseball Team Raffling AR-15 Rifle

strongbow2 Wrote: Mar 14, 2013 9:14 AM
I prefer to call the rifle what it actually is - a SERVICE RIFE used in service rifle competitions by many civilian and DCM affiliated clubs.

A youth baseball league in central Illinois is in desperate need of cash – so they’ve decided to auction off an AR-15 assault rifle.

Last year the Atwood-Hammond baseball league tried to raffle off half a hog. But they only raised $10 – and barely had enough to pay the local butcher.

So this year a local gun shop provided the league with a Rock River Arms Tactical Operator Two – and the response has been massive.

“My phone has been ringing off the hook,” said Charidy Bucher, co-owner of the Atwood Armory shop. “The response has been tremendous.”

Bucher told...

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