The gun racks at San Francisco’s only gun store, High Bridge Arms, are almost empty, but for the first time in 27 years, the manager won’t be restocking them.

Steven Alcairo, High Bridge Arms general manager, says San Francisco’s overly strict gun regulations have become too onerous on his business over the years and that a new proposal to videotape all gun sales is the last straw for him.

San Francisco supervisor for district 2 Mark Farrell is proposing gun reform regulations that would require the video recording of all gun and ammunition sales in San Francisco.

Longtime gun seller Guy Markell, whose parents owned Markell’s gun shop on Judah Street in San Francisco from 1952 to 1989, says he is not surprised that there won’t be any more gun shops left in the city soon.

Markell, 71, says that in 1989 he moved his gun store from San Francisco to Santa Rosa because people who didn’t want gun shops in San Francisco would send death threats to the store and break the windows.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/25/san-francisco-gun-shop-to-close