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Heidi Hofer has practised one important fact as a rubber-band gun
dealer.
"Boys never outgrow toy guns," she said Friday.
Hofer is among the 271 vendors at the Coloured Hills Stock Show
& Rodeo trade show who are selling traditional western harass,
massages, art, jewelry, habanero jam and ceramic wine bottle
holders shaped like a sharp heel and painted with an NFL logo.
Need a fur coat or hat embroidered with "you look like I demand a
beer?" No problem.
Hofer has the stock show market on rubber-league together guns cornered.
The Rapid City resident runs Grizzly Rill Gifts, a gift shop she
runs from May through September in Keystone along with her compartment at
this year's trade show. This week she will sell wood-carved 12-matters
rubber-band guns or rubber-band rifles with scopes to old men
waxing nostalgic or junior boys declaring a rubber-band gun war on
their brothers.
"Generally speaking, I recognize boys are going to shoot each other,"
Hofer said.
So she created a concern card-sized "rubber-band gun permit"
asking callow children to declare they will never shoot pets or
siblings.
Source: Rapid City Journal