The new ordinances enacted would have required (among other things) that the store (the only gun store in the city, so the new laws were obviously aimed at them) make video recordings of every stage of every transaction and turn all the recordings over to local police (prior to that the only "law" required the store to make the 4473s available to BATFE). The store already had 17 video cameras and would willingly turn over any recording to police if they requested a particular date or person. It was among the reasons the owner decided to close the store, but not the only reason. We in Hawaii are accustomed to submitting to our government overseers in their infringing tyrannical policies (I'm sorry, I meant: "our public servants as they implement a few common sense gun safety regulations").
A couple of comments from one news article:
“This is yet another piece of thoughtless, superficial, anti-American, anti-gun legislation that is a dangerous threat to our freedom and Constitution,” Chris Cheng, winner of The History Channel’s Season Four TOP SHOT, and a San Francisco resident, told FoxNews.com. “High Bridge Arms, like many gun shops around America, was a place for well-to-do folks to gather and talk shop about firearms and freedom.”
California attorney Chuck Michel, who specializes in firearms law and civil rights, said the legislation seems aimed merely at giving politicians a chance to “falsely claim they are doing something about gun violence.”
“For years San Francisco politicians have inappropriately blamed licensed and inspected gun retailers for violence actually caused by gangs, drugs, and sanctuary city laws,” he said. “The City has imposed a crushing burden of redundant and pointless regulatory red-tape on firearm retailers, all in an effort to put them out of business. Now they have gotten their wish.”