On Concerns Over Gun Control, Gun Sales Are Up

[308Mike]

Linkarooni - here's another story and a photo showing guns still in stock:

Retailers: Guns sales booming
By Scott Fitzgerald, The Southern
Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:53 PM CST

PINCKNEYVILLE - John Mann of Mann & Son Sporting Goods has owned and operated his family's gun and sporting goods, which is now 62 years old, store since 1978.

Mann said he is seeing a trend in gun sales similar to 1992, when Bill Clinton won the presidential election.

"It has gone up - no ands, ifs or buts about it. It has gone up," Mann said Thursday, noting that many firearm enthusiasts seem as fearful in the wake of Illinois' Democrat Barack Obama's election as when Clinton, an Arkansas Democrat, won the White House.

They fear bans of certain guns, ammunition or magazines are on the horizon.

More of this story..............

[Netpackrat]

I'm kind of partial to the Geek's take on the situation:

I remember a tale told about the days of the Clinton AWB. At that time, the AWB bills under consideration still had confiscatory language in it. Despite that, Americans still imported, built and bought several million fighting rifles in the months leading up to it, rifles which were not being purchased to be turned back in. As the tale goes, klaxons lit up @ FBI headquarters, faces went pale, bricks were shat, and quiet, tense conversations were had on the wisdom of the confiscatory language.

I am certain that right now, klaxons have gone off, faces have gone pale, and bricks are being shat as we speak. Let us hope our government grows the necessary wisdom that goes with it.

Despite what the news has said, the election is NOT over yet. The anti's may have won the white house and both houses of congress, but the voting continues at a feverish pace, and likely will for some time. Even if 99% of gun owners really will turn them back in to the .gov upon demand, that still leaves 1% of 80 million gun owners whose guns will NOT be taken, except from their cold, dead fingers. That is 800,000 otherwise law-abiding, decent Americans who would be willing to bear arms against their government. That, my friends, is a serious problem for any regime that would consider confiscating legally purchased arms, and it is also why we need to maintain the economic pressure, and keep those shelves bare.

As many of you are aware, ammo day is just around the corner. We have another 5 days to get the word out, and make it a big one. All of you who have been buying ammo "just in case" of restriction over the last weeks or months, even though you may be comfortable with your current inventory, we all need to get out on the 19th and do our part to make a statement to our would-be masters in Washington DC. I know it has been overshadowed this year by the current buying frenzy, but we still need to send the message that even though the economy isn't the best right now, and we are all bleeding dollars from buying our EBRs, magazines, and case loads of ammo, that we can still act in concert on the one day set aside for that statement, and are willing to put up our money that is in increasingly short supply. If nothing else, just 100 rounds on the 19th, please. And if you read forums other than this one, please take the time to start a thread asking others to do the same, and get the word out.

http://www.ammoday.com/

[Termite]

...again, how dedicated to your cause will you be if a gun is being held to the head of your teenage daughter?

That cuts both ways. How willing will LEOs be to risk their own families' safety?

Ask yourself this: why was the federal dot.gov willing to talk with/wait out the Montana "Freemen", vs storming in ala Waco?

[mekender]

...again, how dedicated to your cause will you be if a gun is being held to the head of your teenage daughter?

That cuts both ways. How willing will LEOs be to risk their own families' safety?

Ask yourself this: why was the federal dot.gov willing to talk with/wait out the Montana "Freemen", vs storming in ala Waco?

probably because of how much bad press they got from the clinton era...

[Termite]

probably because of how much bad press they got from the clinton era...

<chuckle>

Well, maybe that too, but the real answer is the Oklahoma City bombing. Tim McVeigh did it specifically because of the Fed's heavy hand at Waco.
If you can find it online, read McVeigh's final address to the court, at his sentencing. He posted a warning to the Feds.
Rumor has it that the both the judge and the US assistant DA nearly $hit a brick, and felt that "cold shiver" go down their spines.

[mekender]

oh i know that his manifesto was against the feds... but he was demonized just like he should have been in the mainstream...

and any of the "cold dead hands" types that decided to go off the reservation would be treated the same way...

after a couple of those, its real easy to convince the public that gun nuts are dangerous and should be disarmed...

[308Mike]

probably because of how much bad press they got from the clinton era...

<chuckle>

Well, maybe that too, but the real answer is the Oklahoma City bombing. Tim McVeigh did it specifically because of the Fed's heavy hand at Waco.
If you can find it online, read McVeigh's final address to the court, at his sentencing. He posted a warning to the Feds.
Rumor has it that the both the judge and the US assistant DA nearly $hit a brick, and felt that "cold shiver" go down their spines.

Invictus is the Latin word for unconquerable, and that's the title of the poem he chose as his final statement:

Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as a Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud,
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years Finds,
and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley 1875

[Nicodemus]

I have my doubts, sorta, about a civil war, but I really doubt the NAZIs will play too big a part, other than possibly starting it. Even living in the South, there simply aren't really too many of those idiots anymore... That, and the Klan types probably won't get along too much w. the NAZI types...

There's still plenty of bigotry, but, it doesn't really seem to have enough hatred behind it to support that kind of stuff. (I imagine most Southerners are related to a mixed race couple by now/or have been, or are, part of one.)

They really have no pull or power except in a few local areas where they are still concentrated. Here in Arizona they are all too busy committing petty crimes to get money together to get high on Meth which a few years ago when it became mainstream they thought was going to put them back in power.

The AB is more likely to end up in a gang war with the mexicans over the control of meth before being instrumental in any kind of political or social movement in this part of the country. Even then it is many times more likely that they will get snuffed out by local law enforcement and their own inward erosion before even that.

And hopefully so. The AB has the most backwards and convoluted social practices of just about any group of people. The Mexican gangs have a lot more tenacity and clarity of purpose and that is saying a whole lot.

The AB won't be doing anything but spouting irony and driving around on revoked licenses with cars full of burglary tools to houses with pirated electricity and full of freeloading tweekers if a national divide comes. In other words. It will be same shit different day for them.

[Combat Controller]

The odds of a civil war are less than that of our sun going Nova in the next four years.

Tim McVeigh is a shithead and I am glad his terrorist ass is dead. I wish PETA had got their way and his last meal was vegetarian.

[Ben Rumson]

F**k PETA too.. Harumph