Gun enthusiastics stock up now

[random3434]

the best gun control???


hitting your target with the first shot


the rest is nonsense because it only removes guns from law abiding citizens
i would have no problem requiring a license or taking a "proper gun use and care" class

It should be required for anyone who buys a gun imo.

 

[LOki]

It is important to make guns available to nut cases so they can kill people.

Why is it important?

1,000,000 Americans have been killed by guns since 1960.

If this is true, you should be able to name one.

 

[editec]

Why is it important?

If this is true, you should be able to name one.

I can name a few people no longer in my life who died by guns.

A good lady friend of mine shot to death by a stalker who then took his own life..in front of that lady's 8 year old girl, about ten years ago. She was shot with her ex husband's gun, BTW. She kept it for her personal safety.

Nice, huh?

I can name another.

An uncle of mine who killed himself when his shotgun slide and went off while he was climbing over a fence when I was a kid

I can name another. My Grandfather who killed himself when I was a baby.

I can also tell you that somebody tried to shoot me with handgun maybe seven or eight years ago.

He failed because his gun jammed.

Despite all that, I don't think the government should take away your guns.

Generally speaking it appears to me that people who own guns are more at risk than those who don't own them.

But as I have said many times, if I lived in some of the places some of yo folks live, I expect I'd have a gun or two around to defend my home, too.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Yea, we need automatic weapons to defend ourselves from marauding bans of urban youths!

The assault weapon ban had nothing at all to do with automatic weapons. Automatic weapons are already tightly controlled. One has to pay a huge sum of money to the federal Government for a license to buy one, after a complete back ground check. It is only illegal to own one in 17 States.

The Assault Weapon ban banned semi automatics that sorta looked like military weapons, A DIRECT violation of the 1939 Supreme Court Ruling in White Vs Texas that STATED a weapon had to be of use to the military to be protected by the 2nd amendment.

There were 10 criteria, of which any 3 made it supposedly an assault weapon. Silly things like a detachable magazine and a bayonet lug, a flash suppressor, a pistol grip on a rifle, etc etc.

You are an idiot.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Yes, 1,000,000 Americans have been killed by guns since 1960.

We need to kill more!

More have died from vehicle accidents, so I guess using your logic we better ban all privately owned vehicles.

 

[GigiBowman]

no they dont


oh man, why do i bother

you're a fucking moron

Don't bother Dive....obviously some people have never read the Constitution. And some people believe we should change everything in the Constitution as they see fit.

And still other's think that only the criminals should have the guns.

Personally I think we should ban cars since they kill more than any guns.

(I bet you all these people talk on a cell phone in their car lol)

 

[LOki]

I can name a few people no longer in my life who died by guns.

This will prove to be dishonest, I'm sure.

A good lady friend of mine shot to death by a stalker who then took his own life..in front of that lady's 8 year old girl, about ten years ago. She was shot with her ex husband's gun, BTW. She kept it for her personal safety.

Nice, huh?

Look to me like she was killed by the stalker.

I can name another.

I hope so, because so far you're 0 for 1.

An uncle of mine who killed himself when his shotgun slide and went off while he was climbing over a fence when I was a kid

Looks like your uncle's carelessness killed him.

0 for 2.

I can name another. My Grandfather who killed himself when I was a baby.

0 for 3.

I can also tell you that somebody tried to shoot me with handgun maybe seven or eight years ago.

He failed because his gun jammed.

Wow: 0 for 4.

Despite all that, I don't think the government should take away your guns.

Gee, thanks. Despite your disingenuous insistence in expressing your opinion that guns have killed anyone, I don't think the government should abridge your right to express that opinion.

Generally speaking it appears to me that people who own guns are more at risk than those who don't own them.

At risk of what, exactly?

 

[GigiBowman]

By KIRK JOHNSON
Published: November 6, 2008
DENVER — Sales of handguns, rifles and ammunition have surged in the last week, according to gun store owners around the nation who describe a wave of buyers concerned that an Obama administration will curtail their right to bear arms.

“He’s a gun-snatcher,” said Jim Pruett, owner of Jim Pruett’s Guns and Ammo in northwest Houston, which was packed with shoppers on Thursday.

“He wants to take our guns from us and create a socialist society policed by his own police force,” added Mr. Pruett, a former radio personality, of President-elect Barack Obama.

Mr. Pruett said that sales last Saturday, just before Election Day, ran about seven times higher than a typical good Saturday.

A spot check by reporters in four other states easily found Mr. Pruett’s comments echoed from both sides of the counter.

David Nelson, a co-owner of Montana Ordnance & Supply in Missoula, Mont., said his buyers were “awake and aware and see a dangerous trend.”

continued: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/us/07guns.html?bl&ex=1226206800&en=ee78c130ae60871f&ei=5087

 

[GigiBowman]

The election of Barack Obama has triggered a run on gun shops in the US, as panicky buyers load up on guns and ammunition in the fear that the Democrats will curtail their ‘firearm freedoms’

By Jason Blevins And Nancy Lofholm
NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO
Saturday, Nov 08, 2008, Page 16

John Faulkner and his wife, Brenda, thought Wednesday was a good day to buy a handgun.

“I’m 37 years old and this is the first time in my life that I am really scared for our future,” said Faulkner, an oil field worker, as he perused the collection of weaponry at A Pawn Shop in Grand Junction in western Colorado.

And at the Firing Line gun shop in the Denver suburb of Aurora, Steve Wickham was also purchasing. “Anything I can get my hands on,” he said as he cradled a 9mm handgun with a price tag of US$699.

Same thing in the Denver suburb of Lakewood. “I was selling guns before I even opened the door. It’s gone completely mad. Everyone is buying everything I’ve got on the shelves,” said George Horne, owner of The Gun Room. “Sales have been crazy.”

continued: Taipei Times - archives

 

[GigiBowman]

McClatchy newspapers guardian.co.uk, Friday November 7 2008 23.13 GMT

Barack Obama said he would improve the economy. Turns out he already has, at least in one retail niche: gun sales.

Starting in the days before the election, gun shops have been mobbed by buyers who fear that Obama and a larger Democratic majority in Congress will restrict firearm sales.

Many were stocking up on things such as assault rifles, high-capacity magazines and handguns that they think would be the most likely targets of new laws, though practically everything related to shooting has been selling more quickly.

"It's been an absolute madhouse," said Trey Pugh, a manager at Jim's Pawn Shop in Fayetteville, which is selling 15 to 20 AR-15 assault rifles a day. "I'm getting guys come in and say I always wanted that gun, and give me that one too and that one and, oh, I need a gun safe, too."

Distributors are running out of assault rifles, he said, and prices are rising.

continued: Obama election prompts surge in US gun sales | World news | guardian.co.uk

 

[GigiBowman]

By ANGELA K. BROWN
Associated Press
Nov. 6, 2008, 4:47PM

FORT WORTH — While watching Republican presidential candidate John McCain's concession speech, gun owner AJ Sullivan had a sinking feeling.

"Liberals like to ban guns. That's what it comes down to," said Sullivan, 25, a Texas Christian University student.

Sullivan was among hundreds scrambling to buy a weapon Thursday at the gun store Cheaper Than Dirt! — which sold $101,000 in merchandise the day after the election, shattering its single-day sales record, said store owner DeWayne Irwin.

Stories were similar across Texas, where residents are fiercely protective of their Second Amendment rights and now fear stricter gun-control laws under Democratic President-elect Barack Obama.

"There's a mindset here of freedom, and you've bitten off more than you can chew if you think you can come after Texans' guns," said Charlissa Stokes, co-owner of Panhandle Gunslingers, an Amarillo shooting range and gun store where sales have doubled the last few days.

At Houston's Memorial Shooting Center, gun sales are up 70 percent and "the whole wall of assault rifles is gone," said manager Richard Poulis.

Fort Worth's Cheaper Than Dirt! reported about $480,000 in sales in October 2007 but $890,000 last month, jumping to $1 million including the first four days of November, Irwin said. About half of the sales are guns, mostly assault rifles and other weapons that would be subject to the assault-weapons ban if it is reinstated, he said.

President Bush and Congress allowed it to expire in 2004, 10 years after President Clinton signed the ban into law.

continued: Stores say gun-control fears spur firearms sales | Top stories | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

 

[random3434]

Ginny, could you please post a link where it says President Elect Obama wants to take away American's right to bear arms? I looked on his website and foung nothing, and am interested in seeing where and when he has said this.

Thanks!

 

[random3434]

Ginny, could you please post a link where it says President Elect Obama wants to take away American's right to bear arms? I looked on his website and foung nothing, and am interested in seeing where and when he has said this.

Thanks!

Here is something I found, but nowhere does it say he wants to take away our rights to bear arms. A lot of his ideas seem reasonable to me on this issue, but that's just me.



Barack Obama on Gun Control

 

[rayboyusmc]

The real winners are the gun dealers.

More success from soundbites.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Ginny, could you please post a link where it says President Elect Obama wants to take away American's right to bear arms? I looked on his website and foung nothing, and am interested in seeing where and when he has said this.

Thanks!

Check his voting record and his stances on Gun Bans like in Chicago and Washington DC. Of course he didn't talk about it during the run up to the election. But he is anti gun and always has been. He is one of those liberal turds that thinks he should be able to have security guards cause he can afford them but the rest of us should just hope a cop is around when that burgler or car jacker shows up.

 

[Bern80]

Ginny, could you please post a link where it says President Elect Obama wants to take away American's right to bear arms? I looked on his website and foung nothing, and am interested in seeing where and when he has said this.

Thanks!

Which is kind of like asking a car salesman if the car he wants to sell you is any good.


I refer you to post 90 for Obama's record on guns.

 

[random3434]

Which is kind of like asking a car salesman if the car he wants to sell you is any good.


I refer you to post 90 for Obama's record on guns.

And again, I refer you to this:

Barack Obama on Gun Control

SHOW ME where he wants to take away your guns. Unless you have them illegally, you shouldn't have to worry bernie.

 

[Bern80]

And again, I refer you to this:

Barack Obama on Gun Control

SHOW ME where he wants to take away your guns. Unless you have them illegally, you shouldn't have to worry bernie.

I don't know if you just didn't understand the analogy there or what. The point is, what he says he is for and what his record shows on the issue are two different things. So what would you like me to believe? What he says he's going to do or what the record shows he has tried to do?

 

[editec]

This will prove to be dishonest, I'm sure.

You are cordially invited to go fuck yourself, you little faggot.

Clear?

Bring your guns to my house and I'll shove them up your ass, lad.

 

[Bern80]

You are cordially invited to go fuck yourself, you little faggot.

Clear?

Bring your guns to my house and I'll shove them up your ass, lad.

Little touchy are we?

Regardless, it doesn't matter whether you personally know a thousand people that were killed with a gun. To advocate for their control and/or restrictions based on that is an argument that comes from a purely emotional, void of logic place as clearly evidenced by how emotional you indeed got when called on it.