Gun Sales Boom in Advance of Obama’s Inauguration
I need to give credit where credit is due and it seems according to this article that President-elect Barack Obama’s policies are having a positive effect on at least one business. Gun shops have been reporting an increase in sales. Even in this tough economy Obama’s policies have stimulated the sales in this industry. Guns are flying off the shelves, shop owners are having trouble keeping up with the demand.
Of course gun enthusiasts are buying the guns now because they feel that Barack Obama is going to make it increasingly harder for them to exercise their second amendment right.
Firearms shop owners say that gun owners are afraid that the president-elect, like Bill Clinton, will try to pass tough gun legislation. They want to get guns while they still can.
So Barack Obama’s policies are already having a positive effect on at least one small aspect of the economy, even as unintended as this is, so Obama deserves credit. In the interest of bi-partisanship and of joining together and uniting behind the president let me be the first to say to the soon to be president, congratulations on a job well done.
Gun control advocates are trying to call this nothing but paranoia.
Anybody who thinks they need to run out and buy guns because of the election is paranoid,” Peter Hamm, the Brady Campaign’s communications director, said. “It doesn’t make any sense. President-elect Obama said repeatedly throughout his campaign that he wasn’t going to be taking anyone’s guns away
But Obama’s past says something different.
The facts are that he has voted for gun bans, he has voted for ammunition bans — even ammunition widely used by hunters; he has voted for exponential tax increases on gun and ammunition sales and he has referred to gun owners as ‘bitter.’ All those facts give gun owners enough cause for concern
Given Barack Obama’s history with gun rights is it any wonder that people are afraid that he may pass heavy restrictions on their second amendment rights regardless of what he said during the election?
Don’t worry gun owners, you won’t be “clinging” for too much longer.
America's Watchtower 
Seems that no one actually believes that Obama and company will leave gun owners alone. In fact, they believe that him and his cronies will disarm all Americans one way or another.
Sure, he can say this or that. Heck, he can even use weasel words like Bob Barr does. Like, having no problem with “law abiding” citizens owning guns. Then all he has to do is pass laws that make them illegal, and guess what? Then, you are no longer in that class of people. It’s easy! Plus, like Bob Barr did, you can now make ex post facto laws.
Here are the facts. A very large minority of people are arming themselves because they believe that Obama et al will destroy America as we know it. For some reason, I don’t think that those people are going to just up and make themselves defensive less. No, I think he may just have more than two war fronts to address, and that one may very well be on Main Street USA.
This is, of course only speculation. However, if he pulls a Ruby Ridge or Waco on the American people? I doubt that you could get odds in Las Vegas that he would end up successful.
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Legislation takes a long time to go through congress. No need to panic and buy more guns now. I mean, get more guns if you want to, just don’t do it because the election of Obama is making it seem urgent. It isn’t. We will know about these Bills long before they are laws, before even major committee hearings. When legislation does get through, it will probably not be very broad. It will almost certainly not effect the reasonable ability to purchase handguns or hunting rifles. No worries.
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Media reports say President-elect Barack Obama has selected Eric Holder as his Attorney General
At the Justice Department, Holder advocated a waiting period, limiting gun purchases to one per month, and so-called “gun show loophole” legislation–the fine print of which would have driven gun shows out of business. Holder made it clear that he, Clinton, and Reno were more interested in stopping gun sales than in regulating them.
http://www.nraila.org/legislation/read.aspx?id=4243
You can see the Obama plans work!
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Correction should have read:
“You can see the Obama plans at work!”
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Happy Thanksgiving to one and all! Keep up the good blogging!
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Hope you had a great turkey day GTP. I can’t post at my blog, wordpress has everything locked for “review” and seemingly refuses at address the issue. So, I am making the rounds so to speak! 😀
Have a good one!
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