Posted on 05/10/2009 5:58:00 AM PDT by rellimpank
American gun owners, en masse, are "casting their ballots" on how much they believe Barack Obama's campaign-trail promise to "not take away your guns."
They're driving the price of ammo through the roof, swarming gun shows, hauling away cases on hand trucks, leaving the floors of the ammo suppliers' booths as naked as a wheat field after the locusts pass through.
Glen Parshall at Bargain Pawn in North Las Vegas reports "I got 20,000 (rounds of) .223 on Saturday and by Tuesday it was more than half gone. And that's only because I limit customers to a thousand rounds per day, otherwise I'd be out already."
And are the shortages just in the popular light rifle-calibers -- .223 and 7.62X39?
"No," Glen reports. "The shortage is total."
(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...
You cannot believe a word that lying POS says.
He couldn’t tell the truth if his life depended on it.
There’s a lamp post up ahead...
I do not attribute all of the ammo shortage problem to "O", though. I see an interest in target shooting and self-defense nearly everywhere I look, and no one tells me it is because they fear "O" or his agenda. CCW laws (relatively new where I am, in Ohio) have increased interest and swelled the numbers of consumers consuming ammo for personal rpotection, target shooting, hunting, etc., here. I would think that might be going on in other states, too.
Also, I think Americans are awakening to the notion that the Columbine-type incidents and Va. Tech-type incidents were worse than they might have been because there were no armed law-abiding citizens nearby, and the police are acually "second responders", who often arrive too late to save anyone's life.
The other facets of this is that during down econimic times, crime increases. More and more people are depending on themselves instead of calling the police. Also, we in border states are watching Mexico carefully. obambi is ignoring this border and the country is dangerously close to a meltdown. If this happens, there will be a huge number of Mexicans fleeing north along with a lot of bad guys.
-booms bust, as the financial sector has had to learn-----
“-—I am more inclined to think that , after the hoarding is over, we will see manufacturers of both firearms and ammo going out of business—
-booms bust, as the financial sector has had to learn-——”
Not if we can help it...we owe it to them. Perhaps get some serious new gun clubs going.
A lying ‘schmeckel fresser’, yes...but it’s the sorry-arsed media that’s REALLY to blame for his getting away with his BS.
I used to buy just enough ammo and reloading supplies to keep ensure that I had what I needed when I went to the range. Now I buy the same way (the stuff that gets used quickly) plus an additional investment in the longer term stockpile.
Just about everything I get is backordered for a month or more but I just keep ordering and the orders do get filled.
Of course, if they succeed, we will see the biggest noncompliance in history. It will be interesting to see Chrissy Matthews and Anderson Cooper speculating on, "So far we have had very few assault rifles turned in for destruction. Also no one knows what happened to millions of rounds of unserialized ammunition."
My Mom used to call us kids schnickel fritz sometimes. I don't even know what it means. Do you?
-—my grandparents used the term “spitzboop” which equated to “bad boy”—
For decades the American people have desperately needed a second American revolution to reclaim our nation and our rights. The overturning of the second amendment might provide the spark necessary to get it started.
You made some very good points. Thank You!
Regardless of what any politician or media hack thinks, our rights under the Bill of Rights in the Constitution cannot be taken away through any treaty entered into by any president of the United States!
Generally, any laws enacted have to pass constitutional muster even though people lead you to believe otherwise. Since a great number of those laws go unchallenged doesn't mean they are constitutional. The courts don't act on their own but rather someone with standing has to initiate a challenge to the issue of constitutionality of the law.
What Zero is doing on almost every action is designed to repudiate the U.S. Constitution. What he, Holder and his minions are doing, if left unchallenged, will destroy this country. The citizens are either too busy or too ignorant to understand what is going down...... probably the latter!
Hell, Odumbo would lie when the truth sounded better.
If it turns into Revoluton 2, or Civil War, you will have a Nation Wide gun club.
Its not a lie if you believe its the truth. I guess Obama goes by that saying.
Sooooo subtle.
History repeating itself...
With political correctness in play wouldn't that be considered a domestic "man made incident" via "domestic terrorism" and not a "revolution"? /sarc ~snort
If there was ever a referendum on the American’s people trust in govt, there is none better than the sales of guns and ammo.
Looks like a no-confidence vote to me.
If Mr. Parshall says the shortage is total, maybe he knows more than a littal.
And don't mess with Mr. Inbetween.
There is a growing 'misundereducated' group of potential budding conservatives who almost understand what they're losing....give them time (til 2010) to stew on Zero's gaffes, and we may find some help at the polls to throw the bums out.
Than cue.
worthy of restatement...often
hmmm... no truth in 0bama??
John 8:44
44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Oh for crying out loud ACORN in itself has shown the confidence of voters by finding an average of 10 votes per voter with their endeavors.
Isn't that worthy of a faith filled mindset toward present leadership?
Wow
BTW - If there is a God in heaven then Cheney will take this latest extension of Polarizing hate speech from 0bama (about Cheney shooting his friends etc) and hit him back with the formal request of his Birth Certificate. GAME ON!
Group calls for Obama to do something about the killing
(http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1566639,051009deaths.article)
May 10, 2009
by mike thomas, Sun-Times News Group
Kids are dying in President Obama’s back yard, and he needs to do something about it.
That’s what a Chicago activist group demanded Saturday as they called attention to the close proximity to the president’s home to many of the murders of Chicago Public Schools students this year.
Against the backdrop of a giant map showing three out of four of the 36 violent student deaths this year occurred within eight miles of the Obama mansion, the Black Star Project said Obama no longer can sit back and do nothing.
“He should not only be concerned as president, he should be concerned as a resident of this community,” Black Star executive director Phillip Jackson said at the group’s South Side headquarters.
Obama, Black Star members say, needs to address Chicago’s rising student deaths as a national priority by providing his hometown with the political and financial muscle to stem the violence, the group said.
Jackson called for a $20 billion “trickle up” federal investment, which he said could support the anti-violence efforts of frustrated community organizations, summer jobs for youth and other community measures.
The group said Obama should make anti-violence efforts in his hometown a model for the entire nation.
Jackson noted that since the United States went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, Chicago has lost far more children than soldiers.
“We’re asking (Obama) to do the same thing for this community that he’s doing for Iraq,” he said. “Our children would be safer in Iraq than they are a few blocks from his house.”
“They have some of it all written up and are just waiting for the certainty of getting the votes they need to pass.”
Thank you, thank you, thank you for reminding me about an issue I’ve been thinking about and then forgot to think/write about....
All of these emergency bills that we need NOW NOW NOW...are NOT written up spur of the moment.
This stuff is laying around in staffers offices, waiting until the time is right.
I don’t think most Americans know how legislation gets written and passed.
All they need is to pull the trigger.
I know. A friend was a staffer for a Senator and helped write a bill passed under Bush.
I just think America is kind of clueless about this.
To all the hyphenated Americans with divided loyalties, to all the liberal asshats providing aid and comfort to our enemies and whining about the “miss-treatment” of terrorists, I say “screw you all very much” and “may you and all your offspring rot in hell”.
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I’ll second that!
“Schnickel Fritz”
Heh, heh!
That’s what my Grandpa always called me when he caught me acting up.
I googled and found it means `mischievous boy’. It’s also one of the noun verses in the old “Ist das nicht ein Schnitzelbank?” party song.
bttt
He was honest a few times, especially when he was in a debate and stated ,"That's above my pay grade." Fools and egos they have, little men in starched suits with a Napoleanic complex and his seretonin levels probably fried from the drugs...I'm waiting for the other jack boot to land on us. He's pulled the "shock and awe" but I'm wondering what the hell he's going to say in Egypt..."we surrender?"
Sandy Burger got them stuffed in his pants! :O)
I know of lots of firearms owners sitting this out and who will be buying in bulk next year and the year after. This demand will stay up for sevearl years at least. 100 million gun owners each buying one or two cases (1000 rounds each) adds up to ten years of domestic production (and we can'd depend on imported ammo -- just recall some history). Many gunowners will be buying one or two cases per year for as long as they figure that such a shortage will happen again due to war, due to an executive order prohibiting imported ammo, or due to some Democrat legislation against the ammo they want most.
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