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California gun purchases nearing record
San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Friday, July 27, 2012 | Henry K. Lee

Posted on 07/28/2012 8:05:30 PM PDT by thecodont

Californians just can't get enough guns and are on a pace to set a new annual record for the number purchased legally.

Experts with the state Department of Justice predict residents will buy 725,000 rifles, pistols and shotguns in 2012, nearly twice the number they purchased five years ago, when 370,628 were acquired.

Over the last decade, annual purchases have increased despite the lackluster economy and a dramatic drop in crime.

The state doesn't record the personal history of those who purchase guns, nor their reasons for buying them, so it's hard to pinpoint a reason for the increase, experts say.

There are theories, however.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist
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To: South40

Anybody worthwhile running against him?


21 posted on 07/28/2012 8:42:29 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: South40

That is sad as SD used to be a conservative town

Now Normal Heights is anything but normal


22 posted on 07/28/2012 8:45:44 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: umgud

Give it time. They’ll get crisis going. IMO


23 posted on 07/28/2012 8:45:51 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's Welfare, Food Stamps, Division and Disability 'Legacy')
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To: umgud

Luckily, the liberals aren’t getting guns. Mostly it’s just the law abiding citizens.


24 posted on 07/28/2012 8:47:06 PM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: South40

Vote the Ahole out!


25 posted on 07/28/2012 8:47:17 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: going hot
Anybody worthwhile running against him?

Not worthwhile enough or we wouldn't have a Sheriff Gore.

26 posted on 07/28/2012 8:48:47 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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To: thecodont

I will pick up two more myself...


27 posted on 07/28/2012 8:48:52 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: mylife

SD was conservative but no more. The gay mafia and the pro-ILLEGAL alien crowd have taken over. Sad indeed.


28 posted on 07/28/2012 8:52:53 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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To: mylife

We tried last election but the liberals voted for him.


29 posted on 07/28/2012 8:53:49 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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To: backwoods-engineer

The government doesn’t need to know if I own a firearm, how many, what my proficiency level is, my TTP or ROE. That is liberty, and nearly impossible for the liberal mindset to grasp.


30 posted on 07/28/2012 8:54:13 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: thecodont
Over the last decade, annual purchases have increased despite the lackluster economy and , resulting in a dramatic drop in crime.

Fixed it.

31 posted on 07/28/2012 8:55:31 PM PDT by bIlluminati (290 Reps, 67 Senators, 38 state legislatures - Impeach, convict, amend)
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To: South40
Local politicians are unfortunately well seated. I would expect the population at large to be more friendly to firearm ownership, and work to getting senior rank and file leo's favorable to ccw into the sheriff's chair.

In sacto we have done a 180 since the late 80's. In fact, last election, both candidates for sheriff ran on a pro ccw platform!, much to the chagrin of the city politicos.

Takes a lot of work to turn the ship, but is can be turned, in small degrees.

32 posted on 07/28/2012 8:56:29 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: South40

Better luck next time.
Best regards.


33 posted on 07/28/2012 9:03:57 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: South40

My how the place has changed.
I used to love Western Steakburger. Gus and Maria were the greatest!

Now I find this article that pans the place.

Hmmpff!!

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/feast/2012/feb/09/western-steakburger/


34 posted on 07/28/2012 9:09:12 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: South40

On further reading, they don’t pan it.

One of my old staples.


35 posted on 07/28/2012 9:11:50 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: going hot
They went from one person handling the paper to whole office dedicated to processing, appointments made on the net, full steam!

725,000 rifles, pistols and shotguns in 2012!

This state is about taxes, fees, licenses, money, money, money.

I wonder if some of those democrats in Sacramento are thinking about what kind of revenue 3 million concealed carry licenses, at $200.00 a pop, and gun class fees, etc, would bring in to feed the government pensions.

36 posted on 07/28/2012 9:15:14 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors,,, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: thecodont

They know it will get ugly when the state’s welfare system crashes and the Takers aren’t getting anything from the Makers anymore.

The dead weight in humanity that needs to be culled out isn’t the elderly, or the unborn. It’s those that are deliberate PARASITES that believe they DESERVE to live off everyone else for nothing. That is what is destroying this country. Among other things.


37 posted on 07/28/2012 9:23:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: ansel12
No doubt the thought crossed many of those "minds', using the term loosely.

IMHO, Steinberg and his ilk simply cannot agree to that, no matter what the "profit" in terms of taxes. It is totally against their very core of liberalism.

'Sides, doj gets 48 bucks,and county get 28. The qualifications are paid to private run orgs.

I think the PTB are more worried about the number of firearms that are NOT represented by ccw. It stifles their plans long term.

Don't forget, this is per year.

Since roos roberti in 89, I suspect many hundreds of thousands of firearms have passed annually into the hands of the citizenry of this state.

As someone posted up thread, they have no idea.

38 posted on 07/28/2012 9:25:47 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: thecodont


39 posted on 07/28/2012 9:33:01 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: Secret Agent Man
They know it will get ugly when the state’s welfare system crashes and the Takers aren’t getting anything from the Makers anymore. The dead weight in humanity that needs to be culled out isn’t the elderly, or the unborn. It’s those that are deliberate PARASITES that believe they DESERVE to live off everyone else for nothing. That is what is destroying this country. Among other things.

I sometimes eat at this fast food place where apparently a lot of welfare types dine. The other day I overheard conversations from fellow diners about being in Section 8 housing. Another time, one healthy, able-bodied young woman was discussing how to get her "own apartment" apparently with help from the government. Another time an apparently healthy man, not old or infirm, said he was looking forward to the first of the month because "it's Christmas!" This place also seems to attract a number of panhandlers.

About a week ago I was in a grocery store and on the way in saw/heard an agitated woman talking with the cashier about how "$400 had just been loaded" on her [EBT?] card and how she couldn't figure out why she didn't have any money left and there had to have been a problem with the cashier's computer. Twenty minutes later, after I had finished my shopping and was on my way out the door, she was still there arguing.

40 posted on 07/28/2012 9:36:04 PM PDT by thecodont
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