The Great New Year Stampede: Americans Rushing to beat Obamacare and gun bans.

National Review ^ | 01/03/2013 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Daveinyork]

I admit it. I bought one for the first time.

[RC one]

I’m trying to by a new 7.62 semi-auto. No luck at all so far.

[Scrambler Bob]

Vote with your $.

Buy hard goods as inflation hedge.

If bed breaks, mattress won’t hit the ground, but may be a little hard.

[Obadiah]

As long as the corrupt MSM retains their stranglehold on the ability to recreate and package information our freedoms will continue to be massively eroded.

It was the corrupt MSM that elected and then floated Bill Clinton. It was the corrupt MSM that prevented information about Obama from causing him political damage and thus enabling him to be elected. It was the corrupt MSM that reelected Obama despite the abject misery.

Coupled with a nation of people who have absolutely no spiritual and moral foundation and you have a people who believe anything pop culture pitches them.

Unless there is a spiritual revival of huge proportions in this land we are doomed.

[B.O. Plenty]

Sigh.....

.....but did not Sandy Hook come along at the most convenient time for this administration?...right on the heels of F&F?....it has to be a coincidence since there is NOBODY who would engineer such a tragedy just to further an agenda......

.....or is there?

[arthurus]

When they come for the guns, and that will be sooner, I think, than later, the decision will have been made to sovietize the USA completely and things will move very quickly. The killings and disappearances will begin and targeted famines. George W Kerensky has been followed by Barrack Hussein Lenin. The guns will be confiscated when the military has been satisfactorily neutralized which operation is probably well under weigh.

[Former Proud Canadian]

The US government is too big.

Seemingly, every department's reason for existence is to expand itself. To finance this expansion, fedgov is borrowing 40 cents of every dollar it spends. Most of this money is borrowed from the Federal Reserve, in essense fedgov borrows from fedgov to finance fedgov. This will not end well. Am I missing something?

[stars & stripes forever]

The Illinois legislature is poised to take away all modern guns, including those that were grandfathered in, from registered gun owners.

The government plans to seize them one way or the other.

[null and void]

I did my part yesterday.

[KeyLargo]

Subject: thinking on your feet

Tim decided to tie the knot with his long time girlfriend. One evening, after the honeymoon, he was assembling some loads for an upcoming hunt.

His wife was standing there at the bench watching him. After along period of silence she finally speaks. “Honey, I’ve been thinking, now that we are married I think it’s time you quit hunting, shooting, handloading, and fishing. Maybe you should sell your guns and boat.”

Tim gets this horrified look on his face.

She says, “Darling, what’s wrong?”

”There for a minute you were sounding like my ex-wife.”
“Ex wife!” she screams, “I didn’t know you were married before!”

”I wasn’t!

[marktwain]

Good for you. Consider it a badge of citizenship.

[Gabrial]

I went to an Academy store after Christmas and its stock of rifles was nearly depleted. There were a couple of 22s and .410 shotguns, but that was it. 90% of the rifle racks were empty.

[marktwain]

You have nailed it about the corrupt MSM. The sad thing is that they are exeptionally well versed in “doublethink”. They are very good at lying to themselves.

With the new media, we have a chance, but we have to fight. Giving up is not an option. We have no where to flee.

[jim_trent]

I held an AR-15 (on sale) in my hands about a week before the school shooting, but I just could not bring myself to buy something so ugly. I am thinking another M1 Garand instead. They still have some at the CMP.

[Eska]

Members of the military I know tell me they will not be part of any confiscations down the road. Gun owners tell me there will be civil insurrection and vigilantism before they give them up. All I know is that our country only functions through voluntary compliance of our laws by the majority. If the majority refuses to comply, it doesn’t matter what Big Ears has to say. We shall see.

[utahagen]

Question for freepers: does the NRA publish its members names? I am thinking about enrolling as a lifetime member, but I am afraid my membership in the NRA would become public info via a google search of my name. (I live in a blue state and work in an industry that doesn't tolerate obvious conservative activism, and I know from my own work in HR that interviewers often google the people they are about to interview and may reject them based on their political views. Since they'd never admit this is why they are rejecting them, that it may be illegal to discriminate this way is moot.)

So, freepers, if I join the NRA, will that info be published anywhere?

[Chipper]

I finally have all the parts on order to build one. Not my original plan, nor my original timing for this purchase, but not much choice. I believe the best we will get is grandfathering in what is currently in your possession. I have a second lower and LPK that I need to figure out what to do with. I really want a .308 but the parts on those are $$$$, and the extra lower wont work for it.

[marktwain]

So, freepers, if I join the NRA, will that info be published anywhere?

It does not matter. You are on Freerepublic. You are already on a higher priority list than the NRA.

The NRA sends its members print magazines, so the post office already has that list.

[marktwain]

I do not think the NRA list is available via google search. I should have read your question more carefully before I posted!