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Businesses struggle to keep up as gun sales skyrocket
kob.com ^

Posted on 01/27/2013 6:51:48 AM PST by Red in Blue PA

Assault rifles have become hot ticket items as gun control talks amp up.

“It’s tremendous, the increase in sales that we’ve had, we’ve increased ammo sales, AR-15s, you name it,” Larry’s Gun Shop representative Ron Abernathy said.

Stores statewide are struggling to keep up with the rush. Even ammunition has been hard to come by as gun owners stockpile supplies.

“There’s a lot of people that are scared [they won’t be able to buy, following new gun control regulations], and that’s a lot of the reason for ammo being scarce and hard to find,” Abernathy said.

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1 posted on 01/27/2013 6:51:52 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

“Assault rifles”

There is NO SUCH THING!!

It’s a made up term to scare the masses into submission.


2 posted on 01/27/2013 6:54:26 AM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Red in Blue PA
We won't have to be sent 5,000 miles to fight the next war.


3 posted on 01/27/2013 6:57:54 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee
a friend of mine told me in some parts of Atlanta .223 is going for ~$1700 per 1000/1200
4 posted on 01/27/2013 7:07:16 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Red in Blue PA
You can get ammo online if you are willing to wait and watch.

I just ordered some 9mm Luger from BudsGunShop.com and CheaperthanDirt.com...should arrive Wednesday.

5 posted on 01/27/2013 7:08:33 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Red in Blue PA
And does anybody actually think all these millions of people that are running out to stock up in case a gun ban are obediently going to trot down and register there so-called “assault weapons” if the Feinstein bill passes?
6 posted on 01/27/2013 7:10:45 AM PST by apillar
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To: Chode

That’s crazy. It sure isn’t so that everybody can turn it in after an AWB ban.


7 posted on 01/27/2013 7:11:38 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Bigh4u2
They are Modern Sporting Rifes. Use it anywhere someone uses the "A" word.
8 posted on 01/27/2013 7:15:07 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Bigh4u2
“Assault rifles” There is NO SUCH THING!!

Is so - I saw a TV show where a guy, with an assault rifle, assaulted another guy by hitting him in the head with the butt of the rifle...if that ain't an assault rifle, I don't know what is.

9 posted on 01/27/2013 7:15:49 AM PST by trebb (Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
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To: trebb

lol!


10 posted on 01/27/2013 7:19:17 AM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Yo-Yo

“They are Modern Sporting Rifes. “

Oh, I know.

I just get tired of the lame stream media using the term to try to scare the public.

It’s total bullhockey!


11 posted on 01/27/2013 7:21:37 AM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Some sobering figures for gun grabbers to ponder and understand:

1. Approximate population of the U.S. is 313 million.
2. Approximate number of firearms in private hands 300+ million and growing by millions each month.
3. Approximate percentage of population with one gun, 50%.
4. Guns added to American homes since 20 January 2009, 67 million+.
5. Approximate number of active duty Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is 2,23 million and Indian Army is 1,13 million (2.4 million total).
6. New guns purchased by Americans in November 2012 = 2 million; guns purchased in December 2012 = 2.7 million. Americans could have totally reequipped the standing armies of two of the world's largest populations and had 300,000+ new firearms left over.
7. Gun shows continue to be packed, gun shops are sold out of guns and ammo. People are not buying guns in order to turn them over to government thugs.
8. More and more county sheriffs are publicly announcing the will resist any gun grabs by FedGov.
9. More and more states have told the Feds they will arrest, try, convict and imprison any Feds trying to enforce a gun grab in their state.
10. New Yorkers (civilians and cops) are in open defiance of Gov. Cuomo’s and the Donkey Party's recent gun grab. Massive non-compliance.

The lines are being drawn in in the sand. People are choosing sides, they are armed, and they are pissed off. America realizes its system is broken and corrupt and it's about time to start shooting the bastards (and bitches). Are they listening? It doesn't appear so.

12 posted on 01/27/2013 7:22:17 AM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: Chode; Travis McGee

That’s about right for good defensive ammo...plinking ammo should be much, much less (70 cents a round if you are lucky). Cheaperthandirt.com has some .223/5.56 ammo available, but the pickings are still pretty slim.


13 posted on 01/27/2013 7:22:24 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Red in Blue PA

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Washington Post: What a difference a day and a march make

More proof of media bias and the Liberal media’s goal of influencing America’s public opinion on issues of the day. The Washington Post featured a gallery of 12 photos from the gun control march Saturday with the headline: “Nearly 1000 march in D.C. for Gun Control”

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/


14 posted on 01/27/2013 7:22:42 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Travis McGee
sure sounds like it... maybe it's supply and demand or cash sales or maybe he was misinformed since he lives in Key West and got it from a friend of his, but that's what he said
15 posted on 01/27/2013 7:23:13 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Travis McGee

I saw 1000 rounds of CCI .22LR on gunbroker last night for $434 and the bidding still have time left!


16 posted on 01/27/2013 7:29:17 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: apillar

Heck yeah! $100.00 wally world card for a $1200.00 AR platform? Where do I line up? Mine has been acting VERY suspicious lately and I’m not sure if I trust it any more. Wait, I just remembered it got melted in the last Mt. Pinatubo eruption. Guess I won’t be getting those air jordans after all.

No “if”. Don’t think it will pass. Of course I thought the same in ‘94 and almost puked when it did.

Molon labe.


17 posted on 01/27/2013 7:44:52 AM PST by rktman (Live the oath you took or get out of office!)
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To: apillar

Why would anyone comply with an unconstitutional law anyway?


18 posted on 01/27/2013 8:06:09 AM PST by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: Yo-Yo
"They are Modern Sporting Rifles. Use it anywhere someone uses the "A" word."

Excellent idea Yo-Yo!

19 posted on 01/27/2013 8:08:28 AM PST by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: Red in Blue PA

****Assault rifles have become hot ticket items as gun control talks amp up. ****

And to think, forty one years ago you could not give an AR away. No one wanted them (except me).

Everyone asked about it...”Can it kill a deer?” “What good is it?” “Looks like a Mattel toy.” “My .303 will outshoot it!” Even gun magazines of 1976 snorted at the thought of the AR being a serious rifle.

Ten years later they were the hot item along with the first AKs in the country. It seems that Mel Tappan got the ball really rolling on them back with his survival articles in GUNS AND AMMO magazine.


20 posted on 01/27/2013 8:09:34 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name! See new paintings!)
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