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Gun sales on the rise as more homeowners look to get armed
ky3.com ^

Posted on 06/29/2015 4:36:18 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Gun shop workers say incidents like Friday night's botched break-in have more people headed to area gun stores.

"Seems to be a steady increase year after year, we're seeing more of it as the business grows," Mike Kelley said. Kelley, the owner of Kelley's Police and Tactical Supply, said break-ins bring more people into his store.

"A lot of people come in wanting to know what to do to protect themselves better and in different situations," Kelley said. "There's just more violence and it's even in Springfield, Missouri."

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To: umgud

Ya, I fired a friend’s and her hand is about like mine and I had no problem with it.It fit just nice in my hand. She said to use the lighter round, less kick. I’ve fired my dad’s .45 1911A1 once, just once. One round. Period.


21 posted on 06/29/2015 5:50:24 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: jy8z

Check out the Ruger ‘American’ in .30-06. Really nice for the price.


22 posted on 06/29/2015 5:57:13 PM PDT by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2015!)
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To: Red in Blue PA
If you have a good, solidly built door in a metal frame, a "door club" is extremely hard to get past, even with a battering ram. You have to smash the door in. It can buy a lot of time to arm and position yourself.


23 posted on 06/29/2015 6:09:16 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: IronJack

If you are projecting so are a whole lotta others too.


24 posted on 06/29/2015 6:25:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: TaMoDee
Really nice for the price.

Thanks. That actually leaves room in the budget for some customizing. And I am a fan of Ruger firearms.
25 posted on 06/29/2015 7:22:19 PM PDT by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: hal ogen

Any recomendations from anyone on a 12 gauge that that can do a decent job of doubling as home defense / Trap. New or used up to $500?

Just back from a fun round of shooting in the Lytel creek shooting range (So. Cal) I only have a 22 cal 1939 Remington pop gun,(Dads old gun) but buddies let me shoot Glock 9, 40 and 45, Ruger 22 competiton, some kind of wwII Egyptian 8mm Mouser, Browning O/U 20 gauge. Finally a 60+ year old Sears and Roebuck pump action 12 gauge. The group always ends the day with a 45 min round of Trap which is a “blast” and I’d like to not have to borrow a shotgun in the future.


26 posted on 06/29/2015 8:10:43 PM PDT by DAC21 (.)
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To: IronJack

Don’t forget the step BEFORE civil war: settling scores.


27 posted on 06/29/2015 8:33:08 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: DAC21

Look at a Remington 870 pump gun. Affordable and reliable.
My new favorite is the Taurus Judge. Fires a .410 or a .45 long colt. Need to lean in to it, but in close quarters, can be very effective.


28 posted on 06/29/2015 8:43:02 PM PDT by Texas resident (The democrat party is the CPUSA)
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To: jy8z

Savage 110 in 30.06...scoped right it will reach out for a mile or so...and for a few hundred yards it reaches out and touches some one every time!


29 posted on 06/29/2015 9:03:15 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I live in CA. Now that they are Registering Long Guns, I’m done buying any more Firearms while I’m here.

If and when I move out of State, I will probably add a few more, not including the ones I already have that are located in an undisclosed location with out of State Family.

Such is Life living in the Fundamentally Changed USSA.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the day that I feel like this, a stranger in a strange Land.

Or maybe I’m just Paranoid. Yep, that’s the Ticket.


30 posted on 06/29/2015 9:31:05 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Erections have Consequences, just ask Obama's Parents. Oh wait, they're Dead.)
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To: SkyDancer

Is that a SC? Gonna get mine in 9mm I think.


31 posted on 06/30/2015 4:49:10 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: bjorn14

It just says M&P 40 Shield.


32 posted on 06/30/2015 6:15:30 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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