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Posted on 10/17/2002 5:16:26 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
The Beltway killer has sparked a booming interest in guns in northern Virginia.
"In Spotsylvania, Stafford, Prince William and Fairfax counties - all at or near sniper attacks - officials report up to a 500 percent increase in applications for concealed-weapons permits, and gun sales are up nearly as much," the New York Post reported today.
Barbara Brinklow, deputy clerk of the Spotsylvania circuit court, said, "We're seeing a lot of women, which is a change from traditional permit applicants."
"I had an 81-year-old man come in this morning," said deputy clerk Kathy McAllister in Stafford County. "'It's just the way the world is now,' he told me."
The surge in demand has forced delays. The permits used to involve a three-week wait because of background checks. That time has doubled.
Sales of firearms have also soared. "The owner of Damage Inc., a gun shop in Stafford County, said gun sales at his store have increased 300 percent since the sniper's rampage began," the Post reported.
Fox News Channel reported tonight that gun rights groups and the police were warning people not to try to shoot it out with the sniper.
Maryland Cracks Down
In neighboring Maryland, controlled by leftist Democrats, the situation is different. Gov. Parris Glendening has banned recreational use of firearms, including hunting, in four counties near Washington.
"Maryland has some of the most draconian gun laws in the nation, and those laws have not kept the people of Maryland safe from this nut," said the group Seniors United Supporting the Second Amendment, referring to the killer, not the governor.
"SUSSA is disturbed that the elitist anti-civil-rights groups are using the blood shed by the people of Maryland and Virginia to advance their radical agenda."
Gays for Gun Rights
Meanwhile, in the Northwest, homosexuals are coming out for their Second Amendment rights, the Seattle Times reported Wednesday.
"I'm in sync with Democratic Party values, but their gun-control stance doesn't work," said gun rights activist Nicole Shounder of Lynnwood, Wash. "We stand out as possible targets, and we are not going to let harm come to ourselves or our loved ones."
Shounder, a transsexual lesbian who used to be an Air Force sergeant and who voted for President Bush, packs a Smith and Wesson .45 and "a discreet Kel-Tec .32 for formal dress."
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BWAAAAAHAHAHAHA. They had to make that clear!
That is rich.
So is this a woman who became a man and now dates women, or a man who became a woman and now dates women? I can't say with certainty.
Needless to say, one by one Carlos and his spotter wiped them all out.
What, that is the break this case needs. Because this coward has been able to do a one shot and gone routine they don't have a good composite photo of him. A couple of return shots would allow people to get a look at him and thus this case would be in the fast lane to being solved. This jerk does not want to be confronted and will turn tail and run as the oppertunity presents itself. A couple of return shots would allow people to get the direction he is shooting from and a detailed description.
Concealed Weapons permits up 500%
Gun sales up 300%
Oh no.!! Wait. What about the government.?
They'll protect you. Let the the government handle it.
Yeah Right. " from my cold dead fingers ".
This Leftist Iraq cave was fought long and hard, the decision was strictly political and made weeks before the elections. Obviously they realize it's inane to fight the truth any longer.
Onto the economic front only to be battered by people who refuse to listen and want to protect themselves from terrorism. Leftists seem more concerned about the voting freedoms of felons than they do of the Amendments guaranteed to Americans in order to protect their safety.
Ladies and gentleman - we have a winner
Somewhere, agonized would-be gun grabbers are writhing in the agonies of the damned.
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