Posted on 09/08/2005 8:26:16 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Gun sales across the South boomed after the first reports surfaced of armed looters roaming the streets of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. And images of shots being fired at relief workers only elevated fears in some communities.
Now, as hundreds of thousands of people displaced from their homes are being resettled, gun store owners say they're being flooded by a demand for guns--particularly in Southern states and others where many of the hurricane victims are being relocated.
Mostly, they say, the demand is being fueled by "good people" wanting to protect their families and property. That includes some who might not otherwise purchase such weapons, they add.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Good sign to go over your home bar:
UNLOAD THE FIREARMS BEFORE
LOADING THE OWNERS
Uhhh Ohhh yer hooked ! sell the goat !.......LOL !
later, gotta go run some errands........
Yep. Got to head out now. I have a sign on my back porch "We're bad to drank!"
Sounds interesting, will be sure to have a look.
Have been there, first as a farm kid in a large family when growing up, then later in Alaska with wife and our kids. No electricity. wood heat, no TV, no phone, two holer out back with the quarter moon cut in the door. Moose meat, salmon and Kool-aid was standard part of diet. We had running water, you ran down to the creek and got it. All of us in the family (especially our kids, today long grown) look back on those years as the happy times. At well past three score years, I miss the times dearly.
That's a rare bird even as pre-'89 semi AK clones go.
At the suggestion of writer Michelle Malkin last Friday, I have cobbled together a blogsite called Texas Clearinghouse for Katrina Aid to serve as a clearinghouse for refugee efforts in Texas.
Texas is getting more refugees than any other state -- that's fine, we'll take them all -- but we need help providing them with food, clothing, medicine, and shelter. We need help taking care of their pets, too.
If you are a refugee, you can information that will help you find relief. If you want to donate or volunteer, you can find someone who needs you. Believe me, there are a lot of organizations who need your help.
Right now the site mostly covers Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas but I'm adding more every night. My wife was down at Reunion Arena in Dallas Tuesday handing out care packages and spiritually ministering to the refugees as a representative of her employer. She says that the situation is tragic and that there's a lot of work to be done. There are so many children who don't know where their parents are or even if their parents are still alive.
There are a lot of churches and other organizations in Texas that need help in dealing with the problem and I would appreciate it if you would get the word out.
Many thanks,
Michael McCullough
Stingray blogsite
Do your shoes wear out from the inside?
Shoes normally wear out from being kicked into a certain bodily orifice of wiseacres.
We had a cabin up above Sault St Marie in Canookistan at Lake Ogidaki where we spent part of each year when I was a pup. We did some winters and summers depending on my Dads work schedule. It was the same.....we had to ask the Algoma Railroad conducter to stop the train and let us off and he gave us "flags" to stop the train when we wanted it to stop for our ride out.
We kept a canoe stashed in the brush near by as it was about 3 miles if we had to hump our gear and supplies in by foot. Heck when we built the cabin we had a "kit" log cabin delivered by flatcar on the train and they dumped it off next to the tracks for us. Us kids had to roll each log down to the lake and float it across and use a system of ropes, pulleys and come alongs to get each log up about 100 yards from the edge of the lake..... It was a hoot but we finished it in 1968 and it still stands today in primo shape. We had over the first 3 summers and falls up there in tents on our 99 year lease made a very solid rock and concrete foundation w/ concrete hauled in my hand and rocks collected on site.
We never locked the door, hauled up a couple of propane bottles every year to operate the propane powered fridge if it got too hot for the dads beer to chill in the lake or make ice for some kool aid ,iced tea or friday night ice cream for us kids. That was our lone modern item aside from a wood cook/heat stove. Not even a radio . I must mention that we did have a chainsaw or two and POL for those . Someone had built a sauna /steam bath from old railroad ties down near the tracks and used a wood stove kit that converts a 55 gallon drum to a stove, surrounded it with a wood frame on top and piled big rocks on the stove. The inside of the structure was lined on the top half with 6 mil plastic and a 55 gallon drum was in the corner fill with water from a siphoned source up above the tracks buy a simple garden hose. That was our shower every day, we'd go build the fire, get the rocks hot and then use a coffee can to dump water an make steam . After we were done we'd hit the cold creek across the tracks and cool off then dry off get in clean clothes , canoe back across the lake and sleep like babies.........Back when fun was........:o)
You got that right. I don't need encouragement to buy more guns, I just need the money to pay for 'em.
My wife seems to think 17 rifles, shotguns, and handguns ought to be enough for anybody, but I don't think you can ever have too many myself. I figure it's better to have plenty of 'em and not need 'em all than to have too few and need more.
I was stationed at Fairbanks for a few years did the artic survival school when the temps went to 60 below........noothing quiet like a snow cave at -60.....:o)
We were actually fine yet the damn instructors came around to check us every hour.....we finally told em to let us sleep as we were better than fine . Wiggy extreme cold bag and a snow cave was no worse than sleeping at home with the AC on high......we did well !
Also did a bit of time on Shemya out on the end of the chain. Drove my little 4x4 toy truck up to Inukik in the NWT a couple of times....all great memories. If all my sudden stops in life didn't hurt so bad in the cold these days I'd be back in a heartbeat...
Stay safe !
There are more hunters in Louisiana than any other state. There are also more guns per capita there as well. If people are buying guns it's because they couldn't take them with them when they evacuated.
Hey thanks for your comments.
I suspected that was an unusual AK.
The side-folder did catch my attention.
I've seen similiar items online (per your description)with asking prices in the $1500 range.
LOL...this is totally off-topic, but the other day I saw a guy here in Oregon driving what looked to be a golf cart down one of the local roads. It was painted camo, and had a gun rack, with a gun in the rack.
I'm guessing he was hunting, but I don't think it's even bowhunting season yet. But maybe quail or something.
Every tragedy has a silver lining: this is going to set the gun grabbers back about 60 years.
Wow. That fellow is sleeping next to a rare Polytech red bakelite side-folder AKS-762 'PS'-serialed from Factory 416, Beijing China with the very rare early-model grip. I bet it's got single-digit serial numbers.
That's a rare bird even as pre-'89 semi AK clones go.
Cheaper Than Dirt and Natchez are good internet sources as well.
Start with a "brick" of .22LR HP (10 boxes of 50 in their own small boxes); these rounds could become better than gold for barter and are great for rats, pack dogs, and can be enough to discourage human predators. So why not get a 4" .22LR such as a S&W J-frame or larger K-frame revolver or a Ruger Single Six.
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