Posted on 10/30/2008 10:20:48 PM PDT by neverdem
Charlotte, NC (WBTV)- "They're worried about it...worried about their second amendment rights." Larry Hyatt of Hyatts Gun Shop told WBTV's Rob Tufano
Usually this time of the year Larry Hyatt's gun sales pretty much consist of hunting weapons but the last few months most of his customers have been grabbing up pistols and military type weapons.
"They're buying self defense guns and military type guns because they feel like they'll be the first one's to have anti gun legislation passed on them."
He wouldn't call his customers panicked just concerned that if Senator Obama wins the White House and Democrats continue to control the House and Senate they're second amendment rights may be scaled back why this cause for concern?
"They NRA has put out a lot of info"
They have also hit the air with these blistering commercials that claim Obama supports banning shotguns and rifles used by hunters.
Nonsense according to the Seanators website which says the Obama respects the second amendment will protect the rights of hunters and other law abiding Americans to purchase own and use guns.
The Senator does support reinstating the ban on assault weapons and closing what he calls a loophole that lets people buy pistols at gunshows without thorough background checks but most a lot of Hyatt's customers don't buy what they call the rhetoric a lot of them convinced an Obama Presidency just may be the start of that slippery slope to abolishing the second amendment.
Because it's a cool number :). Seriously 10K rounds is pretty much a lifetime supply for most people.
OK, that explains everything. Thanks!
The guns get decent reviews as good, inexpensive little shooters and they sell like crazy.
The Big 5 sale on them ends tomorrow, but they go on sale every few weeks there. Even if the store is out of the gun, they can give you a rain check and honor the sale price when the guns come in.
Yeah. Let's check the website and not look at his legislative record, shall we? Cause in the dying MSM we know, the best guide to future behaviour is airy promises, not past behaviour.
d.o.l.
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Elder5,
the best home defense gun is a short-barreled open-choked (18”) 12-ga pump shotgun, loaded with bird shot. Handguns require steady practice to shoot effectively, and most rifles and carbines will overpenetrate in most houses.
The sound of a Remington 870 slide being racked will usually register on whatever brain stem a criminal has and impel him to exit your house by the most expeditious means, without injuring anybody — best case outcome, that.
If you do have to fire it, the shotgun is a point and shoot weapon, terrifying even in the unlikely event you miss — it’s hard to miss with all pellets with bird shot, if you hit with any pellets you’ve increased the likelihood he’ll flee (and be caught; even Barney Fife can follow a blood trail or grab a guy in an emergency room), and if you hit with all pellets the guy will be over as a threat and probably as a living organism.
Shotguns like that are used for hunting deer in overdeveloped northeastern states that forbid rifle hunting, so they will be available even after Obama’s semi-auto ban, at least for a while.
Military style rifles will probably be banned again. In 1994, this led to an extreme escalation in prices, which reduced back out when the ban sunset.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
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