Never forget
Posted on 11/06/2008 10:13:51 PM PST by lainie
FORT WORTH — While watching Republican presidential candidate John McCain's concession speech, gun owner AJ Sullivan had a sinking feeling.
"Liberals like to ban guns. That's what it comes down to," said Sullivan, 25, a Texas Christian University student.
Sullivan was among hundreds scrambling to buy a weapon Thursday at the gun store Cheaper Than Dirt! — which sold $101,000 in merchandise the day after the election, shattering its single-day sales record, said store owner DeWayne Irwin.
Stories were similar across Texas, where residents are fiercely protective of their Second Amendment rights and now fear stricter gun-control laws under Democratic President-elect Barack Obama.
"There's a mindset here of freedom, and you've bitten off more than you can chew if you think you can come after Texans' guns," said Charlissa Stokes, co-owner of Panhandle Gunslingers, an Amarillo shooting range and gun store where sales have doubled the last few days.
At Houston's Memorial Shooting Center, gun sales are up 70 percent and "the whole wall of assault rifles is gone," said manager Richard Poulis.
Fort Worth's Cheaper Than Dirt! reported about $480,000 in sales in October 2007 but $890,000 last month, jumping to $1 million including the first four days of November, Irwin said. About half of the sales are guns, mostly assault rifles and other weapons that would be subject to the assault-weapons ban if it is reinstated, he said.
President Bush and Congress allowed it to expire in 2004, 10 years after President Clinton signed the ban into law.
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Never forget
They are just getting started.
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And rightly so. Buy now folks!
JoMa
At the two gun stores I frequent, they are selling more firearms than ever before.
One sold a handgun and shot gun to a 92 year old lady, who also signed up for the NRA.
You might be chasing that purchase price and never catch up.
You don’t quite understand how it will work. They’re pass the law and it took five years for Heller to appear before the Supreme Court.
My hudband’s co-worker let us try out his .45 Hi Point.
That thing was heavy as a brick and kicked like a damn mule.
He said it’s one of those guns that you scratch off the serial number and toss in the river in case of times like this. LOL
Thanx for the info.Yrs ago i had a very nice Taurus .357 double action,w/6in barrel.Well made,nice groups at 25yds,and almost half the price of comperable S&W .357.Always been partial to revolvers-maybe time for a semi-auto.
So what good does it do to bury your ammo and weapons? If you don’t plan to use them, might as well use them as fishing poles.
I’ll be there as well, at Big Town. Shooter 2.5 will probably show up as well
The first step is getting together ping lists from this thread and other threads like it, then taking the discussion to a private venue. This is most infiltrated, trolled site on the internet. The walls have ears.
If we don't organize now, we're sitting ducks.
It’s good to know that Obama has at least one positive economic effect - gun and ammo production and sales. :o)
“When it’s time to bury ‘em, it’s time to dig ‘em back up”
...forgot who said that one.
What about this?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127566/posts
yes, that too.
There are a LOT of similarities joing Obama and Hitler’s politics. From the logo and the parental government making them proud again, it is chilling. I firmly believe they are just starting.
The Clarence Event Center. It’s a fairly large show, about 400 tables.
Just outside of Buffalo. Sorry, just got up and the coffee hasn’t hit home yet. ;)
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