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Guns are 'flying off the shelf'
Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 14 nov 08

Posted on 11/14/2008 10:58:06 AM PST by rellimpank

It's been a week and a half since Barack Obama was elected president. He won't take office for another two months. But he's already got one big group of Americans on their feet.

What is Barack Obama's position on the right to bear arms? Sen. Obama's campaign Web site says he "respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms." It promises he will "protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport and use guns."

Seeking to reassure gun owners, Mr. Obama told a campaign audience in Ohio in October: "I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won't take your handgun away."

But the crowds mobbing America's gun stores this week say a large number of Americans -- including first-time gun buyers -- don't believe him.

In 2003, while serving in the Illinois Legislature, Mr. Obama voted in favor of a bill in the Judiciary Committee that would have made it illegal to "knowingly manufacture, deliver or possess" so-called "semi-automatic assault weapons," reports Chris Cox, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association. "Under this bill, a firearm did not actually have to be semi-automatic to be banned. According to definitions in the bill, all single-shot and double-barreled shotguns 28-gauge or larger, and many semi-automatic shotguns of the same size, would be banned as 'assault weapons.'

(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; banglist; bho2008; obama; obamatransitionfile
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Domestic enemies ...


141 posted on 11/14/2008 2:10:59 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: rellimpank

Having enough firearms and ammo for the moment, I just joined the NRA!


142 posted on 11/14/2008 2:11:22 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (SARAH *** JOE *** 2012!)
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To: Travis McGee
To a communist lying is perfectly moral and ethical, if it advances the cause of communism.

It's the Islam of politics: Based on lies, murder, and hallucinatory perceptions.
143 posted on 11/14/2008 2:14:37 PM PST by aWolverine
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To: aWolverine
Taqiyya
144 posted on 11/14/2008 2:16:31 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: two23
If you don’t already, look into investing in reloading equipment.

FReepmail me for my page-or-so guide to basic reloading and inexpensive equipment for beginners.

145 posted on 11/14/2008 2:19:14 PM PST by 19th LA Inf
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To: gieriscm
My husband and I have a home-based FFL (see signature). Our first panic buyer called three minutes into McCain’s concession speech, and the phone hasn’t stopped ringing since. We’ve done more business since the election than in the prior six months.

God bless you and your customers!

146 posted on 11/14/2008 2:23:26 PM PST by aWolverine
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To: concerned about politics

It’s gona be a carefuly selected politicaly correct army. The retards will be given guns to genocide the smart.

It’s Obama’s redistribution of wealth and plan favoring terrorists with blessings and appeasement hand outs. It’s going to get worse as the media will be propped up.

He’s going after your money, morality, jobs and guns, to hand them over to the evil losers who will not repent for voting him in office. Already RINOs use the word extremists to describe folkes with actual values, on their way to view 911 terrorists as their liberators.


147 posted on 11/14/2008 2:29:28 PM PST by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: caseinpoint
I would hope the rank and file of ATF agents would support gun rights, actually.

How many do you reckon will want to die trying to take them away. I doubt very many would.

148 posted on 11/14/2008 2:30:31 PM PST by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: pabianice; AirForceMom
Let me get this straight. In your state when an issuing judge retires, his rulings are void? That's insane.

It certainly is. Would you accept that explanation if the ruling in question was a divorce decree, AFM? I would look into that before giving them any more paperwork that they probably don't have the authority to ask for. IMHO.

149 posted on 11/14/2008 2:44:21 PM PST by TigersEye (It has been over a week now. Where is my pie?)
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To: Puppage
I will not take your rifle away

I will not take it away for awhile but I will make it hard as hell for you to purchase one (if you can afford the taxes) ditto for the ammunition you will need for it...........

That being said, i will not take your guns away......BHO

150 posted on 11/14/2008 2:48:36 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (soon to be pushed over the line. Payback is going to be a bitch......)
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To: ArrogantBustard

They don’t call him “O” for nothing!


151 posted on 11/14/2008 2:48:57 PM PST by An Old Man (Lead, Follow, or get the hell out of the way)
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To: MrB
perhaps we need a “bow” thread for experts to recommend good hunting bows in various price ranges, just like we have the gun threads...

Would that be indexed as "twanglist?" ;^)

152 posted on 11/14/2008 2:55:48 PM PST by TigersEye (It has been over a week now. Where is my pie?)
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To: rellimpank

ABC World news has a story on this. One store in Texas is sellibg $100,000 a day and could sell more if they could get it, a store in Las Vegas same thing with a twist, owner said at least half the patrons are wearing Obama pins an/or T-shirts...


153 posted on 11/14/2008 3:08:12 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: TigersEye

His brother just went through the same thing a few months ago. I told him he needs to look into this.
Seems to me one would get a letter informing him of the change. He went before one judge ( a lady ) when he got it originally and yet the one who retired is a man.
Makes no sense, but then again this is Erie County, NY.


154 posted on 11/14/2008 3:11:36 PM PST by AirForceMom (God Bless the USA)
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To: Gaffer

Yes, sir. As some say to El Rushbo, ‘Dittoes’. One round at a time.


155 posted on 11/14/2008 3:36:06 PM PST by HattonFarmer (Fear the government that fears your gun.)
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To: Travis McGee

“To a communist lying is perfectly moral and ethical, if it advances the cause of communism.”

That’s why we never trusted the Russians, either.


156 posted on 11/14/2008 3:50:42 PM PST by Canedawg (The media is a ass, a idiot.," said Mr. Bumble.)
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To: steve86

“reduce the recoil of my M44/7.62x54R, I have to order a better butt plate.”

about half way down the page.

http://www.tickbitesupply.com/index.html


157 posted on 11/14/2008 3:51:23 PM PST by dynachrome (Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: ScreamingFist
Yep.

I looked it up and the Taurus I bought is .38 Special (not .357)

We'll use wad cutters on the range and keep +P for home defense.

Should be adequate if a situation arose where I didn't have time to access the pump shotgun.

158 posted on 11/14/2008 3:59:36 PM PST by 2111USMC
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To: Travis McGee

Great picture!

When he gets in and starts his crap, you may have to incorporate it into the American Flag...


159 posted on 11/14/2008 4:07:21 PM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (It's not Obama, it's O-bey-me !!!)
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To: Sig Sauer P220

The goa didn’t do a single thing during this election.
The goa didn’t do a single thing to Help the Katrina victims recover their firearms.

The goa haven’t done a single solitary thing on their own through their entire existance.


160 posted on 11/14/2008 4:12:37 PM PST by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Vote against the dem party)
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