Guns are 'flying off the shelf'

Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 14 nov 08

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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.'

[potlatch]

[It takes money to do this and NRA membership dues provide that]

Yes, I know and understand ALL that you wrote and I know the ‘numbers’ of members have an effect.

What I wrote still holds true though, if they ever actually ‘come for your guns’, being a member puts you right in their “site”.

As to money, donations can be sent without being a member, true?

[devolve]

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I’m sure the NRA accepts donations

If you have a handgun or most other recently purchased iron I can venture the feds know who and where you are - they do tend to lie and ignore laws

My antique circa 1898 Colt .44-40 will do the deed in 1-3 shots that anything now made can

And my detachable Model 1976 Colt Carbine skeleton stock will give me the edge for a much longer and more shot

[potlatch]

[If you have a handgun or most other recently purchased iron I can venture the feds know who and where you are]

They only know that if you bought through a registered dealer.

I won’t list my guns..