Posted on 12/08/2008 1:24:09 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The gun show at the Stillwater Armory on Thanksgiving weekend featured an unlikely salesman. A flier taped to the door featured a stern-looking picture of the president-elect, with the words: ''Barack Obama: Enemy of your gun rights."
While the gun show had plenty of competition from retailers starting their Christmas sales, business was brisk as people streamed in and bought up shotguns, hunting knives and at least a few semiautomatic rifles -- the gun most gun-rights advocates think an Obama presidency might ban.
"It's the Obama effect," said Joel Rosenberg, a gun law expert who teaches a gun course for people who want permits to carry handguns. He's teaching one this month and it's full, for the first time all year, even though the trend for renewals of carry permits has been down in Minnesota.
"Obama is the first president or presidential candidate who has been on the board of an antigun group [the Joyce Foundation]," said Rosenberg. "Folks are talking as if this Jan. 20 is the day that changes everything. He has said he favors 'common sense' laws, and for a lot of gun people, that's not very good."
One of those is Glenn, owner of Glennko Industries, who doesn't want his last name used.
Glenn had a booth at the Stillwater show, a table lined with Egyptian and Russian AK-47s. Most of the firearms on the table are semiautomatic and custom-built by Glenn, a licensed dealer.
"I fully expect to be out of business soon," he said. "Right now my objective is to get my business loan paid down. If I can get out of this business without bankruptcy, that's about the best I can expect."
Fear or reality?
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Some?
Yes, those with more than two brain cells to rub together!!
Yes.
Gosh...I just can’t *imagine* where they’d get such silly notions.
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200812062890/editorial/obama-the-second-amendment-and-the-nra.html
January 20 *will* be the beginning of the end.
Amazing people still don't believe a Marxist who's flip-flopped all his political life and still hides his personal history.
But, But But Bu Bu Bu I thought Odummy said he belives in armed self defense....
Good Thing some folk are not as dumb as the 52%ers.
Btw I’m not patting myself on the back for predicting gun sales would go up, I’m just very happy that it’s hard for the dead, Convited Felons, Inanimate objects, and illigals, to eaisily purchase firearms before there’s a ban on everything more leathal than a slingshot.
Idiot reporters.
I’m beginning to have trouble even being in the same room as a liberal.
More than some because it isn’t just gun owners thinking this. You know that a lot of the 52% drones are expecting Chairman Hussein to pass such edicts.
Or the beginning of a new Red Dawn !
Purchased this past Friday. Store was screaming busy and was one of the few that had what I was looking for in stock. Most compacts are on backorder and ammo is tight. He was completely out of practice rounds.
“Or the beginning of a new Red Dawn!”
Unfortunately and tragically, I am afraid there may be some truth to that. These leftist idiots (but I repeat myself) are going to push the American people into a confrontation that can only turn very, very ugly.
He’ll do it on Day One or not until after the next midterms.
An hour before closing it was packed, rednecks, errr Texans were parked everywhere.
This sweet little 9mm orphan found a new home:
I wonder if Obama is going to start his Administration’s anti-gun agenda by disarming the Secret Service(sarc)?
The attack on the 2nd Amendment will take two forms initially...
1. Ban the sale of any firearm within five miles of a school or public park (for the children, of course).
2. Heavily tax ammunition (like tobacco).
These two measures by themselves will virtually eliminate legal firearms, save for those with caches.
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