Gun sales skyrocket as Obama’s inauguration nears

WSLS-TV / The Lynchburg News & Advance ^ | December 29, 2008

[upchuck]

There was a gun show in L’ville this past weekend. I did not make it, but the Courier Journal (one of the most liberal papers in the country) reported record attendance.

Here's a non-active link to the article (no reason to give hits to the Curious Urinal from FR).

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008812280466

[MurrietaMadman]

Here’s to your independence. May it survive and thrive.

The rest of US seem to be cursed with this organized criminal element that has the power to shut down our economy, wreck our border security, allow illegals to take our jobs and our lives and tax US into oblivion.

God bless Texas. If you have two-stepped your way out of the clutches of democrats, republicans and the international set you got some of the smartest people on earth habitating the greatest patch of land in these contiguous United States.

‘Course the Cowboys couldn’t play a lick yesterday against the Iggles.

[television is just wrong]

doesn’t take much to make him look like a hoodlum, because he is!

[El Gato]

“Everybody is afraid that Obama with his extreme views on handgun control and

Handgun control? Funny then that one of their stated objective is to reinstate and make permanent the (new and improved) Assault Weapons Ban. Nothing in their policy statement about handguns, except closing the nonexistent "gun show loophole", which would of course affect *all* guns.

Next will come the "Sniper Rifle Ban", and then they might, might, get around to handguns. Handguns don't threaten them. Or at least they don't think they threaten them as much as "assault weapons".

[El Gato]

Recently when I bought some pistol ammo, the seller made me give him ID and wrote down my driver's license number, to identify me as the buyer. (I asked him why he wanted the info, and he replied that that was his reason -- to positively identify me as the buyer of the ammunition.)

That's odd, I bought 250 rounds of .45 ACP, and didn't have to show any ID, as far as I can remember. it was within the last two months and I'm in the same state as you are. In fact I was in one of liberal bastions of Texas, Austin. I didn't really *need* it, but I had a coupon as a "first time" customer, which dropped the cost to something almost reasonable. That was before the election, but the ammo shelves were already getting kind of bare, and the prices were in a word ridiculous.

My wife and I have an agreement. She can't buy too much fabric, I can't buy too much ammunition. :)

[JoeFromSidney]

Bersa Thunder .380 Anyone have experience with it? Pros/cons?

I bought my wife one for Christmas. She now carries it everywhere that's legal. I test-fired it with Hydrashock: it cycled properly. It shoots to point of aim. I think you'll be pleased with one.

[antisocial]

“If you have two-stepped your way out of the clutches of democrats, republicans and the international set”

We still have a bunch of all of the above, but we ridicule them as often as we can. (that seems to help)

‘Course the Cowboys couldn’t play a lick yesterday against the Iggles.”

Maybe “ridicule” will cause the Cowboys to get their stuff together. They will be getting plenty of it! LOL

[lentulusgracchus]

Next time go to the internet, order a case of 1000, pay for it with a credit card

Thanks for the suggestion, I will in fact go have a look. I'd had the idea you couldn't do that (based on e.g. the 1969 Firearms Act). But if it's legal, hey, why not?