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Recession-Resistant Retail: Guns (People buying guns is "sad" and "very wrong")
The Rocky Mountain News ^ | January 9th, 2009 | Bill Johnson

Posted on 01/09/2009 8:09:49 PM PST by GL of Sector 2814

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To: buccaneer81

My Dad’s cousin (RIP) lived in a now socialist country. When the German’s rolled into a town they went to the City Hall first. 1) Who owned guns and 2) Who had men above 15 years old.

My Dad’s cousin never forgot. He did however own one gun in his later years - an old rusty shotgun as the neighbors knew he liked to hunt. ;)


41 posted on 01/09/2009 10:45:13 PM PST by 21twelve
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To: GL of Sector 2814; abb

didnt this rag go bankrupt?


42 posted on 01/09/2009 10:54:57 PM PST by GeronL (intermitten freeper)
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To: GL of Sector 2814
Just took my protruding gut down to a local gun store and bought a like new Norinco SKS today. My pickup day, after California's “10 day” waiting period, is January 20 - inauguration day. Thank you Barak Obama.

I don't “need” an SKS, at least not right now, and if it weren't for one thing would not have spent too much of my hard earned money money to buy one. I figure in about two years it and 1000 rounds of ammo should be worth well over twice what I paid for it.

43 posted on 01/09/2009 10:57:13 PM PST by InABunkerUnderSF (Illegal Immigration is not about the immigration. Gun control is not about the guns.)
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To: GL of Sector 2814

I wonder what will happen if and when Obama and the communists start outlawing or restricting guns and ammunition. Is America ready for violent rebellion? Thats the real question and thats the question that really matters. Anything else is just whining about the government and the unfair laws. Then standing in line to give up our guns when the so called laws are eventually going to demand it.


44 posted on 01/09/2009 10:57:58 PM PST by ColdSteelTalon (NOBAMA 2008)
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To: Robe

A dealer in Helena let me go thru a case of SKS paratroopers for $59 a piece. I took 6 in 1989, all in cosmoline with wood furniture and bayonets.

One of the better investments I’ve ever made.


45 posted on 01/09/2009 11:35:26 PM PST by Obamageddon (Birth certificate and college transcripts will be required for Federal employment, Mr. Soetero)
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To: GL of Sector 2814

My concealed carry permit arrived in the mail today. They mixed up the dates of my husbands and my birthdays. He has mine and I have his. I wonder how long it will take them to get that straightened out?


46 posted on 01/10/2009 12:51:07 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
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To: GeronL

http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2008/12/outlook-is-rocky-for-rocky.html
Thursday, December 04, 2008
The outlook is rocky for The Rocky


47 posted on 01/10/2009 1:14:35 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: wintertime

bingo


48 posted on 01/10/2009 1:39:32 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: SuperLuminal

the fall of the stock market and the large amount of purchases of firearms directly related to the election of barack hussein obama.


49 posted on 01/10/2009 2:04:42 AM PST by television is just wrong
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To: abb

i wish you many tanks, lots of shells too


50 posted on 01/10/2009 2:07:09 AM PST by GeronL (intermitten freeper)
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To: GL of Sector 2814
The rush to buy firearms reflects the outcome of the election is a clear and present danger to the liberty of all Americans.

It also signals American life is going to be "every man for himself."

There is no government leadership in this country. The financial mess confirms we now live under "government by panic." Nobody in government has a clue as to how to "fix" anything.

Responsible people no longer trust the electorate when they happily elect an incompetent communist with no experience. Nobody trusts the banks. Nobody trusts the major corporations.

My fellow Americans, you are on your own.

Buy good quality firearms and ammunition and practice with them. We are all going to need them.

51 posted on 01/10/2009 2:46:01 AM PST by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: dannyprimrose1

That’s not how they see things.

They are control freaks.

They see no problem with an authoritarian mindset, provided of course those energies are directed towards ideologies they approve - say, enforcement against anyone smoking in a bar, say. Where they jump the shark, there’s no comprehension of what unintended consequences of such a world view entails.

This is how they can recite nonsense verbatim - “They should just ban guns” or “Only the police should be armed”.


52 posted on 01/10/2009 4:59:48 AM PST by Freedom4US
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To: KoRn

I have never bought a gun in my life, though I have shot alot many years ago in my youth. In the past 3 months, I have purchased 8 guns.

Obama is stimulating the economy; make no mistake about that.


53 posted on 01/10/2009 7:07:14 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
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To: ColdSteelTalon

Cold Steel:

Is America ready for violent rebellion, you ask? A very good question!

Personally I don’t think so, at least not the majority. Maybe a third will take to the streets after the (videotaped, please) incident that sets off the explosion. All the chess pieces are coming into place for something wicked.

But then again, only a third supported the Revolution. One third were Tories and the final third didn’t care.

Maybe the sound of gunshots will wake them up.


54 posted on 01/10/2009 9:30:16 AM PST by DNME ("When small men cast long shadows, the sun is about to set.")
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
Head's up: The Lexington, North Carolina, Gun show taking place this weekend [Jan 10 -11] has a nice assortment of AK-47's,AR-15 and parts for the same, if anyone is interested.
55 posted on 01/10/2009 4:23:12 PM PST by Bryce12ga (Leftist really are a special kind of STUPID)
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To: buccaneer81

LOL! I have a P85 Ruger ex-cop gun. I was looking to buy my first pistol years ago. A friend of a relative had been in Army Intel and said he knew a guy who could get me a great deal. Well he got me the P85, which is like the P89 or the model just before it.

I had given him $300 and that is what I got. Probably could have gotten it for about $240. I like it anyway. Rugers are like pickup trucks. They are not pretty but they always work. The new Ruger 9mm for carrying looks good too.

Springfields are made in Croatia which is near S Germany, Austria, Switz and Czech and all those folks know how to make good guns. It was originally imported 6 years ago (?) under Crotian company name but Springfield did a deal and put their name on it. Looks pretty good.


56 posted on 01/10/2009 4:39:27 PM PST by Frantzie
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To: Robe
My SKS which I bought years ago for $99 is worth about $400 now and that’s with the wood furniture, much more with the folding nylon stock

No kidding. I recently saw an early example of the SKS-D (modded to take AK magazines) just like one I own - one of the Navy Arms imports with military-style stock, 20" barrel and spike bayonet - sell for $900.00.

NINE HUNDRED BUCKS for an SKS. Admittedly, that's a rather scarce variant of the Simonov. When I bought one in the late '80s, it was a rarity *then*, to the tune of $200 when every other SKS was selling for $80 or so. Nice to see that at least one of my investments has flourished to the tune of 300+ percent. :-/

Wish I'd bought the fancy-schmancy K-Sports parkerized SKS with the olive drab plastic stock for $300 when I saw it a few years ago in a gunshop's used gun rack. It'd probably be worth a bundle now, too.

57 posted on 01/10/2009 10:01:29 PM PST by Charles Martel (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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