Gun sales increase in 2012

Augusta Chronicle ^ | 19 Feb 2012 | Bianca Cain Johnson

[smokingfrog]

			In the gun business, fear drives sales, and recently, sales have increased. About 300 people have already applied for a Georgia Weapon Carry license in 2012, according to Richmond County Probate Court records. Last year, approximately 1,600 permits were submitted. At the current rate, applications could nearly double 2011’s numbers by the end of this year. Kayna Widener was driven to purchase a gun after she saw a man attack a woman outside the Augusta Mall several months ago. She was the only witness to the attack. In this case, the man fled after the victim put up a struggle. But Widener knows everyone isn’t as lucky. On Friday, she practiced shooting a “Bad Guy” paper target with her Glock 26 at Shooters gun range. Her boyfriend, Sean Morgan, stood nearby. “It definitely makes me feel better,” Morgan said of Widener’s ability to defend herself. Steven Fryant, Shooters’ store manager, said business has increased by 15 percent or more in the past two months.

[Still Thinking]

Not guilty!

[Still Thinking]

“Uh, I sold them all. Here, here’s the receipts.”

But private sales are perfectly legal. How are they going to beat a name out of you that you never knew in the first place?

[South Dakota]

My rifles are a savage 30-06, FN FAL 308 and a pair of marlin 22s semi auto

[Repeat Offender]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQWb-5nblx4

[Charles Martel]

All have been sold, I imagine to gunshops and dealers nationally, and perhaps internationally. All of them. And my local dealer has guns flying out of his store. Cabelas still has people lined up three deep on weekends.

Don't forget the big wholesale "buffer" in between Ruger and the retailers. Cabelas might buy direct from Ruger, but mostly its wholesale companies like Davidson's that front the money to buy Ruger products by the boxcar-load. The independent gun shops all buy from the middle-men.

[GlockThe Vote]

The only part of the Dicks near me that is busy is the gun department.

[Stonewall Jackson]

I’ve been doing this for the past couple of years. I work right next to a Walmart, so I stop in for groceries a couple of times a week. While I’m there, I pick up a bag of beans, a bag of rice, a container of salt, and a box or two of ammo to go in my emergency closet.

[Voice of Reason1]

Are you required to keep those kinds records like that on all of your private possessions?

It would be very difficult for them to do that to everyone who owns a gun – thus this is the reasons they will try to get people to submit to registration ‘voluntarily’.

[little jeremiah]

I hope not, because if Bummer “wins” with fraud (it would have to be either with fraud, or with Romneypuke being crammed down our gullets, but that would also be with fraud), I think CW2 would be inevitable.

[Voice of Reason1]

That should be:

Are you required to keep those kinds OF records like that on all of your private possessions?

[Fee]

Holy shit Batman!!! Pardon my French.

[Frank_2001]

Bass Pro near where I am...guns are flying off the shelves.. I think it’s a trend;)

[matthew fuller]

The Dick’s near me doesn’t sell handguns.

[Eleutheria5]

So are canned goods, farm animals, seeds, and realty in remote locations.

[MasterGunner01]

An armed society is a polite society. — Robert A. Heinlein

[elcid1970]

OK, the 4473 only registers the point of initial sale from a FFL holder. Got it.

FFL holder must maintain a log of ALL his transfers of firearms, subject to frequent and often harassing inspections by BATFE goons, as we have seen.

When SHTF and martial law is declared and “Mr. & Mrs. America, turn them all in!” is proclaimed by the dictator in the WH, the rule of law goes out the window and 4473’s will become a presumption of suspicion of hoarding firearms and then doors will be kicked in.

What happened to that vet in D.C. two weeks ago just for calling a mental health hotline? Gestapo response.

[USMCPOP]

My son just picked up a box of these for his AR-15. This is real ammo.

[redgolum]

If you sell guns privately, the Fedgov will still try to blame you if they are used in a crime and your name is on the 4473.

Had it happen to a friend of mine. He sold a shotgun, than over the years changed hands a few times and ended up used in a robbery. The cops came looking for him, and he had to explain and try to prove that he sold the the gun years ago.

If you sell, document it. Or use a FFL to transfer.

[Voice of Reason1]

Your bringing up an important point that the government would love to be able to control the sale of every gun -–it would be a major part of any registration scam they might try to implement.

They can put in place what is essentially a registration system by just keeping an electronic record of every FFL purchase.

But that would let people have the Freedom of being able to do what they want with their own property – and we all know how the Left really feels about Liberty.

Which is why they keep on pushing their Non-sense gun laws as they try to make progress towards the elimination of Liberty in this country.

[Voice of Reason1]

Do we really want to be on the slippery slope towards confiscation?

Just because you owned a gun once that was later used in crime – years later, doesn’t mean you are responsible for that crime.

Should we have to document the purchase and sale of all of our personal belongings as a hedge against them turning up later at a crime scene?