Austrians Are Buying Guns

Gates of Vienna ^ | 10/25/15 | Baron Bodissey

[markomalley]

The flood of “refugees” into Austria is continuing without interruption. The Hungarian route has become less active, and traffic is now flowing at a rapid rate through Slovenia instead.

According to the following report from Czech Independent TV, Austrians — especially women — are responding to the presence of all these “New Austrians” by purchasing firearms at a record rate. Many thanks to Xanthippa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

(video at link)

Transcript (times shown are from the original video):

26:40		In Austria, there has been
26:44		a rapid increase in the sales of weapons to private individuals. All long guns
26:49		are currently completely sold out. Those arming
26:53		themselves are primarily women.
26:57		Austrians have begun to arm themselves with projectile weapons. If anyone wants to
27:02		buy a long gun in Austria right now, too bad for them. All of them are currently
27:06		sold out. This is reported by the Austrian outlet ‘Tiroler Tageszeitung’.
27:10		It provides accessible information
27:14		regarding the purchasers, which shows that
27:19		all the stock is sold out. “We cannot complain about
27:23		lack of demand” says Stephan Mayer, a gun merchant.
27:28		He further claims this is the case for the last three weeks. The huge
27:32		demand has its roots in fears generated by
27:36		by social changes. “People want to protect themselves,” says Mayer.
27:40		”Nonetheless, the most common purchasers of arms are primarily Austrian women
27:45		They are buying tear [pepper] sprays, which are much in demand,” says
27:49		Mayer. He claims that guns are truly in great demand,
27:54		and more potential customers are entering the market than ever before.
27:58		Till not too long ago, the major customers of gun shops were mainly
28:02		sport shooters or rangers. But the most common customers
28:07		now are people who are worried about their personal safety,
28:11		yet who had never had any involvement with weapons prior to this.
28:15		The Austrian Minister of Interior must be informed by the potential gun owner of the reason why
28:23		they wish to have a permit to own a gun. On internet pages, there also appeared those
28:26		who give this as a reason. Projectile weapons in categories C and D, that is
28:30		rifles and shotguns, may be purchased by every adult Austrian,
28:35		if he submits a request with the reason [to own the gun]. These may be for
28:40		hunting, sport shooting or self defense.
28:44		Migration, in all of human history, comes with many worries, says Viennese
28:48		sociologist Girtler. Some people see
28:53		the main cause of danger in these foreigners, who have this aggression
28:57		in their blood. Girtler stated that this fear is unfounded.
29:01		According to this sociologists, no such claims should ever be published
29:06		about migrants or any groups. The Austrian journalist Wittinger (?) commented on the situation
29:10		as follows: if the local residents are buying weapons because they want to use them
29:15		to protect themselves against hunger and terror from the migrants, then something
29:19		is very wrong here. Shotguns will not, after all, solve any
29:23		immediate problems, quite the contrary.
29:28		This article is published on the main page of SKA.
29:32		Islamists are sending this message:
29:37		”We will cut the heads off unbelieving dogs even in Europe. Look forward to it, it’s coming soon!”
29:41		German security authorities, including the Federal Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maiziere,
29:45		are again on full alert. One of about
29:50		500 of their jihadis who are fighting in the Middle East
29:55		addressed his co-residents back home
29:59		in a video, in which, in German, he urges the slitting the throats of unbelievers
30:03		back home, in their country. That is, in Germany. This is accordingly
30:07		a new quality of propaganda, and threats which must be prevented.
30:12		Overall, the Ministry of Interior stated that Germany is in the crosshairs of Islamic
30:16		terrorists, but that he does not have any indications of specific threats, informs the server
30:20		of the Czech portal of eurabia.cz with a link to
30:25		German media. Islamic State-trained Jihadists
30:29		are now, as European citizens, returning,
30:34		or they are trying to infiltrate into Europe as immigrants. More and more
30:38		the whole thing is turning into the situation that we will experience
30:43		the much-touted Arab Spring from very close up – right here, at home.
30:47		What’s more, many European states are alienating part of their own populace
30:51		with unfortunate social and multicultural politics,
30:56		merciless removal of children, unfair seizures,
31:00		and trading on traditional European values and with policies which are usually
31:05		less friendly towards conservative and traditional native inhabitants and
31:09		leans towards that portion of inhabitants who have little trouble with globalization and
31:13		nonchalant liberalization, removal of traditions,
31:17		and Islamisation. Yet we will not be able to rely
31:22		on it that portion of [population] once the Arab Spring comes here.
31:27		And that will probably be,
31:31		as they say, closing the barn after the cows are gone…

[Sicon]

Oh, just have a sense of humor.

[Charles Martel]

I do worry that too many of Europe's armories have been cleared of useful "mothballed" military firearms (older designs, but still serviceable). Many of Austria's StG-58 rifles (metric FN-FAL variant) were sold as parts kits (with chopped receivers) here in the U.S. fifteen years ago. I know, I brought a few back to life.

Ah, well... I probably worry too much. Germany re-armed on the sly once before - and pretty quickly, too.

[Lucy Hamilton]

Amazingly, today - it’s Monday already - I’m giving my pupils a tutoring on Charles Martel.

I was going to do a different subject today, but then I decided, how many know of this great European, so I thought it’s about time I introduced them to him.

I can’t answer your question as I’ve got no information regarding it. All I can say that is that probably 40% of Europe is armed ie. people, citizens and that’s good enough for me.

I think we all genuinally hope that it won’t come to this, we the European people never asked for this crisis to be dumped on our shores and in our lands.

[Lucy Hamilton]

I am indeed known for my wit and charm, my students would tell you!

[Jeff Chandler]

Do they have to fill out the form in their native language,,,,Austrian?

Yeah, I can hear them now. "G'day mate!"

[ColdSteelTalon]

Italians are going to get and have guns no matter what laws are passed. Its a tradition.

[wardaddy]

Good

It’s time we who civilized the world grow a pair

[octex]

... in their native language,,,,Austrian?
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Ha! Good one!

[octex]

A conservative estimate already, there are at least 20 million guns in Europe, the number is rising.
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Good to hear, Lucy. I enjoy your postings from across the pond.

Europe needs many more in civilian hands and they should NOT be registered. We folks in the US probably have around 300 million firearms and a Constitution that guarantees such.

[octex]

All I can say that is that probably 40% of Europe is armed ie. people, citizens and that’s good enough for me.
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Too sad that the UK is so anti-gun and has such a large segment of their population in England that are radical Muslims raping and killing.

[Travis McGee]

[M1903A1]

I agree. They had two major wars sweep the continent in thirty years...plenty of opportunity to pick up a dropped Mauser or Garand and hide it in the barn. And since they were expecting another Great Soviet Invasion for forty years after, plenty of time and motivation to scrounge up more arms and keep them hidden.

I’ve seen pictures of “battlefield pickups” in private hands in France and Belgium that would being a small fortune if they came to the States.

[C19fan]

For a small country Austria has some famous gun makers; Glock and Steyr. Are ther surplus Mannlicher straight pull bolts still available?

[CorporateStepsister]

This IS going to get interesting; the Italians are not the type to put up with BS and I am sure that we’re going to hear stories of shootouts.

[sauropod]

Read

[Pelham]

Somebody needs to throw Girtler to the Muslim mob.

[going hot]

Next Sunday is gun show day - off to check the stuff.

Here we have to wait til the middle of next month. Oh well, it will be close to my birthday!

[going hot]

20 million?! That's it? Ha ha ha! Pikers! I mean, there's probably half that many in Chicago alone :-)

Well, it was funny, and probably true.