Posted on 09/09/2024 12:20:52 AM PDT by CFW
I hope these same people taking the time to buy a gun take time to register to vote and then take time to vote.
Gun owners aren’t going to give up their Second Amendment rights or their firearms.
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Correct, however it should be noted the “ Bad guys” have also been buying and stocking up. Loss of confidence in our government is a serious issue.
I have followed the ATF purchasing figures for decades. It all began with Nobama’s term. It is almost as a supernatural phenomenon, the populace being prepared for “ breakdown”, mayhem, civil war?
I don’t worry about government confiscation, the vast majority will simply never comply AND no doubt “ react” in any attempts to disarm America by force.
Just last week while in Academy Sports I ran into two woman buying guns. I asked the clerk ( I bought a few more) if he has noticed the uptick, he said it had begun when senile Joe took office- especially with woman.
When the government can no longer protect the people and is in fact believed by many to be the bad guys, what to expect? That said, I would encourage every citizen to get their concealed carry permit. Why? Our Sheriff once stated he could Deputize concealed carry holders…why? One reason, to keep the Feds out of our county! …last figures showed 28,000 concealed carry permit holders in our county…and growing.
The closer we get to election the faster ammo shelves will clear off.
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Exactly. Academy Sports and local gun shops were two weeks ago totally out of 12 gauge 00 Buck. Ditto with my Army Surplus store. The owner did state they were also notified of future price increases by manufacturers. Thankfully I found an on line ammo dealer with some, shipped and received in three days.
So the question, why is the preferred home defense weapon, 12 gauge buck in short supply? Maybe nothing, but then maybe a major indicator of things to come?
Here is Lyndon Johnson’s quotes on signing the 1968 gun control act into law. A vile man if ever there was one.
https://www.generalstaff.org/Firearms/LBJ_GCA_Signing_Statement_1968.htm
“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.”
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“Congress adopted most of our recommendations. But this bill—as big as this bill is—still falls short, because we just could not get the Congress to carry out the requests we made of them. I asked for the NATIONAL REGISTRATION of all guns and the licensing of those who carry those guns. For the fact of life is that there are over 160 million guns in this country—more firearms than families. If guns are to be kept out of the hands of the criminal, out of the hands of the insane, and out of the hands of the irresponsible, then we just must have licensing. If the criminal with a gun is to be tracked down quickly, then we must have registration in this country.
“The voices that blocked these safeguards were not the voices of an aroused nation. They were the voices of a powerful lobby, a gun lobby, that has prevailed for the moment in an election year.”
And this from National Review...
https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/12/how-nazis-used-gun-control-stephen-p-halbrook/
“The U.S. media covered the above events(nazis confiscating guns). And when France fell to Nazi invasion in 1940, the New York Times reported that the French were deprived of rights such as free speech and firearm possession just as the Germans had been. Frenchmen who failed to surrender their firearms within 24 hours were subject to the death penalty.
“No wonder that in 1941, just days before the Pearl Harbor attack, Congress reaffirmed Second Amendment rights and prohibited gun registration. In 1968, bills to register guns were debated, with opponents recalling the Nazi experience and supporters denying that the Nazis ever used registration records to confiscate guns. The bills were defeated, as every such proposal has been ever since, including recent “universal background check” bills.
Her is something I found and wrote a couple of years back in a search.
The US military, National Guard, Police number about 2,500,000 men.
VS.
20,000,000 civilian semi-auto rifle owners, and maybe 75 million other firearm owners, and over 400,000,000 firearms out there. 250,000,000 high cap magazines in private hands.
And the government thinks they can “regulate” that?
I ve seen a few H/W signs. The Trump signs, and flags, that I see have remained up since 2020. Coastal Oregon.
I believe you’re right about that. We ought to also keep in mind that those purchasing firearms are not necessarily our allies...
To me the immediate goal is to get control of enough states to stop the Tsunami of liberalism destroying the states.
We need a consistent 26-28 states voting red to stop most of the agenda and this would require cleaning up the election system.
Any state that can’t report voting results that are certified in 24-36 hours is cheating.
According to Wikipedia, The survey said American civilians owned three times the number of firearms in all the worlds, armed forces, excluding police. Also, we own more civilian firearms than the other top 25 countries on their list.
Same here. The paint store repainted theirs to We The People, and Trump and Trump-Vance signs. Only paint store in town.
Wondering if gun sales may have gone up more than 6% in Colorado?
Wondering if gun sales may have gone up more than 6% in Colorado?
A friend moved back there years ago
Wonder if he’s still clinging to liberal narratives?
Probably so
Had to go to the Hearing Aid audioligist, saw 1 Kennedy, lots of local, not 1 Trump. If you live in or near Memphis your home would be burned or shot up.It has gotten worse since I moved to the next Red county. 11 yrs ago.
Had to go to the Hearing Aid audioligist, saw 1 Kennedy, lots of local, not 1 Trump. If you live in or near Memphis your home would be burned or shot up.It has gotten worse since I moved to the next Red county. 11 yrs ago.
In some States, a concealed weapons permit bypasses NICS.
“In some States, a concealed weapons permit bypasses NICS.”
Correct. I know that is true in Georgia. So there were probably a lot more guns sold than indicated by NICS checks.
If a million guns have been sold in America for each month over the past 5 years, probably most of the buyers already had one firearm. Most of those are the people who will not give up their Second Amendment rights/guns no matter what. Our First and Second Amendments are the rights that sets us apart from all other nations. Especially the Second. We will not give those rights away. We have witnessed what has happened in countries that have done so.
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