Run on Guns Here, Nationwide / New Yorkers clamor for licenses, lessons

New York Daily News ^ | 10/15/01 | CLEM RICHARDSON

[Lockbox]

We should pass a law that any 'New' gun buyer also would have to join the NRA.

That way the NRA gets more funding, this is just the way liberals would take advantage of the situation.

We may not be able to convert them into true believers, but at least we would have the mandated funding to run the program.

[Cuttnhorse]

You can buy handguns in the "$100 to $200 dollar range"??? They sure aren't SIGS.

[6ppc]

Hey logos...the way to get around that is, when you buy a new gun, hide it in the back of the safe for a couple of months. When she finally notices it..."Oh, I've had that old thing for a while." My wife gets a puzzled look on her face when that happens, but she hasn't thrown my butt out of the house yet!

[fone]

>>>"Many are discouraged when they learn about the licensing process"<<<

As has been said on this forum the last month:
The sheeple are waking up.

Let's hope they stay that way.

[Morgan's Raider]

A couple of months my a**! I store them waaaay out of sight for at least 6 months.

Why do I get the feeling that a bunch of us use this tactic?

[fone]

>>>Now they can't buy a gun. Too bad.

True; however, maybe now they will begin to see the error in their ways. Maybe.

[Fixit]

They will not stay awake.

Every time the latest catastrophe (Be it man made or natural) hits California this happens.

A short while later the state legislature is always back to business. Heck, they passed yet another anti-freedom gun-hating law in the aftermath of September 11th. They used the distraction of the press as cover.

[logos]

You guys are married to very gullible wives! I'm not positive, but I think mine has memorized all the serial numbers.

A somewhat different tactic works with a new bird dog, though. Pick up your new pointer or setter puppy at the age of seven weeks, take it home, push it through the front door, close the door, ring the bell, and leave for several hours. When you get back, the puppy will be the newest member of your household.

You may be out on your ear, but the puppy will be IN!

[verity]

"The folks that should have guns - already had them."

I agree with your conclusion. This run on guns is a hysterical and ineffective response to terrorist action. Of course, if it is the beginning a vigilante action against the evil foreigners amongst us, then ........

[fone]

Nice site. Yours?

[RightWinger]

I guess guns aren't so bad after all.

[Boonie Rat]

""You can't even fire a gun here without a license," Spallone said. In NY state you can not own a handgun without it being licensed by the Nazi, uh, whoops, state! And we all know no one would disobey a dumba$$ed law like that, don't we?

Boonie Rat

MACV SOCOM, PhuBai/Hue '65-66

[RetiredNavy]

Probable because it's true.

Much like going out to dinner with the wife (outfit, shoes, jewelry, "Honey, you look great, new outfit?" "No, I got this for XXXXX's wedding last year, don't you remember? (of course I don't remember, Hell I don't even remember the wedding!))

[fone]

DC is so far removed from the reality of life in the districts they represent. I've often clamored that it IS our state legislatures that we can best influence; the local guy you can go knock on his door when you don't like what the state is doing. The dammed problem is Freeper-type people just don't run for office.

On election day you get to choose from the lesser of two evils; both being evil nontheless.

[Cuttnhorse]

LOL!! Very good!!

[fone]

Solution: Gun shows. For now ...

[from occupied ga]

when you buy a new gun, hide it in the back of the safe for a couple of months

I use the opposite tactic occasionally. One evening I walked in with a M2 receiver and flopped it down on the floor. To the outraged "What the hell is that?"

I replied, "Half a gun - I have to go back and get the barrel out of the car"

The basic question that came next was "What do you need one of those for?"

Answer was "I dont need it. I wanted it, I could afford it, so I bought it." I keep threatening to get a medium caliber weapon (Unfortunately, that's not feasible since '68, but she doesn't know that), so when I get anything smaller, there aren't too many objections

[fone]

=) and you buy that hook, line and sinker eh? LOL

[wku man]

I just love it. I can see Sarah, Chucky, Feinstein-Boxer (the Wikced Witches of the West), Hilldebeast, Rosie, and the entire membership of the Screen Actors' Guild writhing in pain. My only regret is that it took what it did to wake folks up.

[Shooter 2.5]

"It could be a national trend."
It's been a national trend. That's why gun friendly states are safer.

"customers are snatching up handguns in the $100-$200 range"
$100-200? Pellet guns?

"People want to protect their families," Leung said. "This is not to say people don't have faith in the police."
They don't have faith in the police.

"customers are snatching up 9-mm. and .45-caliber pistols. "They aren't interested in carrying a gun for personal protection,"
Oh, yeah, gee, they're not interested in personal protection. They're taking that .45 to go duck hunting.

It will be interesting to see if the gunlaws do change. More importantly I hope that the saner members of our U.S. Supreme Court are reading these articles and seeing that the 2nd Amendment must survive.