Posted on 11/07/2008 9:04:28 AM PST by neverdem
DENVER — Sales of handguns, rifles and ammunition have surged in the last week, according to gun store owners around the nation who describe a wave of buyers concerned that an Obama administration will curtail their right to bear arms.
“He’s a gun-snatcher,” said Jim Pruett, owner of Jim Pruett’s Guns and Ammo in northwest Houston, which was packed with shoppers on Thursday.
“He wants to take our guns from us and create a socialist society policed by his own police force,” added Mr. Pruett, a former radio personality, of President-elect Barack Obama.
Mr. Pruett said that sales last Saturday, just before Election Day, ran about seven times higher than a typical good Saturday.
A spot check by reporters in four other states easily found Mr. Pruett’s comments echoed from both sides of the counter.
David Nelson, a co-owner of Montana Ordnance & Supply in Missoula, Mont., said his buyers were “awake and aware and see a dangerous trend.”
Mr. Nelson said sales at his store had risen about 30 percent since Mr. Obama declared his candidacy. “People are concerned about overreaching legislation from Washington,” he said. “They are educating themselves on the Internet.”
In Colorado, would-be gun buyers set a one-day record last Saturday with the highest number of background check requests in a 24-hour period, according to figures from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
“We’re not really sure who is promoting the concept that a change in federal administrations might affect firearms possession rights,” said an agency spokesman, Lance Clem...
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What is clear is that every gun seller — not to mention every advocacy group for gun ownership that depends on dues-paying members — has an incentive to stoke the concern that can prompt a gun sale. Political uncertainty, gun dealers say, is great for business...
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“If anyone has a recommendation for a fairly inexpensive but decent red dot sight, let me know.”
The absolute bullet-proof, non-parallax choice among uber-cheap red dots is the Millett SP1 or SP2. I’ve searched gun forums and never found anyone saying bad things about them.
At midlevel prices (several hundred dollars) you have the Aimpoint and Eotech, both with their fanboys. The Eotech has better short range acquisition and field-of-view. The Aimpoint is almost indestructable and the battery basically lasts forever (you can leave it on all the time and its duration is measured in years).
Above that, in price and quality, is the Trijicon ACOG.
Another possible choice for a light-use rifle is the Bushnell Holosight. It is a cheaper Eotech variant, but without the armored hood.
Can someone tell me what the gun show loophole is?? I have been to one gun show. As I recall, they did background checks there just like at the stores? Appreciate the info...
Carefully parsed as usual. You can own them, you just can't buy or sell them or the ammunition for them. And Lord help you if you should actually shoot them.
The reporter at the Times appears baffled at the lack of trust on the issue, ascribing it as usual to paranoia or ill education on the part of firearms owners. It isn't, it's having been burnt before. Most of us recall Clinton's earnest promises "nobody is talking about taking anyone's guns away" just before he passed the AWB.
This is one of those major cultural disconnects between the urban media and the firearms owners, and it leads to the suspicion either that they're stupid or they think we are. "We respect your right to keep and bear arms" is not the same statement as "We respect your right to keep and bear only the arms we'll allow and only under the conditions we'll allow." It is the latter that constitutes the working premise for Democratic gun control policies.
The reporter appears not to understand this distinction, but it accounts for nearly all the mistrust on the issue. The mistrust is merited because it has been earned. This is not really difficult to understand.
Nice choice, bolo. I'm a Sig girl--am loving my P232 .380, and P226 9MM. Sig will not disappoint.
Last week picked up a RRA AR-15 before the gun police come. Happy shooting, bolo.
it is a figment of media’s imagination.
like ‘cop-killer’ bullets were and that Glocks would all pass through airport metal detectors.
I am buying a Mossberg 590 SPX.
Thanks for your input.
Here’s a question that has been nagging at me: I’ve lso been considering picking of the stock Sig Holo Sight. Problem is, every time I look at it, I suspect it is just a cheapo BSA or similar with the Sig name stamped on it.
Anyone know if my suspicions are correct?
I meant Mossberg 930 SPX.
Can someone tell me what the gun show loophole is?
In those that don’t, the reality is that all sales by dealers (FFLs) require a background check, and those by private parties (who couldn’t get an FFL if they tried) are not. Those rules apply everywhere, whether at gun shows, parking lots, private homes, guns stores. The requirement for a background check is solely based on who is selling not on where the sale takes place.
There is arguably a private seller “loophole” (if you must) in these free states, but no :gun show loophole.”
Here’s the most important thing. This is a good time to SELL “papered” semi-autos (bought through a dealer) in a private sale. And buy replacements in private sales.
Address Gun Violence in Cities:
As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn't have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.
There is no "gun show loophole". What the gun grabbers mean is 'private sales'.
That's the 'loophole' and that's what they want to outlaw. They want to stop "Joe" from selling his gun to "John".
That's a .gov site. You and I are paying for it.
CA had a buyback program for non-compliant SKS's. You had to turn it in or it had to be compliant........ non-removable mags, etc. They actually paid $230 for them, but they also would be confiscated if not turned in. I was the 1st in my county to turn mine in for the $230. I paid just over a hundred for it and didn't much care for it anyway.
The “wasp waist” of the XDm handgrip won’t work for the .45 cartridge, not without a big magazine redesign. On top of which, the XD and XDm magazines aren’t interchangable anyway. I’ll stick with the standard XD, thanks - especially since we’re almost certainly going to be going back to mandatory 10 round magazines in the near future.
Google for “California SKS confiscations” - they actually DID go door to door for a short while.
Don’t forget to buy 10 or 20 magazines for every weapon you have that uses them. There may be no more in the near future, and magazines do wear out with time.
Thats the good thing about the PS90. Brass ejects straight down.
Now given the choice I would love to have the Mini Gun!
Look at the FS2000, also from FN, or the KelTec RFB Bullpup. They both push brass out the front of the rifle via a soft-eject system, so it doesn’t matter whether you’re left or right handed and nobody will ever be pelted by brass from your weapon. They also don’t damage the brass, so you can reload the brass again, unlike a lot of rifles.
And thread bump.
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