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More stockpiling ammunition: Fear of potential Obama laws causing mass sales
missouliandotcom ^ | May 20, 2009 | By PERRY BACKUS Ravalli Republic

Posted on 05/20/2009 5:00:59 PM PDT by smokingfrog

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To: panaxanax

Or he’ll go crying to his rich and powerful sugar daddys and mommies behind the scenes to go after all of us!


201 posted on 05/21/2009 10:02:59 AM PDT by dsutah
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To: myself6
Are we positive that the ammunition is going to “Our” side???

I'm sure there are some Statists out there that see the handwriting on the wall

Question is, IFand when they TRY to confiscate it, will it be somewhat “Selective”?

202 posted on 05/21/2009 10:59:03 AM PDT by GYL2 (Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson)
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To: Travis McGee

You’re right about the pistol and ammo. Very good deal right now.


203 posted on 05/21/2009 11:11:10 AM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: smokingfrog

Bookmark for later read


204 posted on 05/21/2009 11:21:58 AM PDT by PatriotGirl827 (Pray for the United States of America!)
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To: Travis McGee

That CZ can also be a tool that can be used, in the appropriate circumstances, to acquire more modern hardware. Here’s my story:

About 15 years ago, a friend and I were visiting an older, Vietnam-vet acquaintance who lived nearby and shared our dedication to, and love for, liberty. When we found out that he had only one pistol and an old SMLE with a few dozen rounds of ammo, we started razzing him about it. “What about an M1A or an AR? Why do you have so little in the way of ammo?” His response will live with me forever: “You guys don’t know the history of warfare very well, do you? Idiots, don’t you know that the SMLE was once the best combat rifle in existence? If fires a .30 caliber bullet at well over 2,000 FPS, and it does so accurately for hundreds of yards. It’ll go through anything except a Level IIIA vest, and people wearing them are both slow and few in number. Guys, I don’t need to stockpile weapons or ammo - because the gun store is coming to my front door, or if I have enough warning of an impending visit, I’ll go hunting for it a couple miles away.”

The point being that most any handgun or rifle ever issued to any army will kill people with ease. The older stuff is generally more reliable, as the engineering was geared toward imperfect maintanence and lots of abouse by ill-educated peasants. Old isn’t, in other words, bad. Nor is ugly (even fugly). Foreign isn’t, either. Sometimes, those old foreign weapons are downright nasty and indestructible (like the MN-91s and SKS rifles, for instance, or the SMLE). Buy what you can that WORKS, and then practice a LOT with it - such may save your life someday.


205 posted on 05/21/2009 11:27:27 AM PDT by Ancesthntr (Tyrant: "Spartans, lay down your weapons." Free man: "Persian, come and get them!")
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To: Armedanddangerous
...because I need to spend my gun money on 45 auto ammo, 9mm and a lightweight 38 J frame model 642.

Do yourself a favor with the 642: get the Crimson Trace laser grip. You don't have to buy it that way, the grip can be ordered via Midway and a host of other places. The 642's sights, to be highly technical, SUCK. It is a concealment gun, meaning that the sights are very low to the gun, and the sight radius is very short. Plus, the only time you're likely to use it will be in conditions of low or no light - and if you ever need to use it, you'll realize that the CT is worth its weight in diamonds.

206 posted on 05/21/2009 12:05:38 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (Tyrant: "Spartans, lay down your weapons." Free man: "Persian, come and get them!")
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To: Armedanddangerous

Your uncle is the poster child for the saying, “A conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged.”

Want to have some fun? Tell him that (in front of other family members, of course), and ask how much he’s contributing to the Palin 2012 campaign. If he says, “Nothing” or something similar, say to him, “Oooohhhh, I see, you’re a Cheney fan - me, too!”


207 posted on 05/21/2009 12:08:51 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (Tyrant: "Spartans, lay down your weapons." Free man: "Persian, come and get them!")
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To: Ancesthntr
The 642's sights, to be highly technical, SUCK.
LOL, that's what I would do if I were to get a 642 – aside of the issue of getting ammo for it.
208 posted on 05/21/2009 12:09:56 PM PDT by GYL2 (Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson)
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To: Candor7
How many will say," I am not paying for that, I told them NOT to do it!"

The tax revolt is what will undo this thing. Look at Kali revenues for April: sales tax down nearly 50% vs prior year, income tax down 42% vs prior year. Kali is about 13% of the US economy, and much of the rest of the country is doing just as badly. The wheels are beginning to come off.

209 posted on 05/21/2009 12:14:00 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (Tyrant: "Spartans, lay down your weapons." Free man: "Persian, come and get them!")
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To: smokingfrog
I think the sales boom is due to individuals anticipating future civil unrest.
210 posted on 05/21/2009 12:16:20 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: Ancesthntr
...the SMLE was once the best combat rifle in existence? If fires a .30 caliber bullet at well over 2,000 FPS, and it does so accurately for hundreds of yards.

Designed to stop a cavalry charge by killing/disabling the horses at 600 yards.

The current world record for aimed bolt-action fire was set in 1914 by a musketry instructor in the British Army — Sergeant Instructor Snoxall — who placed 38 rounds into a 12 inch wide target at 300 yards (270 m) in one minute.

211 posted on 05/21/2009 12:17:49 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Buffalo Head

You call 5,000 rounds hoarding???


212 posted on 05/21/2009 12:19:38 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Travis McGee

What is enough?


213 posted on 05/21/2009 12:23:49 PM PDT by logos (I have enough ammo to get more if I need more...)
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To: DuncanWaring

The target was actually a 24-inch diameter one, but Snoxall had all of his hits inside the 4-ring, which was 12 inches. Point well made, though - the Lord Roberts Match, or “Mad Minute” made the British Army of pre-WW1 into a bunch of rapid, accurate shooters. The Germans after being beaten back, badly bloodied, in one battle claimed that the Brits all had machine guns.

It has been said that in WWI the Germans had the best hunting rifle,the Americans had the best target rifle and the British had the best battlerifle. The latter is what we are after here.


214 posted on 05/21/2009 12:32:44 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (Tyrant: "Spartans, lay down your weapons." Free man: "Persian, come and get them!")
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To: DuncanWaring

The grips are about those colors, but not that fancy. Just vertical natural “stripes” of brown and gold.


215 posted on 05/21/2009 12:37:09 PM PDT by Travis McGee (All "Foreign Enemies And Traitors" pre-orders have been mailed out.)
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To: Ancesthntr

Good point. They even invented a crude single shot .45 strictly as “a gun to get a gun.”

And you had to get to nearly touching range of a sentry to shoot him and pick up the other gun.


216 posted on 05/21/2009 12:38:27 PM PDT by Travis McGee (All "Foreign Enemies And Traitors" pre-orders have been mailed out.)
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To: logos

You have too much if it cracks your home’s foundation, sinks your boat, or causes an airplane crash due to its weight.


217 posted on 05/21/2009 12:39:16 PM PDT by Travis McGee (All "Foreign Enemies And Traitors" pre-orders have been mailed out.)
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To: Eagles6

Getting harder to find though.


218 posted on 05/21/2009 12:39:38 PM PDT by Travis McGee (All "Foreign Enemies And Traitors" pre-orders have been mailed out.)
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To: Travis McGee

I believe in sufficiency and the ability to move quickly. See my tagline.


219 posted on 05/21/2009 12:52:53 PM PDT by logos (I have enough ammo to get more if I need more...)
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To: Sundog
Ah, I didn't mention what my shotgun is.

It's a Saiga-12 "assault" shotgun, like this one.

10 and 12 round stick mags, 20 round drums. No offense, but at closer engagement ranges (which is what I'm going to have around here), the shotgun rules over the rifle.

220 posted on 05/21/2009 1:06:47 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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