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Americans buy record numbers of guns for Christmas
telegraph.co.uk ^

Posted on 01/01/2012 1:16:58 PM PST by Sub-Driver

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To: mylife

And these numbers do no reflect private sales or CHL holders.


Nor do they reflect multiple firearms beyond the first one a transaction.


21 posted on 01/01/2012 2:00:49 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Author of BullionBible.com - Makes You a Precious Metal Expert, Guaranteed.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

but there is a good number of them that, while perhaps not 1950s type right wing Leave it to Beavers, ARE far more like ‘us’ than the generation the libs wanted.


The article title explains to those Commies who invested all that time and energy (with OUR money) that they failed, deeply. Zero was supposed to close the deal, instead he utterly failed at his mission.

Oorah! Wolverines!


22 posted on 01/01/2012 2:06:17 PM PST by txhurl (Perry/Pence 2012 OR Perry/Ryan 2012 or even better Perry/Abbott 2012!)
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To: muir_redwoods

Exactly, they are expressing their expectations of the outcome of Obama and is racist/ economic/ mb charged agenda.

A referendum in action. Maybe they are the occupy America /tea party members!


23 posted on 01/01/2012 2:06:17 PM PST by himno hero (Obamas theme...Death to America...The crusaders will pay!)
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To: muir_redwoods

Exactly, they are expressing their expectations of the outcome of Obama and is racist/ economic/ mb charged agenda.

A referendum in action. Maybe they are the occupy America /tea party members!


24 posted on 01/01/2012 2:06:37 PM PST by himno hero (Obamas theme...Death to America...The crusaders will pay!)
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To: Sub-Driver
I bought a 270 barrel for my Mauser project, does that count.
25 posted on 01/01/2012 2:07:07 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and nervous supporters.)
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To: EGPWS

More than 50,000 people have applied for concealed carry since Wisconsin implemented the law on Nov. 1. About half of those applications have been approved and the state DOJ has been swamped with background checks since that time.


26 posted on 01/01/2012 2:10:44 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: Sub-Driver

That’s the one industry that the Kenyan is improving.


27 posted on 01/01/2012 2:13:48 PM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Americans buy record numbers of guns for Christmas

I should be so lucky! Anybody want to buy some new sweaters (never used), several scarves (never used) or some stupid socks (worn only a couple times)?

Oops, I gave the 8 years of new sweaters and scarves to charity so they're no longer available........

28 posted on 01/01/2012 2:16:45 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Santa missed my house again....or maybe he's stuck in the chimney. I'll go look.......)
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To: Sub-Driver

Tighter laws? Guns will always be available for a price. Coming bad times? That has always been a possibility. Now, fewer cops on the street is a good reason. Hoarding? If you have one firearm, you want ‘em all. Santa was kind enough to leave CZ-82 at my house this year. Now EandHmom wants one.


29 posted on 01/01/2012 2:17:16 PM PST by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: EGPWS
Disarming the citizenry might not be quite as easy as the half dark overlord may happen to think.
LOL!

I see it as “partially eclipsed wannabe”. ~snort

Kind of partial to “Mulatto Castrato” myself.

30 posted on 01/01/2012 2:17:28 PM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: txhurl

Im a Reagan Gen-Xer. My daughter is 22 and from what she tells me, there are a significant number of people in her age bracket in and outside the military that she known (she’s USAF) that have had that proverbial Come to Jesus Revelation regarding liberalism.

We will probably never ‘convert’ them to full blown old school conservatism, but the libs have most definitely overreached with a bunch of their target market. The PETA/enviro and yes, even total abortion as birth control in leu of personal responsibility crap does not sit well with more younger people than one might think.

I also laugh every time she tells me about how one of her friends suddenly realizes they’ve been lied to. Warms my heart ;) Dispite the best laid plans of Communism, they STILL defy the programming.


31 posted on 01/01/2012 2:18:27 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: EGPWS

Maybe more people think they may have to defend their right to vote in Nov 2012.


32 posted on 01/01/2012 2:25:01 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I’m Gen-X too, and my 20yo daughter a few years ago developed with her best friend a pretty good darn shootin’ Zombie plan.

With her schoolmates off to Afghanistan, Iraq, places where only bullets decide matters, and having a Marine (Iraq) roommate, she saw the light on her own.

She’s ~socially liberal, but quite serious about property rights and 2nd amd, and socialism. She and her class have had to fight out socialistic tendencies at work where we really didn’t. Of course, we didn’t start out in service industries, either.

I have more than a glimmer of hope for our twenty year olds.


33 posted on 01/01/2012 2:28:28 PM PST by txhurl (Perry/Pence 2012 OR Perry/Ryan 2012 or even better Perry/Abbott 2012!)
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To: Sub-Driver

So a writer from Los Angeles uses the “C” word rather than a non-nondescript phrase like “the holidays” when writing about firearms. Is he trying to make an unsubstantiated association? How does he know they weren’t purchased as presents for Hanukkah or Kwanza, which also fall in December?


34 posted on 01/01/2012 2:33:26 PM PST by walkerk
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To: himno hero

Maybe they are the occupy America /tea party members!


Glockupy.


35 posted on 01/01/2012 2:34:32 PM PST by txhurl (Perry/Pence 2012 OR Perry/Ryan 2012 or even better Perry/Abbott 2012!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah read it and weep all you public school bone smugglers from across the pond.

Here we call it liberty


36 posted on 01/01/2012 2:35:53 PM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Sub-Driver

How many guns did this picture sell?

37 posted on 01/01/2012 2:39:15 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: mylife
And these numbers do no reflect private sales or CHL holders.


We are CHL holders and I bought my wife a TCP 738 for Christmas, didn't show up in the stats.
38 posted on 01/01/2012 2:39:15 PM PST by askrenr (HOOAH! It's an Army thing.)
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To: txhurl

That’s something the libs didn’t take into consideration...then again, perhaps they did and thats why they were so anti war.

All those tens of hundreds of thousands of military saw combat and just even the ‘real world’ over there. It changed them all profoundly. I know my daughter came back a much harder person with far less tolerance for BS.

Those people know what guns are, for and aren’t. They know the lib line on them is BS. They know the lib line on Islam is BS. Many MANY have realized that lib anything is BS...

And they talk with their America-bound non military friends.

The ‘homies’ are not so easily brushing off the truth when their friends tell them and byt the liberal line in it’s staid.

Thus we see Incompitano/DHS labeling ex-military a threat.


39 posted on 01/01/2012 2:46:08 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: Sub-Driver

1. Commander Zero & henchmen arm violent drug cartels in Mexico.

2. They use the violence committed by said cartels to restrict 2nd Amend. Rights of Americans.

3. The Obama administration implements and carries out a plan to assassinate Americans without trial if they appear on a secret list of terrorists.

4. President signs NDAA that allows military to arrest and detain indefinitely, without charges or counsel, anyone deemed to support terrorism, even citizens in the US.

5. DHS releases a report that the Tea Party, Patriot groups, RTL orgs, 2nd Amend. Supporters and Military veterans might be terrorists.

Fear mongering my a$$.


40 posted on 01/01/2012 2:53:48 PM PST by Eagles6 (E)
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