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Topic: US guns sales soar after Barack
Obama´s re-election |
US guns sales soar after Barack
Obama´s re-election
Telegraph [UK], by Nick Allen
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 11/13/2012 10:40:42 AM
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| Owners of guns have been stocking up because they are concerned about a potential tightening of regulations on assault weapons in the president´s second term. In October the number of background checks on people applying to buy guns, an indicator of future sales, increased by 18.4 percent. There was a similar jump when President Obama was first elected in 2008. A total of 12.7 million background checks were carried out that year, up from 11.2 million the year before, and the number has been rising since then. Shares in weapons manufacturers like Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger also
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 11/13/2012 10:53:49 AM (No. 9011226)
Liberal leaning in their news division KOA Radio in Denver has distorted this story. Their narrative is that gun sales spike after every election. Of course, they ignore the truth that S & W and Ruger cannot keep up with demand.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ZurichMike, 11/13/2012 11:00:47 AM (No. 9011248)
The *only* thing between Obama and a complete, Stalin-esque takeover of the US is a well-armed populace.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
lylacat, 11/13/2012 11:04:14 AM (No. 9011262)
Why would anyone be surprised?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
gator, 11/13/2012 11:05:59 AM (No. 9011270)
He only good news to come from the election. Don´t forget to stock up on ammo too.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
tonyl, 11/13/2012 11:13:44 AM (No. 9011297)
Stalin and Hitler disarmed their populus before the went in for the kill.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 11/13/2012 11:14:23 AM (No. 9011301)
Correct, #4. Ammo too.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
OdinsAcolyte, 11/13/2012 11:16:24 AM (No. 9011311)
WAR
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chumley, 11/13/2012 11:18:51 AM (No. 9011323)
Ditto on the ammo. Luckily I stocked up after the last election, because most of my sources are dry, and that which is available is expensive.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
fljack, 11/13/2012 11:19:47 AM (No. 9011326)
Guns..what guns...I don´t have any stinkin´ guns...nor do I have the several hundred rounds of ammo for each type of gun I don´t have.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
disasterman, 11/13/2012 11:23:22 AM (No. 9011344)
Several hundred? Better get busy on that imaginary stockpile. Personally I imagine several thousand.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
pineledger, 11/13/2012 11:23:29 AM (No. 9011345)
Gee, I wonder why.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
globalwarmer, 11/13/2012 11:29:32 AM (No. 9011365)
I panic-bought all my guns when Clinton got re-elected. I´m ready for ´em this time ´round.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Boneshaker, 11/13/2012 11:52:58 AM (No. 9011421)
Look!
Obama is creating jobs!!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rolfnader, 11/13/2012 12:09:34 PM (No. 9011471)
I tried to purchase a plinkin´ gun two weeks ago. I have a squeaky clean record and a concealed pistol license for many years. This particular store has a policy that they still requires the background check. It´s still in a ´delay´ mode . Just decided to go to a different store but got to wondering why this has never happened to me before. But then , it WAS close to the election. Make sure your guns are obtained through a friend or relative and , yes, don´t forget to buy many boxes of precious metals.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bnrmusa, 11/13/2012 12:47:31 PM (No. 9011562)
#4 you think it´s good news, because you assume the side buying all the guns, is the side you are on.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
leopardtwo, 11/13/2012 12:50:13 PM (No. 9011570)
´Power comes from the barrel of a gun.´
- Mao Zedong, Red Chinese dictator
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Pepper Tree, 11/13/2012 3:08:39 PM (No. 9011815)
Think about .22 caliber stuff. Inexpensive, light, and user friendly for youngsters and geezers.
I had an acquaintance who´d been hit in the arm by a knucklehead neighbor´s stray .22 bullet. He said it hurt worse than anything he´d ever felt before or since. He also said it made him completely forget about finishing what had been doing at the time.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NRA_Forever, 11/13/2012 3:18:06 PM (No. 9011829)
I´m already heavily stocked, but have been trying in vain to find an AR gas-piston upper conversion in 6.8mm SPC. Sold out, everywhere, with back-in-stock times of next YEAR.
In spite of my inability to get one of these now, it warms the cockles of my heart to know there are other patriots out there.
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