Little-Acorn
01-15-2009, 12:04 PM
After Barack Obama's votes to support various gun bans and restrictive laws, both in the Illinois state Senate and the US Senate, a lot of people feel he will carry on his tendency to restrict or ban firearms, especially in cooperation with radical leftist majorities in the House and Senate. So to get while the getting's good, they are buying firearms in record numbers, far exceeding anything seen in the previous times of the Clinton Assault Weapon Ban or other such restrictions.
Obama's recent statements that he doesn't ewant to take guns from hunters, but does want to restrict them in the hands of criminals, have made people wonder how he plans to restrict criminals further, in an era when it is already illegal for them to own guns. Few methods have come to light aside from restricting everybody, and Obama has not explained his intentions.
So people are buying now, before Obama gets into office and before various gun bills (several are already moving through the Democrat congress) can reach his desk for signature.
Some cynics are calling the surge in gun-buying "paranoid". But recent Democrat presidents with Dem-majority Congresses, have a very poor record of supporting ordinary people's right to keep and bear arms. No evidence exists to indicate that Obama will be any different... and plenty of evidence points to his desire to restrict as heavily as any past liberal President, of either party.
Simple truth suggests that we should exercise our right as much as we can, on the credible chance that it will soon be taken away or restricted by government again.
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http://www.ammoland.com/2009/01/14/outdoor-wire-names-obama-gun-salesman-of-the-year/
Outdoor Wire Names Obama "Gun Salesman of the Year"
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 at 9:11 am
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In recognition of the unprece*dented demand for firearms by nervous consumers, The Outdoor Wire, the nation’s largest daily electronic news service for the outdoor industry, has named President-elect Barack Obama its “Gun Salesman of the Year”. With the selection, Outdoor Wire publisher Jim Shepherd says it is time the firearms industry recognizes the fact that without President-elect Obama’s frightening consumers into action, the firearms industry might be suffering the same sort of business slumps that have befallen the automotive and housing industries.
“It’s credit where credit is due,” says Shepherd, “Mr. Obama has consistently voted against individual rights to firearms, appointed a re-tread Clinton administration full of gun banners, and made it plain to anti-gun groups that despite what he might say to the contrary, he’s on their side.” That history, along with the unquestioned support of anti-gun organizations, Shepherd says, has spooked consumers into a buying frenzy for firearms that could be outlawed in another Assault Weapons Ban.
“Manufacturers are months behind on orders for semi-automatic pistols, AR-style rifles, and anything with so-called ‘high-capacity magazines’,” Shepherd says, “buyers we’ve surveyed across the country seem to have a single explanation for their rush to purchase firearms – Obama.”
“The buying panic is not limited to people you might be described as aficionados or even ‘gun nuts’. Recently, I was in a gun store when a gentleman came and said he’d never wanted to own a gun before, but wanted to get one while he still could.”
Since the November Presidential election, firearms sales have been at unprecedented levels. For December 2008 the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) recorded a twenty-four percent increase in background checks for 2008 (1,523,426) over December 2007 (1,230,525).
This follows a forty-two percent (42%) increase in November 2008, the highest number of NICS checks in the system’s history. Those FBI background checks are required under federal law for all individuals purchasing firearms from federally licensed firearms retailers. In other words, gun sales have never been better.
Sales are so good that on Tuesday, January 6, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) issued a notice to all federal firearms licensees that “an unprecedented increase in demand for ATF Form 4473” had run supplies low enough that dealers were temporarily given permission to photocopy the form until supplies caught up with demand. Completion of a form 4473 is required whenever a federal firearms licensee sells a fire*arm.*
As a journalist with more than two decades of national newsgathering experience, Shepherd says he’s never seen anything approaching what he calls the “Obama effect”. In fact, Shepherd says, gun and ammunition sales are at such frantic levels that they have surpassed the panic-buying of Y2K or anything during the Clinton years when the first Assault Weapons Ban was passed. This time, he says, concerned consumers are buying guns and ammunition in anticipation of Obama Administration actions to prohibit certain types of firearms.
Obama's recent statements that he doesn't ewant to take guns from hunters, but does want to restrict them in the hands of criminals, have made people wonder how he plans to restrict criminals further, in an era when it is already illegal for them to own guns. Few methods have come to light aside from restricting everybody, and Obama has not explained his intentions.
So people are buying now, before Obama gets into office and before various gun bills (several are already moving through the Democrat congress) can reach his desk for signature.
Some cynics are calling the surge in gun-buying "paranoid". But recent Democrat presidents with Dem-majority Congresses, have a very poor record of supporting ordinary people's right to keep and bear arms. No evidence exists to indicate that Obama will be any different... and plenty of evidence points to his desire to restrict as heavily as any past liberal President, of either party.
Simple truth suggests that we should exercise our right as much as we can, on the credible chance that it will soon be taken away or restricted by government again.
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http://www.ammoland.com/2009/01/14/outdoor-wire-names-obama-gun-salesman-of-the-year/
Outdoor Wire Names Obama "Gun Salesman of the Year"
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 at 9:11 am
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In recognition of the unprece*dented demand for firearms by nervous consumers, The Outdoor Wire, the nation’s largest daily electronic news service for the outdoor industry, has named President-elect Barack Obama its “Gun Salesman of the Year”. With the selection, Outdoor Wire publisher Jim Shepherd says it is time the firearms industry recognizes the fact that without President-elect Obama’s frightening consumers into action, the firearms industry might be suffering the same sort of business slumps that have befallen the automotive and housing industries.
“It’s credit where credit is due,” says Shepherd, “Mr. Obama has consistently voted against individual rights to firearms, appointed a re-tread Clinton administration full of gun banners, and made it plain to anti-gun groups that despite what he might say to the contrary, he’s on their side.” That history, along with the unquestioned support of anti-gun organizations, Shepherd says, has spooked consumers into a buying frenzy for firearms that could be outlawed in another Assault Weapons Ban.
“Manufacturers are months behind on orders for semi-automatic pistols, AR-style rifles, and anything with so-called ‘high-capacity magazines’,” Shepherd says, “buyers we’ve surveyed across the country seem to have a single explanation for their rush to purchase firearms – Obama.”
“The buying panic is not limited to people you might be described as aficionados or even ‘gun nuts’. Recently, I was in a gun store when a gentleman came and said he’d never wanted to own a gun before, but wanted to get one while he still could.”
Since the November Presidential election, firearms sales have been at unprecedented levels. For December 2008 the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) recorded a twenty-four percent increase in background checks for 2008 (1,523,426) over December 2007 (1,230,525).
This follows a forty-two percent (42%) increase in November 2008, the highest number of NICS checks in the system’s history. Those FBI background checks are required under federal law for all individuals purchasing firearms from federally licensed firearms retailers. In other words, gun sales have never been better.
Sales are so good that on Tuesday, January 6, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) issued a notice to all federal firearms licensees that “an unprecedented increase in demand for ATF Form 4473” had run supplies low enough that dealers were temporarily given permission to photocopy the form until supplies caught up with demand. Completion of a form 4473 is required whenever a federal firearms licensee sells a fire*arm.*
As a journalist with more than two decades of national newsgathering experience, Shepherd says he’s never seen anything approaching what he calls the “Obama effect”. In fact, Shepherd says, gun and ammunition sales are at such frantic levels that they have surpassed the panic-buying of Y2K or anything during the Clinton years when the first Assault Weapons Ban was passed. This time, he says, concerned consumers are buying guns and ammunition in anticipation of Obama Administration actions to prohibit certain types of firearms.