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Fast and Furious
Obama shows great potential — as a Marxist dictator!
INTERPOL is granted immunity from U.S. law.
The Clamor for Obama's impeachment.
Obama fraternizes quite cordially with dictators in other countries
Taking control of the internet
The Homeland Security report on right wingers
Preferential Treatment of the Black Panthers
House Republicans
try to block Obama's rifle rule. House Republicans, accusing President Barack Obama of waging a war on gun owners, plan to cut
off funding for an rule requiring firearms dealers in border states to report multiple sales of certain rifles. The matter has become
a flash point on both sides of the national gun control divide, elevating the debate over the Second Amendment in an election year in which
the president is struggling to win again in pro-gun swing states such as New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Virginia.
Obama is
named gun 'salesman of the year'. The Obama years have proved to be a boon to the nation's gun
industry, which has posted strong gains in jobs, sales, economic impact and taxes paid in the teeth of an
economic downturn. [...] Jobs in the firearms business jumped 30 percent from 2008 to 2011, when the
industry employed 98,750. The industry paid $2.5 billion in federal taxes in 2011, up 66 percent
in three years. Some in the industry attribute the jump in sales in no small part to fears —
fed in part by leading gun lobbies — that the Obama administration will tighten gun control laws
if the president wins re-election.
Obama's Gun Boom. Background checks for gun permits, as well as firearm stocks
sales, have continued to soar in 2012 on fears of an Obama reelection. According to data from the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background
Check System (NICS), total background checks for firearms in February and March rose 19 percent in 2012 over the previous year. The
biggest one-year increase — 26 percent — was in 2009, immediately after Obama's election.
Gun Sales And
Gun Stocks Are Going Nuts As Obama's Re-Election Odds Improve. We'd heard a few times lately that the gun stocks (mostly
Ruger and Smith & Wesson) had been surging lately, thanks to strong gun sales, but we have to thank Eddy Elfenbein for alerting us to
how extreme the moves have been lately. Ruger is up 14% from the Wednesday [3/21/2012] close after the gun company announced that
it literally could not keep up with demand. Since last summer, the stock has nearly tripled.
An armed citizenry and its enemies.
Sturm, Ruger & Company, America's 4th largest gun manufacturer, announced that it has temporarily suspended the acceptance of new orders.
Not too worry, though. This unusual problem stems from the fact that Sturm, Ruger booked over one million firearms orders in the first
quarter of 2012. And the company acknowledged that, "the incoming order rate exceeds our capacity to rapidly fulfill these orders."
New orders will be accepted, starting in about 60 days. Smith & Wesson and other domestic gun makers are presented with similar
opportunities.
Fourth Largest Gun Maker In US Is Out Of Guns.
Ruger (the 4th largest gun-maker in the US) who after receiving orders for over one million units in Q1 has temporarily
suspended the acceptance of new orders.
Gun Boom Continues Despite Florida Shooting.
Despite calls for stricter guns laws in response to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, firearm stocks are soaring as gun
companies struggle to keep up with high demand. Shares of Sturm Ruger & Co. (RGR) were up as high as 14 percent
Thursday afternoon [3/22/2012] after CEO Michael Fifer announced the company was temporarily suspending its acceptance of
new orders in an effort to meet a dramatic surge in demand for its products.
Gun sales explode as election looms.
Sales of handguns and ammunition are booming across the country, and retailers say it's all about the November election. Gun
shop owners around the nation told FoxNews.com that sales, brisk ever since President Obama was elected, have spiked upward in recent
months. And manufacturers are having so much trouble keeping up with the demand that one, Sturm, Ruger & Co., can't keep up with
demand. The Southport, Conn.-based company has had to suspend new orders after taking orders for more than 1 million guns
in the first three months of the year. Smith & Wesson sales are way up, as well.
Fear & reloading. More people are buying guns
amid worries about Obama's re-election and predictions of the world's impending doom. ... Gun owners are stocking up on ammo and a variety of
guns in a rush that local retailers haven't seen since President Barack Obama was elected. In the wake of the 2008 election, prices
soared as the availability of weapons and ammo shrank.
From Obama, What Next?
[Scroll down] So since Obama and his administration think they can ignore the US Constitution, particularly
the first amendment, and mandate that Catholics go against their faith, the question now is, "What next?"
Let's turn our attention to the Second Amendment. Obama's most lasting impact on gun control is through the
appointment of Sonya Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, both gun control advocates, to the Supreme Court. While
paying lip service to the second amendment, he told Sarah Brady, "I just want you to know that we are working on
[gun control]. We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar." What good will the second
amendment be if/when all guns have been "controlled" out of existence?
NRA
official: Obama wants to outlaw guns in 2nd term. A top official with the National Rifle Association
said Friday [2/10/2012] that President Obama will move to "destroy" gun rights and "erase" the Second Amendment if
he is re-elected in November. While delivering one of the liveliest and best-received speeches at the Conservative
Political Action Conference in Washington, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said the president's low-key
approach to gun rights during his first term was "a "conspiracy to ensure re-election by lulling gun owners to sleep."
Oops:
Obama judicial appointee says we have right to keep arms, but not to bear them. When Wayne LaPierre,
executive vice president of the National Rifle Association (NRA), spoke at CPAC on February 10th, he predicted
that if Barack Obama wins a second term it will usher in an all-out attack on the Second Amendment. In so many
words, he said the same people who brought us Fast and Furious, "a criminal enterprise" for which there has yet to be
prosecutions, will use four more years to gut constitutional protections on the right to keep and bear arms. And
anyone who wonders what this assault on the Second Amendment might look like need look no further than Illinois, where
a judge that President Obama appointed has just ruled that we have the right to keep arms, but not to bear them.
Why
U.S. Gun Sales Are Shooting For The Moon: [Steve] Sanetti explained that in 1959 some 70 percent
of the American public favored handgun bans, whereas today that number has flipped. "We've been able to
conclusively prove scientifically that, as John Lott wrote, more guns do equal less crime. Other factors
include the fact that the number of hunters has actually risen in a number of states. Then you have
returning servicemen and women who are staying with the shooting sports. Meanwhile, the advocacy of
the NSSF, the NRA and other groups have shown that the Second Amendment is a fundamental part of our freedom."
Gun control kills jobs.
Ever since Barack Obama was sworn in as president, the economy has misfired. Jobs remain scarce and the
market has yet to recover the value it had prior to the 2007 crash. Though Mr. Obama's policies have
unintentionally given a major boost to an industry he hates — firearms — even this one
bright spot hasn't necessarily translated into new employment. Take Sturm Ruger Co., one of the few
publicly traded U.S. gunmakers. Anyone who happened to invest $100 in the firm's stock on Mr. Obama's
Inauguration Day would have about $532 today.
Obama to
Congress: I'll decide what's constitutional. Election season is here, and you might think
President Obama would be going out of his way to show voters that he can be trusted with the powers of
the presidency. But you would be wrong. Just a few days before Christmas, Obama served notice
to all Americans that he will continue to abuse executive privilege by seeking new ways to vilify gun
owners and further his anti-gun agenda.
They'll know it when they see it.
Gun makers baffled
by ATF criteria. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is in charge of determining
whether a gun model is legal, but the agency won't say much about its criteria. Despite overseeing an industry
that includes machine guns and other deadly weapons, ATF regulations for the manufacture of weapons are often
unclear, leading to reliance on a secretive system by which firearms manufacturers can submit proposed weapons
for testing and find out one at a time whether they comply with the law, critics say.
Obama on Guns: [Scroll down]
In fact, there is an undercurrent of Americans who are sick and tired of politicians turning their backs on the
Constitution in their attempts to manage our lives and money, and are calling, no screaming, for a return of
Constitutional principles of governing. Now if those same politicians who turn a blind eye to the constraints
placed upon them in the Constitution are successful in taking our guns away, we will find an America vulnerable to
tyrannical government; a situation that will mark the beginning of the end of our Republic.
Obama's
Anti-gun Agenda Remains Alive and Well. Thanks to the efforts of freedom advocates such as John
Lott, Obama's efforts to stay under the radar are now glistening in the sunlight. Lott reviewed an unsettling
and lengthy list of Obama's "processes," starting with the President's intention to ignore at least 20 parts
of the 2012 omnibus spending bill that he signed into law last week. Using the controversial and likely
unconstitutional "signing statements," Obama said, "I have advised Congress that I will not construe these
provisions as preventing me from fulfilling my constitutional responsibility ... such measures as I shall judge
necessary and expedient." ... In plain English, the President just told Congress to go jump — he
was going to do what he wanted to do, regardless.
Americans
buy record numbers of guns for Christmas. According to the FBI, over 1.5 million background
checks on customers were requested by gun dealers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in
December. Nearly 500,000 of those were in the six days before Christmas. It was the highest number
ever in a single month, surpassing the previous record set in November.
The
Obama administration is planning a second-term attack on gun rights. Obama administration officials
are deliberately keeping gun owners in the dark about the president's gun-control agenda as we head into next year's
national election, because administration officials know that when NRA members and gun owners show up at the polls
en masse, anti-gun candidates lose.
Firing back at gun
control. The Obama administration's anti-gun agenda, which has been sneaking into the federal
bureaucracy in recent years, was blasted by Congress last week. Republicans used the $1 trillion
omnibus bill for 2012 to shoot back at the sneaky use of federal funds for gun control. One sentence in
the 2,100-page spending bill stopped taxpayers' money from being used for sham studies designed to make legal
gun ownership seem like a public health hazard. The House GOP included a provision in the Health and Human
Services appropriations bill preventing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from using any of its
$30.7 billion funds to "advocate or promote gun control."
Even
Before Fast and Furious, They Had Guns on Their Minds. What Obama administration officials, including the
president, knew or didn't know about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives' 2009 Operation Fast and
Furious has little to do with what they should have known. Attorney General Holder, Secretary Clinton, President
Obama, and Secretary Napolitano each declared that he or she did not know about Fast and Furious until 2011. But
what should they have known about a federal program that eventually led to mass murder?
Fast
and Furious Scandal Gives Rise to Gun Regulation Debate. As a candidate, Barack Obama once endorsed
a ban on handguns and favored restrictions on the purchase and possession of firearms. So when gun owners
heard of Operation Fast and Furious, many feared the worst. Now, newly revealed emails suggest that if the
gun-running operation didn't start out with that intent, as administration officials insist, the program certainly
led to discussions on new gun regulations.
Copy
of ATF Email Wanting More Gun Control in Wake of Fast and Furious. For the better part of a year,
I have been saying that the end goal of Fast and Furious was more gun control. Rush Limbaugh has said this,
Sean Hannity and other Fox News personalities have said this, and the NRA and Gun Owners of America have said this,
among others. Throughout this time, I have had a copy of an email that was sent to me back in March of 2011.
It's an July 2010 email from ATF Special Agent in Charge Mark R. Chait to ATF Supervisor William Newell.
Was
Fast and Furious all About Gun Control? For some time, Second Amendment advocates have suspected
that the Obama administration's gun walking program ("Fast and Furious") was intended to create a pretext for
bringing back the gun control issue. There has been a little evidence of that, but not much. Today
[12/7/2011], however, Sharyl Attkisson of CBS, who has been all over the Fast and Furious scandal and would,
in a sane world, get a Pulitzer Prize, broke another scoop...
Guns
are a big seller on Black Friday. Gun dealers flooded the FBI with background check requests
for prospective buyers last Friday [11/25/2011], smashing the single-day, all-time high by 32%, according to
bureau records. Deputy Assistant FBI Director Jerry Pender said the checks, required by federal law,
surged to 129,166 during the day, far surpassing the previous high of 97,848 on Black Friday of 2008.
New
Gun Company Advertisement Compares Obama to Hitler, Stalin. A gun company advertisement
that warns of impending gun control compares President Obama to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
The USAAmmo ad shows side-by-side pictures of Obama with Hitler, Stalin and other dictators who committed
atrocities across the world. The ad, which is also accompanied by a video, warns that gun control
is imminent and foreshadows that the U.S. could face millions in casualties if they are not allowed to
defend themselves.
Obama
Pushing Shooters Off Public Land. Gun owners who have historically been able to use public lands
for target practice would be barred from potentially millions of acres under new rules drafted by the Interior
Department, the first major move by the Obama administration to impose limits on firearms. Officials say the
administration is concerned about the potential clash between gun owners and encroaching urban populations who
like to use same land for hiking and dog walking.
Michelle Obama's warning
to gun owners. If you want to read something scary, take another look at the minority opinions
in the Supreme Court's landmark Heller and McDonald decisions that struck down Washington, D.C.'s
and Chicago's unconstitutional gun bans. In the Heller dissent, four justices concluded that the
Second Amendment does not guarantee an individual right to own a firearm, nor does it protect our right to
defend ourselves, our families, or our property. In McDonald, the same four justices argued that
the 5-4 Heller decision should be reversed. If these four justices had just one more vote on their
side, their opinion — that the Second Amendment should not exist in today's modern society —
would be the law of the land today.
Obama campaign
organizing against gun owners. As gun owners and freedom advocates know, whenever a serial
anti-gunner like President Obama says he wants common sense gun control, you can be sure that gun-ban
policies are around the corner. Former President Clinton used this same "common sense" rhetoric to help
sell his gun ban in 1994. Thank you for the offer, Mr. President, but the Second Amendment and our Bill
of Rights already contain enough common sense and your editing isn't needed here.
Gun
ownership soars under Obama. For most gun loving Americans, the election of President Obama brought
fears of a clamp down on their hobby. But shockingly, new statistics show the President may just be the
best thing to happen to the U.S. gun industry.
The
Real 'Under the Radar' Target of Operation Fast and Furious. [Scroll down] There are
many of us who believe this may well have been part of the "under the radar" approach that Obama told gun
control zealots that he was employing to effect stricter gun control laws in America. Those of you
inclined to be skeptical should bear in mind that Obama and his closest advisors hail from Chicago, where all
firearms must be registered with the police. Some suburban governments there actually ban handgun possession,
but are under fire by the U.S. Supreme Court which has declared the tough restrictions unconstitutional.
As conservatives know, this is just a bump on the road for true believers in gun control; those suburbs are
busily seeking ways to circumvent the Court's ruling.
Did
someone mention Fast and Furious?
Obama's Watergate. After
taking office, Barack Hussein Obama began a coordinated effort with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to control the purchases and ownership of guns in the United States.
To justify the implementation of tougher gun control laws and in a direct assault on the Second Amendment of
the U.S. Constitution, this administration cited a statement made to Congress by William Hoover, Assistant
Director for Field Operations for the BATFE on February 7, 2008. According to that report,
90 percent of the weapons used by the Mexican drug cartels were purchased from or originated from the
U.S. That stunning revelation empowered the Obama administration to solicit public support for banning
so-called assault weapons in the U.S., and calling for tougher gun control laws. The problem, however,
is that the 2008 statement is disingenuous at best.
Dude, Where's My Freedom?
Obama administration officials recently let slip that they are working on new gun control measures "under the
radar." Gun control is the classic example of foolishly exchanging an essential liberty for an illusion
of security. The U.S. states that respect the honest citizen's right to carry firearms in self-defense
have consistently lower rates of violent crimes than states with strict gun control laws.
In the words of Dr. Peter Hammond, "Just as criminals prefer unarmed victims, tyrants prefer disarmed
citizens. A government that does not trust its citizens with weapons cannot be trusted with
power."*
Thomas Jefferson had the same idea centuries earlier when he said, "The strongest reason for the people
to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in
government."*
President Obama apparently understands this concept, and has been quietly making a few arrangements that
will make it much more difficult and expensive to purchase firearms and ammunition. If you don't
already own a gun and plenty of ammo, Mr. Obama's plans will likely affect you.
More information about Obama and his anti-gun stance can be found
here.
It is worth noting also that gun sales have skyrocketed since
Obama was elected. Evidently there are many people who trust Mr. Obama as little as I do.
Brass Facts: Every
year, the federal government buys massive amounts of ammunition, primarily to meet the needs of the military.
For years, the government has been recouping part of its ammunition expenses by reselling the used casings to
remanufacturers. ... Well, all that is changing. The Obama administration is changing the rules on
re-selling used bullet casings. From now on, they cannot be sold for remanufacturing, but rather
must be liquidated at scrap value.
Wonder why vets and shooters are
suspicious of Obama? The bad ideas just keep Twittering out of the Obama administration, and
some of them are so ridiculous that even the Democrats who rule the congressional roost are squawking
back. ... Given that this administration is all abuzz with going green, crushing a perfectly recyclable
product runs afoul of the "reduce, reuse, recycle" mantra of environmentalists. It's difficult not
to assume that someone new in Defense wanted to reduce the national supply of ammunition by removing the
ability to reuse fired brass.
Are You Hoarding Ammo? As I was
walking through the ammunition aisle at my local Bass Pro Shops, I muttered to the man standing next to me
how disappointingly empty the shelves were. "Not as bad as last week," he said. I shouldn't have
been surprised. Back in February, Cabelas, a publicly-traded outdoor outfitter saw its stock go up 35%
in one day when earnings blew away estimates because of very strong "sales of firearms and related accessories."
Obama
Gunning for the Second Amendment. Gordon Hutchinson reports at a blog called The Shootist
that Obama has just disallowed the Department of Defense (DOD) from selling spent brass shell casings to
manufacturers of ammunition for the civilian market. This means that these companies will now have to
buy new brass and produce their own shell casings, a much more expensive — and wasteful —
proposition. Obviously, this will raise the cost of ammo and, some say, reduce the supply. Not
only that, this is just the first of two steps (that I'm aware of) designed to remove ammo from the hands
of Americans.
Obama is Gun Salesman of the Year
New laws on
the minds of gun owners. Wanenmacher's Tulsa Arms Show was already billed by organizers as the "world's
largest gun show," but the recent change in the White House appears to have made it even bigger.
Gun
sellers see boost with Obama in office. President Barack Obama is the best thing to happen to
American gun and ammunition manufacturers since they invented the Defense Department. Convinced that Obama
is going to seek drastic limitations on gun ownership and huge taxes on ammunition, people who view the world
through Second Amendment glasses are cleaning out handgun ammunition from the shelves of outdoors stores across
America and buying handguns and even some rifles like they're going out of style.
Definition
of 'assault weapon' lost on lawmakers. A month-and-a-half ago, and only a day after Attorney General
Eric Holder came out with talk of renewing the Clinton Assault Weapons Ban, [Nancy] Pelosi said she had not
spoken to Holder about the ban, and acted surprised and upset about talk of a renewed weapons ban. The
Speaker of the House put on her famous frown and said no one had consulted her and that the United States would
do well to enforce the laws it already has. Spoken like an eminently experienced politician who has her
nose to the wind.
Let's All Surrender Our Weapons — You
First! The rash of recent shooting incidents has led people who wouldn't know an AK-47 from a
paintball gun to issue demands for more restrictions on guns. To be sure, it's hard to find any factor in
these shootings that could be responsible — other than the gun.
Misrepresenting Mexican Gun Origins. Fox
News has completely blown apart the mantra being chanted by politicians and the news media that 90 percent of
the guns used in crimes in Mexico come from the United States. Fact is, says Fox News, only about 17 percent
are trickling in from north of the border, and some of those legally. Why such a disparity in the numbers?
Guns in short supply as sales shoot higher.
Brian Camp can't find all the guns he needs. That's not good for Camp because he runs a gun shop. Big Daddy's
Sports Haven in Deerfield Township reopened Friday [4/10/2009] after more than two months of remodeling to find perhaps the
biggest guns and ammunition shortage since World War II. "I had one old lady come in," Camp said Friday of one
customer looking for a gun. "I called five different distributors, including the two biggest in the country.
They had seven handguns left in stock. Seven. That's it."
Obama
secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns. After the September 11 attacks, commercial
airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would
unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them into
buildings. Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety
on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology.
Obama Blasted for Diverting
Money From Armed Pilots Program. A Second Amendment group is blasting the Obama administration
for quietly seeking to end the program that allows pilots — after special training — to
carry guns in the cockpit. The move will make air travel more vulnerable to terrorist attacks, something
that should outrage travelers, said the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said.
Fears of tighter gun laws drive up local demand.
Since the election of President Barack Obama, local businesses have struggled to meet consumer demand for guns and
ammunition due to what some dealers say is a fear of more stringent gun laws. Though the surge in sales initially
helped anyone in the Arkansas River Valley who sells guns and ammo, one business owner said it has turned into a
double-edged sword due to increased prices and an inability to obtain what his customers want.
Obama's End Run on the Second
Amendment. Long before he was the president of the United States or even the junior senator from Illinois,
Barack Obama made his opposition to the Second Amendment of the Constitution painfully clear. As a director of the
Joyce Foundation for eight years (1994-2002), Obama participated in the creation and funding of prohibitionist-minded
anti-gun groups to the tune of millions of dollars. This fact does not surprise the millions of Americans who have
responded to the threat by purchasing millions of firearms since the president was elected and who purchased at
least 1.5 billion rounds of ammunition in December alone.
Do Democrats Want to Take Our
Guns? Both history and experience teach us that few things are as integral to freedom as guns.
Therefore, when liberal politicians push for more gun control, freedom-loving Americans panic because they know
that an assault on guns is an assault on freedom. Our Founding Fathers were confident of the connection
between guns and freedom, and they were convinced that the American people were freer than others because of
the right to keep and bear arms.
Democrats hang fire on
guns. There is one thing that can be said of President Obama with certainty — his election
has had a phenomenal effect on gun sales. Across the country, ammunition prices are soaring and many guns
are in short supply as weapons fly off the shelves at stores. This is a telling economic indicator about
consumer confidence as many Americans stock up for fear that the end is nigh.
Demand for
Concealed Carry Inexplicably Up Since Obama Election. If you'll remember, a couple weeks ago Democrats
and anti-gun advocates painted concealed carry permit holders as dangerous crazies who are likely to go on shooting
sprees. Obviously, this means that are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of crazy people in America —
men and women, young and old! And, in their delusional state, they seem to think Democrats will restrict their
Second Amendment rights. I wonder why?
Gun Control By Way Of Health
Reform. More than a decade ago Congress, seeing it as a backdoor assault on the 2nd Amendment
and the right to keep and bear arms, voted to cut funding for firearms research by the Centers for Disease
Control. Such research was viewed as one-sided and based on flawed assumptions that all gun use was
bad, even that which saved lives and deterred crime. The National Institutes of Health seemed to
have picked up the baton by funding similar studies of gun violence as a public health issue.
Fear
of gun limits fuels a burst of demand for bullets. Since President Obama's election, demand for
guns and ammunition has skyrocketed. Gun shops have trouble keeping bullets in stock.
Obama And ACORN Officials Set
Sights On Gunowners. ACORN, the publicly funded national organization linked to voter fraud
in several states, is now actively interfering with the exercise of firearm civil rights in New Jersey, and
the Second Amendment Foundation is calling for an immediate federal investigation. ... "ACORN has, since
1998, received an estimated $31 million in government funding," said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. "Now
they have intervened in a New Jersey gun rights case in defense of an illegal Jersey City one-gun-a-month
ordinance that violates the state preemption statute."
Obama era
triggers gun 'panic'. The US is in the grip of an ammunition shortage, thanks to a combination
of factors — the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have diverted production at factories, and
old-fashioned stockpiling as private gun owners throughout the US fear the Obama Administration will move to
limit gun ownership or tax ammunition heavily. "Since the election, everyone's in a panic," says John
Gilronan, of J&C Sales, one of the ammunition sellers. "They didn't announce it officially, but the
rumour is that they were going to raise the excise tax on it 500 percent.
Gun
sales soar amid fears of Barack Obama weapons ban. President Barack Obama may never have
fired a gun but he is turning out to be one of the best firearms salesmen in American history. "I've
sold probably four times as much in the last six months as I have in 20 years combined," said
Cliff Hunter, owner of Tommy Bronson Sporting Goods in Memphis. "Hand guns and the tactical
weapons, they're absolutely off the charts."
Is Barack Obama
Anti-American? [Scroll down slowly] Unlike citizens at all other times and in all
other places, Americans can protect these broad rights with firepower, because the Second Amendment
grants them the right to bear arms on their own soil, a right entirely separate from the military's
obligation to protect American citizens from foreign enemies. Given that the Second Amendment
was ratified on the heels of a successful revolution, the Founders manifestly intended that Americans,
protected by the military abroad, were free to protect themselves from their own government at home.
(To appreciate this right fully, remember that one of the first things the Nazis did was to make private
arms illegal, especially for Jews.)
Bullets are
speeding faster out of gun shops in U.S.. In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches,
Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obvious sign of
their demand: empty ammunition shelves. At points during the past year, bullets have been selling
faster than factories could make them. Gun owners have bought about 12 billion rounds of ammunition
in the past year, industry officials estimate. That's up from 7 billion to 10 billion in a
normal year.
A beneficial side-effect:
More Guns, Less Crime in
'09. Americans went on binges buying guns and ammunition in early 2009, worried that a radical
leftist president and Democrat-dominated Congress would violate their Second-Amendment rights to keep and bear
arms. The effects? Less murder, robbery, rape, and property crime, according to an FBI report
released Monday [12/28/2009]. This gives the young president and Democrat Congress at least one proud
but unintended accomplishment for which they'll never claim credit.
Washington Post writers just can't understand it.
Why are
violent crime rates falling? According to some conventional wisdom, economic trouble breeds
lawlessness. Yet in the first half of 2009, as unemployment skyrocketed, reported murders, forcible
rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults decreased by 4.4 percent compared with the first half of
2008, according to the FBI.
Why
is Obama so afraid of the National Rifle Association? These days, mindful of the need to corral
Red State votes for issues like healthcare reform and financial regulation, Obama has swallowed whatever
personal views he may hold on the issue in favor of political expediency.
Obama
Administration Reverses Course, Forbids Sale of 850,000 Antique Rifles. The South Korean government,
in an effort to raise money for its military, wants to sell nearly a million antique M1 rifles that were
used by U.S. soldiers in the Korean War to gun collectors in America. The Obama administration approved
the sale of the American-made rifles last year. But it reversed course and banned the sale in March —
a decision that went largely unnoticed at the time but that is now sparking opposition from gun rights advocates.
Barack Obama's conspicuous silence on guns.
Gun control is a perilous issue for President Barack Obama so the push for new restrictions following the shootings
in Tucson, Ariz., puts the president in an especially tricky political predicament. Obama has supported most
major gun and ammunition control initiatives during a decade and a half in public life, including renewing the
expired ban on semiautomatic assault rifles.
More
about gun control issues in general.
"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are
the American people's liberty teeth and the keystone under independence. The rifle and
pistol are equally indispensable. The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere
restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that is good."
— George Washington
The Democrats
and Gun Control: Having the right to arms and the liberty to hunt is worthless if you can't buy a
gun. In 1999, Mr. Obama urged enactment of a federal law prohibiting the operation of any gun store
within five miles of a school or park. This would eliminate gun stores from almost the entire inhabited
portion of the United States. As a state senate candidate in 1996, Mr. Obama endorsed a complete
ban on all handguns in a questionnaire.
We're All Gun Nuts
Now. During a campaign debate on April 16, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were asked if
the District of Columbia's ban on gun possession, now facing a challenge before the Supreme Court, is
constitutional. … Obama (Harvard Law '91) also pleaded ignorance, confessing he hadn't "listened to
the briefs and looked at all the evidence."
Obama's
Gun-Restriction Policy Playbook: The bait-and-switch gimmick of employing rhetorical tricks to hide
very real gun control agendas, and to create a fraudulent history to assure that "your gun record does not define
your candidacy" are the central lessons offered in a political/propaganda playbook or script proffered by something
called the Third Way.
Obama and guns: One
of Mr. Obama's first statements on the issue really said it all. During his first run for the Illinois
Senate in 1996, Mr. Obama said on a candidate questionnaire that he supported legislation to "ban the
manufacture, sale and possession of handguns." When challenged about the questionnaire earlier this
year, Mr. Obama blamed others, saying his campaign staff had filled out the questionnaire incorrectly.
(Unfortunately for that story, a version of the questionnaire later appeared bearing Mr. Obama's own
handwriting.)
The NRA vs. Obama: [Scroll down] But
Obama has missed the NRA's point on this one. They are not simply saying he supports the kind of bans we've
seen in D.C. and Chicago; they are saying he supports a complete ban on the manufacture, sale, and possession of a
handgun. And they are right. On March 31, 2008, the Politico revealed that "Obama endorsed a complete
ban on all handguns" in a general candidate questionnaire he filled out on September 9, 1995.
Gun
owners fret Obama White House. "If the economy is down, and gun sales are up, it shows you just
how deep-seated the concern is out there about the situation," said Richard Pearson, executive director of
the Illinois State Rifle Association. "Most gun owners at least until recently have been misled by
Senator Obama. Though he claims to be an advocate for the Second Amendment, his voting record in the
Illinois Senate says otherwise. He voted for a bill that would ban nearly every hunting rifle, shotgun
and target rifle owned by Illinois citizens," Mr. Pearson continued. "His campaign has done a good job
burying his take on firearms," he added.
Gun control
group backs Obama-Biden. Days after the National Rifle Association backed John McCain's
presidential bid, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and Jim and Sarah Brady announced Monday [10/13/2008]
that they are endorsing Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Revenge of gun owners:
As a state legislator, Mr. Obama voted against a bill shielding people who use handguns for self-defense in their
homes from prosecution for violating local gun registration rules. Most tellingly, he has repeatedly expressed
support for local handgun bans such as the District of Columbia's, which the Supreme Court overturned, and Chicago's,
which faces a constitutional challenge. "What works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne," Mr. Obama says.
The line, meant to reassure gun owners, highlights his peculiar view that the extent of an American's
constitutional rights depends on where he lives.
Obama's
Aim: You don't have to go back that far to find Obama taking an extreme stance against gun
rights. In 2004, while running for the U.S. Senate, he promised to bar citizens nationwide from
receiving concealed-carry permits. The Chicago Tribune reported then that Obama "backed federal
legislation that would ban citizens from carrying weapons, except for law enforcement." Obama explained
his plan to pre-empt state concealed-carry laws with a federal bill: "National legislation," Obama said at
the time, "will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois
residents."
Obama
Comes Out Against Concealed Carry. Barack Obama is embracing anti-gun policies in the run-up to a
Democratic presidential debate scheduled on the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings. "I am
not in favor of concealed weapons," Obama told the Pittsburgh Tribune. "I think that creates a potential
atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations."
NRA to Montana:
Obama a threat to gun owners. The National Rifle Association said Wednesday [8/13/2008] that
Barack Obama is trying to mislead voters about his past support of gun control, calling the Democratic
candidate "a poster child of the extremist, elitist gun control movement."
Obama's Selection
of Biden Outrages Many Gunowners. If there were any question about how the majority of American
gunowners would come down on the candidacy of Barrack Obama for president, the doubts vanished in a flash when
Obama picked veteran anti-gun Sen. Joe Biden from Delaware as his running mate. Biden proudly recalled
during a July 23, 2007 Democrat candidates' debate how he was "the guy who originally wrote the assault
weapons ban." Where Obama is on record as opposing concealed carry, and favoring other restrictions,
Biden has a long history of supporting gun control.
63%
Say Obama More Likely to Restrict Gun Rights. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. voters (63%) say Barack
Obama is more likely than John McCain to restrict an individual's right to own a gun, according to a new
Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 16% believe McCain is more likely to do so,
and 22% are undecided.
Obama's Sights on
Second Amendment. During his 2004 run for the Senate, Obama said, "I think that the Second
Amendment means something. I think that if the government were to confiscate everybody's guns unilaterally
that I think that would be subject to constitutional challenge." No kidding. He didn't say it would
be unconstitutional, just "subject to constitutional challenge." Nor did he express any opposition.
Obama:
We're Working on Gun Control 'Under the Radar'. On March 30, ... [Jim and Sarah] Brady... met
with White House press secretary Jay Carney. During the meeting, President Obama dropped in and, according
to Sarah Brady, brought up the issue of gun control, "to fill us in that it was very much on his agenda," she
said. "I just want you to know that we are working on it," Brady recalled the president telling them.
"We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar."
Obama
Administration Eyeing Gun Control 'Under the Radar,' Groups Warn. The Obama administration,
after keeping gun control on the back burner for over two years, is prompting concern among gun rights
groups that it's slowly starting to squeeze the trigger on tighter regulation.
Obama
to push gun-control measures. President Obama's decision to push new gun-control measures in
the wake of the mass shootings in Tucson, Ariz., is out of character and faces dubious prospects with a new
Republican majority in the House. Though he omitted any reference to gun control in his State of the
Union address, three of Obama's key advisers assured reporters the issue is on the president's to-do list.
Assault Weapons and the
Truth. The Obama administration is moving into high gear in putting gun-control advocates into important
government positions. The administration's nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
(BATFE), Andrew Traver, should be of particular concern. His attacks on the civilian use of so-called assault
weapons raise real questions about his willingness to distort the truth for political purposes. The person
nominated to be the nation's top gun cop shouldn't use inaccurate descriptions to scare people into supporting
gun control.
Does Obama's nominee for head of BATFE oppose the Second Amendment?
[Scroll down] Now, it seems that when it comes to Obama and guns, he was for them before he was against them.
Last month, the president nominated Andrew Traver to be the new director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives (BATFE). But while gun-control advocates are lauding Obama's nominee, others are worried Traver
will implement strict gun rules by way of bureaucratic regulations rather than law. Traver is a native of
Chicago — a city with zero gun shops and that has had some of the strictest gun laws in the nation.
There, he's the special agent in charge of the city's BATFE division. He supports banning .50-caliber rifles,
something that would cause many gun shops to close.
Obama
Driving Surge in Gun Sales, Firearms Groups Say. President-elect Barack Obama's election has spurred a
surge in gun sales, firearms retailers and enthusiasts say, as gun owners brace for what they believe will be a new
era of gun control in Washington. An electronic news service that covers outdoor news has even named Obama its
"Gun Salesman of the Year."
Gun Owners Not Welcome on Obama's
White House Team? President-elect Barack Obama's transition team is showing its hostility toward
lawful firearm owners by "weeding out" job applicants who own firearms themselves, a Second Amendment group
says. The Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) notes that question 59 — part of a 63-item
questionnaire given to Obama administration job applicants — asks for information about firearms
owned by the applicant and his or her family.
They Hate Our Guns? Right now it all seems
pretty hopeless since Obama and his incredible cast of control freaks are about to claim even more power over us than any
king who ever sat on the face of the earth. Unfortunately, most people — including the NRA — seem
to fail to understand the real danger and the actual problem.
Obama: A Red Diaper Baby.
Do believe that the U.S. military should be in the streets of America to enforce the actions of the federal
government "to prevent environmental damage"? ... The Environmental Protection Agency has just unveiled its
own version of the FBI Most Wanted list, unveiling a roster of 23 fugitives charged with environmental
offenses! The most environmentally committed President to have ever been elected will be in charge by
Noon on January 20, 2009 and the rise in gun sales across the nation suggests that a lot of people think
the government is about to become the enemy.
Why Are Gun Sales
Booming? People are buying guns and ammo by the handful, not only locally, but across the nation,
and reports on the buying surge tend to focus on the election of Barack Obama as the impetus. Obama is
expected to run the most anti-gun administration in U.S. history, based on his votes on gun legislation while
a U.S. senator.
State Gun Sales Reach Record Levels. Gun
sales in Tennessee are reaching record levels. More guns were sold on Black Friday than on any other day in the
state's history. Even in the middle of the week, when most people are at work, business at one Robertson County gun
dealer is booming. Guns and Leather is the second largest gun dealer in the state. Managers said sales there
have gone up more than 300 percent since the election.
Firearms owners concerned Obama will raise
taxes on weapons, accessories, ammo. The tension among the 20 or so customers and the employees
at Jensen Arms the day after the election was evident. With the election of Barack Obama, gun owners are
flocking to stores, boosting sales because of concerns the Democrat will raise taxes on guns, ammunition and
accessories or even ban some guns outright.
On Concerns Over Gun Control,
Gun Sales Are Up. 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.
Obama's record on firearms triggers run on
sales in state. John Faulkner and his wife, Brenda, thought Wednesday was a good day to buy
a handgun. "I'm 37 years old, and this is the first time in my life that I am really scared for
our future," said Faulkner, an oil field worker, as he perused the collection of weaponry in A Pawn Shop here.
At Aurora's Firing Line gun shop, Steve Wickham was also purchasing. "Anything I can get my hands on," he
said as he cradled a $699 9mm handgun.
Obama Will Overreach and We Will Bounce
Back. Obama began revealing his true plans as soon as it became obvious that he would
win. Just before the election he told an NPR reporter that while he believes in the 2nd Amendment,
he intends to seek a federal law that would repeal state "right to carry" laws, thus letting leftist
anti-gun groups know that he is with them. This was no doubt a promise made to these groups
secretly far earlier and we can expect similar promises to be made public now that he's won.
Obama win
triggers run on guns. A week after the election of Barack Obama, gun buyers across the country
are voting with their feet, flocking to gun stores to stock up on assault rifles, handguns and ammunition.
Some say they are worried that the incoming Obama administration will attempt to reimpose the ban on assault
weapons that expired in 2004.
Gun
Owners Stockpiling Over Fear of Democratic Weapon Bans. Handguns and rifles are flying off the
shelves at Ted Sabate's gun shop in Kensington, Md. And while it's not uncommon for gun sales to spike
when the economy takes a downturn, Sabate says that's not what he's hearing from customers. According to
Sabate, gun enthusiasts are stockpiling because they say they're afraid the incoming Democratic administration
will impose new gun bans.
GunBaNObama.com: Senator Obama says "words matter."
But when it comes to your Second Amendment rights, he refuses to speak honestly about where he stands.
In fact, Obama hides behind carefully chosen words and vague statements of support for sportsmen and gun rights
to sidestep and camouflage the truth. But even he can't hide from the truth forever ... his voting
record, political associations, and long standing positions make it clear that, if elected, Barack Obama
would be the most anti-gun president in American history.
FBI reports 49% increase in firearm
background checks in 1 week. Gun sales have skyrocketed since Barack Obama was elected, and many
gun owners say they are concerned the nation's next president and a Democratic-controlled Congress will impose
a ban on assault rifles and firearm ownership.
Post-election gun sales soar over fears of more
control. Harry McLain Jr. saw the spike the day after the election, when his sales doubled over the
previous year then shot even higher Thursday. "They are buying more guns than normal, and they are buying the
guns the government doesn't want them to have," said McLain, who owns a gun shop near Binghamton and was among the
sellers gathered Saturday for a weekend gun show on Main Street in Clarence.
Don't Take Your Guns to Town. "As President, I will
uphold the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun-owners, hunters, and sportsmen. I know that what works in Chicago
may not work in Cheyenne." That was Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on June 26, 2008, responding
to the Supreme Court's landmark decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which struck down Washington, DC's
draconian handgun ban and held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms —
not a collective one.
Factcheck
and the Brady Campaign Share the Same Sugar Daddy. Just last year, FactCheck's primary funding source, the
Annenberg Foundation, ... gave $50,000 to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence for "efforts to reduce gun violence by
educating the public and by enacting and enforcing regulations governing the gun industry." Annenberg made a similar
grant for $100,000 in 2005.
"Yes We Can ... Ban Guns". Senator
Barack Obama's presidential campaign slogan, "the audacity of hope," should have instead been "the audacity of deceit."
After months of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the
president-elect, the Obama transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby —
four initiatives designed to ban guns and drive law-abiding firearm manufacturers and dealers out of business.
The Real Obama — From Someone Who
Knows. We've repeatedly warned readers not to believe Barack Obama when he claims to support our Second
Amendment rights. We have told you the truth — that Barack Obama is the most anti-gun presidential
candidate in American history! Hands down. No question. Barack Obama opposes the Second Amendment
rights of law-abiding, freedom loving, American firearm owners. We've given the facts, and provided the
documentation. But if you know someone who's still not convinced, you'll want to share with them a recent,
open letter to our nation's gun owners, hunters, and sportsmen, written by Illinois State Rifle Association
(ISRA) Executive Director Richard Pearson.
The Blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
66 million Americans ignored all relevant facts concerning the most unqualified individual ever to seek the
Oval Office and elected him anyway. They bought into the sales scam of undefined "change." The pig they
bought in that poke is nothing new at all. It's a third Clinton Administration and nothing more. But
56 million Americans voted against Obammunism and that's who is retreating from the markets and stocking up
on guns and ammo in record numbers. They are preparing to protect their earned property, by force if
need be.
Gun groups don't trust
president-elect. Obama, appearing on at a Sunday [12/8/2008] press conference, said he believes "in
common-sense gun safety laws, and I believe in the Second Amendment." But Chris W. Cox, executive director
of the National Rifle Association's (NRA) political arm, said membership in his organization is growing at record
levels, and a number of reports show that gun sales are up by as much as 50 percent nationally since Obama won
the presidency on Nov. 4. "He says gun owners shouldn't be worried, but clearly gun owners are worried,"
Cox told The Hill.
Utahns quick to draw concealed weapons permits.
Gun owners are flooding the state with applications for concealed weapons permits, with almost 45,000
applications filed in 2008, easily a record number, quadrupling the figure from just four years ago.
With the surge, about one in every 25 Utahns over age 21 could be carrying a licensed concealed weapon,
according to a Salt Lake Tribune analysis of numbers from the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Big Brother's new
target: Tracking of all firearms. U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., is hoping to pass a
firearm-licensing bill that will significantly rewrite gun-ownership laws in America. Among the more
controversial provisions of the bill are requirements that all handgun owners submit to the federal government
a photo, thumb print and mental heath records. Further, the bill would order the attorney general to
establish a database of every handgun sale, transfer and owner's address in America.
"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to
retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in
government."
— Thomas Jefferson
Obama proclaimed 'gun salesman of year'.
What do you get when you add a faltering economy with Obama change? Increased gun sales, for one thing.
Ever since Barack Obama was elected president in early November, Americans have been stocking up on guns and ammunition
in unprecedented numbers. Speculation is that the increased sales are driven by a nervous populace — a
portion of it, anyway — wanting to be able to defend themselves in tough times, and by fears that the new
president and Democratic-dominated Congress may not be especially gun-friendly.
Stop This Man. One sector of the
American economy that is booming is the absolute orgy of guns and ammunition sales. I am pretty certain
President Obama will not say anything positive about this economic news. I have read more than one
report that shows how the surge of civilian firepower sales began back when it appeared that Obama was likely
to be elected. The already-brisk guns and ammo market blew up another 25% once he was elected.
Reason: freedom lovers do not trust liberal President Obama. His nomination for Attorney
General, Mr. Eric Holder, proves that distrust is justified.
Obama is
stimulating gun sales. If gun owners are like wooly worms —they instinctively fatten
up ahead of a harsh winter —then the Second Amendment is in for a rough spell. Since Barack
Obama's election in November, gun and ammunition sales have soared, as have requests for concealed
carry permits, on fears that the new president will clamp down on gun rights. Business has been
so brisk that one California store hung a poster of Obama with the words, "Salesman of the Year."
Gun
dealers experiencing shortages of bullets. Selling bullets may be the most secure job in
Florida as long as supplies last. After months of heavy buying, gun dealers across the state are
experiencing shortages. Some say it began with the election of President Barack Obama. Others
say it's about the economic downturn or fear of crime. Whatever the reasons, ammunition has been
selling like plywood and bottled water in the days before a hurricane.
Gun novices have
plenty of options, company. Judging by the crowd at the Apopka Shoot Straight, you're not alone. It
is a weekday morning, yet the shooting range is full. The muffled shots create an appropriate soundtrack in the
spacious sales area. There are the little cracks of .22's and the big booms of .44's. They fire away because
though ammo may be in short supply everywhere else, it is stacked high here.
Area gun sales and permit applications jump. Floridians
have requested 187,162 concealed-weapon permit applications over the last six months —
an 82 percent increase compared with a year earlier. Gun dealers say sales have
doubled or even tripled in recent months, with customers fearing for their safety in desperate
economic times and worrying that President Barack Obama might resurrect some 1990s gun bans.
Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban.
The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush
administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today [2/25/2009]. "As President Obama indicated during the campaign,
there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the
ban on the sale of assault weapons," Holder told reporters.
NRA, Alaskans slam Obama assault weapons
ban proposal. Alaskan gun owners are concerned an Obama administration proposal, to reinstate
an expired assault weapons ban, is putting their second amendment right at risk. By the time the assault
weapons ban ended in 2004, opponents argued numerous studies showed it had not cut down on crime
numbers. ... Five years later, Attorney General Eric Holder says the assault weapons ban is needed again
to stop weapons from flowing from US borders into Mexico.
Second Amendment
Under Fire: Gun Ownership in the Obama Era. Obama's distrust of those bitter, clingy Americans you
call friends and family is hardly unique, and seems to be something deeply ingrained in Illinois Democrats. An
Illinois state representative by the name of Kenneth Dunkin is introducing an even more draconian proposal than Obama's
policies, attempting to make it all but impossible for Illinois citizens to own firearms. ... It seems that Dunkin's
plan is to attempt to trap Illinois gun owners in a Catch-22 that would make it impossible for anyone in Illinois to
legally own a gun because the insurance required doesn't exist.
Gun Makers and Retailers Post Strong Sales Increases.
The economy might be tanking, but firearm sales are going great guns. Despite the weakest holiday season
on record, outdoor-products retailer Cabela's turned in strong fourth-quarter sales, largely as a result of an
increase in firearm and ammunition sales.
Gun
and Ammo Sales are Shooting Through the Roof (I Wonder Why?) [Scroll down] Yep, by the end
of the business day the guns were gone. The rifles, shotguns, and pistols were ... lock stock and two
smoking barrels ... pretty much history. For those with short-term memory loss, this was not a small
shop with a couple of Ruger .22s and a few boxes of CCI 40 grain hollow points but a national retail
chain with a stonkin' firearm stockade. Now, I've been an outdoor shop devotee for the last forty-one
of my forty-six years and have never heard of that kind of mass movement of guns and ammo by civilians.
Obama Gunning for the Second Amendment. [It
is ridiculous to believe] that a member of Chicago's socialist New Party, who was weaned in a black power church, was a
gun caesar and not a gun seizer. And now Obama is in fact striking a blow against the Second Amendment. He
isn't doing anything obvious such as advocating a ban on semi-automatic rifles, however (not yet); rather, in typical
Saul Alinsky "Rules for Radicals" style, he is attacking where his adversaries least expect.
Ammo Flying Off Shelves.
A powerful sense of fear that gun control is inevitable appears to be the driving force behind a run on
ammunition resulting in a national shortage. "We're probably selling ammunition right now at a
200 percent increase over normal sales," said Richard Taylor, manager at the Firing Line in Aurora.
He calls it "panic buying". Ammunition including 9-millimeter, .40 caliber and .45 caliber
shells are the hardest to find and the most popular with handguns used for self-defense.
'We want them
registered'. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, announced last week that she
wants to register guns. Her next move will be to try to confiscate them. The speaker picked a
television show with a viewership of 4.6 million to float the Democrats' coming gun-control push.
Questioned on ABC's "Good Morning America" about the prospect of new gun-control laws now that "it's a
Democratic president, a Democratic House," she responded, "We don't want to take their guns away. We
want them registered."
Firearm sales surging
since Obama's election. Firearm sales have surged in the state since President Obama was elected,
mirroring a national trend fueled in part by concerns over the new administration's stance on gun control.
"It's like when your radiator blows or your pressure cooker boils, that's the kind of spike we're talking about,"
said Mark Diaz, manager of the Smoke 'N Gun shop in Waukegan. "The joke is that the president is the No. 1
salesman in the firearm industry."
Fear and Greed Have Sales of Guns and Ammo Shooting
Up. The way Jay Chambers sees it, the semiautomatic weapons in his firearm collection might be the most
promising investment in his financial portfolio. Like many gun enthusiasts, Mr. Chambers, a manager for a door
wholesaler here, believes President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress soon will reimpose a version of an
expired federal ban on the sale of so-called assault weapons.
Obama
Backs Away From Assault Gun Ban in Push to Stop Flow to Mexico. President Obama, after meeting
Thursday with Mexico's president, signaled he is backing away from his pledge to renew the U.S. ban on assault
weapons but still wishes to stop the cross-border flow of guns that wind up in the arsenals of drug cartels.
Obama's gun lies: When
it comes to guns, President Obama is lying through his teeth. ... It is completely untrue that 90 percent of
guns recovered in Mexico are from America. The Mexican government separates guns it confiscates that were
made in the United States and sends them here to be traced. U.S. weapons are easy to identify because of
clear markings.
Firearm sales surge after Barack Obama's election. Since
November, more than seven million people applied for criminal background checks in order to buy guns, according
to the FBI. That figure excludes anyone buying a weapon at the thousands of gun shows in states such as
Virginia, without facing any checks. The sudden run on weapons has also stripped gun shops in some parts
of the country almost bare and led to a national ammunition shortage, the Guardian reports.
Demand for Ammo Depletes Stores' Stock.
At Georgia Arms, an ammunition and reloading supplies company outside of Atlanta, the machines that make bullets
spit out 4,000 rounds of ammo every hour, and that's not nearly enough. "We have been running pretty
much around the clock for the last two or three months," Georgia Arms co-owner Curtis Shipley said.
Fear triggers sales of guns and ammo.
Mendie Elliott bought her first handgun this month, a 9mm semiautomatic that fits into her purse. The Houston wife
and mother's motives are twofold: She's afraid of a gun ban and a hike in crime related to the recession. "As
times get tougher, we're going to see more crime because people get desperate," said Elliott, 42, who plunked down nearly
$1,000 on a gun, ammunition, ear muffs and classes on how to use her new weapon.
The Editor says...
The mere threat of a recession does not explain this level of demand. Criminals do what they do
regardless of economic indicators. In my opinion, the sudden demand for guns is due to two obvious
causes: (1) Suspicion that Obama will outlaw guns and (2) Suspicion that Obama will try to
confiscate guns as part of an emerging dictatorship. It's
sad to say, but I believe many of the recent gun buyers are preparing for civil war.
Obama May Grab for
Guns. President Obama voiced his support for an anti-gun treaty with such wide ranging implications
that it could ban everything from assembling guns in kits to repackaging spent shells. The treaty was
signed by former President Clinton, but never approved by Congress.
Bullet bill is loaded for
bear. One of the most controversial measures to come before the County Legislature in some time is expected
to draw an overflow crowd at a public hearing Tuesday night [5/26/2009]. At issue is a proposed law that would
require gun shops to register sales of ammunition, a measure that has been condemned by gun proponents as a back-door
means to register guns and learn what weapons people have.
Obama and
the Birth of Mobocracy in America. Obama came to power via fraud. He is not a 'natural born' U.S. citizen.
The clear proof of that is that despite 31 lawsuits filed against him demanding he prove his eligibility for the U.S.
Presidency, he has instead hired three law firms and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to avoid discovery and evade a
judicial review. The result is that not one of these 31 cases received a hearing on its merits. But why is
it that judges have been unwilling to tackle Obama's eligibility problem? The answer is that most now suspect Obama is
not eligible and are afraid of the political chaos that would result from such a discovery. They are afraid of what his
supporters would do. They know that if they overturn Obama's presidency, his millions of fans will turn American
cities into warzones.
Another 1,000,000+ Guns Added to
American Homes in August. Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)
reported 1,074,757 checks in August 2009, a 12.3 percent increase from the 956,872 reported in August 2008. So
far that is roughly 9,076,205 gun bought this year! The total is probably more as NICS background checks may
cover the purchase of more than one gun at a time.
Here's an easy explanation for the flurry of gun purchases:
On the Second Amendment, Don't Believe Obama. Barack
Obama opposes four of the five Supreme Court justices who affirmed an individual right to keep and bear arms.
He voted against the confirmation of Alito and Roberts and he has stated he would not have appointed Thomas or
Scalia. Barack Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting.
Barack Obama has endorsed a 500% increase in the federal excise tax on firearms and ammunition. Barack
Obama has endorsed a complete ban on handgun ownership. Barack Obama supports local gun bans in Chicago,
Washington, D.C., and other cities. Barack Obama voted to uphold local gun bans and the criminal
prosecution of people who use firearms in self-defense.
On the other hand... gun control is politically risky.
Obama Spurns
Gun Control. [Scroll down] In terms of actual policy, rather than his previous record,
Obama is a long way from being anti-gun. This is not because he has fond memories of sitting in a deer
stand as a lad in Hawaii or of talking shotguns with Dick Cheney. It's because his mother didn't raise
a fool. Like some other Democrats, he may recall that in 1994, after banning "assault weapons," they
lost the House for the first time in 40 years.
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