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Gun sales up after Obama elected
November 13, 2008 | Tagged buying a gun, gun prices, gun show, Obama, Second Amendment | 1 Comment
Surprise! Gun sales are up! Guess many Americans don’t believe “The Chosen One” when he says that he supports the Second Amendment. (If you marvel at their skepticism, see my posts on Obama and guns.) Wonder how many first time gun buyers voted for the young, handsome, first term, junior senator out of the Chicago Democrat Political Machine?
You’ve seen the story in the New York Times, you’ve seen it on Fox News, if you watch that “mean-spirited, racist, Right-wing, reactionary, oppressive” channel. You may have read the story in the Denver Post. Gun stores are sold out of firearms and ammunition.
A Denver gun show this weekend will be a maelstrom of gun buyers. The BATFE agents alone will fill up the parking lot. I have some suggestions, if you are buying a gun for the first time. “Understand!” (Don’t you just love that command from “The Chosen One?” I find myself quoting him more and more. I may have his picture tattooed on my… Never mind. I’m not quite that infatuated with him yet. My leg hasn’t tingled for some time.) “Understand!” I am not an attorney. This is not legal advice, merely a helpful hint or seven.
1. If you want to buy a gun from a dealer in Colorado, be prepared for a three to four-hour wait for the background check.
2. If you want to buy a gun, be prepared to pay premium prices. Supply and demand really do have an effect on cost.
3. If you buy a gun, learn how to use it safely and effectively.
4. If you buy a gun, be prepared to defend your right to keep it. Read the Bill of Rights. Read the Heller Decision. Go to a gun show and buy books by Kopel, Halbrook, Gottlieb, or other knowledgeable writer on Second Amendment issues.
5. Speak out, write, and E-Mail against any gun control proposals at any level of government. Additional compromise is a stumble down the slippery slope to complete civilian disarmament. We have around 22,000 gun laws in the United States. We don’t need more regulations.
6. Get politically active with a major political party. Become a precinct leader or a block worker. (You’ll get a much warmer reception in the GOP.) There will be virtually no pro-Second Amendment legislation in Colorado or Congress for the next two years. The anti-individual rights people are running the shows. We have to effectively organize to frustrate their agenda and prepare to take back both the political offices and the rights that we have already lost.
7. “Understand!” “The friend of the tyrant is merely his last victim.” (Disclaimer: this is a general statement regarding tyranny that does not imply or suggest in any way that a particular individual, party, movement, or other organization might have any inclination at all toward totalitarianism, despotism, nanny state socialism, communism, fascism, oligarchy, or other form of government outside of American Republican Democracy.)
Def Mech
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