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Stores say gun-control fears spur firearms sales
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6099085.html ^ | 11-6-2008 | Angela K. Brown

Posted on 11/06/2008 10:13:51 PM PST by lainie

FORT WORTH — While watching Republican presidential candidate John McCain's concession speech, gun owner AJ Sullivan had a sinking feeling.

"Liberals like to ban guns. That's what it comes down to," said Sullivan, 25, a Texas Christian University student.

Sullivan was among hundreds scrambling to buy a weapon Thursday at the gun store Cheaper Than Dirt! — which sold $101,000 in merchandise the day after the election, shattering its single-day sales record, said store owner DeWayne Irwin.

Stories were similar across Texas, where residents are fiercely protective of their Second Amendment rights and now fear stricter gun-control laws under Democratic President-elect Barack Obama.

"There's a mindset here of freedom, and you've bitten off more than you can chew if you think you can come after Texans' guns," said Charlissa Stokes, co-owner of Panhandle Gunslingers, an Amarillo shooting range and gun store where sales have doubled the last few days.

At Houston's Memorial Shooting Center, gun sales are up 70 percent and "the whole wall of assault rifles is gone," said manager Richard Poulis.

Fort Worth's Cheaper Than Dirt! reported about $480,000 in sales in October 2007 but $890,000 last month, jumping to $1 million including the first four days of November, Irwin said. About half of the sales are guns, mostly assault rifles and other weapons that would be subject to the assault-weapons ban if it is reinstated, he said.

President Bush and Congress allowed it to expire in 2004, 10 years after President Clinton signed the ban into law.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; bang; bangbanglist; banglist; biden; cheaperthandirt; firearms; obama; pelosi; rkba
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To: lainie
Never forget
41 posted on 11/07/2008 2:58:31 AM PST by BARLF
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To: PLMerite
I'm not so worried about the government; it is the mindset of people like this that I fear.

They are just getting started.

42 posted on 11/07/2008 3:29:27 AM PST by Loud Mime (We need new leaders; it is time to look in the mirror!)
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To: FARS

ping


43 posted on 11/07/2008 3:30:46 AM PST by Loud Mime (We need new leaders; it is time to look in the mirror!)
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To: lainie

And rightly so. Buy now folks!

JoMa


44 posted on 11/07/2008 3:55:45 AM PST by joma89
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To: FARS; All
Good post FRiend.

I suspect that the 0bamunists and their Dear Leader Bim Jok Barack will discover way too late that the strategy and tactics of their ideological ancestors like William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn can be used against them, most likely with even greater efficiency and effectiveness in this new 21st century that is rife with technology undreamed of in the past so-called 'Days of Rage'.

It begins with the Beatles,

"You say you want a revolution .... ?

And ends with Charlie Daniels,

"...I've got a way to put and end to all that mess
You just take those rascals out in the swamp
Put them on their knees and tie 'em to a stump
Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest..."

[Cynical satire only, not intended to invoke or incite any act of violence or illegal actions against any entity, personal, corporate or governmental]
45 posted on 11/07/2008 4:02:08 AM PST by mkjessup (0bama the President-elect? 'Reverend' Jeremiah Wright IS a prophet: God has just damned America.)
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To: FARS

At the two gun stores I frequent, they are selling more firearms than ever before.

One sold a handgun and shot gun to a 92 year old lady, who also signed up for the NRA.


46 posted on 11/07/2008 4:22:09 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Windflier

You might be chasing that purchase price and never catch up.


47 posted on 11/07/2008 5:01:32 AM PST by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Vote against the dem party)
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To: Windflier

You don’t quite understand how it will work. They’re pass the law and it took five years for Heller to appear before the Supreme Court.


48 posted on 11/07/2008 5:03:42 AM PST by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Vote against the dem party)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My hudband’s co-worker let us try out his .45 Hi Point.

That thing was heavy as a brick and kicked like a damn mule.

He said it’s one of those guns that you scratch off the serial number and toss in the river in case of times like this. LOL


49 posted on 11/07/2008 5:11:58 AM PST by JenB987
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To: wastedyears

try this
http://www.gunshows-usa.com/louisania.htm


50 posted on 11/07/2008 5:17:35 AM PST by piroque
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanx for the info.Yrs ago i had a very nice Taurus .357 double action,w/6in barrel.Well made,nice groups at 25yds,and almost half the price of comperable S&W .357.Always been partial to revolvers-maybe time for a semi-auto.


51 posted on 11/07/2008 5:20:06 AM PST by Thombo2
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To: lainie

So what good does it do to bury your ammo and weapons? If you don’t plan to use them, might as well use them as fishing poles.


52 posted on 11/07/2008 5:29:08 AM PST by sergeantdave (We are now in the Age of the Idiot)
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To: Little Pig; Shooter 2.5

I’ll be there as well, at Big Town. Shooter 2.5 will probably show up as well


53 posted on 11/07/2008 5:30:46 AM PST by TEXASPROUD
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To: Wasichu
Organize with like-minded individuals NOW, while there is time.

The first step is getting together ping lists from this thread and other threads like it, then taking the discussion to a private venue. This is most infiltrated, trolled site on the internet. The walls have ears.

If we don't organize now, we're sitting ducks.

54 posted on 11/07/2008 5:43:08 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (the evil has landed)
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To: FARS

It’s good to know that Obama has at least one positive economic effect - gun and ammo production and sales. :o)


55 posted on 11/07/2008 5:58:18 AM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: America2012

“When it’s time to bury ‘em, it’s time to dig ‘em back up”

...forgot who said that one.


56 posted on 11/07/2008 6:16:42 AM PST by woollyone ("When the tide is low, even a shrimp has its own puddle." - Vance Havner)
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To: Loud Mime

What about this?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127566/posts


57 posted on 11/07/2008 6:29:46 AM PST by sweetiepiezer (I have a Pal in Sarah)
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To: sweetiepiezer

yes, that too.

There are a LOT of similarities joing Obama and Hitler’s politics. From the logo and the parental government making them proud again, it is chilling. I firmly believe they are just starting.


58 posted on 11/07/2008 6:50:07 AM PST by Loud Mime (We need new leaders; it is time to look in the mirror!)
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To: wastedyears

The Clarence Event Center. It’s a fairly large show, about 400 tables.


59 posted on 11/07/2008 7:03:01 AM PST by AirForceMom (God Bless the USA)
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To: AirForceMom

Just outside of Buffalo. Sorry, just got up and the coffee hasn’t hit home yet. ;)


60 posted on 11/07/2008 7:05:55 AM PST by AirForceMom (God Bless the USA)
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