Posted on 11/12/2008 6:59:16 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
SALINAS, Calif- Gun sales are through the roof all over the nation and the Central Coast is no exception.
Ever since Barack Obama became President Elect many are buying up guns. Worried that the majority of Congress who are Democrats will move forward on restricting firearm ownership.
It's a family tradition for owner Mike Handley he is a fifth generation hunter and has been raised around firearms. His passion inspired him to open up a hunting supply store in Salinas.
Handley reports that sales are up in his store "We defiantly have seen more foot traffic in the store. We have people coming in and purchasing firearms in the past couple of weeks because of the uncertainty and what gun bans Obama may present."
Handley thinks that there is a lot of uncertainty that is causing the firearm buying craze but thinks that gun enthusiast in California do not have much to worry about.
"California has stringent gun laws then the rest of nation already. So I doubt we will have any more gun bans in California because of Obama."
Gun owners who declined to be on camera said that they are worried about their right to bare arms but thinks that it will be a long time before the second amendment is overturned.
Barack Obama's Advisers say that gun legislation is not a high priority right now and that they are focused on the economy.
According to the F.B.I for the week of November 3rd - 9th they recieved over three hundred and seventy thousand request, for background checks on gun buyers. A forty nine percent jump since this same time last year.
Glad I live in a state where you can shoot in short sleeves.
That's all the govt. needs.
No problem. Obama will just tax ammo out of existence.
Yeah your right, the guns are registered, but guess what else, when a law gets passed to take away firearms, there are going to be alot of calls to the local police departments of theft! I know mine will get stolen.
Defiantly......bare arms.....then the rest of the nation
Somebody needs to go to editing school
Glad it wasn’t just me that was bothered by that.
Yee Haw!!! Take that K'wanza...
Well, I feel soooo much better.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to make out my grocery list for this week.
Let's see...
2+ lbs. Reloader 15
500 large rifle primers
1-2 lbs. H110
500 small rifle primers
Bread
Milk
ROTFL!! That’s why I enjoy FR so much, people really do watch their syntax, spelling, punctuation and DOUBLE ENTENDRES!! LOL!!
I remember about a month ago I was really down and then someone started the thread on lose/loose, their/there, your/you’re, etc., it went forever, I was rolling on the floor, forgot all about what even had me down.
Well, except when we are all in a rage about something or frothing at the mouth trying to type fast enough to keep pace with our thoughts. Good stuff.
I ordered a barrel from Bushmaster on October 15 - well before the election - and was told by them tonight it would still be another 4 weeks or more. I asked the guy about the wait on lowers and he told me it would be about 12 weeks.
I've seen runs on guns before, after 9-11 for instance, but I've never seen anything like this.
Considering how pissed the gays are about Prop 8, it seems a wise precaution.
Defiantly.
****Barack Obama’s Advisers say that gun legislation is not a high priority right now and that they are focused on the economy. ****
It was not high priority item in 1967 either till they saw a chance and passed that travesty the 1968 Gun control Act into law.
Rifle bans were not a priority till they saw a chance in the early 1980’s. In fact, Before Handgun Control Inc became the Brady Center they issued a policy statement claiming that they ONLY wanted to “control” handguns. Long guns would not be affected. Within ten years we saw an assault and ban on our rights to own semi-auto rifles.
When the ban comes it will be in the form of an “anti-crime” package which will throw huge amounts of money at the states for “crime control”. This is how the 1968 GCA came into being and also the 1993 assault rifle ban.
Naked gun?
They should be
There’s guns in California?
370k Background checks doesn’t reflect the sales for those with CHL/CCW permits that just have to show their license instead of a background check due ATF’s ruling that the permits exceed the requirements for a background check so are not required. At least that is way it is in Texas. I show my permit and walk with my purchase, no background check. Just my permit number on the 4473...
Add 150k plus more buys in that category as well....minimum estimate IMO.
I understand this is CA. but in TN when a handgun check is passed the information by law is destroyed after one year. It took 3 minutes for a check to the TBI over the phone the other day. This is just the check to purchase BTW.
Shhhhh!!! Don't tell anybody! We're supposed to own only EFGs with nice brown wood stocks and five round non-detachable magazines for rifles, 10 rounds for evil handguns. Everything else we bury in the nearest national forest.
(Fortunately about 1/3rd of the state is national forest.)
“...they are worried about their right to bare arms”
LOL...what’s the matter...are they that flabby?
BITS
If Obama isn’t concerned with gun control then what’s all this about ? Check it out.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-6257
Same for me here in Florida.
Funny you should mention that because I was thinking the same when reading about the stats on the BATF checks.
Another thing many of these figures don't take into account is the massive parts buying via manufacturer direct, mail-order and internet purchases of non-FFL stuff. Lots of people are building multiple upper modifications to fit on a single lower.
Any "pre-ban" stuff is hard or impossible to get. Nearly nothing is in stock.
Oh yes. Here's one made from an off-list (not on the Cal. Atty General's list of bad guns) AR-15 lower receiver with all the "bad" features made compliant so instead of an "EBR" (Evil Black Rifle) you know have a CPR (Cute Pink Rifle).
Yes that is a fully functional, California legal AR-15. I sure hope those anti-Prop 8 trouble makers don't take a shine to these.
“There’s guns in California?”
Lots and lots. A new Sportsmans’ Warehouse opened just prior to the election in Visalia. I was there at the Grand Opening, then again the other day. The long gun sections are still well-stocked, but the handgun area looked like a locust swarm had been through. I bought a couple boxes of .45’s, and I’d say they sold 3 or 4 guns in the 15 min I was there looking around.
The smaller local gun stores I have visited since the election are ALL low on stock, and having great difficulty getting more from distibutors. One local place has raised their prices substantially on the remaining handguns in stock.
I don’t believe this is California legal. It accepts a detachable high-cap magazine which you cannot buy.
Arizona.
“Welcome To J&G Sales
Welcome Guest! Would you like to log yourself in? Or would you prefer to create an account?
PICK A CATEGORY TO THE LEFT TO BEGIN SHOPPING
DUE TO EXTREMELY HIGH ORDER VOLUME WE ARE RUNNING 7-10 DAYS BEHIND ON SHIPPING ORDERS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE.”
Don’t commit a crime by filing a false theft report.
Just “sell” them at a gun show, etc.
You could even put an ad in the local paper or something and tell everyone who calls that someone already bought it.
Keep the ad as “proof” that you sold your firearm.
You can have a detachable 10 round magazine as long as there is no pistol grip (as in M1A and mini14) - hence the MonsterMan. That clip was permanently modified to only hold 10 rounds. It's not my gun so I don't know how that was done and seems like a waste of time but it does look funny.
I understand that there’s been a run on 8” PVC pipe as well.
Thanks for the clarification.
I visited my wife's family in Santa Fe Springs, CA, last year and dropped into an Turner's Outdoorsman to buy some ammo. What a contrast between my local gun store in AZ which has a rack of ARs, to the three (3) abominations I saw. All were ARs with handles, but had fixed 10-round magazines which one had to load by release the rear receiver pin and pivot open the action! The configuration depicted here seems "preferable" (if you could call it that).
I left CA in 1995 because I could. It deeply saddens me, especially when I consider the rest of the US could me made to adopt CA-style weapons laws. There will be no safe harbor.
Huh?
Home made mortars?
Caching.
Remember, if it’s time to hide ‘em, it’s time to use ‘em.
Well, might have some use.
But I seriously doubt there will ever be confiscation. Simple fact is that they could not do it in a day or a week or even a month, and that’s assuming they had the manpower.
If there was ever a start of a general gun confiscation campaign, you can bet we all would know about it one half hour after it happened.
And after that, a thousand newspaper boys and Jehovahs Witnesses a day would get shot dead right through the door.
I just don’t see how it’s feasible. The dedicated gun owners in this country simply far outnumber the gun grabbers way, way too much.
I expect dry ice, silica gel and hot glue sales will spike between now and late January.
That pink rifle is fully functional and fully CA compliant.
As long as you owned your full capacity mags before they were banned you may keep and use them. You may purchase any component necessary to keep your full capacity mags in running order as long as you don’t manufacture more mags than you had pre-ban. You can repaint full capacity mags pink and put flowers on them.
The pink, detachable magazine-fed, centerfire AR doesn’t have a pistol grip (it has a Monsterman grip), flash hider (just leave it off) or any other “evil” feature (like a grenade launcher), thus it is CA compliant.
It’s a fully functioning AR with a funny grip.
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