Firearm sales shoot up as gun owners worry about Barack Obama administration (Poll to FReep also)

The New York Daily News ^ | November 17, 2008 | ALISON GENDAR and CORKY SIEMASZKO

[MrB]

Well, it IS a guarantee that if you thwart the will of any government official,

eventually agents of the gov’t will show up on your doorstep carrying firearms.

[Lee'sGhost]

No...they’re really that ignorant.

[Centurion2000]

There seems to me to be a practical limit on how much and what type of ammo one can stock.
If you hunt, about a dozen cartridges per season harvests enough meat for a family of 4 for a year.
If you invision fighting off hordes of angry commies, you may be able to get off a couple hundred rounds protecting family and friends.
So what’s the point in reloading et cetera?
Just buy what suits you now and be done with it.
Where am I wrong on this?

It's called practice & training.

[Charles Martel]

I suspected as much. The recent batch of carbines was a pleasant surprise, but the supply out there is simply drying up. It's not just our lousy politicians, it's the fact that we've already bought up most of what is available in the Western world. Now you mostly see Mosin-Nagant variants caked with Cosmoline; the old Com-Bloc armories still hold some treasure.

The silver lining is, of course, that most of those rifles came *here*, either intact or as parts to keep others operational.

[Rockhound]

I’d love to see the CMP cut loose with all the semi-automatic M-14s that are collecting dust in some government warehouse.

When first I got my C&R FFL in the mid-1990’s, there was quite a variety of foreign arms to collect...Swedish Mausers, Argentine Mausers, Finn-captured Mosin-Nagants, British Enfields, etc. It was hard to choose what to concentrate on.

For the last two years though, I see the same old offerings in the Distributor flyers. There doesn’t seem to be much in the line of new imports.