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Demand for Guns, Food Stamps Indicates Uncertainty: Analyst
CNBC ^ | 10/18/10 | Michelle Lodge

Posted on 10/18/2010 11:51:38 AM PDT by Nachum

The rise in gun sales and food stamp demand are indicators of a fearful public struggling financially, Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist, ConvergEx Group, told CNBC Monday. “Oddly enough, buying a gun still holds very steady, but buying ammunition not so much,” said Colas, who analyzes trends in the economy and financial markets. In addition to firearms and food stamps, ConvergEX reviewed sales of gold and silver coins and used cars. “That tells us that there are more first-time [gun] buyers coming in to buy firearms and that speaks to your worries about security. They buy a few rounds

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; demand; food; guns; stamps
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What? They didn't check if Bible sales were up? We're all clinging to our guns & reeeeeelijin'
1 posted on 10/18/2010 11:51:42 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

This stuff does not concern me one bit.

By the way, does anybody know where I can buy 55 gal drums of drinking water and cases of canned goods?


2 posted on 10/18/2010 11:54:15 AM PDT by Loud Mime (It's the CONSTITUTION! www.initialpoints.net)
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To: Nachum
“Oddly enough, buying a gun still holds very steady, but buying ammunition not so much,”

That's cause we already have our stockpile of ammo, but one can always use another .45 or 12-gauge.

3 posted on 10/18/2010 11:54:26 AM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
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To: Nachum

Conservative bumper sticker: you can pry my gun from my cold dead hands.

Lib bumper sticker: you can pry my food stamps from my cold dead hands.


4 posted on 10/18/2010 11:56:27 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: Nachum

That reminds me, I need some more 7.62 to stock up, even though I have NO GUNS in my house.


5 posted on 10/18/2010 11:59:28 AM PDT by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: Nachum
The guns are to protect those without food stamps from those with food stamps after they run out of food stamps.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

6 posted on 10/18/2010 12:04:41 PM PDT by The Comedian (They Live. We Sleep.)
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RE: “The guns are to protect those without food stamps from those with food stamps after they run out of food stamps.”

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Perfectly stated!!! Thanks for that -—


7 posted on 10/18/2010 12:07:03 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: Nachum

We be better served to worry about all those assault weapons that were bought by the obama administration in the name of the IRS, before we start looking at guns bought by law-abiding citizens....


8 posted on 10/18/2010 12:07:27 PM PDT by FrankR (You are only obligated to obama to the extent you accept his handouts.)
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To: The Comedian

Stocking up for the day when the government checks stop.

ought to be interesting times.


9 posted on 10/18/2010 12:10:12 PM PDT by Texas resident (Outlaw fisherman)
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To: Nachum

It reflects FAILURE, not uncertainty.

Like all this business about “uncertainty” holding back a recovery. B.S. What’s holding back a recovery is full on frontal ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION.


10 posted on 10/18/2010 12:10:37 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Stimulus. 0bamaCare. Cap and Tax. 9/11 Victory Mosque. TARP. Amnesty. Summer of Recovery.)
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To: The Comedian

DING DING DING, bingo on that statement.


11 posted on 10/18/2010 12:14:20 PM PDT by LoneStarGI (Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "BAD HUNTER.")
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To: struggle

Oddly enough, I bought some 7.62 this last weekend. It was made by Remington in the USA. Of course, it’s just for conservation since I have no guns after the unfortunate boating accident....


12 posted on 10/18/2010 12:19:31 PM PDT by alarm rider (The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
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To: The Comedian

Exactly. Within a week of when the checks stop arriving or the EBT cards don’t refill, every city will be Florence and Normandie, LA, 1992.


13 posted on 10/18/2010 12:19:34 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Texas resident

The checks won’t stop. They just won’t be worth anything....


14 posted on 10/18/2010 12:20:07 PM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: The Comedian

I’ve always been more worried about mobs of hungry moochers than the govt. Fact is, the US govt only has enough forces to hold a few medium sized population centers. Us here in flyover country are going to be on our own.

Should be pretty easy to close I-15 at the Utah/Arizona border and keep the hordes from L.A. out. I-80 from Cal is more open but there’s not much cover so it could be interdicted without a lot of trouble. There are plenty of places with high ground and good fields of fire along I-80 in Nevada.


15 posted on 10/18/2010 12:23:43 PM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand - If you are French raise both hands.)
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To: Loud Mime
...does anybody know where I can buy 55 gal drums of drinking water...

Go to an outdoors store like REI or Dick's Sporting Goods and buy a backpacking water purifier. They have several models with little hand pumps and the filters are good for several hundred gallons. Wouldn't hurt to buy an emergency bottle of the drops as well.

16 posted on 10/18/2010 12:26:33 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Loud Mime

for those interested you can download my Preparedness Manual at:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ars5bsi2p6foery


17 posted on 10/18/2010 12:31:16 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: Loud Mime

uh... just buy the 55 gallon drums, configure them inline with your downspouts, and buy some “dichlor” pool shock.

For the canned goods, Costco.com.


18 posted on 10/18/2010 12:33:28 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Kozak

Old Soviet joke—
“We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us!”


19 posted on 10/18/2010 12:34:12 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: MrB

I scored 5 drums used for $10 each. Previously held peppers from the McIlhenny Company, Avery Island, LA. LOL. (aka the Tabasco Co.)


20 posted on 10/18/2010 12:42:07 PM PDT by rickb308 (Nothing good ever came from someone yelling "Allah Snackbar")
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