Posted on 02/09/2013 2:57:00 PM PST by Libloather
Nope, no intentional lying here....no mischaracterization at all! Just a completely unbiased report.
Sick of the price gougers. I know, I know, it’s market capitalism, but there’s no reason 40 s&w should cost 25+ per box.
Since 2008, the price of the D.C.-area gun show has been $12. This weekend the price was raised to $13 per day.Wow!! The price went up by a whole buck over a 5-year time span. (And it's the last thing mentioned in the article.)
42 round clip for an AR? Maybe if you have strong thumbs. ???
We should be glad someone is willing to make a market...at any price.
“Sick of the price gougers.”
How many times have you heard the term ‘BLOAT’ over your past nine years here at FR?
Should of listened to those who knew this was going to happen.
Which is why I'm not a Republican. They can pound sand.
/johnny
I sold three handguns today, at a country auction where I also sold some tools and equipment. The auctioneer was nervous about selling my handguns (a S&W model 29, a CZ-53-2, and a small cheap .22 automatic) but he arranged for a private buyer to pay $800 cash for all three guns.
Normal people selling and buying articles of use.
TC
After thinking it over, I came to the conclusion that ammo will be much more valuable than gold.
Just think of the delicious squirrel stew that a handful of 22 LR's can produce.
I have been feeding the neighborhood squirrels for years...so I don't think they will mind feeding me if the tables are turned.;-)
Our local show this weekend went from $8 per to $10 per. The plac e was packed, as usual. I sold a .45 acp pistol but didn’t find a buyer for the 9mm Sub 2000 with two 35 rd mags and a 12 rd mag + barrel mount with red alser and grip attachment plus cgarging handle device. I was twice offered $850 for it, so the $950 I had on it was probably right. Selling it and an AR 15 psitol with CMMG piston kit on it tomorrow.
Private dealer? Is that like an amateur doctor?
And they always talk about background checks stopping the mentally ill. How is that possible when there is no reporting and no database of the mentally ill?
The mentally ill asre easy to find ... they work in the media, like Hissy-fit Matthews, Jerry Rivers, All can’t Colmes, Bob Brickheadel, Piece-of-crap Morgan, Rachel ‘Mad cow’, etc.
I just got back from this. It was a nice father and son trip. It was packed, I learned a lot, and the NRA got two new members (free admission to the show if you join up).
Never heard that term, but I should have bought some stuff nonetheless.
What’s a “private dealer”?
Is there ONE literate journalist in this country? Do they ever even proof read their copy?
Back in the late 70s or early 80s NatGeo magazine ran a multi-part serial, which was itself an abridged version of a book by a guy who had walked across America, taking little odd jobs along the way to support himself and writing about his experiences.
I was probably about 10 or 12 when I read the story at the time, but one of the impressions that remains with me to this day was his encounter with an older gentleman somewhere in the midwest (Iowa or Nebraska?) who had survived the great depression by eating pigeons. After he got back on his feet, he made a point of going to a local park every day and feeding them. He had been doing so for some 30 or 40 years or so at the time of the article.
Nice story.
Now I’m mad at the NRA. They’ve never offered me the $300 deal for a lifetime membership!
Suddenly, Eddie felt something land on the top of his cap. It was a seagull! Old Ed would later describe how he sat perfectly still, planning his next move. With a flash of his hand and a squawk from the gull, he managed to grab it and wring its neck. He tore the feathers off, and he and his starving crew made a meal - a very slight meal for eight men - of it. Then they used the intestines for bait. With it, they caught fish, which gave them food and more bait......and the cycle continued.
With that simple survival technique, they were able to endure the rigors of the sea until they were found and rescued. (after 24 days at sea...)
Eddie Rickenbacker lived many years beyond that ordeal, but he never forgot the sacrifice of that first lifesaving seagull. And he never stopped
saying, ‘Thank you.’ That’s why almost every Friday night he would walk to the end of the pier with a bucket full of shrimp and a heart full of
gratitude.
(Max Lucado, In The Eye of the Storm, pp.221, 225-226)
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/r/rickenbacker.htm#.URcFDR00WSo
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