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It’s Father’s Day… Now Go Buy a Gun
Town Hall ^ | Jun 15, 2014 | Michael Schaus

Posted on 06/15/2014 7:34:46 AM PDT by Cheerio

Seriously… You can annoy a liberal, and save money at the same time. It’s like some sort of a magical set of circumstances that were created especially for gun enthusiasts on a budget. Gun stores currently have an overstock of merchandise, as sales decline from last year’s record breaking numbers. To consumers this means sales and discounted merchandise, to the industry it means a slightly less profitable year than last year, and to liberals it means an opportunity to weave an anti-gun narrative.

Brace yourself for a slew of stories about gun sales declining this year. A recent headline on Market Watch pretty much summed up the emerging trend among some pundits: Paranoia has its limits as gun sales slump. In other words: All those crazy, militant tea-partiers have finally stopped buying guns, and now businesses are coping with sales returning to normal.

Gun sales are in a decline from last year’s numbers… But, what did you expect? This isn’t a story about the declining interest in firearm ownership, it’s a story about free-market economics (which probably explains why Liberals don’t understand it). Obama, the Democrats in the Senate, and a billionaire-former-mayor of New York City, have all proven to be the best accidental-gun-salesmen in history… And that’s pretty unlikely to change.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; guns
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To: Grampa Dave

WE were at Wallyworld last week. Plenty of .40, .45, .223 and even some 5.56. No .22 or .22 mag, 9mm


21 posted on 06/15/2014 8:57:12 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Cheerio

Ruger guns and Federal ammo. Both made proudly in America.


22 posted on 06/15/2014 9:26:12 AM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Cheerio
Who has time to buy another gun? Once you start on AR-15's, you've essentially bought a "Barbie for guys".

You have to dress it up. You need the:

Prom dress:

The sports car:

Malibu Ken and a friend to play with:


23 posted on 06/15/2014 9:30:17 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Terry L Smith

I guess you told us off!


24 posted on 06/15/2014 9:34:36 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: Terry L Smith

Well wheelguns are good weapons. Basic, simple and easy to use. We have some.

But for multiple assailants I will stick with the semi auto and mine in particular since it has a 30 round magazine. 12 inch muzzle flash and louder than a you know what doesn’t hurt either. :-)


25 posted on 06/15/2014 9:49:23 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Gaffer
You can't play golf with just a putter! Need drivers & wedges too. 1895 is a great driver! And remember, you can never have too many bullets!
26 posted on 06/15/2014 9:59:32 AM PDT by paulcissa (The first requirement of Liberalism is to stand on your head and tell the world they're upside down)
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To: Cheerio

FINALLY. A Gun story without “Sandy Hook” thrown in.

My father is a huge anti-gun pro Obama liberal. Obama is anti-gun, so father is anti-gun. I always thought my father was smarter than that. My parents bought the whole hope and change nonsense. It’s a shame. I’ll buy some ammo in his honor.


27 posted on 06/15/2014 10:05:44 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Cheerio
Does anyone know the link to a past posting that went something like "What good is one GUN against an army"? I believe it was posted many years ago and occasionally I have seen FR links to it but cannot find it today.
28 posted on 06/15/2014 10:14:28 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheerio
Pentagon studying protesters to prep for ‘mass civil breakdown’

A good reason to be "stocking up" and preparing for things to come. The national clown is not leaving the WH on Jan 21, 2017 - he will have put into place martial law far before that date.
29 posted on 06/15/2014 10:23:59 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheerio

http://westernrifleshooters.blogspot.com/2008/07/vanderboegh-handgun-against-army-ten.html


30 posted on 06/15/2014 10:24:56 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: exit82

Thanks so much. I have it bookmarked now.


31 posted on 06/15/2014 10:27:37 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Love my .40 XDM. Or I did before the boating accident.....


32 posted on 06/15/2014 10:29:26 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD; All
that's the 5" variant?

33 posted on 06/15/2014 11:08:02 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: Mom MD; All
they're sure are alot of boating accidents/firearm losses on FR these days. :-P

34 posted on 06/15/2014 11:16:41 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: Beagle8U

I do need a 10/22.


35 posted on 06/15/2014 11:39:37 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Yes, but get an XDM for higher cap mags.


36 posted on 06/15/2014 12:33:30 PM PDT by SgtHooper (This is not my tag!)
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To: Caipirabob

Nice! But night vision scopes are changing so fast I can’t decide when to “pull the trigger”!


37 posted on 06/15/2014 12:36:22 PM PDT by SgtHooper (This is not my tag!)
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To: Organic Panic

My father was the same way. A farmer, so DFL (Democrat Farmer/Labor) was the only way to vote. Plus, those Republicans were so snooty and more wealthy while we struggle on the farm. I get it back then, I was, too. But eventually, I moved away from home and that strict mentality to see the other side, and never looked hack. He and I debated politics for years, even when I could show him the facts, he would not acknowledge his error, but simply sputter and drop that specific subject. Mom voted Rat simply because she was told to. Father smarter than that? No, it has been quoted so many times here, “Liberalism is a mental disease”. He and Mom are both gone now, and in a better place. Miss them, but not their politics.


38 posted on 06/15/2014 12:43:43 PM PDT by SgtHooper (This is not my tag!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Dear georgia girl,
Ya missed a point.
Y’all, with your bucket of bullets, are using a
caliber that is govt used, and could be labeled
contraband, by the same.
Y’all with your bucket of bullets, means to me,
that you are depending on a hail of bullets,
instead of maybe as many as three, between
the shirt pockets, or intimidation of brandishing
an ‘evil black rifle’, when a lever-action can do
the same.


39 posted on 06/15/2014 1:58:03 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Terry L Smith

“Y’all, with your bucket of bullets, are using a
caliber that is govt used,’

Which means there will be plenty of it and it will be easy to find. :-)

Good luck killing 4 guys with 6 shots. Superior firepower is never a bad thing.


40 posted on 06/15/2014 3:51:46 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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