more heavily armed than ever?

[superduty]

I know that the first AWB made gun-folks buy more and that there was also a giant run on ammo. The first and second elections of our current CIC have done the same thing. Obviously, after the threats of more legislation coming down the pike have surfaced, the run is on again.

I wonder...what you all think is the increase in % of either armed civilians, or more heavily armed previous owners?

I tend to think that the administrations that have threatened 2A folks have unintentionally driven the number of weapons in this country sky high. I know that's an easy call to make, but I wonder...

Don't they also anticipate this? Does it not occur to them that they are accomplishing the opposite of what they intend? Seems odd to me...

 

 

 

Edit- I dont know WTH happened with the quad post- obviously I entered one.....

Edited January 8, 2013 by superduty

[Jonnin]

its like a "breed them out" campaign.   They probably DO realize it, but the idea is a long term total disarmament by making the guns not transferable to your kids, etc, eventually. 

[Oh Shoot]

its like a "breed them out" campaign.   They probably DO realize it, but the idea is a long term total disarmament by making the guns not transferable to your kids, etc, eventually. 

 

Or swapping them for food in the gummit breadlines post Meltdown.

 

- OS

[2.ooohhh]

I've purchased 1 gun in the last month but I've sold a half dozen or so I didn't need so bad, I do have a much larger supply of ammo and mags than friends mostly b/c I've been reloading for a few years. I can't begin to count the friends I've answered questions for who were looking to purchase their first gun(s).

[1gewehr]

Most government policies actually cause an effect that is opposite of their stated goal.

1)  War on Drugs - before that, illegal drugs and pushers were small-time crooks.  Now, it's a huge business that helps fuel terrorists and large gang operations in the US.  Just like Prohibition before it.  It has also caused an enormous increase in police powers as well as asset forfeiture.

2)  War on Poverty - created massive fraud and waste, destroyed families, increased single-parent households, created multi-generational welfare homes.  Definition of 'poverty' keeps changing so that bureaucrats can justify their jobs.

3)  Economic Stimulus - Pure pork, stimulated nothing except donations to Obama's campaign.

4)  Farm subsidies - Originally supposed to keep food prices low and balance production.  Actually artificially keeps prices high as a form of corporate welfare.  Led to the most absurd legal opinion ever - Wickard v Filburn, stating that if you grow wheat for your own use, it's interstate commerce.

5)  1934 National Firearms Act - A response to the use of automatic weapons by bank robbers and gangs in Prohibition.  Most of those machine guns were actually stolen from the police and from National Guard armories.  It has never stopped criminals from getting whatever weapons they wanted.

 

I could go on for hours on this subject.  The examples are too numerous to mention.  Any new 'gun control' will be exactly the same; useless, expensive, and just another excuse to hire more bureaucrats and waste our money.

[Will H]

An executive order for all the records of firearms bought from December 2012 thru to the ban would catch all the people who stocked up on ARs, and the liberals might justify it saying they were taking "panic bought firearms" off the street.  They may even erroneously claim mistakes were made because the gun check system was overwhelmed and all these weapons need to be rechecked, which might take years.   

 

Yeah, I might be reaching for the tin foil, but just sayin.

[Sam1]

Don't think that would happen, would guess the system does a yes/no and there's no margin of error on it. If someone would pass the check in July. They would pass in the December frenzy. Same if they failed

[Guest 6.8 AR]

"I wonder...what you all think is the increase in % of either armed civilians, or more heavily armed previous owners?"

 

Both. Don't know any kind of percentage, though. People are scared of tyranny, even when they don't know what it is.

 

That sleeping giant is growing.

[Will H]

Don't think that would happen, would guess the system does a yes/no and there's no margin of error on it. If someone would pass the check in July. They would pass in the December frenzy. Same if they failed

 

True, but truth has not stopped gun grabbers in the past or the present.  If it did this silly ban would not be on the table.