‘Tis the Season: December Saw Highest Monthly Gun Sales On Record

Americans received plenty of guns and ammo in their stockings this past Christmas season as gun sales were the highest ever on record for a single month.

Tis the Season: December Saw Highest Monthly Gun Sales On Record

Britain's Telegraph has the details on the Holiday firearms buying spree which it gathered from FBI statistics on mandatory background checks:"Over 1.5 million background checks on customers were requested by gun dealers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in December. Nearly 500,000 of those were in the six days before Christmas...It was the highest number ever in a single month, surpassing the previous record set in November."

In fact, the gun buying ramped up just before Christmas, as 102,222 background checks were conducted on December 23rd, making it the second busiest single day of firearms purchases ever.

Despite already breaking records, the data doesn’t even reflect the total number of possible guns sold, as in many cases, individual buyers could have gone home with multiple firearms.

All of this has sparked a lively discussion in the media and blogosphere about the reason for the surge in American gun sales.

Some suggest that the gun purchases are a reflection of crime concerns as police layoffs gather steam and the economy continues to be poor.

Others believe that tighter firearms controls could be on the way and thus felt a sense of urgency to purchase legal guns while it is still possible.

Dave LaRue, of Legendary Guns in Phoenix, Arizona, told the Telegraph that:

“There are a lot of people concerned about pending gun legislation and the sense about the current administration. People think future availability will be limited and there’s a feeling of get it while you can.”

LaRue also said Christmas sales were up 25 per cent on the previous year and ammunition sales were also “brisk.”Rumors circulating the web of a major ammunition shortage seem to be overblown, as some gun bloggers believe the market is in flux due to competition, not a dearth of production capacity.

In any event, it looks like there are many happy gun enthusiasts across the country who got just want they wanted on their Christmas lists.

(h/t Gateway Pundit)

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:25pm

    bugger off tro.ll

    and learn how to set up your browser loser

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:26pm

      At my house, we were responsible for several of the sales reported in this article. Nothing puts a smile on a kids face faster at Christmas, than opening up a box and finding Santa brought you a .357 Magnum.

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    • scheduler
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:32pm

      Good way to start the new year.

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:24pm

      For one thing, basic taxation of the people should and must primarially go to emergency responders and police protection. This is the first and foremost mandate of government…to protect its citizens. But local politcians always lay off these folks before identifying and cutting needless spending such as social programs. So many new gun laws went into effect once AGAIN and every year, that people want to get ahead of the new laws. Buying ammo too before the new laws in Cali that require merchants to gather ID info for every ammo sale. I think too the anxiety of the direction of this country under BHO leadership and with the signing of NDAA into law has just added more fuel to the fire their feeling to arm themselves for what they feel is coming against them.

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    • ZengaPA65
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 8:27pm

      December also saw the NDAA bill floating through Congress. Big coincidence.

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 9:15pm

      Congress Made A Big Mistake Declaring War On The American People A Big Mistake.

      Americans are starting to mobilize against what the Federal Government has turned into. The American people would not take crap off of the British, the Southerners, the Huns, the Nazis, the Imperial Japanese, the USSR and we will not take any more crap from the renegade illegal government in Washington. Read the Declaration of Independence AHs.

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 9:20pm

      The year 2010 was the water mark for firearms purchases. Americans purchased enough firearms and ammo in 2010 to equip 4 US Army Infantry Divisions. If 2011 was a bigger year, then we now have privately owned weapons to equip 8 infantry divisions. We don’t have air support but the Tala Ban did not have any air support either. What a mistake, Congress declared war on the most powerful people on earth, the American People.

      This is not a drill.

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    • P C BE DAMNED
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 9:37pm

      Tell the truth. The people buying guns are preparing to arrest the government as it has become dangerous to freedom and liberty and has broken the Constitutional laws. It has killed their unborn and left their children to the homosexuals. People are chomping at the bit to exact justice and payback on those Godless who are trying to put even more chains on them and their children. Beware. The people will kill with prejudice those who would take their Republic. Fools will be slaughtered as pigs.

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    • ICEDRAGONNITE
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 9:59pm

      The more the first amendment is under attack, the greater the chances are that the 2nd amendment will have to be exercised, as the forefathers had taken precautions to avoid tyranny.

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    • db321
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:58pm

      Obama is huge fool – Fast and Furious has done more to boost Gun Sales in America than any program the NRA could have ever come up with.

      Obama sure does have the reverse Midas touch.

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    • maumau
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:43pm

      glad to be part of it I got my first shot gun on december 13

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 2:06am

      Yupper!

      I got one, my wife got two, and even my 9 year old got his first (BB gun- yeah, I know it doesn’t count, but it’s a start).

      Remember, folks, they only background check handguns. The rifles are take ‘em the same day. If they processed that many handguns, you *know* they had mayby 25-50% more because of rifles.

      As to me and mine? I got my M-4 (yes, a papered M-4 and not an AR-15), wifey got a stripped down MP9 (she didn’t want the bells and whistles) and a 22LR (basically a .22 variant of an AR-15), and we both got lots and lots… and *LOTS* of rounds.

      No tellin’ when Obammy brings the hammy down on your mammy. He’s got to hate that the biggest gun sales months in history all came under his watch. You know he’d love to make it otherwise.

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    • KeystoneState
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:41am

      Shoot their eye out!

      Report Post » KeystoneState  
  • Commerce Exchange
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:21pm

    maybe this infographic will show you a thing or two.
    http://www.ecomm-unity.com/profiles/blogs/great-infographic

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    • ARMEDInfidel
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:13pm

      Great graphic! Clearly shows WHY this is happening. I really believe that our current president is doing everything he can, to get this country under Martial Law, before the November elections. Then he can rule, like his hero, Chavez! Ultimately, folks will have to depend on themselves for survival…

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    • dawghowse
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:56pm

      Outstanding graphic everyone should have a look! And yes I got a Christmas present that loads with a clip.

      Report Post » dawghowse  
    • DocH
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:30pm

      Don’t waste your money buying hunting ammo for .223/5.56. Just got Winchester .223/5.56 Full Metal Jacket (FMJ) for $9.01/20 rounds. The .223/5.56 is good only for varmints and humans; very efficient and a small wound bleeds a lot. This 55 grain round chosen for use in Vietnam. The desert wars require 62 grain. Hunting ammo for deer-sized game should be .30 cal. The most popular is the .308 Winchester/7.62×51 NATO 150 grain round. This is the cheapest FMJ for defense and target and there are many hunting loads and weights available for game up to Moose. Would go Winchester Magum or the like for Moose; many loads and bullet weights available. All hunting ammo should be SOFT-NOSED. Defense ammo is FMJ or hard-nosed by Geneva convention.

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  • bernbart
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:20pm

    Back ground checks should be required for 60-90 days before a gun sale. We need to have better gun control this country.

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    • randy
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:23pm

      Bs…..

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    • rush_is_right
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:24pm

      yeah the nazis were for gun control too…..

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    • Proud Stray Dog
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:26pm

      I exercise 100% gun control.

      I aim and use both hands.

      Of course……10 out of 10 dictators agree, gun control works.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:28pm

      go away t.r.o..l.l

      Report Post » Psychosis  
    • barber2
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:42pm

      Oh my. Looks like Troll Bern drew the Gun Control Card …

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    • bigbear_awake
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:50pm

      sure thing that will keep CRIMINALS from getting them HUH

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    • ken john
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:05pm

      I suppose you hate corporations as well. You hate all the free time corporations provide. Like cell phones. Washing machines. 3.50 for gas to get you to a grocery store stocked full of all the food you can get your hands on. I suppose you don’t believe in God. You think the State has all the answers. The State will feed you. Clothe you. Give you money they took from someone still willing to work so you can take.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:13pm

      They are required berniebart. We have concealed weapons permits. They crawled in and out of our a$$e’s to approve them. Now we are carrying right next to you in star bucks, ya like that?

      Don’t worry though, we don’t carry to protect you. You are on your own hippie. What happened couldn’t find any credibility with your old screen name so you changed it, again?

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    • cessna152
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:15pm

      Yeah, gun control will always stop criminals because criminals abide by the law! I really hope your remarks were sarcastic, but if you were serious look at the cities where strict gun laws reside and see who that hurts…Yes, it hurts the honest guy that wants to defend himself but can’t. Oh, btw Guns are illegal and banned in India, yet they have the highest kill rate via firearms on the planet.

      There are two things that will cut down on gun violence:
      1) Letting the honest person carry easily.
      2) Rid of socialism/liberalism and entitlements.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:15pm

      I’ve always been slaptheleft.

      Why always try to be someone else? Got self loathing? Little skinny jeans hobo parade hippie.

      Report Post » SLAPTHELEFT  
    • Firefighter 538
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:17pm

      “The constitutions of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves;
      that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property and freedom
      of the press.” Thomas Jefferson

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    • cessna152
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:20pm

      I love how you lefties are SOOOOO supportive of “rights” unless it is a REAL right, then all of the sudden you sound like Stalin.

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    • Dan
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:27pm

      dislike….

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    • your sensei
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:29pm

      SLAP THE LEFT . . . Obviously all that time you spend hanging out in Starbucks reveals you to be not a patriot or freedom loving American but a limp-wristed latte-drinking liberal nancy boy. I bet you don’t even own a gub. And if you do I bet it’s a little mouse gub you keep in your front pocket, right next to your mouse weenus.

      “Would you like foam with that? Mr. Santorum likes his with foam. You look like a fan of his, shall I do the same for you? I’d like to really. No trouble. By the way, is that an acorn in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?”

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    • Shadeaux
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:19pm

      Bull…you know the rest.

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    • BillnGA
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:47pm

      Horse Hockey!!! DA

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    • BillnGA
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:48pm

      Horse Hockey!!!! DA

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    • AJAYW
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:55pm

      @bernbart
      For you yes, and if we did the checking you wouldn’t make it. Idiot liberals as the norm don’t have enough commom sense to handle a firearm

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    • DapperDanMan
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:00pm

      BERNBART needs to wait 60-90 days before posting.

      Report Post » DapperDanMan  
    • fertlmind
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:04pm

      @BERNBART

      Yo Mamma should have had better birth control.
      You should learn to keep your nose out of other peoples 2nd ammendment rights.
      After all,…One of these guns could save your miserable life someday…
      OR,….
      One also might rightly take your life if you were to join a mob of rapers looters, or put your nose where it don’t belong When The SHTF.
      keep a low profile and choose your actions wisely
      Don’t blame the gun for your ignorance. And,….
      Don’t blame gun owners if you are too much of a Nancy to prepare to protect yourself and your family from the hoards of human debris that would do harm to the innocent.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:19pm

      The majority of people that are willing to have background checks are not a threat. Private gun sales or guns that are stolen will always get in the hands of criminals. No matter what the law is. People know the threat that faces them in this nearly Godless society. The OWS, the black panthers, the gangs,murderers, rapists, theives, many illegal immigrants, homegrown terrorist, and the progressives who have called for violence are the reason we choose to own guns. Also we may need them for hunting our food supplies when things get out of control. This day and age private gun sales are up so that the government can not trace them, and yes many good people purchase them this way now to secure their own safety. Bad people will ALWAYS have guns and weapons regardless of ANY law the progressives try to enforce. Most of us choose not be sitting ducks for the evil and dangerous portion of our population that have no thought or respect for human life or personal property that belongs to someone. We are nonviolent by nature but have had to be realistic about what lies ahead. We will not be the ones that resort to stealing and killing because we have enough sense to prepare the neccessay provisions to protect our families .Without a method to protect ourselves and hunt for food, we would be easy targets. We are not willing to do that, only a fool would be. The fact that there have been so many sales in guns proves the fear and instability the progressives have put us in.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:34pm

      nope, disagree on that one. We need better CRIMINAL control in this country. Stop slapping the hands of the bad guys and put them away,,,really put them away. When it comes to committed crimes with guns, they are just a tool for the fool. and only a fool would believe that taking guns away from the honest citizen would stop crimes, when actually, guns in the hands of honest citizens actually stop crimes.

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    • Rickfromillinois
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:40pm

      Bull!

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    • f14fixer101
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:58pm

      We don’t need more gun control, we need better bullet control. All we want is to make sure that the person coming down the chimney is Santa. And if it’s not, that we have the full right to send whom ever else it is to the infurnal reigion. Without the Gov saying it wrong to defend your house, even though the Gov has reduce our police protection to save the Big Wigs from taking a cut in pay or a lose in taking a un-needed trip some where for a payed vaction. And not be sued by the family of said intruder for the lose of income or any other trumped-up reason, because that person turned to a life of crime.

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    • Lars Skipole
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 9:14pm

      Don’t like it here… go live in N Korea. Dork!

      Report Post »  
    • teamarcheson
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 9:22pm

      Its clear which side you are on.

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    • HippoNips
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 9:25pm

      The first thing Nazi’s did when they took power was to require everyone to register their weapons or be considered a criminal.
      Second they limited gun ownership to the “desirables” effectively disarming any citizen that would stand up to them.

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    • Mapache
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 9:29pm

      How about a background check on you two weeks before you make another idiotic post.

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    • patriot308
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:08pm

      Back ground checks should be required for 60-90 days before voting. We need to have better vote control in this country.

      Boy this is easy…… just type the first stupid thing that comes to mind….. POOF! I’m a liberal.

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    • AR 500
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:09pm

      Anything that hinders me from purchasing a gun goes against the bill of rights hippy. I suppose you think that the government gives us our rights.

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    • AR 500
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:12pm

      Gun control hitting the target at 500yrds and beyond.

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 2:20am

      Oh please, rape mob, please, don’t rape my wife!

      I still have 85 more days before I can get my gun so I can stop you!

      Wow.

      Here’s the failure in your logic: You.

      The second failure is, criminals don’t have a background check. Only us law abiding folks do. A criminal just goes to the seediest part of town and asks around. Boom. He gets a stolen gun on the spot.

      You rediculous fool! You really think the people doing it the right way pose any kind of threat to you? You think the people buying legal guns a legal way are inclined to do something illegal with them?

      Enjoy watching your wife get raped after you enact that crap. Me? I’ll be sighting in well before then, first with my rifle, then my revolver… and maybe I’ll save your wife. Maybe.

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  • Bluefish49
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:19pm

    This has got to have the progressive left crapping their pants. They know America will never be disarmed even under martial law.

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    • Slayer
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:27pm

      I respectfully disagree with the nature of your comment.
      They don’t need to disarm us. They are surrounding us through incremental totalitarianism.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:48pm

      @slayer You are correct the assault on the constitution began over a century ago and the Marxist currently in power promised to fundamentally transform America and we’re seeing it play out right now.
      The second amendment protects us from government and I for one will vigorously exercise my second amendment right.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:01pm

      Progressive left scared? Guess again. Who do you think bought most of the guns?

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:11pm

      yous senseless Hopefully the lefties and they can use them to kill themselves because they’re always so depressed.Also the IQ of the gene pool will go up with less lefties so it’s a win win! Thanks for contributing.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:20pm

      Sensei

      It wasn’t the left. Most couldn’t pass the background check. But if so good for them. They’re gonna need em. Ifnthey did pass the check, they lied on the application and will be subject to the full extent of perjury. No inciting of domestic insurrection- i think thenleftnhas that covered.

      Nice try chump.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:23pm

      OLD WHITE GUY IN BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO WHO LOOKS LIKE GROVER CLEVELAND . . . Depressed? Not us. We’re taking our country back from right wing fascists bent on squashing liberty and legislating morality. And we’re winning. No, I think for the depressed class you have to look at the Tea Party, whose influence continues to wain with each relentlessly counterproductive assertion.

      Good luck convincing independents and moderates that you are anything but repressed psychotics. That genie is out of the bottle.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:33pm

      Haha. Because we don‘t get news coverage wallowing in our own feces doesn’t mean we went away. You just think the more tantrums you throw, then stronger you are. We don’t quite do tarp sex and rape- is that the power of the 47%?

      So are you taking back the country from the founders? Newsflash dumb a$$, no constitution, no country. So you’re a commie. Did you throw that glitter on santorum? Tasting the rainbow much?

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    • your sensei
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:33pm

      SLAPPY . . . Touched a nerve, did I? Yes, that’s obvious by the stream of baseless assertions you let drool out of your gaping maw. Yes, liberal America is armed. And unlike conservatives, we take the RESPONSIBILITY gun ownership very seriously.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:14pm

      YOUR SENSELESS You think this country is run by right wing fascists? Our current president is a Marxist ! I stand by my claim liberals are just stupid and every time you and every other lunatic liberal posts something you prove it.

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    • Veritas Libertas
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:51pm

      You will not be able to turn this off like a reality television show. When you get pink misted by your buddy it’ll be too late to talk it over. All the ideology goes out the window when it becomes personal.

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 9:32pm

      There are some good thing about being surrounded. You just shoot in all directions and you do not have to protect your rear. The veterans we prayed for and sent care packages to are returning now and they will teach us.

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  • Proud Stray Dog
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:18pm

    Dear DC,

    We the People are not as stupid as you would like to believe.

    Sincerely,
    We the People

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    • your sensei
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:49pm

      Mr. STRAY DOG . .. Don’t sell yourself short We think you are INCREDIBLY stupid.

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    • cessna152
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:18pm

      Your senseless,

      Thanks for letting us know what you think, now we can use that to our advantage.

      Report Post » cessna152  
    • rush_is_right
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:19pm

      you’re senseless…who is ‘we’? how many personaliteis do you carry around sybil?

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    • drago
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:23pm

      @your sensei aka encinom
      Your times commin little man……….

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:24pm

      Sensei

      So you’re DC? Are you mr. Pelosi? I’d be severly depressed if I was you too. We laugh at you. When you’re in the bathroom the joke is in your hand!

      Cockroach.

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    • toto
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:36pm

      YOURSENSAI, what I love best is that people with your “thinking” or lack there of, will be the first to go when things get really bad, and your arrogant whimpering will not help you.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:43pm

      Sensei

      In case of emergency, head to the new Orleans super dome. You’ll be safe there.

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    • GPS-Tech
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:28pm

      @your sem-stain

      Mr. STRAY DOG . .. Don’t sell yourself short We think you are INCREDIBLY stupid.

      And that is exactly why you are going to lose. You think it is going to be easy and always go all your way just because it is for now. Just like those idiots in zucotti park who thought you could sleep in the street and not get robbed, raped or beaten by the cops. Things went Hitler’s way for a long time and for the Japanese also and the USSR said that they would bury us. You will end up on the trash heap of history next to them in the end.

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  • balrog25
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:12pm

    Lots of good comments. Just want to add if you are in a mind to, think about reload equipment and supplies. There is an up-front investment, but it really cuts down on the cost of rounds long term. Also actual bullets and sealed bottels of powder will last long past Cass Sunsten’s attempts to render our firearms useless by making ammunition scarce. Expecially larger caliber casings last multiple reloads. Just follow the experts literature. It’s perfectly safe if done correctly, and you’ll find your accuracy is improved. Good luck and pray it won’t come to this, Amen.

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:18pm

      Right on, good advice.

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:19pm

      If I might add, train train train. Muscle memory!!

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    • TheLastBestHopeofManOnEarth
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:33pm

      I agree with Balrog. I live in a deep blue state with Obama jr. as Governor and Cass Jr. as Atty General. I carry and exercise my rights proudly. Reloading is the next step because I practice, practice, practice. You have to be able to make every second and every shot count. God Bless America!

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:47pm

      Ted Nugent convinced me to carry.

      Balrog has convinced me to reload. Thanks for the kick in the ass, my friend.

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    • Rightallalong
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:36pm

      I agree, I have been reloading for the past 20 years and each time I go to the ranch with family and freinds I pick up all their brass for pistol and rifle ammo. For pistol ammo you can get cast bullets very inexpensively and stock up. When OBAMMER is a lame duck, either for the last 2 months of this year or 4 years hence he will pass the most draconian anti-gun AND ANTI-AMMO laws you can imagine via executive order. They will make it where buying weapons and ammo is still legal but the cost via taxes will be so high it will be out of reason for the normal person. Check the ammo pricess in the few countries that still let you own a rifle or shotgun for hunting.

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  • didymus
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:12pm

    When entitlements are reduced, you’re going to thank God you have a gun/s.

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    • bernbart
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:22pm

      Oh but liberals own guns too.

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    • randy
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:24pm

      Yeah, but we know how to shoot ours.
      Only thing Liberals like to kill are babies in the womb

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:30pm

      @ bernbart

      so your admitting it will be the liberals that will become criminals

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    • WOLFENII
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:39pm

      @BERNBART: Ya, liberals own guns but have no idea which end the bullet comes out of. That’s why they all have bodyguards. rofl BTW, the bullet comes out the round end. You can see it if you look inside the barrel, then pull the trigger

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    • barber2
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:00pm

      WOLF : could you give some lessons at the next meeting of the DNC ??

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:31pm

      @Bernbart
      Liberals demand gun control – Conservativres practice it!

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:11pm

      @BERNBART

      The Red Ryder you got for Christmas doesn’t count.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:11pm

    this entire family here just added more Protection and we heard most of our neighbors had very Firearm Merry Christmases too. everyone we know has been getting prepared for an obama-induced civil war since Nov 2008 after listening to the anti-American communist obama congratulate himself, and moreso esp since his 1st call in Jan 2009 as ”president” was to his muslim brotherhood buddies in HAMAS.

    know your neighbors, who and WHAT they are;
    buy food, buy AMMO.

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  • didymus
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:10pm

    When entitlements are drastically reduced, you damned well better have a gun/s.

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  • MidWestMom
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:08pm

    Doesn’t surprise me. And it’s another sign that people believe we are only a few steps away from a complete breakdown of society. Although there’s no way of finding out, I’m curious about how much the criminal elements have beefed up their arsonals.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:07pm

      Beefed em up plenty, thanks.

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:53pm

      So you admit you are a criminal? Or do you only consort with them?

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    • rafa2design
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 8:51pm

      I have actually shot a criminal before a few years ago. I was at a local McDonald’s late at night with my family. Some of us made a bathroom break before leaving and on the way to the car 2 men cornered me while family was getting into the van and asked me for my wallet. I was paralyzed with fear as then one of them pointed a gun to my head and demanded I give him my wallet and car keys. I am a conceal carry holder and so while pretending to get my wallet I unholstered my gun and I fired 2 shots into his chest. The other one got away. But to make a long story short, we later found out these same men had mugged another couple only minutes before in the same parking lot. If not for the 2nd amendment I would be in a coffin somewhere.

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    • GPS-Tech
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:37pm

      @your sem-stain
      Yeah I could tell you like to take a good beefing.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:06pm

    good thing we Americans HAVE any guns to begin with.. obama just signed another one of his whoppers under the cloak of secrecy: the power to detain Americans… Hitler would have killed millions get that kind of Power.. oh wait, he did.

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    • bernbart
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:24pm

      There was no cloak of secrecy enlvoed in the MIltary budget bill, except the republicans adding unnecessary detention clause, and Obama did a signing objection to it. He has the power not to carry it out.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:33pm

      @berbrain

      he shouldnt have that power to begin with

      i hope you become one of the first to experience it when he decides to use the power now “given” to him albeit it unconstitutional

      i will find it very difficult to pity you when your held without trial

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  • RojBlake
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:03pm

    Uncertainty may be leading folks to a new level of self-reliance & self-awareness.

    As a long-time proponent & defender of gun rights I am always happy to see folks excercising their rights. I just hope folks are going to get some “range-time” & practice with their new acquisitions. More accidents are caused by folks who think just owning a firearm is enough.

    Practice & familiarity are essential, especially in a self-defense situation.

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    • RojBlake
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:08pm

      By the way, I wonder how many have been spurred on because of the implications of FAST & FURIOUS?

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  • korbin
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:01pm

    GUN atheists are the reason, I live in california and personally I am embarrassed as to what they say we can and can’t own. It makes you want to break the law. I have owned many many firearms over the years, I am 46 and I have never been in a situation that would require me to use one defensively. My family shoots nearly every weekend, I train more extensively for the coming insurrection. I will be damned if this or any Government attempts to take my weapons. We have been trying to sell all of our properties in CA so we can move to a more tax payer/firearm ownership state. Yes we will leave our homeland just because the left wing retards make most decent firearms illegal.

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:01pm

    In addition I got a re-loader. Great Christmas.

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  • KeystoneState
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:01pm

    There was a gun sale surge before the new millennium I believe, I suspect the whole “2012” thing is behind this one.

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  • Bum thrower
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:01pm

    Not Surprised; between BHO, the loony left, and the Dems what would you expect? In my tacitcal pistol club, over the past 2 years the wednesday nite turnout has gone from 10-15 to over 40!! Not only are they buying, but they are practicing too.

    Investment tip for 2012…buy precious metals………buy lead!!

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  • searching for the Truth
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:59pm

    Guns! Guns! Guns! ” My pretty ! “

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    • lukerw
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:31pm

      Whom could work at a Gun Store? — It would be like selling your Baby!

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  • V-MAN MACE
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:59pm

    I wonder why?

    I mean…EVERYONE LOVES the POLICE AND TSA…

    Why oh why would we be buying guns like this? The Military isn’t going to…ya know…start rounding people up or anything like that…

    Nah.

    There is no police state. There is no such thing as TSA.

    SUNSHINE AND LOLLIPOPS! WE LOVE COPS!!!!

    MMMMMUAH!!!

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    • GPS-Tech
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:34pm

      @mace
      I doubt it will be the military rounding up people, more likely TSA. It wouldnt surprise me if the military gets abandoned in Afghanistan.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:12pm

      Well, no matter what you THINK….

      The NDAA bill says MILITARY.

      M.I.L.I.T.A.R.Y.

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    • GPS-Tech
      Posted on January 4, 2012 at 12:03am

      It says the military can hold you ONCE you have been deemed an enemy of the state. The way you run your mouth your probably first on the list. See you there from the other side of the fence.

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  • Quagaar Warrior
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:59pm

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    …and the best gun salesman of the year is in the Whitehouse!
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  • BOMUSTGO
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:58pm

    This is the best thing Obummer has ever done!

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  • HKS
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:58pm

    I guess if your gona geter done,you’ll have to do it yourself, and ya need good tools.

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  • neverending
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:56pm

    Looks to me like many Americans truly are waking up!

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    • randy
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:10pm

      Nearly 500,000 of those were in the six days before Christmas…It was the highest number ever in a single month, surpassing the previous record set in November.”

      Bet that Plsses Obama and the Liberals :) LOL

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  • bhelmet
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:56pm

    I hope the majority were NEW gun owners – need more numbers of gun owners not gun owners owning more guns. I wonder if anyone tracks concealed-carry permits – I am getting mine this month and hope MANY others follow suit.

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:01pm

      My guess is both ..

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 3:17pm

      I’ve had many conversations with folks about that question and most are buying and getting permits because of what they see in society and whats happened around the globe.

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  • korbin
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:56pm

    Two reasons, 1. OBUMMER, 2. OBUMMER

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  • gmoneytx
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:54pm

    I think it’s a combination of things. Uncertainty, regulation, crime, and the taking away of 2nd amendment rights…at any rate, buy guns, and lots of ammo!

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