Gun Owners Know: Arming Up For President Obama

A collection of articles published yesterday in different parts of the country about freedom loving Americans purchasing what I call "Kenyan Insurance"



Washington Times:
Gun owners fret Obama White House
Jennifer Harper

The nation's gun owners have the presidential election in their sights.

Some are up at arms about the prospect of future gun legislation should Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama win the White House. Others are beefing up their personal arsenals, skittish that firearms could become scarce or too expensive in the near future.

"If the economy is down, and gun sales are up, it shows you just how deep-seated the concern is out there about the situation," said Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association.

"Most gun owners at least until recently have been misled by Senator Obama. Though he claims to be an advocate for the Second Amendment, his voting record in the Illinois Senate says otherwise. He voted for a bill that would ban nearly every hunting rifle, shotgun and target rifle owned by Illinois citizens," Mr. Pearson continued.

"His campaign has done a good job burying his take on firearms," he added.

Hal Goldstein, owner of the Armory gun shop in Annapolis, said, "People should be scared."

"Sales are definitely up," he said. "I've got people with Obama stickers on their cars coming in to buy. We're looking at possible a super- Democratic majority [in Congress], and a president who's going to do what's best for the collective. I don't want to sound paranoid, but the prices could go way out of sight."

Read the rest here




News Channel 5 Nashville TN:
Gun Sales Soar, Handgun Permits Rise

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Gun stores are doing big business these days despite the sluggish economy.

Sales may be slow for some retailers but there are two reasons why the registers have been ringing at gun stores.

"I have personally never seen it like it has been this year," said Larry Baity at Gun City USA in Nashville.
He has sold a record number of guns recently... and he knows why.

Safety isn't the only reason people have started packing heat. The presidential candidates' positions on gun control is another.

"Because that seems to be the Far Left's choice to drive a wedge in between people owning firearms," Baity said.

The National Rifle Association claims Barack Obama would work towards banning handguns if he's elected. On their Web site the group said Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is, by far, the most anti-gun presidential nominee in history.

Read the rest here




CBS/WINK News:
Firearm sales surge as election nears
By Tami Osborne,

Oct 29, 2008 at 9:07 PM EDT

MARCO ISLAND, Fla. - Political views and ads are driving an increase interest in firearms. Gun sales and permit requests are up in many places, including here in Southwest Florida.

These days Mike Christoff's Mobile Tactics gun shop and range is busier than normal. "There's a lot of people who never even considered carrying a weapon, but are thinking about just in case, obtaining a carry permit," Christoff says.

Many of his customers worry that if Barack Obama wins the election, their right to bear arms could be reduced or taken away.

"I'm a great believer in the second amendment and I think its my right to try shooting and have gun for protection or whatever reason," Denise McCarthy says.

Read the rest here





CBS/WYMT News:
Gun Sales Up Before Election

Many Americans are cutting back on purchases these days, but federal data shows an increase in people buying firearms and ammunition. Some think campaign 2008 is influencing those numbers.

Owners at JT's Gun & Pawn say gun and ammo sales have tripled in the weeks leading up to the presidential election and they say they don't think it's a coincidence.

Bryan Wilson is a gun collector, but fears democratic talks of gun controls will make buying firearms more difficult after the upcoming election.
“People are buying them because they are afraid they won't be able to get any and, you know, I guess they're scared like I am,” gun owner Bryan Wilson said.

They are fears some gun shop owners say have sparked a jump in sales numbers.

“Ammo sales have tripled. The gun sales, we're ordering every day, two and three orders at a time just trying to keep up with the demand,” JT’s Gun & Pawn owner Jaime Campbell said.
Campbell says politics are the recent topic of conversation when customers come in to make purchases.
“People don't know the outcome of the election and what that's going to bring,” Campbell said.

She says customers are buying more of the weapons they think may be restricted under the possible legislation, like the Colt AR-15, a semiautomatic rifle.
“Everyone is coming in trying to stock up now,” Campbell said.

Customers we talked to say it all comes back to the Second Amendment.

Read the rest here




KBCI2 News Boise ID.
Gun sales on the rise in Idaho

TWIN FALLS (AP) - Sales of firearms have increased in south-central Idaho, firearms dealers in the region say, because of fears of possible new gun control laws if Sen. Barack Obama is elected president.

Ryan Horsley, manager of Red's Trading Post in Twin Falls, says gun owners are concerned that certain kinds of guns could be banned.

Specifically, he said, sales of assault-type rifles, such as military-style AR-15s, have jumped, far outselling traditional, bolt-action hunting rifles.

"We had a particular sale of them a little while ago (Oct. 10), and in one day our sales were over $20,000," Horsley said.

Read the rest here



ABC7 News Denver CO
Arming Up For President Obama

Sales Of Guns Up As Fears Of Gun Control Escalate
By Tyler Lopez

DENVER -- As polls show Democrat Sen. Barack Obama leading in his race with Republican Sen. John McCain for president of the United States, more and more Americans are arming themselves.

Gun sales are up nationwide and in Colorado.

"Probably an increase of 25 percent," said Richard Taylor, manager of the Firing Line in Aurora.

Time and again, Taylor said customers, especially first-time buyers, say they're afraid an Obama White House would mean more gun control.

"If Barack Obama gets in, people are concerned they might not be able to purchase certain types of firearms. So that has been driving a number of the sales," Taylor said.

"The upcoming election, I guess you could say, is part of it too because these guns may not be accessible to the civilian population," said Nicki Cook, a math tutor buying an AR-15.

Read the rest here





H/T Keep&BearArms

Checks on 'Joe' more extensive than first acknowledged

The Obama Cheka caught red handed:

Columbus Dispatch reports: Tax, welfare info also sought on McCain ally

A state agency has revealed that its checks of computer systems for potential information on "Joe the Plumber" were more extensive than it first acknowledged.

Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, disclosed today that computer inquiries on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher were not restricted to a child-support system.

The agency also checked Wurzelbacher in its computer systems to determine whether he was receiving welfare assistance or owed unemployment compensation taxes, she wrote.

Jones-Kelley made the revelations in a letter to Ohio Senate President Bill M. Harris, R-Ashland, who demanded answers on why state officials checked out Wurzelbacher.

Harris called the multiple records checks "questionable" and said he awaits more answers. "It's kind of like Big Brother is looking in your pocket," he said.

If state employees run checks on every person listed in newspaper stories as buying a business, "it must take a lot of people a lot of time to run these checks," he said. "Where do you draw the line?"

Read the rest here


Cheka (from Wiki):

The Cheka (ЧК - чрезвычайная комиссия Chrezvychaynaya Komissiya, Russian pronunciation: [tɕɛ.ka]) was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations. It was created by a decree issued on December 20, 1917, by Vladimir Lenin and subsequently led by an aristocrat turned communist Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky.[1] After 1922, the Cheka underwent a series of reorganizations.
From its founding, the Cheka was an important military and security arm of the Bolshevik communist government. In 1921 the Troops for the Internal Defense of the Republic (a branch of the Cheka) numbered 200,000. These troops policed labor camps, ran the Gulag system, conducted requisitions of food, liquidated political opponents (on both the right and the left), put down peasant rebellions, riots by workers, and mutinies in the Red Army, which was plagued by desertions[2]

Gun Manufacturer Executive Backs Barack Obama, Watch What Happens Next:

You've been ZUMBOED!


USA Today reports:

Dan Cooper CEO of Cooper Arms, one of the elite makers of hunting rifles, is backing Barack Obama.

WASHINGTON — Dan Cooper, a proud member of the National Rifle Association, has backed Republicans for most of his life. He's the chief executive of Cooper Arms, a small Montana company that makes hunting rifles.

Cooper said he voted for George W. Bush in 2000, having voted in past elections for every Republican presidential nominee back to Richard Nixon. In October 1992, he presented a specially made rifle to the first President. Bush during a Billings campaign event.

This year, Cooper has given $3,300 to the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama. That's on top of the $1,000 check he wrote to Obama's U.S. Senate campaign in 2004, after he was dazzled by Obama's speech at that year's Democratic National Convention.

Just minutes after the USA Today broke the story on the Internet, thousands and thousands of gun owners sent angry emails, called and sent boycott letters to Cooper Arms threatening to never purchase any of their firearms again.

Just 48 hours later, this is what appeared on the company website:

In response to the recent article highlighting Dan Cooper’s personal political donations, the board of directors, shareholders and employees of Cooper Firearms of Montana, Inc would like to issue the following statement.

The employees, shareholders and board of directors of Cooper Firearms of Montana do not share the personal political views of Dan Cooper.

Although we all believe everyone has a right to vote and donate as they see fit, it has become apparent that the fallout may affect more than just Mr. Cooper. It may also affect the employees and the shareholders of Cooper Firearms.

The board of directors has asked Mr. Cooper to resign as President of Cooper Firearms of Montana, Inc.

Daily operations will continue with the competent staff currently in place in Stevensville, MT producing the finest, most accurate rifles money can buy.

Dan Cooper has spent all of his working life producing the highest quality rifles built here in the USA. He started with nothing but the American Dream and built that into firearms company anyone would be proud of. We firmly believe Dan stands by the 2nd amendment.
We wish him all of the best in his future pursuits.

He's gone, I guess. That was quick ;)

Captain Kirk (William Shattner) On Gun Control And Racism On Election Time

Expect to be laugh your a$$ off. Try not to drink coffee, beer or soda while watching; I am not responsible for the damage you may cause to your computer keyboard or monitor.



P.S. Some visitors have pointed out Shattner's character in this video is Denny Crane from the TV series Boston Legal. I already knew that but the popularity of Star Trek and the Captain Kirk character that launched Shattner's career decades ago has far more resonance with the American public than the character he plays in Boston Legal. This is why I chose to put Captain Kirk instead of Denny Crane in the headline of this blog entry.

Do You Have Kenyan Insurance?

If you are a gun owner, are you ready for Obama?

I am. This is the best insurance against any guns or ammo bans the Kenyan will pass.



Friends of mine who work in gun stores told me the have seen a great increase in the number of guns and ammo purchased. The reason? They say pretty much every customer is afraid of the gun bans and severely restricted ammunition legislation Obama and his Dhimmicrat Congress will pass.

My advice? If Obama wins, you better start buying any guns you can lay your hands on (or can afford). And instead of spending thousands of dollars buying on cases of ammo, just make sure you'll buy the reloading tools and supplies to make your own ammo with. Because without ammo or with severely restricted and serialized ammo, a gun is less effective than a crowbar.

Nope, I won't give any of it to you lefties. You can shoot spitballs for all I care.

We don't 'cling' to them, we hold them firmly and unapologetically

American Wildlife Conservationists Disturbed By New Animal Behavioral Changes

The photo below captures a disturbing trend that is beginning to affect wildlife in the US .




Animals that were formerly self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democratic Party... as they have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance. This photo is of a Democrat black bear in Montana nicknamed 'Bearack Obama

Vogue Magazine: Obama Fashion On The Catwalk

More of Obama's unhinged cult of personality manifesting in this month Vogue Magazine.
Click twice on the pics to enlarge full size:


If the right lower portion of the second page is missing, that's because my wife ripped it off from the magazine in a moment of "enthusiasm"

Banned From Youtube: Welcome To Saudi Brittain

YouTube has deleted Pat Condell’s latest video, for “terms of use violation.”

Which apparently means, “criticism of Saudi Arabia.”

So here it is again:




From LGF

Teleprompter: Hey Barak!

In a world exclusive, Iowahawk has somehow landed a video interview with the brains behind the Barack Obama phenomenon.

Cult Of Personality: Connecting Beloved Leaders Over Time And Continents

The first video is using images from the 80's filmed Ceausescu's Romania. It is translated and captioned in English.

The second video is very recent, perhaps only days old.
Please watch the two videoclips and tell me: do you see any difference? Because I don't.

1980's:





2008:

Obama Sends His Stormtroopers - Democrat Sheriff Deputies And Prosecutors To Supress Free Speech

In Missouri Obama is sending so-called "truth squads" - formed not by campaign workers or lawyers but by Democrat Sheriff deputies and prosecutors !!! to bring charges and prosecute anybody who is running campaign ads that His Majesty Obama considers to be slanderous and untrue. And the Democrat law enforcement officers and prosecutors are too happy to comply with orders given by their Master.


The video report is here: KMOV Channel4 TV

Quote:
The Barack Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target
anyone who lies or runs a misleading TV ad during the presidential campaign.

Guys, we are in big trouble. Stash on guns and ammunition and be ready.
We live in the times predicted by George Orwell in his book 1984

Welcome to the Soviet States Of America my friends.

Obama Campaign Tries to stop NRA ads with threats to radio/tv stations

It's ironically fitting that B. Hussein Obama attacks both, the First Amendment and the Second Amendment in the same time:


Obama Silencing Voice of Gun Owners


Barack Obama’s campaign is trying to silence the National Rifle Association’s latest ad campaign using strong arm tactics by threatening them with possible legal action if they run the ads:

Failure to prevent the airing of “false and misleading advertising” may be “probative of an underlying abdication of licensee responsibility” Cosmopolitan Broad. Corp v. FCC, 581 F.2d 917, 927 (D.C. Cir. 1978).



So basically, stop running NRA’s ads, or your broadcast license could be in jeopardy. The link to the WaPo’s Fact Check repetition as proof. This is Chicago politics at its finest folks. If you can’t win fair, win dirty. This is not how a free society is supposed to function. This is not the kind of man I want leading my country.

Besides, every bit of what NRA claimed is true. It’s the Obama campaign and the news media that’s lying.

17 page cease and desist letter from Obama Campaign


Guys, if these Stalinists take power you can kiss not only your guns goodbye, but you can say adios to your right of free speech. These jack-booted thugs have no shame and no scruples and they don't even bother to hide their communist intimidation methods anymore.

My advice: until November, put every dollar you can spare in new guns, plenty of ammo and/or reloading supplies. If Obama gets elected it won't be two years until he will have "sensible gun laws" passed prohibiting pretty much anything more powerful than a .22
Then we may see if Molon Labe still have a meaning for today's American gun owners.

"The only logical and effective response to threats from Marxist pigs is the promise of showing them the door."
--Fred Hansen

You Know You Want This Baby To Be Yours

Colt Super Commander Limited Edition, Custom Shop, 1 of 750 ever made in .38 Super







See the rest of the description

What are you gonna do with it?
You can defend yourself of an Islamic terrorist trying to flatten you with his SUV if you wish - that if McCain gets elected.

Or you can wrap it in cosmoline (military-grade rust preventer) and paper, then bury it in a box in a secret place in anticipation of the days when terrorist's best friend - President elect Obama will declare all semiautomatic weapons are illegal and must be banned (it's for the sake of poor innocent starving children, of course)

Whatever you plan to do you know you must have it, don't you?

NRA Is Out With New Ads Gunning For Barack O'Bambi

Wouldn't want to be Obamessiah; right now he is probably looking like a deer caught in the headlights.





Here are two of the new ads:

Way of Life





Veteran





I Am The NRA And I Vote!

No other election slogan scares the gun-grabbing Democrats more. Guaranteed!

The Pervert Prophet

The Pervert Prophet

Via Justify This!

WaPo Editorialist Whines About Attorney Fees In The 2nd Amendment Civil Rights Case; Plaintiff Lawyer Replies, Mops The Floor With Him

The whine:

Holding Up Taxpayers

Lawyers in the D.C. gun case are demanding that the city pay them outsized fees.
Saturday, September 6, 2008; Page A16

TALK ABOUT adding insult to injury. The lawyers who successfully challenged the D.C. gun ban are now asking the city's taxpayers to pay their legal fees. The tab: more than $3.5 million.

Under long-established law, plaintiffs lawyers who prevail in certain kinds of civil rights cases are entitled to demand that the loser pay their legal bills. These fee-shifting statutes were enacted in large part to encourage competent lawyers to take on important civil rights cases even though many do not result in money awards. The team of lawyers that took on the District's gun ban sued under such a provision, arguing that prohibiting District residents from possessing handguns in their homes violated the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Having won the landmark case this summer before the Supreme Court, the lawyers are entitled to compensation. What they are not entitled to is the kind of windfall they are seeking.

The lead lawyer in the case, Alan Gura, logged 1,661 hours on the case since taking it on in 2003, according to an Aug. 25 court submission. He has asked the D.C. federal trial judge overseeing the case to pay him $557 per hour; four other lawyers in the case are also seeking that rate. Two other, less experienced lawyers who worked on the case are asking for rates of $494 and $285 an hour, respectively.

Mr. Gura and his colleagues claim the $557 figure is fair because it reflects the going rate for District lawyers who have the same number of years of experience as they do. But this does not take into account the fact that these lawyers are usually with Washington megafirms that have Fortune 500 companies as clients -- and that even these companies get discounts from those astronomical rates.

For Mr. Gura, $557 an hour for 1,661 hours would mean a payday of $925,177. But it doesn't stop there. He argues that because of the "exceptional" nature of the case and the excellent results he secured for his client, he and the others are entitled to double the fees. In Mr. Gura's case, that translates to about $1.85 million -- or roughly $1,100 an hour. Even superstar lawyers in the District do not routinely command such rates.

U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan should pare back the hourly rate using an index of legal fees calculated by the Justice Department for such cases. At the very least, he should deny the request for double fees. The law requires that Mr. Gura and team receive compensation, but it does not require District residents to foot a bill that would make millionaires of its former adversaries.

The smackdown:

We Earned the Fees in the Gun Case

Thursday, September 18, 2008; Page A20

Vindication of fundamental civil rights is not an "injury," and asking that the government be held liable for the cost of enforcing our civil rights laws is no "insult" ["Holding Up Taxpayers," editorial, Sept. 6].

Enforcement of our nation's civil rights laws depends on attracting qualified lawyers to fight government agencies with endless resources on behalf of ordinary people who cannot afford legal services.

Awarding successful civil rights lawyers below-market rates for taking such enormous risks would send the bar a terrible message: Ignore injustice, unless you can afford to fight it.

Our requested rates are based on documented market realities, not on the government's wishes about what it would like to pay.

I was shocked at The Post's suggestion that civil rights lawyers are somehow the lesser relations of those who work in "megafirms" serving the Fortune 500. In any event, I and three other members of our team have worked or are still working in those "megafirms."

And if we are such lousy lawyers, how did we manage to beat the city's militia of lawyers, including three of the biggest of the "megafirms" in town?

The Supreme Court also instructs that civil rights victories in exceptional cases entitle the prevailing lawyers to enhanced fees. Our request for fee enhancement is in line with what cases involving abortion, gay rights, police misconduct and other important issues have earned the lawyers who were brave enough to back them. Would The Post feel differently if we had vindicated a right about which it were more enthusiastic, say, freedom of the press?

If the city doesn't want to pay civil rights lawyers' fees, it should obey the Constitution. Freedom isn't free.

ALAN GURA

Washington

The writer was lead counsel for Dick A. Heller in District of Columbia v. Heller, the case in which the District's ban on handgun ownership was overturned .

Sarah Palin revives Annie Oakley Movement

From Newsoftheday

The "Lying King" Sarah Palin Parity Voice Over (Libs Exposed)

Awesome piece of captioning / parity voice-over exposing the liberal media attack dogs taking their smear orders from the Democrat bloggers.

The Simpsons Reaction To Media Suicide By Bias

HA HA! Your medium is dying!