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Old 10-29-2016, 19:52   #931
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Good job NRA

As part of its efforts to stay relevant during the election, and raise money, the National Rifle Association has described a way to build an AR-15 rifle on a budget.

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Old 12-14-2016, 07:52   #932
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A nice easy read below that summarizes the basics nicely for newcomers - a review of the entire thread might be timely for the revived Second Amendment Caucus (a group of conservative U.S. Representatives has banded together to form a caucus that will work towards shepherding a host of pro-gun bills in the new Congress).

http://www.guns.com/2016/12/14/repub...ndment-caucus/

Second Amendment: A fundamental principle of American liberty
By Dr. Joyce Lee Malcolm - - Monday, December 12, 2016
Washington Times

The Founders would not have been surprised that the Second Amendment “right of the people to keep and bear arms” survives.

What would have surprised them was that it very nearly didn’t.

The right of self-defense it protects had been considered the primary law of nature since antiquity. Other governments may have forbidden their people to have weapons to protect themselves, but the English did not. Englishmen had a long-standing duty to be armed to keep the peace and, beginning with the English Bill of Rights of 1689, that duty became a right.

Like other rights Americans derived from England, the original English right to have arms had restrictions — in this case religious and class limits, although these fell away by the early 19th century. In his classic work popular with the Founders, “Commentaries on the Laws of England,” William Blackstone referred to the right of having arms as a “natural right of resistance and self preservation, when the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression.”

He insisted no government could take the right to self-defense away. In contrast to any limitations on the English right, the American Second Amendment assumed “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” and decreed it “not be infringed.”

For most of its history, the Second Amendment was understood to confer an individual right, notwithstanding hundreds of various regulations. But in the 1960s, widespread riots and three political assassinations led to demands for stricter gun controls. Campaigns began for onerous restrictions on private ownership of firearms, including total bans.

Along with these, came a debate over the core meaning of the Second Amendment. The gist was that Americans had been wrong to believe the Second Amendment guaranteed them an individual right. The words of the amendment were parsed to disabuse them of that idea. Rather than the “well-regulated” militia as a reason for general ownership of weapons, it was argued that the amendment merely ensured that states have a militia and that membership in the militia, today’s National Guard, constituted the only right to be armed.

To advance this hypothesis, the amendment was interpreted as exclusively military. Unlike reference to “the people” in the First and Fourth Amendments protecting individual rights, we were told that in the Second Amendment “the right of the people” merely intended a “collective” right.

“Arms” meant only military weapons, “to bear” meant carrying weapons in a military force. “Keep” was ignored.

There was even the claim that if an individual right were intended, it only protected 18th century weapons.

Those opposed to the individual right interpretation even claimed the individual right was a brand new idea. Laurence Tribe, in the 1979 edition of his popular textbook, “American Constitutional Law,” relegated the Second Amendment to a footnote. A generation of law students were taught accordingly.

In 2008, the Supreme Court acted.

In the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court examined the meaning of the Second Amendment for the first time. The justices overturned Washington, D.C.’s ban on residents keeping handguns in their homes, affirming the individual’s right to keep and bear those weapons in common use for self-defense and other lawful purposes.

Two years later, in McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Supreme Court incorporated the Second Amendment’s individual right throughout the country, finding it “a fundamental principle of American liberty.”

Despite these decisions, debate continues. Both landmark opinions affirming the right of Americans to keep and bear arms were passed by 5-4 majorities, with the dissenting justices asking that they be overturned. Further, some judges are choosing to ignore the high court.

Moves to protect and expand the right to be armed are, however, rapidly advancing in the states. Forty-four state constitutions include a right to be armed, and only nine of the 50 states have restrictive rules to prevent residents from carrying a concealed weapon, while 11 states permit any resident who lawfully owns a firearm to carry it concealed without further requirements.

Millions of Americans own and use firearms peacefully. Despite the recent uptick in gun violence in a few cities, the past 20 years have seen a dramatic drop in gun crime and gun homicides.

The Second Amendment affords Americans a right and ability to protect themselves and their loved ones. It places ultimate trust in the good sense of the American people, as the Founders intended.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ple-of-americ/

• Joyce Lee Malcolm, Ph.D., is Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment at Antonin Scalia Law School. She has written extensively on the English and American right of the people to be armed.
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Old 01-04-2017, 14:55   #933
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NICS background checks for the year 2016 at link below.

That's a lot of heaters.

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/...month_year.pdf
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Old 01-04-2017, 15:03   #934
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NICS background checks for the year 2016 at link below.

That's a lot of heaters.

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/...month_year.pdf
And those are just the ones that need/require a background check. I've not needed an FBI background check since I got my AZ CWP.
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Old 01-05-2017, 06:11   #935
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And those are just the ones that need/require a background check. I've not needed an FBI background check since I got my AZ CWP.
That's what really gives statists pause (or nightmares); as well as thoughts, perhaps, about the patriarch with dozens distributing some out to a grown kith & kin as simply exchange of private property among 2 free persons. If it gives them heebee-jeebees then I'm all
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Old 01-05-2017, 08:53   #936
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And those are just the ones that need/require a background check. I've not needed an FBI background check since I got my AZ CWP.
Same here in Texas.

Obama's tenure 2009-2016: 157,233,157

Not included are how many background checks were approved for purchase, which would be a good number to publish. Although that still wouldn't give a 1 to 1 correlation of actual purchases considering multiple firearms purchased at one time and purchases made in states like Texas and Arizona that do not require an NICS check for license holders.
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Old 03-14-2017, 13:18   #937
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One industry is gonna miss BHO...the gun salesman of the year...this is a good opportunity to buy. Complete article and graphs/charts at link below,

Crashing "Post-Obama Era" Gun Sales Lead To Remington Mass Layoffs

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Mar 14, 2017 12:46 PM

As we noted last summer, the Obama administration’s constant gun control threats did little more than flood American homes with more guns as people looked to stockpile weapons ahead of anticipated new regulations. In fact, both of Obama's elections resulted in massive and unprecedented spikes in gun sales.

Meanwhile, Obama's presidency was a boon for the gun manufacturers whose revenue, profitability and stocks all soared during his presidency.

But while the constant threat of new regulations under Obama resulted in a massive full forward of gun demand and pushed gun stocks to all-time highs, the election of Trump, and thus the removal of those threats for at least the next 4-8 years, is having exactly the opposite effect.

If fact, Remington Outdoor just announced layoffs of 120 people at their upstate New York manufacturing facility due to sinking gun demand in the Trump era. Per the Wall Street Journal:

Meanwhile, other firearms makers, including American Outdoor Brands, formerly known as Smith & Wesson, say demand for weapons, particularly handguns, has been ebbing since Trump's election. Earlier this month the company posted disappointing sales and higher inventories and admitted to investors on their quarterly earnings call that business had slowed...all of which sent the stock into a downward spiral.

Meanwhile, Wedbush equity analyst James Hardiman expects FBI background checks, a good indicator of gun sales, to be down 10-15% in 2017.

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...cturing-facili
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Old 03-14-2017, 14:19   #938
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One industry is gonna miss BHO...the gun salesman of the year...this is a good opportunity to buy.
I'd like to see "accessory sales" spike because a suppressor is an OTC item in a bubble-pak.
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I'd like to see "accessory sales" spike because a suppressor is an OTC item in a bubble-pak.
COSTCO should have handy 5 packs...everything else there is packed family size.
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One industry is gonna miss BHO...the gun salesman of the year...this is a good opportunity to buy. Complete article and graphs/charts at link below,

Crashing "Post-Obama Era" Gun Sales Lead To Remington Mass Layoffs

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Mar 14, 2017 12:46 PM

As we noted last summer, the Obama administration’s constant gun control threats did little more than flood American homes with more guns as people looked to stockpile weapons ahead of anticipated new regulations. In fact, both of Obama's elections resulted in massive and unprecedented spikes in gun sales.

Meanwhile, Obama's presidency was a boon for the gun manufacturers whose revenue, profitability and stocks all soared during his presidency.

But while the constant threat of new regulations under Obama resulted in a massive full forward of gun demand and pushed gun stocks to all-time highs, the election of Trump, and thus the removal of those threats for at least the next 4-8 years, is having exactly the opposite effect.

If fact, Remington Outdoor just announced layoffs of 120 people at their upstate New York manufacturing facility due to sinking gun demand in the Trump era. Per the Wall Street Journal:

Meanwhile, other firearms makers, including American Outdoor Brands, formerly known as Smith & Wesson, say demand for weapons, particularly handguns, has been ebbing since Trump's election. Earlier this month the company posted disappointing sales and higher inventories and admitted to investors on their quarterly earnings call that business had slowed...all of which sent the stock into a downward spiral.

Meanwhile, Wedbush equity analyst James Hardiman expects FBI background checks, a good indicator of gun sales, to be down 10-15% in 2017.

<snip>

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...cturing-facili


Prediction was already made last year........ (Post #49)

http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...t=51694&page=4
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Prediction was already made last year........ (Post #49)

http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...t=51694&page=4
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Old 04-10-2017, 13:10   #942
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Just got back from the range - timely bump for an important thread.

Quote of the Day: In China, Gun Control Is About Government Control
The Truth About Guns
Dan Zimmerman
April 10, 2017

“The Chinese government took away people’s guns to prevent them rising up. Do you think they would be able to demolish peoples’ homes if they hadn’t?”- Renin University sociologist Zhou Xiaozheng in In gun-taboo China, tourism to U.S. firing ranges grows [via usatoday.com]

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/201...nment-control/
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Old 04-21-2017, 07:20   #943
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"Free men do not ask permission to bear arms."

TS and many others posted in another thread about the goings on in Venezuela - the short article below ties the actions of those Statist/communist thugs with an important reminder.

A lesson in Democracy from Venezuela
By Russ Vaughn
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April 21, 2017

The socialist government of Venezuela has just provided American gun owners with an excellent lesson in why it is of paramount importance never to let the government take our guns. Back in 1998, after four decades of the Latin American variety of democracy, military leader Hugo Chávez, a moderate leftist, was elected president. From that time until his death in 2013, he continued to take Venezuela further left, founding the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) in 2007, which has remained the ruling party to the present, inexorably moving the country into a quagmire of socialist poverty. Chávez died in 2013, but one of his last acts is now coming into full play in a way that provides our lesson.

In 2012, Chávez and PSUV began consolidating their hold on the Venezuelan people by banning guns in public places using the usual leftist excuse of reducing crime. Since that first gun control measure, those in charge have incrementally, to the point of recent total confiscation, taken away gun ownership rights until the only legally owned firearms are those of the military, the police, and favored security organizations, and they can obtain those only through government sources. The civilian populace of Socialist Venezuela has been effectively disarmed.

...unless your political views align with the socialist leadership, that is. Chávez's handpicked strongman successor, Nicolas Maduro, has decided to hand out military-grade weaponry to those civilians who agree with him politically – that is, his hard-left socialist supporters.

From an excellent accounting at Washington Free Beacon:

"A gun for every militiaman!" Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said to uniformed militia members outside the presidential palace, Fox News reported on Tuesday. The Bolivarian militias, created by Maduro's predecessor Hugo Chavez, already number in the hundreds of thousands and are being used to supplement the regime's armed forces. Maduro is boosting the number of armed supporters in hopes of keeping control over the country from what he labels "imperialist aggression."

Therein lies your lesson, American gun owners: the American left constantly pushes for more gun control, never satisfied, slowly chiseling away at our 2nd Amendment rights, even to the point that a President Hillary admittedly would have considered the Australian buyback form of voluntary gun confiscation. With the American left moving ever more radically in that direction, who is to say that a future dedicated socialist president like Elizabeth Warren might not stack the Court and get the reading of the 2nd Amendment that the Democrats have long wanted: that the only legal guns in America, like Venezuela, are those in the hands of government?

And who's to say that an even more rabidly socialist successor to a President Warren might not decide that she feels her position threatened, like President Maduro, and decide to issue arms to her loyalists? Thanks to our recent election victory, we are now enjoying a respite from liberal gun grabs and fears of a liberal-dominated Supreme Court. However, as the Democrats have recently learned regarding national power, nothing is forever.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...venezuela.html
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No matter what successes liberty minded people have in elections and legislation, we must remember that the left will never rest in their quest to take away the 2nd Amendment rights of the American people.

The armed citizen is what stands between liberty and the globalists/leftists agenda of dominance.
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US murders concentrated in 5 percent of counties - Fox News
https://apple.news/AHDeUV0vSSsS5BhQX2UBL6A

One of the most interesting findings in the report is that areas with the highest gun ownership rates have low murder rates.
"While many factors explain these concentrated murders, it is also striking that the counties with zero murders are the counties with by far the highest gun ownership rates," Lott said.
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