Midway USA Rumor

[Paslode]

There are numerous reports of this email today:

We have been holding some products for you, waiting for other items to arrive so we could ship your order complete. However, we believe an Executive Order could be released any day prohibiting the sale of certain products such as high-capacity magazines and AR-15 parts and accessories. Therefore we have done a partial release of your backorders to ensure that any of these items and other items we had in inventory waiting to ship complete are all on their way, in case such an Order is forthcoming. You will receive a shipping notification shortly. Other items on backorder, that we have not yet received, are not affected by this partial release.

We appreciate your understanding and your business. We always put Customer Satisfaction first and believe this action is in the very best interest of our Customers.

Sincerely,

MidwayUSA Customer Service

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/201...ity-magazines/




This what Midway told me:

Status: Connected Print
Paslode: Are you really holding orders because of a pending executive order from Obama?

MidwayUSA: Welcome to MidwayUSA!
Interaction transferred to CCWebChat.
All agents are busy assisting other customers.
Your position in queue is 25.
Your estimated wait time is approximately 11 minutes.

MidwayUSA: All agents are busy assisting other customers.
Your position in queue is 25.
Your estimated wait time is approximately 11 minutes.

MidwayUSA: All agents are busy assisting other customers.
Your position in queue is 21.
Your estimated wait time is approximately 9 minutes.

MidwayUSA: All agents are busy assisting other customers.
Your position in queue is 15.
Your estimated wait time is approximately 6 minutes.

MidwayUSA: All agents are busy assisting other customers.
Your position in queue is 9.
Your estimated wait time is approximately 3 minutes.

MidwayUSA: All agents are busy assisting other customers.
Your position in queue is 3.
Your estimated wait time is approximately one minute.

XXX: Interaction alerting Meghan.
MidwayUSA: Agent has joined the conversation

XXX: Thanks for contacting MidwayUSA--how may I help you today?

Paslode: Are you really holding orders because of a pending executive order from Obama?

Meghan: We are actually doing the opposite. We are releasing as many partial orders as possible.

Paslode: There is a rumor of an email flying about stating the opposite...

XXXX: We appreciate you letting us know. Is there anything else I can assist you with?

Paslode: That is it.

Paslode: Thanks

[SF18C]

Obama just said at his news conference today (I am paraphrasing as I just heard it and didn’t read it), “those lining up and purchasing guns are opposed to common sense and ginning up fear for the federal government is coming to take your guns.” Also “It is a fear that is fanned by those that oppose any types of legislation. “

His EO will be out by the end of this week!

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by SF18C

Obama just said at his news conference today (I am paraphrasing as I just heard it and didn’t read it), “those lining up and purchasing guns are opposed to common sense and ginning up fear for the federal government is coming to take your guns.” Also “It is a fear that is fanned by those that oppose any types of legislation. “

His EO will be out by the end of this week!

Some are way too late to the game & in lines with no product. Then again, some are lining up early for the inauguration.

[Lan]

President Obama said he'd take "executive action" to deal with guns at his press conference today

"My understanding is the vice president's going to provide a range of steps that we can take to reduce gun violence," said Obama. "Some of them will require legislation, some of them I can accomplish through executive action. And so I will be reviewing those today, and as I said, I will speak in more detail to what we're going to go ahead and propose later in the week. But I'm confident that there are some steps that we can take that don't require legislation and that are within my authority as president, and where you get a step that, has the opportunity to reduce the possibility of gun violence, then i want to go ahead and take it."

[Streck-Fu]

I read that as they are trying to ship ahead of any possible ban.....



But that begs the question, can such an EO be enforced?

[nousdefions]

So tell me again how Executive Orders are more enforceable than Laws?

White House to miss budget deadline; Breaks law...

[Pete]

Originally Posted by nousdefions

So tell me again how Executive Orders are more enforceable than Laws?

White House to miss budget deadline; Breaks law...

If you are in charge of John D Law he will do what you say.

Law? What Law? Kneel before the King.

I'm telling you this country is begining to look more and more like a Robin Hood Movie.

[Streck-Fu]

Originally Posted by Pete

I'm telling you this country is begining to look more and more like a Robin Hood Movie.

Yeah...this one:

[MR2]

Originally Posted by Pete

I'm telling you this country is begining to look more and more like a Robin Hood Movie.

Been thinking the same thing.

[Utah Bob]

Originally Posted by Pete

If you are in charge of John D Law he will do what you say.

Law? What Law? Kneel before the King.

I'm telling you this country is begining to look more and more like a Robin Hood Movie.

I refuse to wear tights.
A feather is okay though.

[mojaveman]

Originally Posted by Utah Bob

I refuse to wear tights.
A feather is okay though.

But what about your green felt hat?

Sad because I do a lot of business with Midwayusa.

I knew all of this fallout was coming...

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by mojaveman

Sad because I do a lot of business with Midwayusa.

I knew all of this fallout was coming...

I think it's sad for any reputable company. Larry & Folks are just tryin' to do the right thing.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by MR2

Been thinking the same thing.

Nah. The Sheriff of Nottingham lost in Robin Hood.

[MR2]

GOP congressman threatens impeachment if Obama uses executive action for gun control

Stockman warned that such executive orders would be “unconstitutional” and “infringe on our constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms.”

“I will seek to thwart this action by any means necessary, including but not limited to eliminating funding for implementation, defunding the White House, and even filing articles of impeachment,” Stockman said in a statement.

[Sigaba]

From the National Journal's website. <<LINK>>

Texas, 36th House District
Steve Stockman (R)
Updated: November 7, 2012 | 2:55 a.m.
November 1, 2012 | 5:34 p.m.


Steve Stockman, Texas District 36.

Republican Steve Stockman caused plenty of controversy during his brief stint in Congress in the mid-1990s. But his strong opinions and unabashed conservatism suit the heavily Republican, southeast Texas district just fine. Of the four new congressional seats Texas gained from redistricting, the 36th is the most conservative and is tailor-made for Stockman.

As an accountant who grew up in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, Stockman is an unlikely Texas politician. He was one of many unemployed men from Michigan who came to then-booming Texas in 1980 seeking a job. For a time, he was unemployed and homeless. Only at age 34 did he get his bachelor’s degree.

By then, he had decided to run for Congress. In 1990, Stockman took on veteran Democratic Rep. Jack Brooks, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Brooks was not an easy target and spent $885,000 to beat Stockman, 58 percent to 42 percent. But Stockman ran again in 1992, narrowing the margin to 54 percent to 44 percent. Two years later, it was 1994 and a terrible political year for Democrats. And at age 71, Brooks looked the part of the old Washington insider. Stockman challenged Brooks a third time, and rode the strong anti-incumbent wave that year to a win, defeating Brooks 52 percent to 46 percent.

In the House, Stockman antagonized House Speaker Newt Gingrich by opposing the U.S. bailout of the Mexican peso, which had been delicately crafted in a high-level bipartisan deal. In 1995, Stockman penned an article in Guns & Ammo magazine suggesting that the Clinton administration raided the Branch Davidian cult-run compound near Waco, Texas, in 1993 to gain support for an assault-weapons ban. The article appeared soon after the Oklahoma City bombing, which fed suspicions that Stockman was sympathetic to right-wing militias. Stockman later said he regretted the timing of the article. He lost in 1996 to Democrat Nick Lampson.

Todd Gillman, the Washington bureau chief of The Dallas Morning News, wrote of Stockman recently, “While his mistrust of government was unusually strident for the time, in Congress at least, elements of his agenda are now staples of conservative discourse: demand for a balanced budget, smaller government and lower taxes, and warnings about illegal immigration.”

After leaving Congress, Stockman ran an unsuccessful campaign for the Texas Railroad Commission in 1998. His website says that during that time, he worked as a bank vice president and was director of the Campus Leadership Program for the Arlington, Va.-based Leadership Institute, which trains young conservative activists.

In the 2012 election season, Stockman entered a cluttered, 12-candidate Republican House primary. He ran a shoestring campaign, with a headquarters in a motorcycle shop. An Associated Press article reported that Stockman declined to attend campaign forums and was standoffish with GOP officials. “It is a strange campaign style, but then, Stockman is a strange character,” Lamar University political science professor David Castle told the AP.

His rivals included state Sen. Mike Jackson and financial adviser Stephen Takach. Jackson was the target of a mailer that falsely claimed he supported abortion rights and was dropping out of the race. The mailer included the line, “Paid for by Friends of Congressman Steve Stockman,” but Stockman disavowed any connection to it. He and Takach both got 22 percent and advanced to a runoff, while Jackson came in third with 20 percent.

Stockman’s campaign signs referred to him as “congressman” and his website encouraged voters to “reelect” him. His campaign played up his cosponsorship of a ban on partial-birth abortion and the Defense of Marriage Act. Both Stockman and Takach emphasized the need to curb illegal immigration. Stockman prevailed in the runoff, 55 percent to 45 percent, and in the general election he beat businessman Max Martin.

MOO, a threat of impeachment should be a measure of last resort--an option that is not even discussed until all other measures have failed.