I am not too overly concerned about Hillary and the 2A.
Even Bill warned people about leaving the subject of GUNS alone at one time.
Not only that, few law enforcement types in gun friendly states will enforce anything Hillary says in that arena. They have already defied Obama.
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The American public is already had their fill with 8 years of Obama's appointees arrogance.
:soap HERE IS WHAT I AM CONCERNED ABOUT........
Yet another (how many has it been now?)...yet another ...
a) PANIC buying spree of completely insane gun sellers selling anything that goes BANG for 5 times what it is worth.
b) artificially induced shortage of .22 ammo. Hell, it took us about 4 years to overcome this last one.
c) anything for an AR type rifle going for insane prices. I still have a page from the Cheaper Than Dirt catalog where they charged $130 for just 1 magazine that normally went for $25.
d) going to a gun show and having those idiot gun runners say yet again..."better buy it now before it gets banned".
e) going to a gun show and having those idiot gun runners say yet again..."better buy in now before the price gets even higher", yet they are the ones making the price get even higher. I laughed my ass off when I saw how they took it in the shorts when they could not off load a $700 rifle they bought for $900, and tried to sell for $1200.
So, NO, it is not Hillary that gives me concern, it is my own gun people sticking it to me like the last time, that concerns me most.
The fear and panic was started by them and is perpetuated by these damned "gun runners" :2mad: that are not firearms enthusiasts, but shysters out to make a dishonest buck selling overpriced stuff.
Ask any gun enthusiast you know. After Sandy Hook they came out of the woodwork and were everywhere. Things have just now started to settle down to normal.
:lamo "Mr. Obama" has been velly velly good for the gun industry, methinks.
What chew think, mang? :lamo
All I know is, my used Makarov cost me $135.00 in 2002.
I felt like an antique myself with an old snub nosed police .38 so for me the Mak was a step up.
I saw an identical one on sale for THREE NINETY a few weeks before I moved out of Texas.
And the ammo? It's like buying tiny gold bullions.
I think the entire gun industry should thank whoever dreamed up the concept of Mr. Obama "comin fer yer gunz" because
not only are their "moar gunz", the folks selling them are rolling in dough.
I haven't gone hunting since I moved back to Cali because ammo is too damn expensive.
I probably will at some point but still, it's the hysteria.
All the hand wringing about how this or that person might "lay the pavement down" is feeding a kind of hysterical paranoia not seen since the Red Scare of the 1950's.
But it's damn good for jacking up prices.
SCOTUS's who might overturn Heller? How about SCOTUS's who might criminalize journalism?
Wyoming just passed a law making it a felony to document evidence of pollution.
https://legiscan.com/WY/text/SF0012/id/1151882
It wouldn't hold up in court right now if challenged, but I bet a Trump appointee will make sure that it gets expanded to cover a whole lot more than pollution. They might lay the pavement down for further expansion of such laws in a manner that eventually criminalizes the exercise of any kind of journalism that exposes ANY kind of criminal wrongdoing, not just by a polluter but by any corporate OR government official.
I daresay there is a MUCH bigger chance of that happening than Heller getting overturned.
That's because ordinary investigative journalism has NEVER EVER been criminalized in the entire history of this great nation before, and now it has been at the state level. We are now in uncharted territory.
Restrictive gun laws have been passed, and knocked down before. Gun rights have even been expanded before, and regulations on use and sales have been eased before. So the pendulum has swung both ways before.
In areas concerning the First Amendment, history shows that the pendulum seldom if ever goes back in the direction of freedom. Once citizens and journalists are muzzled, it's an iron mask that they wear forever.
Right now there's talk of even easing Australia's restrictive gun laws, and that's Australia.
But Australia currently has more press freedom than we do, isn't that interesting?
The reason gun laws have been eased before is because enough people, even under a liberal administration, knew enough and cared enough.
When it comes to freedom of the press, once it gets taken away, people don't even know enough, so how can they care at all?
See what I meant about how it works both ways, mang?
Eess all about priorities, mang.