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Title: Might Barack Obama Be ‘The Greatest Gun Salesman in America?’
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URL Source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/mig ... lesman-in-america-take-a-look/
Published: Feb 22, 2012
Author: Christopher Santarelli
Post Date: 2012-02-22 19:05:04 by CZ82
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Views: 7059
Comments: 21
Might Barack Obama Be ‘The Greatest Gun Salesman in America?’
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 6:12pm by Christopher Santarelli
Gun manufacturers would likely not be the first to come to mind when considering industries who have benefited the most during President Obama’s first term, but a study from Ammo.net finds that firearm sales and concealed handgun permit applications are at all-time highs since the 2008 election.
Just to show a few statistics illustrating what those in the industry call ”the Obama effect:”
•Ruger’s firearm sales have gone from $117 million to $232 million, an increase of 98%
•Winchester’s sales of ammunition have gone from $431.7 million to $572 million, an increase of 33%
•Federal excise taxes collected on the sale of new firearms and ammunition has risen 48.3%
•January 2012 was the 20th straight month of increases in NICS background checks compared to the same month in the previous year
•December 2011 saw over 1.41 million NICS background checks run, the most ever for a single month
•The few states which regularly report concealed carry permit numbers have seen increases in active permit holders ranging from 46% to 161%
The correlation is astounding considering the day after his election the Gun Owners of America speculated that President-elect Obama “will be the most anti-Second Amendment president in the history of America.” The National Rifle Association (NRA) is actively working to defeat President Obama in the 2012 re-election, with NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre telling the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference:
“Lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term. We see the president’s strategy crystal clear: Get re-elected and, with no more elections to worry about, get busy dismantling and destroying our firearms’ freedom, erase the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights and excise it from the U.S. Constitution…When the sun goes down on election day Barack Obama will have America’s gun owners to thank for his defeat.”
Due to the odd trends showing a boom in gun and ammo sales during President Obama’s first term despite strong opposition from Second Amendment enthusiasts who speculate a “fear affect” of an Obama second term leading to stricter gun laws, Ammo.net has produced a cheeky new graphic asking if the firearms industry should support or oppose a second term for the president:
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I don't know. Business was pretty brisk back during the Clinton/Reno/Waco days.
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
#2. To: CZ82 (#0)
Once upon a time there was this "compassionate conservative" bushbot, no child left behind, free prescription drugs, staunch GOP supporter, libtard who posts at eLPee. Let's call him homer.
About the time that Obama was elected and the picture of the New Black Panther "poll watchers" with billy clubs appeared, he decided that he might need a GUN! Oh, the humanity!
Homer is a retired dude, check pants county club Republican, and had never owned a firearm in all of his life. So he posted a thread at eLPee asking for advise on what to buy. Well, as you might imagine there were hundreds of replies and suggestions. He ultimately ended up getting a pistol and rests easy now. He might not be the ideal gun owner, but at least he's in the position to take care of himself, his family, and his property. One less idiot running around trying to steal other peoples stuff when the SHTF.
Just one example of O'bungler's ability to sell guns and ammo.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
#3. To: hondo68 (#2)
Every time they pass another draconian law, my wife asks me to go buy more ammo.
obungler makes it easy for me, at least in this regard.
To: mcToejam, rat-boy, drippy, Alzheimer Fred, whitesands, t-bird, loonymom/ming, e-type jackoff, goober56, wreck, cal-CON, rabid dog, dummy DwarF, biff, harrowup the communist, and meguro. You're on the "a waste of human flesh" list. Piss off.
#4. To: CZ82 (#0)
Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job?
Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as legislator.
And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?
- Matt Patterson, American Thinker
If obomba loses the election buy one gun to fend off the malcontents ...
if obomba wins re election buy two guns the next depression will be worse ---
you've got a drive through marxist greese monkey running the country using surplus re cycled ussr lube - oil !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
#5. To: Brian S (#1)
I don't know. Business was pretty brisk back during the Clinton/Reno/Waco days.
True.
But NOTHING like now...
To: mcToejam, rat-boy, drippy, Alzheimer Fred, whitesands, t-bird, loonymom/ming, e-type jackoff, goober56, wreck, cal-CON, rabid dog, dummy DwarF, biff, harrowup the communist, and meguro. You're on the "a waste of human flesh" list. Piss off.
#6. To: Capitalist Eric (#5)
I don't know, it got pretty wicked back then. Folks making pvc vaults to bury their wares.
Makes me wonder how many are still buried and forgotten/lost?
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
#7. To: BorisY (#4)
If obomba loses the election buy one gun to fend off the malcontents ...if obomba wins re election buy two guns the next depression will be worse ---
you've got a drive through marxist greese monkey running the country using surplus re cycled ussr lube - oil !
and some people wonder why right wing extremists would even be considered to be racists and potential terrorists worthy of watching.
Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady
#8. To: Brian S (#6)
I don't know, it got pretty wicked back then. Folks making pvc vaults to bury their wares.
So you liked Reagan. You didn't like Clinton. But Barack is hunky dory. That makes no sense.
#9. To: Brian S (#6)
Two things to consider:
1. Who says there aren't people still burying (or otherwise hiding) extra weapons now?
2. People who bury weapons never forget where they are. Count on it.
To: mcToejam, rat-boy, drippy, Alzheimer Fred, whitesands, t-bird, loonymom/ming, e-type jackoff, goober56, wreck, cal-CON, rabid dog, dummy DwarF, biff, harrowup the communist, and meguro. You're on the "a waste of human flesh" list. Piss off.
#10. To: lucysmom (#7)
and some people wonder why right wing extremists would even be considered to be racists and potential terrorists worthy of watching.
Really. Since the left wing has already got their terrorist policies towards babies implemented via color of law.
#11. To: A K A Stone (#8)
So you liked Reagan. You didn't like Clinton. But Barack is hunky dory. That makes no sense.
Re-read my tagline. Issues and circumstances change and evolve over time as do I.
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
#12. To: Capitalist Eric (#3)
Every time they pass another draconian law, my wife asks me to go buy more ammo.
I wonder if she knows how stupid you really are, by broadcasting it over the internet.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
#13. To: A K A Stone (#10)
Since the left wing has already got their terrorist policies towards babies implemented via color of law.
Catholic women have an abortion rate 29% higher than Protestant women;
one in five women having abortions are born-again or Evangelical Christians;
snip
The proportion of abortion patients who have never used any contraceptive method is highest among women who are younger than 18, single women, Catholic women, unemployed women, minority women, those with no religious affiliation, and those with low education and income levels..
http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/prabort2.html
Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady
#14. To: mininggold, Capitalist Eric (#12)
Every time they pass another draconian law, my wife asks me to go buy more ammo.I wonder if she knows how stupid you really are, by broadcasting it over the internet.
I guess Eric's wife isn't allowed to do her own shopping, but must ask.
Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady
#15. To: CZ82 (#0)
blah blah blah......•Winchester’s sales of ammunition have gone from $431.7 million to $572 million, an increase of 33% .......blah blah blah
Wow I'm sure it's not due to the price of ammo and guns going up about 200 percent in the same period, not to mention the lemming effect, proven to be similiar to that creating the higher price of gold.
You idiots have made it hard on legitimate sportsmen being able to afford their hobby. Plus I bet not a one is storing it properly. Oh well, you'll have to learn the hard way.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
#16. To: lucysmom (#14)
I guess Eric's wife isn't allowed to do her own shopping, but must ask.
She probably thinks they will do a background check when she buys ammo, too.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
#17. To: BorisY, *Yukon neo-Progressive Vermin* (#4)
surplus re cycled ussr lube - oil !
You're going to need it if your Mormon Messiah gets elected !!!
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
#18. To: mininggold, Capitalist Eric (#16)
She probably thinks they will do a background check when she buys ammo, too.
Some libtard cali congresscritter wanted to print serial numbers on the inside of cartridge cases AND the base of the bullets, and have a database of who bought them. Never underestimate the insanity of libtards!
Years ago they passed legislation in Los Angeles County that you had to show ID, sign a book, and give a thumbprint to buy ammo.
I did that once to buy a box of 9mm, and from then on bought from the next county over.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
#19. To: mininggold (#15)
Wow I'm sure it's not due to the price of ammo and guns going up about 200 percent in the same period, not to mention the lemming effect, proven to be similiar to that creating the higher price of gold.You idiots have made it hard on legitimate sportsmen being able to afford their hobby. Plus I bet not a one is storing it properly. Oh well, you'll have to learn the hard way.
Ammo has went up considerably around here but not 200%, and most of the price increase happened before Obozo was elected, and that was because of increased demand (everyone knows Leftards hate guns and ammo).... Then the prices of raw materials like copper and brass went up considerably soon after he was inaugurated... All in all the price around here has doubled except for ammo that is readily available like military surplus calibers.... Heck I can still get a 20 round box of .223 for about $6!!!
There are a lot of bad Republicans; there are no good Democrats!!!
#20. To: hondo68 (#18)
Some libtard cali congresscritter wanted to print serial numbers on the inside of cartridge cases AND the base of the bullets, and have a database of who bought them. Never underestimate the insanity of libtards!
They knew that sooner or later everyone would get wise to their lies and come looking for them to insert a FMJ or HP enema into their foreheads!!!
There are a lot of bad Republicans; there are no good Democrats!!!
#21. To: BorisY (#4)
Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job?
It's because those people don't pay attention to much of anything, they just go vote!!!!
There are a lot of bad Republicans; there are no good Democrats!!!
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