Panic Buying – Why?

[LightningJoe]

Clinton completely overreached in 1993. Obama may do the same in 2009. I think these people have a tendency to regard their agenda as Olympian and to believe that any victory is the final conquest they've been waiting for. So, they naturally want to repaint and recarpet the whole country immediately. Then, they're surprised when the hillbillies act like the war's not over.


Would Obama try to force change with an executive order type of fait accompli? Maybe he would. I suspect he's a bit of a nut, nutty enough to fit in with Bill Ayers and the other radical commies. If Ayers would plant a bomb at the Pentagon, would his political protege plant one in the Constitution?


Maybe he would. Interesting times.

 

[twoclones]

I was just at the local Sportsmans Warehouse and their handgun wall is looking pretty bare... Two salesmen told me that they have 'no ARs left at all."

 

[RockyMtnTactical]

People are scared. And rightly so. Obama is no friend of gun owners. He is an evil man with evil desires. The move to socialism is frightening, as socialism is just a step away from communism, a scary beast.

We live in the greatest land in the WORLD. Let's keep it that way.

 

[ants]

I'm not scared. I'm not in a panic. I'm ready to fight any battle necessary.

If you had lived in 1776 and you acted this way, with panic and fear, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Our forefathers didn't panic and fear, they fought. And won.

 

[catfish101]

I was at my local store today and allot of people are buying. Most are buying ammo because of the tax that will be imposed. I picked up a couple rifles today because I worked a deal not a panic thing.

I have talked to a few guys that are selling rifles. They are keeping curtain guns in curtain calibers. They don't want to keep up with so many different rounds. Especially the expensive high powered rifles that shoot higher priced rounds.

I will say that I did put an evil black rifle on lay-away today. I don't have one and there is a good chance that they will be hard to get very soon. Wasn't a panic thing just a thought. I never really had any interest in one because I shot them so much for several years I guess. Anyway, I put a new SandW back.

 

[JaxNovice]

I am a little confused by the panic buying. It was pretty clear as early as mid-September that Obama was going to win.

 

[JaxNovice]

He is an evil man with evil desires

Totally off base and just what some reporter is looking for as she/he trolls gun forums.

 

[candr44]

Thanks to the panic buyers they have been able to do what the anti gun people have been trying to do for years---make the prices go up so much that it becomes difficult or impossible to afford.

 

[TexasRifleman]

I was hoping there would be an option to vote "Because some of us are completely unhinged and irrational."

I guess a lot of you guys weren't around for the Clinton ban or you wouldn't be saying things like this.

Some of us have been here before. That time we got away with an expiration date. I don't think anyone wants to take that gamble again.

 

[PTK]

Dunno why you're all buying, but keep it up, I'll have more for sale soon enough...

 

[Ala Dan]

"Combination of some, or ALL of the above"~!

 

[LightningJoe]

Our forefathers didn't panic and fear, they fought. And won.

They were fighting an enemy that had to move men and materiel three thousand miles across an ocean using wooden sailing ships. That enemy was also occupied dealing with very strong third parties to protect interests much more valuable than the American colonies.


Good luck fighting the US military and everything else the Federal government has at its disposal. If the British had been in the position our government is in, they could have imposed a lot more taxes without any revolt.


If Obama issues an executive order banning guns (1000000:1 against), there won't be any serious opposition except at the ballot box in 2010.

 

[.38 Special]

I didn't vote. But the reality is that Obama can issue an executive order and do about anything he wants. A stroke of the pen = the weight of law.

He can issue an executive order and outlaw concealed carry nationwide. He can issue an EO and eliminate gun shows.

You seem to have mistaken the power of executive orders for that of a king or monarch. Executive orders are issued to clarify existing law. Making new law via executive order is unconstitutional, per the Supreme Court. (Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 1952)

 

[fletcher]

^ Also know that pretty much anything goes until it's challenged.

 

[.38 Special]

If Presidents could make sweeping gun bans via executive order, why didn't Clinton do it?

But hey, don't let me stop anyone from stocking up on tin foil and hi-cap mags. The economy needs all the help it can get -- and if you really want something to worry about re. Obama, the economy should be the odds-on favorite.

 

[harmonic]

Executive orders are issued to clarify existing law.

Well, I'm sure you know more about it than I, but this article seems to contradict your supposition.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081109/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama

From the article:

There's a lot that the president can do using his executive authority without waiting for congressional action, and I think we'll see the president do that," Podesta said. "I think that he feels like he has a real mandate for change. We need to get off the course that the Bush administration has set."

 

[.38 Special]

See the post above yours.

 

[browningguy]

AWB and new taxes on ammo. Lucky me, I already have plenty of ammo, maybe even enough to go four years with a little care. Plus reloading supplies, and beucoup magazines for everything.

 

[harmonic]

Ok, I got it. Is this it? Thanx for the clarification. That's a load off.

However, the Supreme Court ruled in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 US 579 (1952) that Executive Order 10340 from President Harry S. Truman placing all steel mills in the country under federal control was invalid because it attempted to make law, rather than clarify or act to further a law put forth by the Congress or the Constitution. Presidents since this decision have generally been careful to cite which specific laws they are acting under when issuing new executive orders.

 

[5knives]

I voted the combination!

Why?

Because I paid attention to what happened in Australia, Canada and Great Britain.

They all thought they'd have time to argue, appeal, resist, vote, delay, etc.

They were wrong!

Regards,

 

[Ben86]

I wonder what Obama thinks of this sudden rise of gun purchase in light of his election. Does it send a clear message to him that people know his intention when it comes to the Second Amendment?

Just as a side note, I wonder if Obama would bail out the firearm industry like he wants to do with the auto industry? Oh wait, that's right, it doesn't need bailing out anyway, because Americans still love their right to keep and bear arms.

 

[TexasRifleman]

Making new law via executive order is unconstitutional, per the Supreme Court. (Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 1952)

Perhaps you should take your Constitutional scholarship and explain it to the next President. He certainly seems to have a different interpretation.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1195959/barack_obamas_executive_orders.html

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/ethics/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/30/obama-would-order-review_n_115782.html


Yes, just harmless little things to give guidance to agencies right?

Just like Bush I's use of EOs to stop the import of some types of firearms. That could never happen.......

 

[SoCalShooter]

I have my body covered in tin foil but I am going for all of the above.

 

[meef]

Why? You ask, Why?

Simple.

Baaa. Baaa.

 

[Mach2]

I wonder what Obama thinks of this sudden rise of gun purchase in light of his election. Does it send a clear message to him that people know his intention when it comes to the Second Amendment?[end quote]

Mach2 replies:

I have had quite a few gun owners tell me B.O. is not anti 2A. I think they knowingly lied just to get him in the white house.
I went in a gun store today that was nearly empty. The people who know what B.O. is about are afraid America is done for. It isn't just the 2nd amendment they are worried about.