Shades of 1992, high prices, panic buying of guns...

[gopguy]

My latest for Buckeye Firearms talks about the gun panic of 1992 and how it is very much like what we are seeing now. High prices, empty shelves at gun shops and crowds at gun shows is nothing new. We saw this after the Clinton election in 1992. What lies ahead, is the panic warranted ? We talk about it here.

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/6337

Feel free to share the link with family and friends.

Tim

 

[RPCVYemen]

My latest for Buckeye Firearms talks about the gun panic of 1992 and how it is very much like what we are seeing now.

Does that mean that we are in for 8 years of peace and prosperity, with a budget surplus in 2016?

I would trade higher AR 15 prices for a budget surplus and unemployment less than 4% (or whatever it was at the end of Clinton's presidency) ...

Mike

 

[Coronach]

I think he's saying we're in for ten years of an AWB. Only it probably won't be 10, if it happens this time. Did you notice that the AWB language is back on Obama's website?

Mike

 

[Old Fuff]

Perhaps with all the gloom and doom we should remember that 1992 was followed by the election of 1994, when the Democrats lost control of both the House and Senate. The "gun vote" was given a lot of the credit (or brickbats) for what happened. History might repeat itself, as there are a lot more tactical gun owners now then there were then.

 

[Animal Mother]

Does that mean that we are in for 8 years of peace and prosperity, with a budget surplus in 2016?

I wouldn't bet on that; however, I would bet on an attempt to pass a new AWB.

 

[Titan6]

Did you notice that the AWB language is back on Obama's website?

The AWB stuff showed up the day after the elektion. I was so surprised you could have knocked me over with a feather. Who knew he was an anti?

 

[John828]

I know better than this but anchors aweigh:

I think he's saying we're in for ten years of an AWB. Only it probably won't be 10, if it happens this time. Did you notice that the AWB language is back on Obama's website?

Mike

That seems like awfully political language for an apolitical forum and from a mod. Ah shucks, I was just kidding.

Seriously though, there are some similarities except this time we have a real idealogue instead of a poll sniffer. Clinton had no idea of the repercussions of his actions just like getting too close to your scope on a lightweight .338--a little blood, but you learn how to do better next time.

This time, there will be no political backlash because the populous is better informed and armed. We just have to watch out for the fake punts.

 

[gopguy]

RPCVYemen, Your memory is bad, unemployment hit 4% under Bush, the best average under Clinton was 6.2%. The surplus had more to do with a Republican Congress keeping Bill in check. Congress spends the money and raises the taxes, note the biggest expenditures have been under Reid and Pelosi. The 90's economy was more Bill Gates, than Bill Clinton, not political, just setting the facts straight, but I digress...

Coronach is sort of correct, I am saying we will face a new ban but not for ten years. BHO wants to make it permanent and comprehensive, which means it will cover much more than Clinton's '94 ban did. Plus we will face the end of private sales. Big brother wants to know where the guns are, this will help do it.

 

[Animal Mother]

I would trade higher AR 15 prices for a budget surplus and unemployment less than 4% (or whatever it was at the end of Clinton's presidency) ...

Freedom and economic prosperity are not mutually exclusive.

 

[John828]

I would trade higher AR 15 prices for a budget surplus and unemployment less than 4% (or whatever it was at the end of Clinton's presidency) ...

Only if you already have too many ARs. Besides this mentality is what is wrong with society (not picking on you because I believe it was made tongue in cheek.)

Trade an apple for security, anyone? Everyone has a price. If it comes down to an empty stomach or fill in the blank, it gets really scary.

IBTL (of course we got a mod participating, so a lock would look suspect, right?)

 

[yokel]

Where do we, the folks, draw the line with laws which abrogate, abridge or infringe the right to keep and bear arms?

 

[John828]

yokel,

Personal convenience probably.

John828

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

The original AWB was a sucker punch. Trying it again, let alone one that was more restrictive or had no sunset, with this many people now interested in "tactical" this and that would be political suicide, and recinded by whoever replaced him after he's impeached.
I don't like Obama's position on just about every issue. I know he is very anti-gun and would probably like to ban anything that even looks like a gun. But he's not stupid enough to try it. His election win was probably the greatest sales boost for the gun industry in America's history.

 

[yokel]

Personal convenience probably.

Seeing that we essentially relinquished machine guns, RPGs and hand grenades a long time ago, one might surmise that the line is drawn at whatever arms the government decides to allow.

 

[John828]

Seeing that we essentially relinquished machine guns, RPGs and hand grenades a long time ago, one might surmise that the line is drawn at whatever arms the government decides to allow.

Some people don't believe, let me say, some people cannot conceive, the idea that America, small town America even, could become as lawless as Mogadishu or Beirut.

Unfortunately and sadly, should that ever confront us, many will not know what to do.

 

[gopguy]

But he's not stupid enough to try it

DoubleTapDrew, The problem is he is saying it, and is saying it after the election.

They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.”

Jews did not want to believe "Mein Kampf" either, bad mistake on their behalf...

If they do this early next year, it will be far from an election. Many Democrats think we are morons with short memories and that their mistake in 1994 was doing that gun ban/magazine ban vote so close to the November election. Believe what your enemies say, they most likely mean it.

We need to pressure our Representatives and Senators in Washington DC to try to stop Obama NOW.

 

[John828]

Coronach or not, IBTL

 

[Regular Joe]

There are so many forces at work right now. I think some of the potential disasters will mature much sooner than anyone wants to imagine/conceive. Right now, 6,000 homes are being foreclosed EVERY DAY. That number stands to double over the next 6 mos. to 1 yr. Right now, unemployment stands at about 7%, as Chrysler closes for a full month. The civil situation in our little country stands to deteriorate much faster than any of us want to consider. Those who don't know what to do will be the easiest prey to those who know what they need.
You know, while we busy ourselves with readying arms, we need also to stock up on some sustenance food items to give to others. They don't want to kill me, and I don't want to kill them.