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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Unintended consequences indeed. Obama is best gun salesman -- ever.

Record U.S. Gun Production as Obama ‘Demonized’ on Issue

U.S. gun makers led by Sturm Ruger & Co. and Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (SWHC) churned out a record number of firearms in 2012, government data show, continuing a trend of robust production during Democratic presidencies.

More than 8.57 million guns were produced in 2012, up 31 percent from 6.54 million in 2011, according to data released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which has been tracking the statistics since 1986.

Almost as many guns -- 26.1 million -- were produced during Democrat Barack Obama’s first term as president as during the entire eight-year presidency of his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, the ATF data show. . .

Obama isn’t the only Democratic president to see a spike in gun production. More than 33 million firearms were manufactured during Democrat Bill Clinton’s two terms, which was more than the 28 million produced during Bush’s presidency. Just over 16 million firearms were manufactured during Republican George H.W. Bush’s single term.

Clinton antagonized gun-rights groups by pressing for stricter gun control. He signed legislation mandating background checks on firearm purchases and a ban on assault weapons. The ban expired in 2004.

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Paul X said...: This shows the fundamental orneriness of the average American; rulers want one thing, people do the opposite. Gun owners would have gone to sleep with an R president, which would likely have meant more gun control. Strange to think that the best way to protect RKBA is to elect a gun hater, but that appears to be the case.; February 22, 2014 at 7:17 PM
Anonymous said...: That's not counting a lot of Md.'s numbers.If you bought a handgun or "asault rifle" those didn't go through NICS. They had they're own half-assed beyond the proscribed waiting period !; February 22, 2014 at 7:29 PM
Anonymous said...: Clinton stated in a speech in Cleveland in 1995 that he knew his "Assault Weapons Ban" law cost the democrats the Congress in 1994.; February 22, 2014 at 10:42 PM
harp1034 said...: Obama is also a good bayonet salesman. In 2012 he was running off at the mouth about bayonets. He has never held one much less trained with one. So I bought a Marine Corps bayonet.
Eat your heart out, Mr. President!; February 22, 2014 at 10:59 PM
Anonymous said...: Oh yeah... He has also become the Constitutional Law professor he always calimed to be and everyone is doing their home work.

And man can he sell Gibson Guitars. Every Guitar that Gibson sold that was made from the cinfisgated wood that Gobson got back went like hot cakes.

Heck everyone who was faint of heat about guns is armed up these days. I think it would be a quick show if it did start.

You guys remember don't let you neighbor fall. If you see something say something. Watch each other's back out there. This is the only way we can get through it and this is their modus, mak as many conflicts as possible. I think the moron is finding out just how resilliant the American people are SURPRISE! We ain't as dumb as you thought.

Hey Sorento, we've just been napping, thanks for waking us up.; February 23, 2014 at 9:56 AM
Anonymous said...: Anon at 9:56, Zero was never a professor, but a part time lecturer with connections for the job.; February 23, 2014 at 9:52 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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