Honey, is it me, or the election?

From my latest NSSF Bullet Points, interesting reading. Now, would you like some optics for those rifles? ;+)

Election Concerns Spur Gun Sales Nationwide

A Washington Post story on a spike in gun sales related to the presidential election has triggered a flurry of news stories across the country that explore the same trend on the local level. In each of these stories, firearms retailers, gun owners and gun-rights supporters sound off on their views and concerns about Tuesday's election and what it could mean for gun owners and businesses.

This Tuesday, it is more critical than ever before that gun owners make their voice heard at the polls. There are more than 80 million gun owners in America, a significant and respected voting bloc that has made a huge impact in past elections. Learn where your candidates stand on firearms issues and make your voice heard. Don't risk your rights. It's your freedoms that are at stake.

Online Resources: NSSF Voter Education | Find Your Voting Location | Absentee Voting

• WHAT FIREARM RETAILERS AND GUN OWNERS ARE SAYING . . . News stories are popping up nationwide on gun sales related to the upcoming elections. See what firearms retailers and gun owners have been saying:

  Oregon - Gun Sales Surge on Gun Control Fears

  Pennsylvania - Gun Owners Stocking Up Before Election, Shops Say

  Texas - Gun Sales Up One Week Before Election

  Florida - Gun Shop Owners Say Election Reason For Rising Gun Sales

  Alabama - Is The Election Causing Gun Sales To Spike?

It's starting already............

Folks,

It looks like our "friends" over at the Brady Campaign didn't need to wait until Obama won the election.....I guess they are feeling their oats. They have released a report titled "Assault Weapons: Mass Produced Mayhem". As you might surmise, it's filled with emotional and ominous arguments exhorting the reader to support a wide reaching and "strong" federal assault weapons ban because "the lives of our law enforcement officers and citizens hang in the balance" (big surprise).

I don't want to comment on the article as I want you to read it yourself. It is required reading for any serious gun owner. I will say there are a couple hundred snippets from media and web reports on "assault weapon" violence. I will say that I know one of these media clips to be accurate. Of course, there is the usual BS you read when an extremist advocacy group tries to be authoritative on a subject they thoroughly despise and are ignorant of.

Of particular interest are pages 16 and 17 of the report (at the bottom of the pages of the report itself, not the pages on the Adobe Acrobat reader). Page 16 recounts the article from Jim Zumbo's infamous blog entry decrying the use of "assault style" weapons by hunters, and page 17 illustrates how DC vs Heller actually supports the ban of military style assault weapons. I've never been comfortable with the Heller ruling and my concerns are validated when an anti-gun group uses the ruling to support a federal weapons ban.

Here's the report: http://www.bradycenter.org/xshare/pdf/reports/mass-produced-mayhem.pdf

Go ahead, get a taste for what's in store for us.

Not that I think we would have good times if McCain were to be elected, and not that G.W. Bush has done anything to help us in his eight years, but I really believe that if Obama somehow wins the presidency, very dark days will lie ahead for gun owners. Times that will make the pain under Slick Willy and Bozo the President look like Happy Days. I'm also getting this feedback from some combat veterans whom I trust.

Get your weapons/ammo/optics/training squared away ASAP, before it's too late. It may already be too late for some.

As always, thanks for dropping by.


Scott