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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Effects of Gun Ban Proposals

Received this through e-mail:  Urbanman, I thought you would be tickled to get this update from the Southland. My friend recently sold one of his DPMS carbines and six magazines to someone for $3,000. He bought the carbine for around $850. This kind of shows you the value of guns when the SHTF and we are straight bartering. My friend told me someone else wants a carbine so he may sell another one as well. $6,000 would buy a truckload of food. Sure am glad I don't have to buy one of those since I already have an AR-15, but my primary gun is my old Ruger Model 77 in .308 Win. But by God what kind of desperation does a man have to have to spend $3,000 on a rifle?

UrbanMan's comments: I have been getting report after, e-mail after Pm on the prices from all over. It is crazy. Good thing most of us, and those reading this, probably have plenty of both AR type rifles or something suitable for protection and enough ammunition to last. Some friends of mine from Arizona and Texas are telling me they can't buy .223 ammunition in any of the sporting good stores. Another told me P-magazines for AR's were going for $100 each,.....$100 each!! I bought mine for around $12 each. And yet another gent told me that AR prices at a gun show were $2,700 to $3,600. All because of some anti-constitutionalists want to take away our guns! Here is one account that was forwarded to me by a friend:

......AR15's went from $1000 to $3000 in a few hours. .223 caliber ammo went from $300 to $900 in the same time period. There is absolutely nothing left of any quality at the wholesale level. I mean zero. People are completely freaked out. I cannot tell you what it was like on my way out the door. Completely out of control.

I personally don't think anything will make it through the House or the Senate. This will be done via executive order. Legal or not. It will be challenged in court, but will have about the same outcome as the Health Care Bill challenge. I have been in the weapons industry for over 30 years now and never seen anything like this. I wonder about all of these people buying weapons, ammo, and magazines. I seriously doubt that many know how to effectively use them defensively, much less offensively. They just think they need them because someone told them that they are not going to be able to buy them anymore. Kind of like a Cabbage Patch Doll going on sale on Black Friday.

The powers that be have a game plan. Plain and simple. They cannot execute the game plan until we are disarmed. There are a series of steps that will take place to achieve that goal. They have already played many of those cards out behind the scenes unknown to most. Did you know that you cannot import a gun part or round of ammunition into this country that meets their description of "non-sporting' anymore? What does that mean? There are about a thousand more regulations in place that most have not a clue exist.

The next card to play is one that they are mulling around now. That will be the requirement that you register you weapon (assault or not) with them for your safety. No charge at first of course. Next will be ammunition (via taxes) and magazine control. After they get a handle on that, they will simply make it a Federal offense to own them. They will not come around and pick them up. That will be too dangerous. They will just prosecute you when they catch you with them. There will be a few people made example of and that will take care of the masses.

Some of this will be done via random road check points and routine traffic stops. The game plan will be executed by DHS, TSA and local law enforcement that agrees to comply. The FEDS will use the almighty dollar as a carrot to entice them to cooperate. Now the massive purchases of ammunition, arms and armored vehicles by DHS, TSA and the existence of those FEMA Camps should start to make more sense to you.

I often hear some say they will hide or bury their weapons. If you do that, you might as well not have one. It would be worthless then. I am starting to wonder how many of the NRA guys really mean what they say, "Pry it from my cold dead hands." I would venture to say that most would cut and run at the first sight of authority. Take that and the fact that we are completely unorganized and you will start to see that we are very vulnerable. Internet and telecommunication control starting make more sense to you now?

We are not quickly approaching uncharted waters, we are in them. Like I said before, you are going to have to decide whether you are a man (or woman) or not, just shortly. When I look around at most customers, I suspect that is typically not the case.

One has to spend a lot of time to decide whether or not to comply. End of story. This is my country, not theirs.

I think back a few years ago, when I was having dinner with a "seasoned" combat vet who was a gun ship pilot during the Vietnam War and he said something that has always stuck with me. "Give up your weapons and you are a dead man". The look in his eye and the tone of his voice always stuck with me.

I know what I think I have, but then I have not had to confront anyone that demanded that I disarm myself until now. Especially someone employed by my government with a gun and handcuffs. It does however; make me take another long look at a poster I have on the wall in my office of an unarmed person kneeling at the edge of a ditch filled with dead bodies during WWII being shot in the back of the head by a German Nazi officer.

4 comments:

  1. The government can have all my guns...barrel first and after I have expended all my ammunition. Our forefathers risked their lives and their fortunes to secure these rights for us from a foreign tyrant and it is our duty to defend and retain these rights as citizens of this country. These rights will be defended at the cost of some of our lives. People need to accept the fact that they may already be dead in order to muster the courage it will take to defend our rights. Officers in Viet Nam were asked to write their own obituaries prior to going in to battle; once they had accepted the fact that they may already be dead, the thought of going in to battle seemed less impossible. We citizens may be in the very same situation and we need to accept that fact if we are to succeed. I will...and I repeat I will defend my consitutional rights to my death if necessary. If some little prick in the White House or congress thinks that they can trample my rights and that I will go silently into the night giving them up, they will be sadly mistaken. Those who come to collect our weapons will lose their eagerness after the first couple of dozen of conflicts when they start to see their commrades die before seizing their objective(s); the public opinion surrounding these conflicts will quickly turn negative towards those little pricks in our government to the point that they will have no other option other than to capitulate or give up their agenda to take our weapons. It may very well cost some lives, but if you look into recent history what was the public opinion after Ruby Ridge and Waco? They can not afford the negative public opinion with an attempt to seize our weapons...at least a drawn out one. We must stick together or we will all surely hang together. God Bless you all and God Bless the United States of America!

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  2. I respect your 30 years in the gun business and I agree there are plenty of pussies buying guns right now. they are the same guys/gals you'll find in "cigar bars". However, I believe that there are lots of guys like myself, that will not comply. I don't have an arsenal. I have a Glock 17 and a single shot 16 gauge. I will not, under any circumstance, voluntarily hand these weapons over to the gov't. Also, I think you under estimate the amount of Law Enforcement/ former military that would NOT buckle down to Napolitano's Homeland Defense SS with their full auto's. Believe me, I'll be the first guy to take one of those full auto's off the cold, dead hands of that New Age Enforcer>

    Damn, it feels good to be a gangster.

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    1. I assume your Glock was bought with a background check. My advice is sell your glock to a stranger who also will sell you a glock 17. That way both of you can honestly say you sold the gun in a private sale and don't know the name of the buyer. Obviously you leave out the part where you bought a gun and cache it somewhere safe.

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  3. Quit with the yellow font already!!...lol

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