AR-15 Sales up 50% in Idaho Falls over last year

[EvlPrsn]

as far as gun control laws are concerned, i dont reli care one way or another, as i am an archer and much prefer my recurve bow to a gun any day.   

[Toad]

as far as gun control laws are concerned, i dont reli care one way or another, as i am an archer and much prefer my recurve bow to a gun any day.   

Great sentiment from a fellow hunter! Because after all, once they ban hunting guns, they surely won't come after your bow hunting. PETA will give up after all the gun hunters have lost their guns. Plus, there's that huge body of archers that form such a strong political force to preserve your right to hunt.

You have nothing to worry about, fer shure, dude!

[DiabloTX]

Looks like the folks in Eastern Idaho plan on remaining well armed:

http://www.kidk.com/news/local/16968331.html

I wonder if this is happening nation-wide????   Perhaps this is more a rural America thing.

Nope.  Very popular in the cities as well.  It's called "keeping it real" or "supporting your street cred".

[lazs2]

guppy.. do you really have your head that far up your butt?

Paranoid?    I suppose that people who thought the rest of the country would go to unleaded gas when kalifornia did were "paranoid"?   How bout helmet and seatbelt laws and smoking laws?   are you just wandering around in some cloud?

As kalifornia goes.. so goes the nation.  sorry..

You have no idea of the gun laws here..  they will be coming to you soon enough tho unless the pendulum swings the other way and...

I don't see any of the democratic candidtates wanting anything more than more gun control.   99% of all gun control bills are propossed by democrats.  democrats are the enemy of the second amendment..   if you can't see that then you are hopeless.   

Lots of folks here in kalifornia were as naive as you and thought it couldn't happen to them.   

lazs

[Yeager]

or report them lost/stolen before it's too late.

Careful!  there is a new trend in gun legislation that makes it a crime to have a gun stolen.   The thinking being: it is the gun owners responsibility to secure his weapon against theft.

Pure BS to me but oh well, you know....the panzie state 

[EvlPrsn]

Great sentiment from a fellow hunter! Because after all, once they ban hunting guns, they surely won't come after your bow hunting. PETA will give up after all the gun hunters have lost their guns. Plus, there's that huge body of archers that form such a strong political force to preserve your right to hunt.

You have nothing to worry about, fer shure, dude!

very funny.  most people dont even see bows as much of a threat.  and i dont hunt by the way, i'm more part of the target shooting crowd right now.  i do understand where ur coming from, and i dont want to see guns taken away, as it allows for several protections that would be gone if the guns go away.  however, i would liek to see more people learning to shoot bows.  (and i mean traditional bows, compounds are practically guns with all the machinery on them  ICK  >_<).  anyway, i do believe people having guns is good for preserving the status quo with government power, and also for all the times they have helped save lives.

[Charon]

Living where I live it's hard for me to give much focus on federal firearm laws. The attack is unrelenting at the state level, and that is a far greater threat to my 2nd Amendment rights -- not that I wouldn't make an effort at the federal level if things got serious. Gun owners in sane areas simply do not understand what it’s like in places like this.

It doesn't help that my federal senator is NRA F rated Obama, and my Congressman is the F rated Republican Mark Kirk.

Technically, I live under an AWB as a Cook County resident. However, there are potential home rule issues that MIGHT mean the ban only applies to a few agreeable communities and unincorporated areas. Still, I have resisted the urge to get an AK, AR of FAL while the ISRA lawsuit against the ban is worked out. I did add a Choate pistol gripped synthetic stock, front top rail and Aimpoint to my latest CMP carbine that had a crappy stock anyway. SHOULD be legal given my reading of the current AWB, and fully reversible.

But, Daley is pushing an even tougher AWB that will also ban most all pistols for the county with no home rule options. Here's his latest taxpayer funded PR effort along those lines:

Chicago students rally for tougher gun laws
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-chicago-teen-protest-gunsapr02,0,6887438.story

Basically, Daley gave them the day off school for this protest, bussed them downtown, set up the cameras and cried his crocodile tears. The local media laps it up, but when 2500 Illinois gun owners marched on the state capital a few weeks back -- on their own dime in the middle of the week -- it was ignored. I wonder how many of these "student activists" would show up on their own dime on a Saturday

Charon

[Toad]

Charon, then you should be interested in the incorporation fight for the 2nd that comes next at the Federal level. If the 2nd is incorporated into the 14th you should have much more favorable results on your home ground.

So you need to be interested at the Federal level. 

[Charon]

Charon, then you should be interested in the incorporation fight for the 2nd that comes next at the Federal level. If the 2nd is incorporated into the 14th you should have much more favorable results on your home ground.

So you need to be interested at the Federal level.

Oh I am -- especially that aspect. I even dare hope that incorporation MIGHT be addressed this time around. FWIW, it is believed that the judge hearing the Cook County AWB lawsuit is waiting for June to get some guidance from Heller.

This was a ban forced through back channels with no opportunity for public commentary much like Meigs Field. We had held off several previous efforts through normal channels by slamming the phones.

Charon

[Toad]

So is it now the Demkratic Pipples Republic of Illinois or DPR of Chicago? Or both?

Suxxors either way, my condolences.

[Charon]

So is it now the Demkratic Pipples Republic of Illinois or DPR of Chicago? Or both?

Suxxors either way, my condolences.

Chicago and Cook County make up the tail that wags the dog. The numbers balance out at the state level so it is basically a tie -- but always a handful of votes type of thing, and there is always something (often many things) in the works ever single session. 2-3 fires to put out. Cook County is much harder – about  2 to 1 Daley, but if you make enough calls they actually back down on occasion. That's why he had to do the end around for the last AWB.

It really does suck. I live 4 blocks from the county border. And it's not just firearms but the whole, tax and spend cash suck to pay for the city's social programs. As I noted in previous threads, a variety of communities are working to remove themselves from Cook County's waste, graft and corruption. You'll likely see class 3 weapons in Chicago before they succeed though.

Illinois is literally giving Mass and California a run for their money. That's why Teddy and Obama get along so well. Hillery is Barry Goldwater by comparison.

Charon