Fear of President Barack Obama being re-elected is being credited for a giant mass of gun sales in Texas. Texans fear that in the President's second term he will do away with or infringe upon the Second Amendment, which gives United States citizens the right to bear arms and own guns. It looks like people are buying now so that they have their guns already, just in case the President adds stricter rules and regulations.
According to Fox 4 News, the rush to buy guns has gone up nationally, but Texas is second in buying guns only to Kentucky. In 2011, the FBI received 16.3 million criminal background checks for people wanting to buy a gun, and a whopping 1 million of those came from Texas. In 2008, there were 12.7 million checks nationally.
What does this mean? With gun sales booming there will be a lot more guns in homes near you.This means more homeowners will have protection in the form of firearms, but it also means that the bad guys could be stocking up on supplies too. What a vicious cycle.
Author Alan Korwin, who wrote nine books on guns, says citizens fear if Obama is re-elected he will push for major gun control. Fox 4 quotes the author as stating, "I'm constantly getting questions from people in the community about this... People are concerned that if Obama wins, as a lame duck, he will go after firearms in a way we have never seen before."
On March 3, 2012, CBS News quoted the President as saying "The Second Amendment in this country is part of our Constitution and the president of the United States is bound by our Constitution. So I believe in the Second Amendment. It does provide for Americans the right to bear arms for their protection, for their safety, for hunting, for a wide range of uses. That does not mean that we cannot constrain gun runners from shipping guns into Mexico."
If gun supporters fear the President's re-election, voting for someone else seems in order. It sounds like the President is saying he wants rules in place to keep guns out of the wrong hands. Gun sales are booming around the country in speculation, but only time will tell what will happen. Everyone should take a deep breath, calm down, and consider how hard it would be for the President to pass new gun regulations. Washington should first agree on health care, the national debt and gas prices before adding guns to their list of topics.
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Comments: 40
name one single instance fo gun rights expanding under obama!
maybe the ban he put on recycling brass (that was declared illegal by the courts)? on no - wait - that made it worse, since it caused a huge increase in the cost of ammo - and if you dont know, a gun without affordable ammo, is only a hammer.
Cookie is absolutely correct.
ROTFLMAO. Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla) succeeded in attaching a rider to the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 prohibiting The Secretary of the Interior from enforcing regulations prohibiting law abiding citizens from carrying loaded weapons in national parks. Yes Obama knew it was there, but he had no authority to strike it from the bill. It was a trade off. He was demanding that Congress send the bill for signing before the Memorial Day weekend. He wanted the Credit CARD Act of 2009 bad enough to sign with the rider. Obama's views on gun ownership are quite clear from his days in the Illinois legislature and the U.S. Senate. He has a willing partner in AG Holder also.
I'm glad I read this article. It reminded me to stock up on some more .308 and .223
first off, the ban was unconstitutional to begin with - and the restriction was simply lifted, RESTORING a right that had been there since the parks service began!
and as eqamon pointied out - it was an add on that obama was against, but could not get a law he wanted passxed without it - you do know he does not have line item veto powers right?
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
It's really a simple exercise in reading comprehension.
"This insane need for a gun is nothing more than a guy pretending he has more than 2 inches to work with."
A little sexist there maybe? A lot of women carry firearms also. Do you have some scientific data to back your theory correlating penis size and gun ownership? LOL.
Wal-Mart. LOL
Something also tells me she knows little about anything else...
well that certainly is a laugh - since his people PROMOTED the sale of weapons being sent to mexico (fast and furious) rofl!!!!!!
and not to pick on you brandy,
but as far as obama is concerned, they have already decided on the debt (let it soar, faster and faster), and on health care (they are taling it over lock stock, and barrel - opps, cant have the barrel lol)
and actually, gun sales skyrocketed immediately on his election due to the same concern - calmed down for a couple of years, and now is re-surging, because as lame duck, he might get it done (in stages of course) in a second term.
as an example, in the first months of his term - gun stores had a LOT of emply shelves - that had not happened in my many decades of lifetime at least.
where did THAT come from?
wow - and that was in all the news, heard about it on cnn, npr, nbc and fox ......
no wait .......... diod not hear a word about that on any of them ...... wonder why?
want to enlighten us on what websites you are talking about?
and if you are claiming that the teaparty is anti-minority, then you are dfw - because that is as false as false can be.
i am not a taparty member, but know many - in fact i know more minority members, than non minority members - and all the minority members say they are not visibly active because of hatred, and harrassment, from other minority individuals.
4 years later......... " if John Kerry..........."
The Friday before Obama was immaculated, I bought my first handgun, a Beretta 92FS. I got my carry permit, and bought another one. And this summer, will buy at least one more. People been stocking up on ammo too. Can't have enough ammo,
Have you shot any rampaging hordes of Obama crazies trying to take over your neighborhood this week? He's gonna declare martial law any day now--- wait for it........ :)
No, responsible gun owners know when to shoot.
The people who melt their guns into plows will plow for those who don't.
Now about the 99% who don't have a gun safe.....
I tell them, it tells the criminals there are easier targets on the block knowing all you folks are gun hating leftists.
He did not do anything criminal with the gun, other than blowing his own brains out with it. My wife's college friend always has felt bad about that.