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G26ster wrote:At the last Ft. Worth gun show a few weeks ago, most, if not all, of the major dealers had Glock 19s Gen 3 and Gen 4 available at their usually good prices.
Well, the possibilities for irony are growing. If the race hustlers manage to inflame passions enough to get riots going, support for more gun control may reach all time lows.OldCannon wrote:I have a colossal amount of respect for Mr Ayoob and what he does for our community. In this situation, I will say he's wrong. Not so much in the evidence he presents (we know Obama is anti-gun, we know Rahm is anti-gun, we know Holder is anti-gun, etc.), but that Obama will have to swing an axe through a VERY thick gauntlet of congressmen that have no love for him. Yes, if he wins, he has a great opportunity to stack the deck of the Supreme Court again, but it would require the court revisit the recent decisions and overturn what is now "established law."VMI77 wrote:Massad Ayoob disagrees: http://backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/If President Obama is re-elected, I predict that we will see the strongest attack on gun owners’ rights that has ever come out of the White House. And forget about the strategy of “we’ll just endure four years until the next election.” The constituency of the Supreme Court, in four more years of an Obama administration, will have changed considerably from the one that barely gave us the Second Amendment-affirming decisions in Heller and McDonald. It will set the stage for the man most likely to get the Democratic nomination for President in 2016, Rahm Emanuel. In many ways, Emanuel is Obama’s familiar, and much less inclined than his mentor to keep his anti-gun leanings even temporarily in the closet. As mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel has already proposed a draconian, impossibly expensive gun registration and ownership scheme for the entire state of Illinois. And don’t be surprised if President Obama announces that Rahm Emanuel will be his Vice-Presidential running mate in the 2012 election.
Massad IS right in implying that a Democratic win in 2012 is a bad portent for gun ownership in many ways, but there is sufficient evidence to indicate that many states, including Texas, Montana, Wyoming, etc. will simply thumb their nose at them. We definitely live in interesting times.
Yup, just to be clear, there are NO reports of price gouging or anything like that (and if you see it, report the dealer to the manufacturer). It's just that supplies are limited to stock on hand. I wonder if more people will be buying 45GAP now?G26ster wrote:At the last Ft. Worth gun show a few weeks ago, most, if not all, of the major dealers had Glock 19s Gen 3 and Gen 4 available at their usually good prices.
Especially among Koreans in Los Angeles. And other hard working minorities.VMI77 wrote:Well, the possibilities for irony are growing. If the race hustlers manage to inflame passions enough to get riots going, support for more gun control may reach all time lows.OldCannon wrote:I have a colossal amount of respect for Mr Ayoob and what he does for our community. In this situation, I will say he's wrong. Not so much in the evidence he presents (we know Obama is anti-gun, we know Rahm is anti-gun, we know Holder is anti-gun, etc.), but that Obama will have to swing an axe through a VERY thick gauntlet of congressmen that have no love for him. Yes, if he wins, he has a great opportunity to stack the deck of the Supreme Court again, but it would require the court revisit the recent decisions and overturn what is now "established law."VMI77 wrote:Massad Ayoob disagrees: http://backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/If President Obama is re-elected, I predict that we will see the strongest attack on gun owners’ rights that has ever come out of the White House. And forget about the strategy of “we’ll just endure four years until the next election.” The constituency of the Supreme Court, in four more years of an Obama administration, will have changed considerably from the one that barely gave us the Second Amendment-affirming decisions in Heller and McDonald. It will set the stage for the man most likely to get the Democratic nomination for President in 2016, Rahm Emanuel. In many ways, Emanuel is Obama’s familiar, and much less inclined than his mentor to keep his anti-gun leanings even temporarily in the closet. As mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel has already proposed a draconian, impossibly expensive gun registration and ownership scheme for the entire state of Illinois. And don’t be surprised if President Obama announces that Rahm Emanuel will be his Vice-Presidential running mate in the 2012 election.
Massad IS right in implying that a Democratic win in 2012 is a bad portent for gun ownership in many ways, but there is sufficient evidence to indicate that many states, including Texas, Montana, Wyoming, etc. will simply thumb their nose at them. We definitely live in interesting times.
I hope a lot, and please leave your used brass for me to find.OldCannon wrote:. I wonder if more people will be buying 45GAP now?G26ster wrote:At the last Ft. Worth gun show a few weeks ago, most, if not all, of the major dealers had Glock 19s Gen 3 and Gen 4 available at their usually good prices.
(I shouldn't laugh -- there was a spike in 45GAP purchases in the 07-08 rush as well)
A 45 Gap user?!?!michael e wrote:I hope a lot, and please leave your used brass for me to find.OldCannon wrote:. I wonder if more people will be buying 45GAP now?G26ster wrote:At the last Ft. Worth gun show a few weeks ago, most, if not all, of the major dealers had Glock 19s Gen 3 and Gen 4 available at their usually good prices.
(I shouldn't laugh -- there was a spike in 45GAP purchases in the 07-08 rush as well)
They are shy, elusive, and only gather in groups at GSSF matches :)74novaman wrote: A 45 Gap user?!?!
I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild.
Come to think of it, I dont even think I have seen one in captivity.74novaman wrote:A 45 Gap user?!?!michael e wrote:I hope a lot, and please leave your used brass for me to find.OldCannon wrote:. I wonder if more people will be buying 45GAP now?G26ster wrote:At the last Ft. Worth gun show a few weeks ago, most, if not all, of the major dealers had Glock 19s Gen 3 and Gen 4 available at their usually good prices.
(I shouldn't laugh -- there was a spike in 45GAP purchases in the 07-08 rush as well)
I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild.
It's just an open-ended contract to buy ammo on demand. No different than other organizations. I don't see anything nefarious about it.The Annoyed Man wrote:DHS buying hundreds of millions of rounds of .40 cal and 5.56 NATO....
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-immig ... mmo-2012-3
OldCannon wrote:It's just an open-ended contract to buy ammo on demand. No different than other organizations. I don't see anything nefarious about it.The Annoyed Man wrote:DHS buying hundreds of millions of rounds of .40 cal and 5.56 NATO....
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-immig ... mmo-2012-3
I wasn't saying it was nefarious. I was saying that it may explain some of the decreasing supply of certain calibers to the public sector as suppliers gear up to fulfill those contracts.OldCannon wrote:It's just an open-ended contract to buy ammo on demand. No different than other organizations. I don't see anything nefarious about it.The Annoyed Man wrote:DHS buying hundreds of millions of rounds of .40 cal and 5.56 NATO....
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-immig ... mmo-2012-3
My apologies for the misdirected assumption. Just as a side note though, there are ammo shortages in many common calibers, and prices are going up (and will not come back down) because of worldwide metal shortages.The Annoyed Man wrote:I wasn't saying it was nefarious. I was saying that it may explain some of the decreasing supply of certain calibers to the public sector as suppliers gear up to fulfill those contracts.OldCannon wrote:It's just an open-ended contract to buy ammo on demand. No different than other organizations. I don't see anything nefarious about it.The Annoyed Man wrote:DHS buying hundreds of millions of rounds of .40 cal and 5.56 NATO....
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-immig ... mmo-2012-3