It may be time to consider speeding up the completion of your S.H.T.F. weapons kit.
With most polls showing a large, and growing, lead for (D)onk candidates in House races, and the election being only a month off, we have to face the distinct possibility that Nancy Pelosi will be running the House next year.
Being a Kalifornicateress from San Fran, she will probably immediately sponsor new gun control legislation, and it is my guess that under her leadership, a slew of proposals will get through the House. The Senate, even if retains GOP control, will go along with most or all of them (RINO factor). That means that the POTUS will have some of these on his desk starting as early as next Spring, but definitely by the Summer Recess.
President Bush will likely NOT veto many of them, so, within the year, we may look forward to a re-imposition of the AWB, hi-cap magazine bans, and probably some sort "Gun Show Loophole" law. Others might include restrictions on bulk ammo purchase, national ban on .50 BMG, etc, etc.
If you wait until all these crap laws are out there in writing, and try to hustle in your purchases at the last minute, the supply of weapons won't stand up to the demand, and their prices will soar, to boot.
You need a plan. You need that plan NOW.
The plan should include a thorough evaluation of your S.H.T.F. weapons kit, and what you need to complete it. Items like revolvers and widely-available pistols can be back-burnered for now. If you want an AK or an AR, or an M1A you'd better buy it now, and especially you need to get all the hi-cap magazines you will ever need for all those weapons.
Your plan might involve making some priority changes in your personal finances to complete these purchases within the next 6-8 months, but if so, you'd better make the changes.
You may scream all you want about the Second, but the simple fact is that the (D)onks WILL start us back down the dark road towards national gun control, and they are fully capable of un-doing all the relief we have seen in the past decade, and un-doing it quickly.
Look to Kalifornica. Look at all the idiotic gun control laws that the CA legislature foisted or tried to foist off on it's citizens. Now imagine your Congress doing the same thing. Your only hope, and it will be for only two years, would be that POTUS Bush would veto ALL of the coming gun control laws, but that's a completely unrealistic hope. He was, after all, ready to sign an extension of the sunsetting AWB a couple of years ago.
Nope, if the Congress changes hands, we WILL have more gun control laws, and we will have them in short order. I can't foresee the (D)onks under Peloser going slow on the issue.
Plan now, or get shut out by this time next year.
If you have the bucks, like I do, you might consider multiple purchases of some arms, such as AKs, or my favorite street-sweeping carbine, the Kel-Tec Sub 2000. Kel-Tec makes a fine 5.56 NATO carbine as well, the SU-16C, for considerably less than an AR. Your objective should be to have at least TWO fully-functional S.H.T.F. weapons kits, with one at your home, and one at another, secret, place. That's a hedge against an even darker possibility, national gun confiscation, which is probably Peloser's ultimate goal.
Oh, and don't forget the ammo. Minimum 500 rounds for every firearm in the kit. That's MINIMUM, 1,000 is better. Magazines to hold at least 200 rounds for every battle rifle or carbine, 100 rounds for pistols. You reloaders of .50 BMG should think about stocking up on hulls and bullets, too. They will have a short future under Peloser.
Plan now, and avoid the anxiety later.
Sage advice, friend.
I am always trying to stock more "stuff".
Just in case...
It was great to meet you and the missus!
I can truly say it was my honor to meet you both, and my wife was tickled, too!
That was a great thing you did for Dan, as well.
You rock, Rivrdog.
Perhaps our paths will cross again...
Posted by: jimmyb | October 12, 2006 at 18:44
This 03-FFL-holding NRA member and Democrat says no way. Hear me out on this one because I really think that you've got this one all wrong and I can explain why.
Look at where the House Democrats gains are coming from. The entire new crop of Democratic party challengers in Kansas are former Republicans. Former as in right up until last year. Look at people like Brad Ellsworth who would have been considered Republicans by most people until recently. A huge number of the Democrats new candidates are also military veterans (of the Iraqi war in particular) who cherish their right to bear arms. We're poised to take the Senate with guys like Jim Webb, who was a Republican for decades and currently holds a concealed weapon permit and Harold Ford, who has always and forever been a staunch supporter of 2nd Amendment rights throughout his entire House career. Or John Tester, who is nearly indistinguishable from a pre-2000 Republican and supposedly has a gun collection even better than my own. There's no way in hell that any of these people are going to vote for any gun control. They are being elected as moderate to conservative Democrats - not as the vanguard of a liberal revolution. They know this perfectly well and would prefer not to become one-termers.
On election night, Nancy Pelosi and Ted Kennedy are going to do their little victory dance and celebrate. And then the next morning, they're going to smack themselves on the foreheads with a resounding 'doh!' and realize that they no longer have a snowball's chance in hell of even getting anti-gun legislation through committee, let alone actually passing it. The new Democratic majority is being built by pro-gun conservatives who have switched parties over the last 6 years. With the election of this new Congress, gun control as a mainstream political issue will die forever. Until now, it has always been able to limp along with a major political party as it's parasitic host, grabbing the occasional victory for it's survival. No more. Gun-grabbers will now be check-mated on both sides.
This is the birth of a new generation of party leaders, some of whom will be around for the next 30 years. What we are witnessing is a very, very rare thing in American politics. Usually the House only moves by a few seats at a time in either direction. But now we have a huge wave of pro-gun leaders in the Democratic party who will work together for decades to ensure that the anti-gun movement is dead in Washington. These are the committee chairmen and majority or minority leaders of tomorrow. This is history being made. The Democratic party is stepping towards the right and it will never be the same again.
I'm going to celebrate our victory on the morning of November 8th by buying a gun. I invite you to join me.
Posted by: Jackson Landers | October 17, 2006 at 14:29
I sincerely hope you are right, Jackson. If you are, it will indeed be a new day for the US, and the GOP, having tied itself as it has to the apron strings of the fundie Christians, will wither rapidly.
I still have a fear, though, and that fear is simply this: command and control within the (D)emocratic Party still leans far to the Left.
Howard Dean still runs the party, and Pelosi and Hillary are still his two headliners, with JF Kerry and maybe even Al Gore still hoping to gain traction for a run at POTUS in '08.
These new, centrist and conservative Democrats you tout (assuming they are elected in droves as you forsee) will have a tough time uprooting all of those old-line leftists from the party command structure. It all has to do with Das Gelt. The old-line leftists still control the purse-strings, and no matter the fervor of the new centrists, the money will control the '08 convention and decide who gets the nomination.
I've heard this tale of gun control being a dead issue. In my state, Oregon, the State DNC even funded a Democratic Party Gun Owners Caucus which, by it's pronouncements, is very pro-R2KBA.
Yes, the route for the Democratic Party to renounce gun control has been surveyed, and even, in a few places, graded as a highway. I haven't seen any pavement yet, though.
Posted by: Rivrdog | October 17, 2006 at 14:58