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Florida has been issuing between 10,000 and 20,000 carry permits a month and will reach 1 million in a few weeks, the paper said.
"At the rate at which we are processing permits, we will sometime in the next six weeks to two months likely reach the million permit mark," Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam.
The number of carry applications began to rise about three years ago, when Barack Obama was elected president.
“There always seems to be a concern when there's a change in federal administration, when there might be some attention placed on gun control laws," said Sterling Ivey, spokesman for the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which handles carry permits.
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It has not even been a week since the horrific massacre in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado that left 12 dead and 58 wounded. Data released by the Colorado Bureau of Investigations show that applications for background checks rose 43 percent in the state three days after the shooting.
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Back in 2009 gun manufacturers labeled President Barack Obama as the “best gun salesman of all time.” They weren’t even jesting. The FBI recorded a 49 percent rise in gun background checks during the 2008 election week compared to the same week a year earlier. Fear of coming gun-control legislation certainly helped sell those guns, though how much is impossible to say.
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As President Obama added his voice to the push for stricter gun rules in the wake of the Colorado movie theater massacre, the suggestion made a prompt thud on Capitol Hill when the top Senate Democrat said he can't fit the gun control debate in the schedule.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, asked Thursday about Obama's remarks on gun control the night before, said the Senate's packed schedule precludes any action on firearms legislation. Asked if the Senate might debate the issue next year, Reid said, "Nice try."
I have to say I am planing on getting some items I have been holding off on, all before Nov now...
Have a few rifles have been on my shopping list for too long, need to hurry up and get them.
Originally posted by yourmaker
Kind of pissed I live in Canada just for that reason. How I would love to go to a range and shoot off MY gun.
Never going to happen. But I learned to live with it as we have some unmentionables you don't.
Rock on America, exercise that RIGHT.
Originally posted by benrl
and if they do manage a Semi-auto assault rifle ban...
I guess ill have to go old school after wards with a tactical repeating rifle...
464 spx tactical lever action rifle
I agree. I was in my local gun shop today, and picked up a .22 rifle. For the last several months I have been wanting to get one because I want to try my hand at competitive shooting (eventually). All this talk about gun control is exactly what made me decide that today was the day to pull the trigger (pun intended).
While I was in said gun shop for about 30 minutes, a total of three people came in asking about concealed carry classes, one came in and placed an order for a specific handgun, and another came in looking and purchased his first handgun (an older gentleman, if that's relevant).
While chatting with one of the employees, I asked him how his sales have been lately, and he said that they've picked up somewhat over the last month or so. Now, whether that has anything to do all the gun control talk or just seasonal interest in firearms, I don't know.
Originally posted by benrl
reply to post by seabag
Just make a bump stick.
Slide fire bump fire ar-15
like this?
When they give up theirs, then we can talk. Police and government turn in theirs first. Fair is fair right>?
Since that will never happen, they have no right to ask for the citizens.
Why would sales go up>?
Simple, people don't trust the government.. That is a good thing.
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Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.
---Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787).
Originally posted by seabag
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When they give up theirs, then we can talk. Police and government turn in theirs first. Fair is fair right>?
Since that will never happen, they have no right to ask for the citizens.
I don’t want them to give theirs up but I sure as hell don’t take kindly to them asking us to give ours up. How about we both keep them; to keep us both honest!
Why would sales go up>?
Simple, people don't trust the government.. That is a good thing.
That is a good thing!
And their desire to disarm us isn’t because they don’t trust us, it’s because that’s the only way they can have complete control over us. We know this, which is why we don’t trust them!
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Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.
---Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787).
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I live in Canada, and I'm looking to get my gun license for numerous reasons, mostly to have my own equipment at the range but just in case SHTF
Does anyone have any recommendations for a good starter gun? I'm a woman, but I want something with a bit of power. My Russian genes and father have made me quite fond of weapons, I collect knives and daggers but I think it's time to step it up a notch.