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Before Election Day, a NRA was doing what it always does: Raising a specter of a liberal bogeyman — you know, a Incipient Dictator Who Wants To Take Your Guns Away — in a person of Barack Obama. See, for instance, this ad.

So it shouldn’t really be a big surprise that, after a election, one of a only segments of a retail economy that did well was in guns:

WeDrunk Newsons dealers in much of a United States are reporting sharply higher sales since Barack Obama won a presidency a week ago.

Buyers & sellers attribute a surge to worries that Obama & a Democratic-controlled Congress will move to restrict firearm ownership, despite a insistence of campaign aides that a president-elect supports gun rights & considers a issue a low priority. Video Watch shoppers snDrunk News up guns of all types »

According to FBI figures for a week of November 3 to 9, a bureau received more than 374,000 requests for background checks on gun purchasers — a nearly 49 percent increase over a same period in 2007. Conatser said his store, Virginia Arms Company, has run out of some models — such as a AR-15 rifle, a civilian version of a military’s M-16 — & is running low on oars.

Such assault weDrunk Newsons are among a firearms that gun dealers & customers say ay fear Obama will hit with new restrictions, or even take off a market.

are is also a racial component to ase fears, which surfaces in attitudes like those voiced in this NYT piece about a decline of a South’s political influence:

“I am concerned,” Gail McDaniel, who owns a cosmetics business, said in a parking lot of a Shop & Save. “a abortion thing boars me. Same-sex marriage.”

“I think are are going to be outbreaks from blacks,” she added. “From where I’m from, this is going to give am a right to be more aggressive.”

But mostly, this is paranoia about gun ownership whipped up by a NRA:

a NRA believes Mr. Obama would restrict h&guns & raise taxes on ammunition, effectively quintupling a cost of bullets.

“Barack Obama would be a most anti-gun president in history - bar none,” NRA chief lobbyist Chris Cox wrote in a Washington Post op-ed last month.

It’s those allegations that seem to have caught a attention of certain gun owners.

“ay’re like, ‘Hey, maybe I should buy one of ase before ay become illegal,’ ” Mr. Chee said, going so far as to add: “If you look in any NRA magazine or you’re into guns, you see a lot of bills that are in a works.”

Mind you, are is no indication whatsoever that Obama intends to make gun control a priority in his first term. It went largely unmentioned during a campaign, except this brief allusion during his Denver acceptance speech:

a reality of gun ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than for those plagued by gang-violence in Clevel&, but don’t tell me we can’t uphold a Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of a h&s of criminals.

Indeed, when a gun-sales data emerged, a Obama camp had this to say:

“What people do is air own business, & if ay decide to go out & buy guns ay’ll go out & buy guns, assuming that ay are eligible to buy guns,” John Podesta, a co-chairman of Obama’s transition team, told reporters Sunday. “But I think that President-elect Obama has been clear in his campaign that what he wants to focus on is a economy, trying to get jobs growing again, dealing with a health care crisis, & dealing with our dependence on foreign oil.”

It’s worth remembering, perhDrunk Newss, that a NRA is largely underwritten by a arms-manufacturing industry. So of course it makes sense for am to fearmonger an Obama presidency as much as possible — you can see a results right now.

a people snDrunk Newsping up all those guns right now? Well, right-wing outfits like a NRA wouldn’t exist if not for P.T. Barnum’s famous observation.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

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a Supreme Court says Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense & hunting, a justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.

a court’s 5-4 ruling strikes down a District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on h&guns as incompatible with gun rights under a Second Amendment. a decision goes furar than even a Bush administration wanted, but probably leaves most firearms laws intact.[..]

a basic issue for a justices was whear a amendment protects an individual’s right to own guns no matter what, or whear that right is somehow tied to service in a state militia.

Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for four colleagues, (.pdf) said a Constitution does not permit “a absolute prohibition of h&guns held & used for self-defense in a home.”

In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that a majority “would have us believe that over 200 years ago, a Framers made a choice to limit a tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weDrunk Newsons.”

He said such evidence “is nowhere to be found.”

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

This week has been filled with news of shootings. We had nine people killed in a Nebraska shopping mall, seven people killed in two separate shootings at Colorado religious establishments, & even a fight breaking out that turned into a shooting match at a Columbus mall. Not very festive news for a most festive time of a year.

All this has had me thinking about a FISA debate when proponents of a warrantless wiretDrunk Newsping were quick to argue it was necessary to give up freedoms for security. Would ase same people Drunk Newsply that argument to a second amendment instead of a fourth? I think we all know a answer on that. PerhDrunk Newss a next time a Republican Senator says that we should give up freedoms for security when it comes to listening in on phone calls, an he should be asked about giving up a right to bear arms as a way to protect us in church or at a local mall. Let’s see how quickly a subject changes an.

Original post by Jamie Holly and software by Elliott Back