Sipsey Street Irregulars: And the "Great Panic" of 2012 rolls on into 2013. . .

Saturday, December 29, 2012

And the "Great Panic" of 2012 rolls on into 2013. . .

People line up to enter the RK Gun Show.

Frenzied buyers swarm to U.S. gun stores fearing a sudden weapons ban after Sandy Hook elementary school massacre.

11 comments:

Frederick H Watkins said...: I too fell prey to the panic as I impulse bought a Colt Tactical .22 on Wednesday thinking after I leave here today without that last Colt Tactical .22 at my favorite gun store, it may be months if not years before I see another one at the below $500 price even if an AWB is not put into law. I also bought the last 30 mag the guy had and ordered two 10 round mags (20 and 30 rounders were out of stock) from Umarex the next day.; December 29, 2012 at 1:52 PM
Anonymous said...: Day-yum!

I have NEVER seen a line like that at the Knoxville gun show, not even after Obama got elected the first time!; December 29, 2012 at 2:10 PM
bloodyspartan said...: I see no Panic, rather an orderly procession to go shopping.

Unlike the madness at best buy on black Friday.; December 29, 2012 at 2:38 PM
Maddawg308 said...: I heard it was wall-to-wall PACKED at the Chantilly VA gun show today. No thanks, I'll wait until the rush is over and prices drop to normal.; December 29, 2012 at 4:25 PM
Dr.D said...: spent many hours at the Chilhowie park gun shows. spent lots of money as well

Dr. D III; December 29, 2012 at 5:00 PM
Dr.D said...: Mike i want to pass this on to you, I will also be giving a presentation

http://www.npsexpo.com/#!

Dr. D III; December 29, 2012 at 5:03 PM
Anonymous said...: A secondary reason? People may well be thinking that 2013 will bring the final collapse of the dollar, and they are converting them into tangible assets that will hold value in uncertain times.; December 29, 2012 at 9:19 PM
Sanders said...: They aren't buying them at inflated prices in order to get a $200 gift certificate from the government.; December 30, 2012 at 9:56 AM
JoeFromSidney said...: I went to a local gun show yesterday. More guns on sale than last time. More people at the show than last time. Higher prices than last time. Lots of shotguns, handguns, deer rifles (this is a rural area). Only 2 AR-15s offered in whole show. I wanted a .45 carbine, but the only one offered was too expensive for me. Nice gun, probably fair price, but outside my budget.; December 30, 2012 at 12:03 PM
Anonymous said...: Make a crisis and then fix it with Needed" infringements and prohibitions which you really wanted to get all along...

This is being done deliberately and they know that you know. But no one else will be allowed to know, you can bet money on it.; December 30, 2012 at 12:08 PM
Anonymous said...: uh, is that show held at a school?; December 30, 2012 at 2:01 PM

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I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

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And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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