Heard on KCBS Newsradio 74 in San Francisco yesterday that the big rise in gun sales this year after slight declines in the last few previous years may be due to the slated changes coming in Jan. due to new gun control legislation OR it may be related to "concerns" over the Y2K issue......hmmmmm...

WalMart has a sale on "00" buck shot loads right now...

-- gotitlongago@gnorth (vacajohn@jccomp.com), August 29, 1999

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I just came from the Greensboro Dixie Classic Gun Show. This is the second time I have gone. Compared to last year, it was absolutely jammed. There were at least two thousand attendees.People are voting with their pocketbooks, snapping up AR-15's at sky-high prices. The most common remark I heard: Get it now while you still can! Also many folks think the gunshows will be outlawed.

Ammunition in thousand round lots was selling heavily. So were night vision weapon sights and pre-ban clips. Dealers would put a "Pre-Ban" sign on something and out it would go. Several dealers had to fold up their stands long before closing because they were sold out.

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), August 29, 1999.

They (We) have every reason to worry. We are looking at the end of gun ownership in America. Gun shows are most definitely an 'endangered species'. I would be very surprised if the legislation banning gunshows (among other things) is delayed much past the end of the year.

I used to be laughed at when I predicted the end of gun ownership and outright confiscation of registered guns ("oh no, they said. NOT in America! It couldn't happen here, we have too many good ol' boys who would vote them boogers out of office! Haha...ha."). Nobody is laughing anymore.

-- Chairborne Commando (What-MeWorry@comingdarkness.com), August 29, 1999.

This is heartening...Americans ARE voting in this manner. But...are any of the politicians listening? Did anyone see the segment on "60 Minutes" last evening in which Mayor Daley of Chicago (Ugh! I lived there when he fostered the persecution of the Dowaliby parents and ruined their family life, when to help his election, he allowed the D.A., police and press think that they were guilty as sin...and they were not only innocent, but the real killer of their daughter was someone the police should have investigated thoroughly...and he's still on the loose!) Anyway, he is leading meetings of mayors of all our major cities in his determination to solicit their agreement to his plan to rid Chicago of guns. He is using the same lawyers who won the case against big tobacco to go after the gun manufacturers. Mike Wallace did interview the President of Kruger, but the big attention went to Daley. Mike, to his credit, did say that Daley seems to just have an aversion to guns per se. I think people need to be writing to their mayors, to try to head them off at the pass!

-- Elaine Seavey (Gods1sheep@aol.com), August 30, 1999.

P.S. Are any of you folks who hate what is happening donating your money to the NRA's campaign to keep our guns? And writing to your legislators, via them, or on your own? If the grassroots doesn't protest, and loudly, we cannot complain if we lose by default. I'm on a tight budget, believe me, but I respond because I value my rights.

-- Elaine Seavey (Gods1sheep@aol.com), August 30, 1999.