As the Denver Post reports:
By midday Wednesday, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s “Insta- Check” background check – required for the sale of a firearm and typically about 8 minutes long – was jammed with waits lasting more than two hours.
Gun-shop owners and buyers said the urgency was fueled by Barack Obama’s presidential win and Democrats’ increasing their majority in Congress.
“I’m here because of Obama,” Wickham said. “I think he’s misinterpreted the Second Amendment. It’s not about the right to hunt. It’s about the right to defend yourself.”
The Grand Junction pawnshop is decorated with bumper stickers: “Obama 08” with hammers and sickles on each end, “Obama for President of Afghanistan” and “Don’t Be a Victim. Buy a Gun.”
…Jerry Stehman told an endless wave of customers at his Jerry’s Outdoor Sports store in Grand Junction to come back in two hours to pick up their firearm purchases. For the past 10 days, Stehman said, customers have been gathering cases of ammunition and multiple guns.
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These guys are certifiable.
But I guess they have to paint someone new as the Big Bad Meanie out to Get Our Guns, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has already decided that the Second Amendment DOES protect the INDIVIDUAL right to bear arms.
And “Obama for President of Afghanistan”? What the hell is THAT supposed to mean? I’ll bet that racist asshole shop owner doesn’t get many black customers.
(PS: We should have a two week rule to come back and “pick up your gun purchases,” let alone two hours. The background checks are a pathetic joke.)
The firearm industry should send a gift basket to the white house on 1/20 because they’ve made so much money off President-elect Obama.
of a gift basket from the firearms industry, especially if I were Barack Obama.
Mike Huckabee could hand-deliver it. 🙂
that would be fine because Huckabee wouldn’t be able to keep his busy hands out of it long enough to deliver it.
I do not advocate exploding cookie baskets.
Fear is not rational.
Actually I like INSTACHECK. Waiting periods are not as effective as good databases.
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but how is it racist ?
Not wanting him as Prez because of a perception that he’s even more of a collectivist than GW Bush – that’s not racist, is it ?
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Nice try defending this asshole. Still, though, can you honestly claim that you think this bumper sticker is about Obama’s political approach? That’s a pretty laughable claim. If that truly is what the guy meant, he has failed miserably at actually expressing his message. Anyone watching the world these days knows exactly what that bumper sticker means: that Barack Obama has an Arabic sounding name and grew up in Africa, and we should be afraid.
You claim “President of Afghanistan” is not racist, but rather it refers to a “collectivist”? Afghanistan is collectivist???? You will need to explain that one.
n/t
will be very disappointed when nobody shows much interest in coming after their guns. This is the last thing the new administration is going to worry about with diplomatic/military crises all over the damn world boiling over and the economy in free fall. Hey any good retail news is good news.
By the by, I’m a liberal and we have a really nice picture of our son when he was little, twenty two in one hand, a target with a really nice pattern he had just shot into it in the other. Looks like it ought to be on an NRA calendar; pretty mountains, blue sky with a few fluffy white clouds in the background. Cute kid wearing proper ear protection and a baseball cap. All it’s missing is a flag, a puppy and a slice of apple pie.
My liberal spouse, dad, brother, uncles and cousins all like their guns. Many of them are vets. This is what Dems look like in heartland USA. These yahoos ought to chill but they enjoy having something to add drama to their mainly dull lives. Everybody run! The socialists are coming. Hide the guns and the women folk!
of life. (da, dum. de dum, da di ti di dum…)
Obama’s already helping the economy!
is that they are more likely to injure themselves and their genetic brand.
We’ll just go ahead and call it “an act of God” and not survival of the fittest.
To protect myself from all the nuts that are getting up-armored?
purely because you can. Exercise all your rights.
n/t
You redneck, you.
in some Kevlar for you and your family.
These guys may make me rethink that.
I’m only slightly kidding.
I for one appreciate the additional sales tax revenue your unfounded paranoia generates!
….and ship all the true patriots to the UN Concentration Camps in Utah.
I’m not EVER in favor of banning books, but somedays “The Turner Diaries” makes me rethink that policy.
I could buy this Gundamentalist thinking in Calif, or some parts of the East Coast, but this is Colorado – the place where the biggest conservationists are the hunters.
No one from this state wants to take your guns. No one from the Federal Govt wants to take your guns. If you want to own a M60 Machine gun, go get your Class 3 license, it’s easy and legal.
If you think you need illegal automatic weapons to protect your other illegal automatic weapons from being taken by the government because you have illegal automatic weapons, then you can be paranoid…
But I have had 2 calls from Dem friends today asking me to take them pistol shopping, just in case. No shit. First guns for both.
I was against the Concealed Carry law, but I am absolutely a fan of the classes they require.
I wish that some of the gun shops would throw in some training as well, like loading and unloading in the dark, basic legal responsibilities, etc.
And a trigger lock…or, maybe a discount on the small gun safes you can keep by your bed.
I have one. 8 Seconds from sleep to go, and there’s no way the kiddos can get in.
Trigger locks are a bad joke IMO.
I can run some rounds through with my friends and show them some basics, but I always recommend some tactical training. Not just safety, but live-fire tactics, cover and basic combat classes. There are some great ones here.
or the Elders of Zion could you let them know I’ve been left off their mailing list and I sure would like my fair share of the whole world domination racket? They can leave me their e-mail addresses right here and I’ll get back to them.
I saw a blue UN tank on Santa Fe this morning.
Wait – it might have been a VW. I’m sure they were hostile, though.
I want an Abrams. That’ll keep them ATF/Revenooers/DOJ folks away.
I’ve often wondered when I’ll get my dividend check. Of course, I married a gentile, so I think they might have revoked my “Chosen Person” status. 🙂
A; Jewish International Bankers rule the world and
B: Jews dominate the International Communist Conspiracy that wants to nationalize the banks and other instruments of capitalism.
Are the communists all from the lost tribes or is it just the right hand of judah not talking to the left hand of Judah.
I get so confused following these conspiracy theories.
that insist Obama is a Muslim. Oh, and have your heard about Rev. Wright at his church of 20 years?
It’s called cognitive dissonance. Fantasy Land in your brain.
Total, complete control of Hollywood and the mainstream media!
Now, reading that it is still very much going on, I ask myself how mentally ill these buyers are.
Yes, MI. Has ANY Democrat, let alone Obama, said we need to be rid of the Second Amendment. We are all, gunaholics and phobics alike, pretty much at a truce.
Therefore, these people are certifiably paranoid. And ignorant.