Destructo6
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No kidding. An article in the 18Dec99 Orange County Register, typically a libertarian viewpoint, tackles this gripping story. Actually, the article originated at the Scripps news service.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Interviews with gun-shop owners and statistics from state Department of Justice indicate that sales of guns, particularly semiautomatic rifle with such features as detachable ammunition magazines, are up from around 1,200 a day in California to as many as 3,000 a day in the past few weeks.
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Friday that between Nov.1 and Dec 14, California saw sales of more than 91,000 firearms-about double the number sold in the same period last year.
"About half a million guns we estimate will be sold in California this year. That's about 200,000 more than in prior years," Lockyer told reporters. "There are more long guns and handguns in the number of expanded firearm sales."
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Is there another classification other than long guns and handguns?
Here's HCI's take on the increased firearms purchases:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>"I think a lot of it does have to do with some of the hysteria and advertising about Y2K," said Luis Tolley, Western director of HCI.[/quote]
No, it couldn't be that "the people" really do want to own guns of all types.
Maybe as the times get darker, we can see things more clearly.
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I offer neither pay nor quarters nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not his lips only, follow me.
-Giuseppe Garabaldi
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Interviews with gun-shop owners and statistics from state Department of Justice indicate that sales of guns, particularly semiautomatic rifle with such features as detachable ammunition magazines, are up from around 1,200 a day in California to as many as 3,000 a day in the past few weeks.
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Friday that between Nov.1 and Dec 14, California saw sales of more than 91,000 firearms-about double the number sold in the same period last year.
"About half a million guns we estimate will be sold in California this year. That's about 200,000 more than in prior years," Lockyer told reporters. "There are more long guns and handguns in the number of expanded firearm sales."
[/quote]
Is there another classification other than long guns and handguns?
Here's HCI's take on the increased firearms purchases:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>"I think a lot of it does have to do with some of the hysteria and advertising about Y2K," said Luis Tolley, Western director of HCI.[/quote]
No, it couldn't be that "the people" really do want to own guns of all types.
Maybe as the times get darker, we can see things more clearly.
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I offer neither pay nor quarters nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not his lips only, follow me.
-Giuseppe Garabaldi