{"id":34915,"date":"2013-04-03T15:49:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T19:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34915"},"modified":"2013-04-03T15:49:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T19:49:52","slug":"insane-crowds-at-gun-shops-in-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34915","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Insane&#8221; crowds at gun shops in Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-PH2 sends a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/04\/03\/17575708-insane-crowds-as-customers-flood-connecticut-gun-stores-before-vote?lite\">NBC News<\/a> about the buying frenzy at gun shops there as the legislature gets ready to vote on more restrictive guns laws. Gun manufacturers are feeling the pressure to move to other states;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI feel like we have one foot being pushed out the door,\u201d Mark Malkowski, the owner of AR-15 manufacturer Stag Arms, told NBC Connecticut. He said his company has received nearly two dozen incentive-laden offers to move out of the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re really good offers,\u201d Malkowski said. \u201cThey are offering tax abatements, they\u2019re offering to build you a factory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Connecticut gun store employee who asked not to be identified told NBC News that his store is selling five times the usual amount. \u201cWhen your governor is threatening to take away your guns, what do you think is going to happen?\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But that&#8217;s Connecticut. What they do won&#8217;t effect you, right? Nope. Their pretend Vietnam veteran Senator That Dick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blumenthal.senate.gov\/ammunition-background-check-act-of-2013\">Blumenthal introduced legislation<\/a> in the Senate for background checks on ammunition, it also requires that ammunition sellers maintain records and reports of their sales (path to registration) and requires that dealers report sales of more than 1000 rounds to the feds. And, oh yeah, to show how smart he is, he wants to prohibit those bullets that cook the deer after you shoot it, and armor piercing bullets. <\/p>\n<p>So, he wants to expand the NICS system &#8211; the system that&#8217;s already overburdened and that they complain doesn&#8217;t work well enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-PH2 sends a link to NBC News about the buying frenzy at gun shops there as &hellip; <a title=\"&#8220;Insane&#8221; crowds at gun shops in Connecticut\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34915\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Insane&#8221; crowds at gun shops in Connecticut<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}