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Subject View From Cabaela's & Bass Pro Shop--WOW Getting Real Folks!!!

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Good post, OP. Thanks for the info.

Of course, that's what they want...civil unrest.
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[b]The scary part of this is, there are a lot of inexperienced people purchasing firearms.  Inexperienced or with no experience.  Many of us older people grew up with guns and have lived in rural environments.  Using a firearm properly is second nature for many of us.  This is not so for newbies who are scared and purchasing their first sidearm or long gun.  Firearms in the hands of untrained beginners is what I consider dangerous.

Just my personal opinion.  Comments?[/b]
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I was trying to find the statistics. The number of people who've not cleaned their guns in a long time is very high. Same with actually shooting at the range. Worse a lot of people have NEVER shot their guns. Even worse in my opinion is a lot have never fired their guns without hearing protection. When you shoot with no hearing protection, at least once but better a couple of time, you realize how LOUD they are, and so you won't be able to use your hearing in a real gun battle. That could really confuse all these new owners.

You have to practice. There's no sense in buying one and not learning how to use it, plus stay calm because you're going to pumped up from the fear and excitement. PRACTICE.
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[b]That is correct.  The finest tools are useless in the hands of an unskilled person.  That is what a gun is, a tool. As for not cleaning their weapons....good grief![/b]
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Folks check your rifles and make sure they're sighted in still. A lot of people buy a rifle and scope and then never bother to properly sight it in, or they bump it around and then check it again. Then when you really need it, you're screwed.
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Original Message Today this gun thing got real for me.

I was in PA today and went to BPS and Cabela. I was stunned.

At BPS they were almost totally sold out of ALL handguns. CASES and CASES were totally empty. GONE. They were totally out of 9mm, 357 ammo and just about everything else. I took pictures but since there's people in them I'm not going to post them. Staff says they can't get anything else at this point, their suppliers are out. There was a sizable crowd scanning the empty cases and shelves. Salespeople I talked to said they are convinced that if anyone tries to take weapons from Americans there's going to be a civil war. They said they're seeing people who used to be anti-gun want to get one because they're afraid of what they think is happening.

Later, I stopped at Cabelas. This place is right off the highway and very visible from a distance. The crowd there was even bigger. They still had a few --very few--handguns but nothing left that was a carry piece, imo. I'm sure they were depleted of the little they had by the end of the day. As for ammo, they were limiting to 10 box max. There was almost nothing left.

i'm finding it hard to convey how real all seems to be becoming.

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