Salesman of the Year

    This past weekend I drove into town to pick up a few odds and ends, nothing important, a new pair of carpenter jeans for work, a gallon of window washer fluid for the truck etc.… While I was browsing around I stopped by the sporting goods department for a fresh spool of fishing line (time to start getting ready for crappie) that’s when I noticed the case that normally stored ammunition was just about empty (maybe 12 boxes total).  I’ve been shopping at this particular store for close to 11 years, the ammo display case is 8’ tall and just as wide, in all the years I have never seen it less than fully stocked missing only 1 or 2 boxes from the stacks.  I had bought a Mossberg T715 from this store several months back, then the display cases with the rifles were full of choices, an easy 30 different models, now the cases were empty.  With a bit of concern that I was seeing some “Political Correctness” in action I asked the lady behind the counter if they were getting out of the “Gun Sales Business”.  She replied “Oh no, it’s just that as soon as we get anything in someone buy’s it.”

    I kind of liked that answer but being in a rural area with a long history of sporting gun activity I had figured most people interested in owning guns had them already.  I could see maybe a run on ammunition (I’ve been buying ammo a bit at a time for 4-5 years) but to see the firearms being bought up in these quantities in this area leads me to one conclusion; People who had never thought of owning a weapon have now found a need for one.  Reading the local paper it’s not the crime rate, there was one DUI and a dog is missing.  Looking at the hunting seasons looks like Indiana is on the tail end of rabbit season so I don’t think that sparked the massive interest.  Why then?  Simple, it’s a matter of trust, the people of my local community reflect the national response to Obama’s poorly thought out plan to use a tragedy to further his long held desire to subvert the Constitution of the United States, one section at a time…  His attempted tug on an emotional response was so blatantly obvious that it opened the eyes of many American citizens that had previously sat oblivious to what has been going on around them.  Pew Research Center has released a poll (taken Jan. 9-13) one of the questions asked “Does the Federal government threaten your personal rights & freedoms” a whopping 53% answered Yes.  This does beg the question… Where were these folks in November?  Politically, the goal of the administrations agenda is the same as it was 4 years ago. 

    It’s been interesting to watch Obama’s… “Evolution” when answering questions regarding the sharp rise in firearm sales.  Initially he was indignant, stating that “Those who oppose any common sense gun control or gun safety measure have a pretty effective way of ginning up fear”.  Is that to say anyone not in full agreement with him lacks “common sense”?  Now with his most recent revelation “…up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time”.  So now he’s just one of the guy’s, a few beers and some clay pigeons on a relaxing afternoon.  Maybe he embellished a bit, more likely he meant to say, “I drove past a skeet range once”.  Either way, indignant or embellished, every time O opens his mouth on the subject of gun control he sends more people to the gun shops and more guns walk out the doors of these shops.  Just speculation but I would say it has been many years since the citizens of the United States have been this well-armed.

    I don’t know if the firearms/ammunition manufactures have an annual banquet or a convention and if so, do they give awards or recognition, Obama should be the top choice for Salesman of the Year (he could hang the plaque next to that peace prize thingy).

It took a while but they have the proof... We Be Skeet’n “… ALL THE TIME”

    The Tomcat

 

Side Note:  There is a rumor going around (started by me, just now) that Obama is going to give a speech calling for limiting access and reducing the size of solar panels and wind turbines… If Solyndra could have held on for just a little longer…