This is the first of a new ongoing series – Take Action – which will emphasize a very specific action to take based on my recommendations. The recommendation may be due to current events, predictable future events, or just importance for preparation.
Recommended Action: Secure supplies of firearms, ammunition, and magazines as soon as possible.
This first Take Action recommendation is related to firearms. Ever since Barack Obama won the Presidency there have been a massive run on guns, ammunition, and magazines. Year after year historical sales have awarded Obama “Gun Salesman of the Year”. The reality is little has been accomplished on the gun control front certainly not due to a lack of desire. A Republican Congress, the NRA, and a vocal gun owners have stopped gun control efforts in their tracks.
Enter: Hillary Clinton.
Watch at least the first couple minutes of the video below:
Hillary leaves little doubt of her desires to remove guns from the hands of law abiding citizens. I will be the first to admit that I fell victim myself to “panic talk” and believing that after Sandy Hook serious gun control measures were likely going to be implemented. I am not ashamed as I took what I felt were logical steps to secure my supplies. With the potential election of Hillary Clinton I see right now as no different.
July 25th marks the Democrat National Convention. I believe that once Hillary is the official nominee it will just be a matter of time before the next massive sales run on guns, ammunition and magazines will begin. Thus my recommendation to secure any needed firearms, ammunition and magazines NOW. Once the run starts prices will go up and supply may dwindle depending on how likely it is for her Hillary to win the election.
There are many that say Hillary cannot accomplish her gun control desires due to Congress will not pass such laws. Folks – I don’t make plans on what is likely or what should happen. I make logical and fact-based decisions on relevant possibilities taking into consideration the impact the event will have on my life. I agree that Hillary likely will not be able to accomplish Australia-like gun confiscation but who knows? What if the makeup of Congress moves way Left? What if there are a series of mass shootings and there is an outcry for gun control?
Who knows?
Recommendations to Take Action:
- Purchase any firearms you wish to own as soon as possible at the current prices.
- Purchase firearms “off the books” via private sale if at all possible.
- Purchase ammunition for any firearms you have as much as you can afford.
- Purchase extra magazines for all firearms you own in quantities.
That’s it. Not rocket science. The four above steps will help cushion the blow of any future implemented gun control.
Thoughts?
Rourke
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Good advice. Exactly what I am doing. Only wish I’d hit the lottery – course I’d have to buy a ticket first. Thanks John – continue the good work. Keep Looking UP
I am with you *JBernDrApt*
Quote from Robin Williams “The lottery is a tax for people that are not good at math” Meaning your odds are not very good.
“… I’m the innocent bystander
Somehow I got stuck between the rock and a hard place
And I’m down on my luck, yes I’m down on my luck
Well I’m down on my luck
All right, send lawyers, guns and money
Send lawyers, guns and money
Send lawyers, guns and money
Send lawyers, guns and money…”
by
ZEVON, WARREN.
We’re all stuck between Scylla and Charybdis. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country for it is in dire straits and in distress and hard decisions must needs be made. From whence have gone the noble leaders that once made this country the envy of the world? Would the sitting president do as did Washington and if offered, refuse the crown? I trow not.
Wrote Jefferson to Madison dated January 30, 1787 regarding Shay’s Rebellion:
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
Can any add more?
PR
And the Greek took the lesser evil… but he did cause a ruckus when he got home and cleaned house didn’t he…. loose analogy…. but they sorta fit PR.
Thomas, which was why I used the original terms and not rock and hard place. The whole federal government needs pruning and cleansing of the remainder.
PR
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
Our preparation, courage to act and will determine how many of which.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Ronald Reagan
This we have not done and must do, or we will fail yet again.
I love the song .. but you can keep the lawyers.. :).. The other two I have need of indeed.
Plus spare parts for all your toys. Buy It Cheap! Stack It Deep!
Affirmation… !!! I haven’t seen the ‘signs of panic’ yet. Mayhaps its because we are all spinning around looking at one evil after another. Its like having to pick out the one that is going to whip you…. whos going to hurt you the least. My safe is full. My ammo dump is full. My pantry is full. My Med. closet is full. My ‘other gear’ locker is full. My skills locker is always in need.
I have begun stocking fodder for firearms I don’t even own and have a corner in the cave for the ‘beaters’ I find at the gun shows. I’m doing this with my ‘Rat Hole’ cash cause Momma San has given me her blessing to spend it as I see fit. I gotta good one.
She goes to the range with me and can spot a 380 hull in the gravel at any distance. The woman even knows the ejection patterns of Euro vs. Domestic arms. She… not me… She has +/- 35 lbs. of reloadable brass so far this season. 🙂
As much as we hate it, I don’t think Trump has a chance. The criminal money machine of the Clintons will put Hilldabeast in the White House and not as a maid. John, I think you are correct. It’s time to stock up and pack it tight. She is on the way, vindictive and ready to do unholy harm to this nation.
If anyone wants to see what is coming, use John’s link to Amazon and get the following by Mark Goodwin, “The Economic Collapse Chronicles”. It’s a 3 volume set. I reading the set again. It is a set of books that portray a family during the downsizing (recession into depression) of the economy and then the collapse of the dollar and the nation’s economy. It isn’t pretty. As the author states, the books are based on current credible threats to our nation and for that matter the world. During the course of the story, there are characters you will recognize as Obama, Al Sharpton, and the possible relationship between the upcoming Democratic president and Obama. I highly recommend this series of books and thank John for putting me on them in the first place. I don’t think you’ll find a set of books that or a book as in a novel, that explains what is very likely coming down the pike for the US.
Oren.. I’d agree .. The anti Trump repubs are going libertarian who are courting them .. or Democrat if you can believe it .. I have an ongoing argument with some libertarians whom I have respected.. no more .. They and I quote “don’t care who wins if it isn’t Gary Johnson” .. Even if he is great he isn’t electable this election cycle.. not enough fiscal or political support. My argument is any vote not conservative is a vote for Hidebeast.. So yeah ..
I’ma about to go through Goodwin’s books again for the 3 time this year..
I also like James Wesley Rawles.. Lots of fiscal policy and financial detail.. story line isn’t bad .. If you go to his site he’s pretty stuck on himself.. so take it with a grain of salt. He has some good co-Authors.. and some good reference materials…
Notice how it is always the democratic socialists that protest Trump events. I don’t recall Republican protesters at either Bernie or Madame Hilary’s events. No one screams louder than the liberal who doesn’t get his way.
PR
Good timing JR .. Between sudden vehicle and house repair expenses my budget just took a serious hit .. and November is way close if Hillary is really going to be there.. I hate it but it’s possible. So focus on the the most critical place to put dollars and when .. we’ve had several Q&A as well as other discussions around this .. For those not ready yet.. whose chests are not full yet.. what to do when is important. It’s likely person to person and situations to situation .. urban vs rural.. etc etc.. We will have access to almost everything else after November..
Right now .. sacrifice other preps for the things you mentioned.. not totally to the exclusion of everything else.. but preferentially certainly.
The other thing that bothers me, and budget makes it harder .. is .. replacement currencies.. but that is for another day…
It doesn’t cost anything to learn .. so anyone spending time outside of learning except occasionally might want to reconsider. Knowledge and tools…
thanks JR
GG58
“Replacement currencies.. ” ?? Interesting thought… That will be the easy way to draw alllll the loose cash out of the cigar boxes and Mattresses. Reprint and require a trade at the then current valuation… Or.. digit-ize the system… Or… Every… body get an EBT!
Hey Thomas.. or Tcubed ? 🙂
What I meant by replacement currencies are things I might use in place of it. Like silver or barter items. That you bring up a good point. If everybody that doesn’t work for it or many get an EBT. And why shouldn’t we have one. Might work as long as I can keep what I’ve got and whatever I have and they don’t tell me what to do with it. Now yes I know about me the better. No I wouldn’t mind having extra money and I could spend mine on props instead of food. Again now I just could not do it. I guess I’m more about taking some of my disposable income and turning it into something tangible besides ones and zeros in a computer or paper that’s not worth what the paper says it is. Back to the Mark Goodwin books and quantitative easing. Of course that being said this month was a tough month financially. And right after I wrote that I went and placed a couple of orders just to spite the statement that I made so that I can prove to myself I could and did even in a tough month. Thanks for the reply.
GG58
Jeezopete58… Thats what I ‘thought’ you were talking about… but… I think in “Alternate” currencies so…. we are going in the same direction from two different points o view. ‘Hard’ assets….
Can you just see your local Kroger Store on the first of the month when how many tens of millions of us show up to max out their EBT. Won’t be a can of soda or a chicken wing in sight… or any other food stuff in mins.
Could be fun to watch….. once.
“replacement currencies” – funny how all of a sudden the redesign of the paper money that will cause even more confusion & push to stop the $50 & $100 in circulation. I had a teenage girl call the manager because she thought I was trying to pass a fake $20 – old (small jackson) $20 bill. just how much is enough? I’ve heard everything from at least 21 magazines per detachable magazine rifle and 6 per handgun to invest the same amount in ammo then magazines as that firearm is worth. Heck, we’ve even thought about getting a couple RIA 38’s and a lever action 38/357 just in case if there’s a ban/turn in on firearms with magazines over 7rds. I just spoke to a person over the weekend who is on several local mewe and fb sites trying to buy a half dozen Hi Point handguns to use as trade/barter when a ban comes – I don’t trust either of them. He already has a half dozen 80% lowers put away.
Rather than the cheaply made Hi Point that are actually a low point in pistol execution or lever actions, why not stock a couple dozen of the Mosin Nagant? Ammunition for these is available and in arsenal tins. I was shocked to see that the price of these durable main battle rifles had crept into the $200-300 range.
PR
Only 21?
PR