Cathy Demos

["David J. McClurkin" <djmcclur@ai.toronto.edu>]

Put my name down for two copies, please.

Dave McClurkin
Fri, 14 Apr 89 09:24:30 EDT
NFrom: sorsby@hc.dspo.gov (Charlie Sorsby)
NMessage-ID: <8904141324.AA13676@hc.dspo.gov>
NOriginal-To: firearms@cis.ohio-state.edu
NSubject: Re:  Bans & prices
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N> They'll have as much luck banning hand/shot/assault guns here as we
N							   ^^^^
NWhere is here? <__________________________________________/
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NAnyway, I hope you are right but suggest that you don't become complacent.
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N> had permitting concealed weapons.  Every year, legislation is proposed
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NIf you ever lose *any* of your firearms rights, they will be as difficult
Nto regain as it is to obtain the right to concealed carry...  Be alert!
N
N> in both directions; the bills almost always die in committee.  Net effect
N> is that the gun & self-defense laws have changed very little in many
N> years.
N> I attribute the sky-high prices to the same motivation that is driving
N> gas prices through the roof - greed.  They have a good excuse to raise
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NNo question about that!
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N> prices for a while, and stick it to a few paranoid suckers.  In time,
N> when the demand drops to near-zero, the prices will go back down.  Gun
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NMaybe, but I'll be very surprised if they drop *all* the way back.  Same
Nas gasoline.  And remember the coffee shortage of a few years ago?  As I
Nrecall, the coffee growers, supposedly had a bad season and coffee was
Nscarce.  Before that the price was somewhere around a dollar a pound.
NIt quickly shot up to something like five or six dollars a pound and
Nthen when the "shortage" was over, the price declined to about three
Ndollars a pound.  What is it now?  About three dollars a pound, I think.
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NI'm betting that, barring a ban, that is exactly what will happen with
Nthis class of firearms.  Too pessimistic?  We'll see.
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N> prices, that is; I doubt the gas prices will ever go down.
N> J.Baker.
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NCharlie Sorsby						"I'm the NRA!"
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