You want angry? Here is by far the best editorial I have read to date.
Editorial by Jim Shults
Modern Gun Magazine
October 1994
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Perhaps it was fate that caused me to call LFP's President last year
to see if he would like to do a military or gun magazine. It seemed
like bad timing to start a major new national and international gun
magazine at a time when the government is going socialist, and with
their need to confiscate guns to enable enforcement of the new order
already in progress, but in spite of all this, it has worked out very
well. If I didn't have this job, I would not have learned of the
following information, which I personally related to the offices of
several U. S. senators and representatives
Some of this information was based upon an anonymous letter I got from
a reader about six months ago--a letter long since destroyed, but one
that lingers on in my memory, written by a person I felt had an
extensive military background. In my calls to the senators, I mixed in
some firearm-industry sales information as well as what I've been
hearing from around the country.
Well, if I can call U.S. senators Ben Nighthorse Campbell (D-Colo.),
Hank Brown (R-Colo.), Robert Dole, Senate minority leader (R-Kan.),
Senate majority leader George Mitchell (D-Maine) and House minority
leader Bob Michel (R-III.), and Modern Gun special pro-jects editor
Robin Heid can inform blithering idiot Pat Schroeder's (D-Co.) aide in
a face-to-face meeting at Pat's Denver office, then I can sure tell
you folks. In fact, you might want to send a copy of this editorial to
your elected officials, because very few, if any, have considered what
follows.
THE CALL BEGINS
You folks (politicians) do not really understand what is going to
happen when this antigun legislation goes into effect; let me first
tell you about the gun industry. Ever since October, 1993 gun sales of
all types have grown so quickly that the factories--all of them--are
anywhere from 16,000 guns back-ordered for a small specialty company
to 178,000 for one major company. (I told them the names of these,
plus several others that have back-orders in the 45,000 to 56,000
range due to buyer demand) I told them that it was even getting
difficult to quickly get guns for articles, and that getting high
capacity rifle and pistol magazines was next to impossible,
except for the rare supply of military surplus at gun shows.
I related that many makers of primers and ammunition are backordered
until June of 1995, and that major wholesale distributors ofammunition
are now scrounging for any 9mm, .45 ACP, 5.56mm, 7.62mm NATO, 7.62 x
39mm .38/.357 and .30 06 ammo that they can get; I told of the small
foreign-bullet manufacturer who went to the SHOT show to try to sell 5
million 9mm bullets and came out after one day with orders for 97
million; that the sales of certain types of powder for reloading are
beyond belief, and making it nearly impossible for even major ammo
makers to turn out product.
Then I asked the aides: Do you think that the people who are buying
this stuff in these quantities are doing so to prepare for when these
socialist laws go into effect, so that they can turn this stuff in?
The aides gave me the answer: no!
I then told them that when this government" makes things like
magazines, springs, bayonet lugs, pistol grips, etc., federally
illegal, a person may as well go out and get a machine gun or
something even more deadly; after all, a federal crime is a federal
crime, and a felony is a felony. If our government is going to
artificially create nearly 40 million citizen/criminals, a
significant percentage will get real serious about their new "job
title." Again, the aides agreed.
Who will these new criminals he? Well, they won't be some gang-banger
dirtbag who never finished the fifth grade, has no job, does drive-by-
shootings, holds up liquor stores and sells crack. This new federal
criminal will consist of men who are combat and military veterans from
WWII, Korea, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Saudi,
and special operations forces from around the world. Many of these
veterans really know how to shoot, move and communicate, and have
killed. Men who are no longer afraid of hostile artillery and are
hardly intimidated by a BATF agent in a ninja outfit!
The new criminal class will be made up of men, women and their
children, who are educated, run businesses or make businesses work,
and have raised or are raising families. People who pay taxes and
currently make this country work. In other words, a serious bunch of
potentially real mean, smart cookies who can make things happen. The
military may oppose them, but as the Russian experience taught, many
"kids" don't join the military to kill fellow citizens.
Now the aforementioned citizen criminal class will eliminate a lot of
people, and the people terminated, according to this letter, will
include city, state and national politicians, local and regional media
personalities (the propaganda arm), all forms of law enforcement
(drive-up assassinations while they are in their cars) and just
common, everyday federal employees.
The chilling part of the letter also said that the families,
neighbors, friends and coworkers, and the children and wives of these
people, would be under assault so as to cut off any moral and real
support. His scenario is similar to the famous Phoenix Program in
Vietnam, which found that by attacking the infrastructure and its
supporters, change can be forced--or else! And who wants to be the
next person (target) to lead, collect guns or taxes, or sell the party
propaganda at a network affiliate or newspaper, in any capacity, from
secretary to reporter, camera operator, or, especially, announcer or
columnist? Naturally, this activity would result in more government
controls, which would meet with more citizen resistance, and all of
this could ultimately lead to all-out civil war. Yes. I know I am
pushing the envelope of supposition, but this is how civil wars start.
I related to the senatorial aides that less than 2% of guns were
declared after California passed their state law against semiauto
rifles, and that less than 0.2% of the "semis" were declared after
Denver passed their gun law. This means tens of millions nationwide
will not comply, creating the world's largest "criminal" class of
people, all of which will fight, and fight hard, to turn things
around. While I did not relate the following excerpt, it is quite
possibly our future.