The State of the Market - Things are beyond heating up. The biggest problem dealers have is getting enough guns to sell. Certain models are hard to find at their old-time prices which means one thing, prices are on the rise. We’ve seen big price increases in all M16s, anything HK and any variety of auto-sears. The next wave of big increases may be UZIs or any AR15 conversion. Maybe it’s already happening for those guns. Instead of guessing, sit back, watch and learn. Your prediction percentage will probably increase.

At least one thing can be called with certainty. There are far fewer Title 2 guns being sold or traded than the good old days. There doesn’t seem to be an obvious reason for this. Maybe it’s the economy in general, but wouldn’t that be incentive to sell. Could it be that subconsciously, we don’t trust the money?

The State of US - I’m incensed that my children don’t merit armed security but those of politicians do. The notion that having armed security could prevent senseless school tragedies has been dismissed as crazy by politicians, the whores of Hollywood and the MSM. Unfortunately the suggestion came from the NRA and not from Slick Willie, like it did in 1998. The fact of the matter is that a large majority of private schools have armed security and the children of those objecting vehemently are already protected. Why solve a problem when political capital of gun control can be achieved? Wait! It’s too expensive. Are you kidding me? Bloomberg, Nutter, NEA, you’re all hypocrites.

A better solution would be concealed carry in schools, but that’s just crazy talk.

Current Events include a historic compromise between the President and the House of Representatives to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff that would have raised everyone’s taxes and imposed draconian spending reductions agreed upon by both parties last year. The House had 3 minutes to consider the bill before it was voted on? The bill contained over 70 special interest tax breaks? The bill phases out personal deductions for household incomes over about $200k? I think they missed the part about not raising taxes but took care of negating the spending cuts. Pretty cute. When will we have had enough?

Finally while we’re in rant mode... JPFO used to be a no-nonsense civil rights organization with special emphasis on the rights of self defense. Unique for a Jewish organization. Then Mr. Zellman passed away and they may have lost their compass. Last October, one of their correspondents penned an article about government sponsored genocides that included this paragraph:

“I've seen many other programs about the Nazi Holocaust -- or Shoah (the  "Catastrophe") as it's also been called -- and so have you. Along with the Turkish slaughter of the Armenians, the Chinese "Massacre of the Landlords", Stalin's deadly crimes, (I would also include what happened  at Hiroshima and Nagasaki), and the insanity of the Cambodian Killing Fields, the Nazi Holocaust, the principal horror of the 20th century, was the crowning achievement of untrammeled statism in an age which, not by any means coincidentally, saw the rise of the gigantic super-government.”

Include what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki among the genocides of the 20th Century? We know what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Nuclear bombs were dropped on Japanese cites causing widespread destruction and massive casualties causing the previously reticent Japanese to surrender. Subsequently, the planned invasion of Japan was canceled, saving millions of Japanese and Allied lives. The casualties numbered in the hundreds of thousands. JPFO was way out-of-line to equate those acts of war with the 100s of millions liquidated by their own governments. You be the judge.

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