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U.S. gun sales in the first four months of 2021 surged 31% to 15,966,389. This makes it among the largest figures since sales started to be recorded in 1998.
The increase is part of a trend. Gun sales in the United States rose 40% last year to 39,695,315. That represents the high water mark in annual gun sales since the current record-keeping system went into effect. Increases by state in April and for the first four months varied substantially, as has been the case for years.
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ReplyDeleteJohn Nicolay & John Hay, "Abraham Lincoln: a History"
In 1886 (or any time) it was not popular to present Lincoln as white supremacist; to present the South as victims of Republicans. These two gentle men, who used to be secretaries of Lincoln, presented details in their book that gives much support to the idea that Lincoln wanted to restore (re-store, not re-construct) the United States on white basis. As Senator Doolittle said at the time, as others said some time later.
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Mr. Chandler, expressing his deep chagrin, went out, and the President, addressing the members of the Cabinet who were seated with him, said: "I do not see how any of us now can deny and contradict what we have always said, that Congress has no constitutional power over slavery in the States."
Mr. Fessenden expressed his entire agreement with this view. "I have even had my doubts," he said, "as to the constitutional efficacy of your own decree of emancipation, in those cases where it has not been carried into effect by the actual advance of the army."
The President said: "This bill and the position of these gentlemen seem to me, in asserting that the insurrectionary States are no longer in the Union, to make the fatal admission that States, whenever they please, may of their own motion dissolve their connection with the Union. Now we cannot survive that admission, I am convinced. If that be true, I am not President; these gentlemen are not Congress. I have laboriously endeavored to avoid that question ever since it first began to be mooted, and thus to avoid confusion and disturbance in our own councils. It was to obviate this question that I earnestly favored the movement for an amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery, which passed the Senate and failed in the House. I thought it much better, if it were possible, to restore the Union without the necessity of a violent quarrel among its friends as to whether certain States have been in or out of the Union during the war --- a merely metaphysical question, and one unnecessary to be forced into discussion."
Thanks and haven't read that before.
DeleteFrom John Hay & John George Nicolay's book on Lincoln:
DeleteLincoln's attitude towards Southern States on February 3, 1865, as related by reconstructionist Seward who hated white people:
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Mr. Seward called attention to that phrase of his annual message where he had declared, "In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply to say that the war will cease on the part of the Government
whenever it shall have ceased on the part of those who began it." As to the rebel States being admitted to representation in Congress, "Mr. Lincoln very promptly replied that his own individual opinion was, they ought to be. He also thought they would be; but he could not enter into any
stipulation upon the subject. His own opinion was that when the resistance ceased and the National authority was recognized, the States would be immediately restored to their practical relations
to the Union."
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Another indication of Lincoln's attitude towards the conquered South:
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On the evening of February 5, 1865, Lincoln called his cabinet together and read to them the following draft of a message and proclamation, which he had written during the day, and upon which he invited their opinion and advice:
Fellow citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: I respectfully recommend that a joint resolution, substantially as follows, be adopted, so soon as practicable, by your honorable bodies: "Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States is hereby empowered, in his discretion, to pay $400,000,000 to the States of .... in the manner and on conditions following, to wit: The payment to be made in 6% Government bonds, and to be distributed among said States pro rata on their respective slave population as shown by the census of 1860
}
This guy didn't want rob them blind, he wanted to give them money for the negroes.
The reconstructionists had to act quickly and remove Lincoln from the way. With a President like this in office, there could not have been Stevens-Sumner reconstruction act. And this president had wide support behind him; much wider support than behind Thaddeus or Sumner. Against Lincoln they couldn't have organized an impeachment revolt.
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DeleteLooks like Illinois and Kentucky are hogging up all the guns. That's why the shelves are empty around here.
ReplyDeleteDamn, if we had only bought a gun store in 2008.....:)
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In the metro Atlanta area Outdoor Unlimited seems to be the only big gun store to have an inventory. You have to get out of the metro area for smaller gun shops to have full gun cases. The issue is people have traded in their cheaper or less desirable guns and have upgraded to higher quality guns.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who traded in his Rock Island 1911 for a Colt 1911 on the first stimulus check. Then he traded it for a Wilson Combat on the second stimulus check. I also sold some unused guns to take advantage to their recent increased value. Of the 4 I sold I have purchased 2 new ones. Of those two I know I will be trading one in the next year and replace it with another.
Great plan!
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