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.
Several years ago, Jim Chilton was a guest on Freedom Forum Radio. Jim Chilton and his wife Sue are 5th
Generation Arizona ranchers. In 1888, the Chilton family ancestors
arrived in Arizona driving several hundred head of cattle. Over a
century later, Jim and Sue Chilton continue to manage the family’s
cattle business. Their 50,000 acre ranch is adjacent to the town of
Arivaca, Arizona, and continues south to the international border with
Mexico. The ranch includes private property, state school trust lands, and two federal grazing permits on national forest lands.
Two
years ago, Jim’s primary concern were onerous bureaucratic regulations
that prevented the efficient use of his own land to prosper in the
family cattle business. Out of necessity, Jim Chilton has spent most of
his recent life as an activist for property rights. He is at war
against flawed and illogical environmental regulations. In fact, Jim
Chilton has testified before Congress multiple times about issues with
the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Acts.
Somewhere
out there in the vastness of America's political landscape there has to
be a dawning taking place. Not just that the insistence that the
supposedly vaccinated must continue to wear masks is not just absurd but
defies all logic and common sense and that beyond that the reason for
it has nothing to do with science but rather is purely political.
Posit
it then that they are waiting for the software and documentation to be
created for the Federal imposition of a vaccination passport system in
defiance of those states that have already banded the very notion. They
feds will of course argue that federal law supersedes all state laws.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) reportedly orchestrated a secret media
campaign with a left-wing mainstream media publication to counter
rhetoric from then-President Donald Trump about the results of the 2020
election.
The New Yorker noted that Eric Edelman, a friend of Cheney’s who
served as a national security adviser to her father, former
Vice-President Dick Cheney, revealed the following tidbit to the
publication:
Cheney’s rupture with the House Republican Conference has become all
but final in recent days, but it has been months in the making.
