{"id":33488,"date":"2013-05-01T08:27:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/the-government-is-stealing-all-our-bullets.html"},"modified":"2013-05-02T06:51:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:51:20","slug":"the-government-is-stealing-all-our-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/the-government-is-stealing-all-our-bullets.html","title":{"rendered":"The Government Is Stealing All Our Bullets!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Eek. Also, no, they are not.<\/p>\n

We've already had this discussion (http:\/\/goo.gl\/UJ4Vr<\/a>), but the GOP leadership is blithely advancing with a conspiracy theory-inspired action to keep federal agencies from buying up all the ammunition in the United States (whether you believe it's gun-control-thru-ammo-control or you believe it's the next step in a federal government war on the citizenry). \u00a0<\/p>\n

So the big question is: are they actually zany enough to believe the theories? Or are they just pandering to some fringe of the base by fomenting more fear and loathing of That Man in the White House? \u00a0<\/p>\n

Also, for a party of Big Business, these guys seem to have little understanding of procurement contracts nor of the laws of supply and demand …<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Republican lawmakers are pushing legislation aimed at combating a threat to gun rights that even the National Rifle Association has described as pure fiction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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GOP Battles A Threat To Gun Rights That Even The NRA Says Doesn\u2019t Exist<\/a>
\n Republican lawmakers are pushing legislation aimed at combating a threat to gun rights that even the National Rifle Association has described as pure fiction.\n <\/p>\n


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Eek. Also, no, they are not. We've already had this discussion (http:\/\/goo.gl\/UJ4Vr), but the GOP leadership is blithely advancing with a conspiracy theory-inspired action to keep federal agencies from buying up all the ammunition in the United States (whether you believe it's gun-control-thru-ammo-control or you believe it's the next step in a federal government war … Continue reading “The Government Is Stealing All Our Bullets!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,100,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dolts","category-guns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48632,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/04\/the-convenient-myth-of-respecting-local-control-of-government.html","url_meta":{"origin":33488,"position":0},"title":"The convenient myth of respecting local control of government","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Dec-14 1:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The way Washington, DC, gets treated by its Congressional overlords is scandalous. 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