NEWS ARTICLES

The AR15 rifle is basically the same kind of rifle that US military forces use in the Middle East. The Vietnam War's M16 has some updated in details, and the new military name is the M4. The main difference between the civilian versions of the M16, and the US military's M4 version of the M16, is that the M4 has a full automatic fire capability.

This year, 2009, over a half million AR15 type rifles, (i.e. M16s, M4s, AR15s, etc.) will be manufactured and sold in the USA to CIVILIANS. An interesting political and social question is, "Why?" Why are American civilians buying brand new AR15s at a rate of over half a million a year?

Over 500,000 AR15s will sell in 2009, but it's NOT because they are cheap. A "cheap" AR15 is six hundred dollars. From there, the price of 65% of the AR15s jump up about one thousand dollars per gun. If you want the "extras" it's two thousand dollars a gun. If you want to pay four thousand dollars for an AR15 there are several manufacturers selling four thousand dollar PLUS models of AR15s. At an average retail price of about $1,000 per AR15, the retail sales are in the area of over five hundred million dollars for 2009.

Why, in a recession year, is the American public buying half a billion dollars worth of military rifles? Why are all of the manufacturers of AR15s running at full capacity? Why are the manufacturers of AR15 ammo working 24/7, at full capacity, and making billions of rounds of ammunition? That's not a typo.  There are billions of rounds of .223 ammo being sold every year.

I've been in politics and the firearms business for over a half century. I'm also one of the, proven, most gifted, social analysts  in America. I can give you the answer to the above question in one sentence. The driving force propelling the AR15 sales is profound unhappiness with the direction of American law, society, morals, values and governmental policies.

The talking heads on TV are always blabbing away about the wonderful progress America is making with supreme leader Obama, and his family of commissars in command. However, real world people are voting at their local gun stores. Voters in the real world are sending a very different message. Real world voters are sending a message of profound unhappiness to Mr. Obama, and his gang of communist money grabbers.

It's more than AR15 sales. 2009 is setting records for overall firearms sales of every kind. American's gun stores (FFL holders) in 2009 are on track to sell over 14,000,000 firearms. Once again, that's not a typo, fourteen million guns sold by gun retailers in 2009. That's as many small arms as the US produced for WWII.

Historical facts. From 1929 to 1939 civilian firearms sales DECREASED during the great depression. So what's different now? The big difference is that in the 1930s, the general public trusted the government. However, now in the 21^st century, tens of millions of Americans have a profound distrust of the government, and in my opinion it's a justified distrust.

Therefore, why in a recession year, when real unemployment is 15%, will America's gun stores sell in 2009 as many guns a America produced in WWII?" Once again the answer is the same. Profound unhappiness with what's happening in Washington D.C., and at ALL levels of government. The United States Government is FAILING in the number one most important area - trust.

I was born and raised a Democrat in Chicago, in the first Mayor Daley's Democratic Party machine. Here is a political INSIGHT that most left-wing Democratic Party politicians have never understood, and do not to this day understand. For decades, left-wing Democrats have told themselves: "If we could only ban guns then we'd destroy the pro-gun voting block." WRONG - totally wrong. What Democrats have NOT understood for the last 40 years is confiscating the firearms of gun owners is politically counterproductive unless they could simultaneously and permanently confiscate the VOTES of gun owners.

Niccolo Machiavelli got it 100% correct when 500 years ago he said, "You can kill a person's parents, and kill their brothers and sisters, but someday that person will forgive you. However, if you steal their property, you will have an enemy until that person dies, and that person's children die."

BOTTOM LINE: The Republicans should put as much air between themselves and the Democrats as possible. No Republican should vote for the Obama health care con game. President Obama's health care fraud is a bomb that will explode in the face of everyone who votes for it. Twelve months from now the Democrats will be WACKED at the polls. The left-wing talking heads on TV are saying that everyone in American is happy, happy, and happy with President Obama. However, firearms sales are telling a totally different story.

If anyone ever wanted to run for political office on the Republican ticket - 2010 is going to be the opportunity of a lifetime. This is a prediction from a person who has a brilliant 45-year record of correct political predictions. Eighteen months before the November 2009 presidential election (in writing, in the pages of AFI Magazine,) I predicted, 100%, no equivocations whatsoever, that McCain would lose. Now, I'm predicting that the Democrats will lose BIG, very big, a year from now in November 2010.

Sincerely

Andrew Molchan
Systems Analyst, Publisher, Novelist, and a real Patriot in the classic American tradition.