You don't suppose it was a marketing campaign, do you?
I can't help but think it almost seems designed to incite those who purport to merely be demonstrating against the tax increases and big, intrusive government that only came with the Obama administration.
he had his picture at a local gun shop as salesman of the year....
A tax on people gullible enough to believe that guns & ammo were about to be banned sounds like a brilliant idea to me. 
The best part is that these people actually taxed themselves because some scare-monger, the professional version of steamed, got them all worked up with propaganda.
Here is a litmus test to see if are still under the influence of this kind of individual; if you think the ACORN tape is real and that climate change is fake, look out, you are already being fleeced as badly as those who taxed themselves by buying extra ammo before Obama bans it.
BO has bigger fish to fry like destroying our health care system and destroying the economy so he can pick up the pieces for centralized control....
You are on the wrong side of this fight, thebaron, and the sad part is that you don't even know it. The centralized control you speak of is happening right in front of us and you don't even see it. It is what deregulation is all about, getting the government off of the backs of big companies (small ones don't seem to get the same treatment) so that these companies don't have to worry about matters unrelated to profit, such as safety and environmental concerns, making sure their employees are in the country legally, and stuff like that. The idea is to have no checks, no balances over whatever companies like BP want to do, what and whom they want to pay, what they will pay for and won't in terms of safety standards and equipment and so on. A totally free hand to worry about nothing but making money. And if anything bad ever happens, a spill here, an explosion there, an unintended side effect over there, well that is what we have a government for, to pay for the costs associated with businesses making money.
A clue that it was going this way was the defeat of Clinton's health care reform in 1993. Now a lot of that plan was crappy, but when the reform was defeated, all of the problems that the reform was designed to deal with got worse, a lot worse. With a deregulated market, the insurance companies were free to cover only people they wanted to cover and to pay for only what they wanted to pay for. So more people went uninsured and more people's insurance was near to worthless because claims didn't get paid. And of course no one was minding the store.
You don't know it but this is the side you are fighting with, the let the foxes guard the hen house side.
Obama and the dems have made sure that the Wall Street Foxes get full control of the chicken house with the weak financial bill and not to audit the fed reserve.
In Goldman Sachs We Trust !!!
True enough, but the GOP is up in arms over this, vowing to repeal the weak financial Bill to give even MORE power to Wall Street and GS.
This weak medicine is way too much for the GOP, they want NO checks, No balances for the people who nearly destroyed our economy.
That is the choice we voters face, watered down regulation for Wall Street or none at all. Both choices are foolish and dangerous, one more so than the other.
Maude_Lynne
From October 1, 2008 through September 2009 there was a spike in "sin" taxes collected, not in the fucking taxes themselves.
Maybe the cause of the surge in taxes collected is actually all those real Americans who stockpile/d guns and ammo either because they believe/d Obama would ban the sale of those particular necessities of life, or because the thought of a black man in the White House scares the holy fucking bejebus out of them. Anywho, the more they bought, the more tax was collected.