thankfully it is not contagious

Given that there are indications that liberalism is a mental disorder, this degree of a reality disconnect really should not surprise me:

What the major media outlets overlook is that the Obama gun sale boom appears to be the result of a multimillion dollar effort launched by the National Rifle Association last summer to misinform voters about Obama’s gun policy proposals. As Politico reported in June:

The National Rifle Association plans to spend about $40 million on this year’s campaign, with $15 million of that devoted to portraying Barack Obama as a threat to the Second Amendment rights. … This fall, NRA members will get automated phone calls, mail pieces and pre-election editions of the group’s three magazines making the case against Obama.

The NRA claimed of Obama, “[N]ever in NRA’s history have we faced a presidential candidate … with such a deep-rooted hatred of firearm freedoms.” As FactCheck notes, however, the NRA’s campaign is based almost entirely on falsehoods. Indeed, FactCheck writes, much of the NRA’s campaign “dismisses Obama’s stated position [on gun rights] as ‘rhetoric’ and substitutes its own interpretation of his record as a secret ‘plan.’”

The “political uncertainty” created by the NRA’s misinformation campaign may have more to do with making a sale than it does with shaping gun policy. The New York Times explained last week:

What is clear is that every gun seller — not to mention every advocacy group for gun ownership that depends on dues-paying members — has an incentive to stoke the concern that can prompt a gun sale. Political uncertainty, gun dealers say, is great for business. … “Clinton was the best gun salesman the gun manufacturers ever had,” said Rick Gray, owner of the Accuracy Gun Shop in Las Vegas. “Obama’s going to be right up there with him.”

Well, first off, FactCheck’s “findings” on the NRA’s campaign against President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama has been thoroughly debunked, and simply are no longer in play.
Second, President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama has supported a permanent “assault weapon” ban, on his own website. Twice (although one of those has disappeared down the memory hole). This is not “fear mongering”. This is not the NRA speaking (Although, now that I am a paying member, just where are my wheelbarrows of cash, gorram it?). This is not misinformation. This is cold, hard truth.
And guess what happens when you ban something? Well, the first thing that comes to mind is that it becomes harder to find/buy. Therefore, those who were even vaguely interested in ever owning an Evil Black Rifle suddenly realized that now was as good a time as any, and better than most. After all, that is why I purchased B.O.M.B.E.R. Second, those somethings that are out there in the market increase in value. Evil Black Rifle lowers, normal-capacity magazines, and other pointlessly-banned items went for many, many times their original value during the first ban-on-guns-that-look-mean – this is why I purchased B.O.M.B.E.R.’s twin. Third, people like making gestures, and this one developing is pretty powerful – just about every major news source out there is reporting on the uptick of firearm purchases, which really should make the Obama administration reconsider before they start attacking what is looking like a sizeable cross-section of the American public.
Of course, when it comes to insulting that cross-section of America, liberals seem to have no problems with that as well (nor any problems with a healthy dose of Reasoned Discourse (TM)… still waiting to see if my comment concerning the author’s bigotry and stereotyping surfaces).
At any rate, what we have here is not propagandizing by the NRA – in fact, they have been surprisingly less-loud than I expected them to be, given the elections. What we have here is not gun shops exploiting an unstable market – in reality, I have seen little to no advertising from my local shops, and there are four within half an hour of me. What we have here is not ignorant, back-ass-ward idiots being exploited for someone’s financial gain, and any claims to the contrary only exposes the claimer’s ignorance.
What we have here is simple supply and demand. Our next President has made it very clear he intends on drying up the supply for a certain product, and, logically, enough, the demand for that product has gone through the roof.
Only a mentally-ill liberal would miss that obvious reality.