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It's Time to Buy a Gun By Jeff Clark  "Holy crap!" My wife screamed  as she squeezed the trigger  of the .38 caliber handgun.  The force of the blast pushed her arms skyward.  An instant later, the bullet  sliced through her target,  splitting its head in two.  Each half flapped back and  forth in the jet-wash breeze  of the titanium shot.  "Nice shot, ma'am," said the  head-phoned, bearded  shooting-range attendant.  My wife grinned proudly.  "I'll take this one," she said.  I walked over to her and  kissed her on the forehead.  "Merry Christmas, " I said and handed  her an application for a gun  permit.  Forget the diamond earrings.  Forget the little blue Tiffany  boxes filled with tiny,  overpriced trinkets. This year, my wife asked Santa to put a gun under the tree.  "But why do you want a gun?"  I asked when the subject  came up last Thanksgiving.  "I don't know," she  shrugged. "I guess with  everything going on in the  world these days,  I'd like to get a gun before  they're outlawed completely."  My wife certainly isn't alone  in that sentiment. As a  local gun dealer explained to  me,  "The biggest boost to sales  always happens when the government proposes some  new law to restrict gun  ownership."  It was fear of new  gun-control laws that  caused firearm  sales to skyrocket  immediately following  President Obama's election.  As of October 2009, FBI background  checks on firearm sales –  a leading indicator for the  trend of firearm sales  themselves – are up more than 18%  over the same 10-month  period in 2008.  But good times for  gunmakers are almost  always temporary.  The boost in sales  caused by political uncertainty  never lasts more than a few months.  That's a big reason why  gunmaker stocks –  despite achieving high  double-digit sales  growth – haven't really  participated in the market rally  over the past year. Stocks in  the  sector trade, on average,  for only seven times earnings and 0.7 times sales.  However, there's  something different happening  this time. In the 22 years I've known  my wife, not once, ever, has  she even considered owning  a gun... until now.  Let's face it, our world is  vastly different today than it  was a few short years ago.  We've given up countless  freedoms in the name of  "national security."  The lazy members of our  society demand "More!  More!" while hard-working  and  industrious people are  forced, through confiscatory tax rates, to weave an even larger  portion of the social safety net.  Government grows ever larger  like a leech engorging on its  host, while the individual  and his right to privacy shrink.  There's a growing trend  oward survivalism.  There's a genuine fear –  among people who  ought not have any cause for concern – that what they have and what they've earned  can be taken away from them.  That's why people are buying  gold. That's why they're stocking  up on ammunition.  That's why my wife wanted a  gun for Christmas. And that's why shares of gun  manufacturers may be the best bargains in the stock market  right now.  The stocks haven't rallied with  the market, so they won't  give up much if a significant  correction takes hold.  They're fundamentally cheap. The companies have  strong balance sheets with  plenty of cash on hand.  And gun sales are increasing  during a time in which sales of  nearly everything else are  falling.  I recently told my  Advanced Income subscribers  about a  covered-call strategy on a  gun stock that offered  a 7% immediate return and the  potential for 26% gains over the  next six months. It's one  of the lowest-risk trades in the  market right now.  For more information on  Advanced Income, click here.  Best regards and good trading,  Jeff Clark Porter Stansberry: This huge U.S. blue chip is virtually guaranteed to go bankrupt Company is masking its dire situation. This major American industry is fully socialist now Nobel laureate on how capitalism is gone from here. This is what Barack Obama will do next A great piece on how he can win back his fickle fans.