But gun ownership is on the decline – they lied
So, Bloomberg’s rag is running a bit saying that we’ve had enough of guns, going by sales records. CNN goes a bit further with the stupidity saying GUN SALES ARE PLUNGING!
Well, they are leveling off* after record highs since Obama got elected and since Obama danced in the blood of Newtown to call for gun control.
*It’s funny because that chart looks like a middle finger.
February 17th, 2014 at 7:50 pm
Yep, even us crazy gun collectors, I maybe bought one gun a month for the first 2-3 years I started buying guns. Now its maybe 2-3 a year because I already have a good collection and I’d rather spend my money on ammo and magazines.
For the less gun-nutty types they’re buying 1-3 guns, and calling that good, and when you look at concealed carry, home defense, and training, that’s really all you technically need if you don’t just LOVE owning lots of guns.
Hell back in gun culture 1.0 days you had the guy who owned his deer gun, and his bird gun, and maybe a 1911 or a revolver for home defense and carry, but a lot of those guns they never bought, their father or grandfather did, and handed them down.
February 17th, 2014 at 8:39 pm
Weer’d’s right. I’m Gun Culture 1.0, having been a gun owner since age 7, but never bought a gun until I was an adult. Didn’t need to, because they were passed down.
Even during the Clinton AWB, I didn’t buy more guns, because a) I was in college and poor, and b) I had what I needed at the time.
As soon as Obama was elected, I KNEW that gun control was going to hit the accelerator, and I feared it would make the Clinton AWB look like a jaywalking law. So, I starting buying a lot of guns, and so did a lot of people I know. Apparently, we ramped it up after Newtown, because we thought the media would use it (they did) to try and get through a total ban (they couldn’t get it done).
All that’s happening now is that we are tapering off to normalcy.
All it will take is another false-flag event, another mall shooting or school shooting or church shooting (nah the media doesn’t care about those), and we will be off to the races again.
I tell you, there are people who NEVER were interested in guns before who own two or three handguns now, and maybe a shotgun or AR-15, too. I know people like this. You do, too. This is Gun Culture 2.0. And thank God for it.
February 18th, 2014 at 10:20 am
I would say that most gun owners are getting slapped in the face by hope and change, with healthcare plans going away or skyrocketing in price.
Most of us cant afford to go to the range anymore, let alone buy a gun.
February 18th, 2014 at 11:17 pm
Notice that the gun grabbers, like Obama, never go after their own guns. Their proposed gun laws ALWAYS EXEMPT THEMSELVES and their hired guns. These are evil people because they try to take from others what they keep for themselves. The reason: Only two groups are threatened by guns in the hands of the people, criminals and tyrants.
ONLY YOUR ENEMY WANTS YOU DIARMED