A Lot of Guns Being Bought

Sirex · Jun 20, 2020

Our club had a clay shoot today, and this past week I have been hitting the Walmarts looking for clays, Federal bulk 12G shells, and another metal ammo can. No one had any clays, except the Westminster store that had a broken box. No one except Westminster had metal cans, of which I got the only one they had left for my black powder supplies. And no bulk 12G federal shells, just 20G, and Winchester, which I don't care for. The shelves for basic birdshot were looking pretty lean.

rseymorejr · Jun 20, 2020

Sirex said:
Our club had a clay shoot today, and this past week I have been hitting the Walmarts looking for clays, Federal bulk 12G shells, and another metal ammo can. No one had any clays, except the Westminster store that had a broken box. No one except Westminster had metal cans, of which I got the only one they had left for my black powder supplies. And no bulk 12G federal shells, just 20G, and Winchester, which I don't care for. The shelves for basic birdshot were looking pretty lean.

I was in the Fallston Walmart one day last week and they had an entire pallet of clay birds.

FHJ69 · Jun 20, 2020

Well..... maybe not

DaemonAssassin said:
Oh? Can you beat 90 on a single NICS check?

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Nope, can't say that I can.

River02 · Jun 20, 2020

Decided to drive over and visit the folks at Hafer's Gunsmithing in Hagerstown this morning. Parking lot was totally full and handguns seemed to be the choice of the crowd-- 3 or 4 walked out the door during my visit (obviously purchased at least 7 days prior) while several more were going through the paperwork drill for purchase. Not much action on the long gun front--- never have seen it that busy.

Blacksmith101 · Jul 4, 2020

The pace of gun sales continues to increase. It looks like 'Rona is a better gun salesman than Obama was.

The number of NICS checks in in for June.........3,931,607 another new monthly record.

In just six months there have been almost as many background checks (19, 180,047) as happened in the whole year in 2012 (19,592,303).

I should have included the link to the raw data:
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year.pdf/view

When I went looking for a graphical representation of the numbers I came across a graph of the numbers as adjusted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) as of the May totals.
https://www.guns.com/news/2020/06/02/nics-gun-check-figures-highest-on-record-for-any-may-in-history

Oliva pointed to the trade group’s latest survey of firearm retailers that showed 40% of recent gun buyers are purchasing a firearm for the first time. Further, of those millions of first-time gun owners, 40% are women and are overwhelmingly buying handguns for personal protection.

Seagrave1963 · Jul 4, 2020

Blacksmith101 said:
The pace of gun sales continues to increase. It looks like 'Rona is a better gun salesman than Obama was.

The number of NICS checks in in for June.........3,931,607 another new monthly record.

In just six months there have been almost as many background checks (19, 180,047) as happened in the whole year in 2012 (19,592,303).

I'm gonna go on a limb and say that June's record was not the 'Ronas. The Leftist rebellion was more likely the cause for the latest surge and some of those numbers are their checks.

niftyvt · Jul 4, 2020

Proud contributor to the record numbers. I am also patiently (no, not really =P ) waiting for a midwest industries 308 rifle to come back in stock on their site so I can add another to the tally.

MDFF2008 · Jul 5, 2020

This whole thing is terrifying.

The left has lost the "You don't need a gun, call 911" argument.

The left seen the number of new gun owners explode overnight.

This can't be part of their grand plan. It truly worries me how they will perform a course correction to undo the damage, and how they will reconcile the fact that they've given up on "Call 911" as a solution.

Bob A · Jul 5, 2020

MDFF2008 said:
This whole thing is terrifying.

The left has lost the "You don't need a gun, call 911" argument.

The left seen the number of new gun owners explode overnight.

This can't be part of their grand plan. It truly worries me how they will perform a course correction to undo the damage, and how they will reconcile the fact that they've given up on "Call 911" as a solution.

As long as the left continues backing peaceful rioters and blaming those they've intimidated into silence as violent racists, they're not into course correction. Some of the more pragmatic seditious globalists among their number are seriously worried about how that will taint their election prospects, but they let the anarchists out of Pandora's box, and they're not going back inside.

They can't drop their anti-gun rhetoric, even as a goodly percentage of their party is out there buying guns. They can't drop their anti-police line, or they'll be branded as racists by the True Believers.

They cried Havoc, and loosed the dogs of war, and they will be eaten by them.

All they can do is to amp up the chaos. Backing down is no longer possible. When things get seriously dicey, Trump will push for law and order - presumably a lot closer to November - and the relieved populace will cheer him as the Cavalry and the US Marines come to the rescue.

Never let a good crisis go to waste. Never stop your enemy when he is in the process of defeating himself.

Alea Jacta Est · Jul 5, 2020

Getting so a fella needs a program to know which group is affiliated with which (ignorant anti-American) philosophy.

Concur to never interrupt your enemy when they are in the process of disemboweling themselves.

The only problem I see is there’s likely a helluva lot of carnage between here and done...not all them, on them.

Pale Ryder · Jul 5, 2020

MDFF2008 said:
This whole thing is terrifying.

The left has lost the "You don't need a gun, call 911" argument.

The left seen the number of new gun owners explode overnight.

This can't be part of their grand plan. It truly worries me how they will perform a course correction to undo the damage, and how they will reconcile the fact that they've given up on "Call 911" as a solution.

Just maybe, we’ve over estimated them and they really are as dumb as the Republicans, and don’t have much of a plan outside of gun bad.

Sgt. Psycho · Jul 5, 2020

Nnztg8r said:
Getting so a fella needs a program to know which group is affiliated with which (ignorant anti-American) philosophy.

Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius -Caesarius of Heisterbach

"Kill them. For the Lord knows who are His"

More commonly known as: "Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out".

River02 · Jul 5, 2020

+1 on contributing to the record numbers. Purchased a DD Mk18 Pistol last week--waiting for the boys in Black Creek, GA to put 'er in the post to the FFL.

MDFF2008 · Jul 5, 2020

Pale Ryder said:
Just maybe, we’ve over estimated them and they really are as dumb as the Republicans, and don’t have much of a plan outside of gun bad.

I would rather not underestimate the enemy. They are too well funded and organized not to have a plan.

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Darkemp · Jul 5, 2020

rseymorejr said:
LOL! Somebody asks and I say I'm not sure!

Years ago I started a spreadsheet to keep track along with purchase dates, amount paid, serial numbers. Got kind of hard to keep track. Last time I did a full ammo inventory it took about 4 hours to get a full accounting.

Blacksmith101 · Jul 12, 2020

The News is wrong again

Research Tentatively Links COVID-19 Gun Sales Spike To Increased Violence

Click to expand...

https://wamu.org/story/20/07/09/res...vid-19-gun-sales-spike-to-increased-violence/

The "News" is wrong again. Or they are playing spin the narrative to fit your agenda.

They have it backwards the increase in uncertainty because of the Wuhan Epidemic followed by worries brought on by the many shortages topped off by Antifa violence and BLM riots and the calls to do away with the police is driving up gun sales. Correlation does not equal causation.

Probably the percentage of gun events compared to the total number of firearms is going down as it has been for a number of years. An armed society is a polite society.

adit · Jul 14, 2020

Record Numbers of Americans Try to Buy Guns

Among the new buyers are people who say they never thought they would own a firearm and were previously critical of those who did.

John Kingdon, 42, has marched and signed petitions for gun control, spurred by the 2012 mass shooting at a movie theater in Colorado and another at a gay nightclub in Orlando in 2016. But in May, the registered Democrat who lives in the Denver area bought a Sig Sauer P320 semiautomatic pistol online for around $550.

“If I had a hard time getting police to respond to me when we weren’t in a pandemic, what about now?” he said.

And take a look at this new gun owner. :sad20:

And doing it with a Sig on top of it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/record-numbers-of-americans-try-to-buy-guns-11594719000

-Z/28- · Jul 14, 2020

adit said:
Record Numbers of Americans Try to Buy Guns

And take a look at this new gun owner. And doing it with a Sig on top of it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/record-numbers-of-americans-try-to-buy-guns-11594719000

He looks afraid of it. But at least his finger is outside the trigger guard.

Alea Jacta Est · Jul 14, 2020

-Z/28- said:
He looks afraid of it. But at least his finger is outside the trigger guard.

It will certainly be out of the weather when he carries it...

TheOriginalMexicanBob · Jul 14, 2020

Hope he doesn't drop it and shoot himself in the foot.

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