gun sales nearly doubled over Bush under Obama

[swinokur]

thank you Obama

http://www.roanoke.com/news/virgini...cle_9be02bdb-b5fb-5fea-b2f8-4d449c672044.html

 

[alucard0822]

Thing is they haven't slowed down after the election either, black Friday 2016 had the single day reccord, November set a sales reccord, December may too. I think what happened was an overall shift in culture since the AWB expired in 04, and accelerated by Obama's hatred of our rights. Guns are more mainstream, and there are more gun owners, and people that support gun ownership than there have been in the last few decades. Much of it has been driven by modern tactical rifles and concealed carry too, which benefits our rights greatly. Hopefully the rising sales, acceptance, and general shift in our favor is permanent, seems to prove the best way to get people to do something is tell them they can't.

 

[Jim12]

Now, we need more ranges!

Convert/raze the ghost malls.

 

[JoeRinMD]

Thing is they haven't slowed down after the election either, black Friday 2016 had the single day reccord, November set a sales reccord, December may too. I think what happened was an overall shift in culture since the AWB expired in 04, and accelerated by Obama's hatred of our rights. Guns are more mainstream, and there are more gun owners, and people that support gun ownership than there have been in the last few decades. Much of it has been driven by modern tactical rifles and concealed carry too, which benefits our rights greatly. Hopefully the rising sales, acceptance, and general shift in our favor is permanent, seems to prove the best way to get people to do something is tell them they can't.

In addition to what you've identified (highlighted in red), I think the development of first-person shooter video games has brought about interest in the younger generations, esp for action events like IDPA and 3-gun. They want to be able to shoot the real versions of what they've "shot" in the video games.

JoeR

 

[willtill]

Now, we need more ranges!

Convert/raze the ghost malls.

A golf course is a terrible waste of a firing range.

 

[Brychan]

Now, we need more ranges!

Convert/raze the ghost malls.

Ooh good idea convert a mall into a big shoot house.

 

[John from MD]

There is a vacant Giant store in Edgewater just waiting for something to do.

 

[jimbobborg]

Now, we need more ranges!

Convert/raze the ghost malls.

A few years after Shooter's Paradise burned down, someone tried to open up a new indoor range in that strip mall. The Giant supermarket had closed down, probably due to the rampant shoplifting going on inside. We were all hoping that the former supermarket would become the new range. The fine folks running PWC (Ds) nixed that

I'd like to see Springfield Mall get razed and have something useful like the Elite Shooting Academy range, but that's not happening, either.

 

[5.56blaster]

Maybe people have woken up a little and see that rights aren't given by the government but taken by it and they want a little protection. Just in case.

 

[alucard0822]

In addition to what you've identified (highlighted in red), I think the development of first-person shooter video games has brought about interest in the younger generations, esp for action events like IDPA and 3-gun. They want to be able to shoot the real versions of what they've "shot" in the video games.

JoeR

Definitely a few, plus a ton of women are getting into it, lots of ranges and instructors around here feature "ladies only" classes, and they are popular. People in general are worried about crime and terrorism, and plenty of demographics not historically into guns are discovering their rights, and working to arm themselves.