One and the same. The panic buying happened four years ago for the same reason it began four months ago; expected/feared gun control.Whether it is due to the recent governmental attempt to enforce assorted gun controlling measures in the aftermath of the Newtown, CT shooting, or, merely driven by the same catalyst that saw a surge in gun sales four years ago...
Uh, mmmmkay....America is preparing for war.
True. But the surge in demand this time was about 4-5x that of 2009.One and the same. The panic buying happened four years ago for the same reason it began four months ago; expected/feared gun control.
Maybe so, but they wouldn't be placing orders unless they thought there was a market for them.Most all of this is for resellers.
A little melodramatic, perhaps, but it probably is fair to say that America is preparing for a day when gun control succeeds. Which begs some questions. I'm reading "Essential Liberty," a speculation on what would happen if a time came when the gun control faction succeeded in passing a law that would require the surrendering ("collection") of all firearms. Do all those participating in the current buying spree anticipate just turning them in again someday? Are they hoping that their purchases would be grandfathered? Have they thought through what they would do it not? I have no doubt that some are, if not "preparing" for war, are at least seeking to be "prepared" if it were to come to that.Quote:
...America is preparing for war.
Uh, mmmmkay.
Maybe so, but they wouldn't be placing orders unless they thought there was a market for them.
I find that extremely perceptive and on point to my way of thinking as well. And yes, things MAY have calmed down a bit, but the opposition has not rested one iota, and I expect things to ratchet up again at least within months. They are not licking their wounds, but instead trying desperately to get anything that smacks in the least of gun control past the majority. This is definitely not the time to declare victory. I for one am still glad there are far more gun owners now than there were even a scant 6 months ago.i think in january/february, yeah, America was preparing for war. the less inhibited among us, e.g. Yeager, were posting youtube videos saying they were going to start shooting if there was any more fed encroachment on rights. but just about everybody i know, and a lot of people i didn't know, told me they were getting guns and expected some sort of revolution or at the least, unpleasantness.
and to be fair, a combination of obama's aggression and the consensus that the economic situations we see playing out in greece and cyprus will soon reach our shores, means i'm certainly not going to call people kooks or paranoids for wanting to protect themselves.
This is definitely not the time to declare victory. I for one am still glad there are far more gun owners now than there were even a scant 6 months ago.
I just recently went to a gun show expecting it to be a ghost town only to find it packed full of guns of all types and none outrageously priced (outside of a few ARs), so who would wait on a back ordered firearm when there are so many others out there available?
What new guns did Ruger introduce about that time that might generate high demand?Looking at the chart, I'm wondering what happened in the 4th quarter of '11 that caused the spike in demand in the 1st quarter of '12. That's more dramatic (as a percentage) than the change between Q4-12 and Q1-13.