Who Is Buying All the Guns and Ammo?

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Most Americans are good, hardworking and patriotic. A lot of them were not gun owners, but in this time of turmoil, some of them are understandably choosing to exercise their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

There is a serious problem in this country, but I have faith in the American people.
 
AlexanderA said:
Disagree. There are a lot of first-time buyers that are rushing to arm themselves. That's because they are expecting (and actually beginning to see) the kind of social unrest that they have never seen before in their lives. I'm 75 years old, and I've certainly never seen anything like this before.

The whole "social contract" seems to be collapsing. You have the people in the middle, the so-called "yeoman class" (blue-collar workers, farmers, small business people), feeling beset both from the top (the educated professionals and other elites) and the bottom (the underclass). Each of these three groups is arming itself against the others.

So far they are arming, but not shooting. All it will take will be a spark (a disputed election result?) to start the wholesale shooting.
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I wonder how many people understand that they are being played. Manipulated into believing some other race or group is evil. (The actual evil is WAY up the chain) It doesn’t change the core problem though. Each person should defend themselves if possible.
 
Hartkopf,
You got that right! People think that because being Republican or Democrat makes them better in one way or another.

Sorry but there's no difference in the two parties. They play to people's ideology and fears and use it against them.

It's amazing how corrupt our government is but they have the money and power to hide it. Keeping people at odds with one another is just another form of control.

I find it amusing that Democrats want to ban this that and the other. They always seem to get shutdown for some reason or another. Then a Republican president says "hold my beer" and bans something!

If people are out buying all these firearms up, they should be looking into how they can keep them away from ALL politicians! Wake up, smell the gun powder and look at who really wants to take away your rights!
 
LiveLife said:
Another question is how many of them will want to keep their guns they just bought after the November election? ;)
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Mandatory gun buyback. I think that's what His running mate called it. (I refuse to type their names)
Buy= #1 that an item is for sale. #2 The price is negotiable by both parties.
...and we all know what mandatory means.
I WANNA KEEP MINE. As the old saying goes... out of my cold dead hands.
 
Coldfinger said:
Mandatory gun buyback. I think that's what His running mate called it. (I refuse to type their names)
Buy= #1 that an item is for sale. #2 The price is negotiable by both parties.
...and we all know what mandatory means.
I WANNA KEEP MINE. As the old saying goes... out of my cold dead hands.
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Yea what she wants goes against the heart of 2A.

Mandatory = confiscation
 
I think a lot of people buying guns right now are BLM, Antifa, and other peaceful rioters and arsonists who are preparing for full scale war after Trump wins the election in November.
 
Whoever is buying ammo now. I'd like to know where their buying it. As for guns. Better buy one that you can actually buy ammo for (today)
 
Who Is Buying All the Guns and Ammo?

Me. I've been on a buying spree lately. I may not have purchased ALL of the guns and ammo sold this year, but I am responsible for a sizeable percentage.......:evil:
 
Mk-211 said:
Hartkopf,
You got that right! People think that because being Republican or Democrat makes them better in one way or another.

Sorry but there's no difference in the two parties. They play to people's ideology and fears and use it against them.

It's amazing how corrupt our government is but they have the money and power to hide it. Keeping people at odds with one another is just another form of control.

I find it amusing that Democrats want to ban this that and the other. They always seem to get shutdown for some reason or another. Then a Republican president says "hold my beer" and bans something!

If people are out buying all these firearms up, they should be looking into how they can keep them away from ALL politicians! Wake up, smell the gun powder and look at who really wants to take away your rights!
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EXCELLENT POST!!! I have been trying to tell people this for years and they just don't seem to be able to grasp it. Plain old two dimensional thinking is what is destroying our country.
 
Balrog said:
I think a lot of people buying guns right now are BLM, Antifa, and other peaceful rioters and arsonists who are preparing for full scale war
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They already had guns. The ones buying now are less-militant people, of all factions, parties, and classes, who are suddenly feeling threatened. This is a real bad sign.
 
No way those numbers are right. There’s no way 10%+ of the population bought a firearm in the last 3 months. Not possible.

I don’t subscribe to the website so I can’t read the article but some simple math tells me that 30,000,000+ firearms were not sold in the past 3 month. US gun manufacturers made 7,000,000 firearms in all of 2019.
 
reddog81 said:
No way those numbers are right. There’s no way 10%+ of the population bought a firearm in the last 3 months. Not possible.

I don’t subscribe to the website so I can’t read the article but some simple math tells me that 30,000,000+ firearms were not sold in the past 3 month. US gun manufacturers made 7,000,000 firearms in all of 2019.
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Idk. There were a LOT of guns in stock in warehouses, back rooms and showcases. Now there are almost no guns in stock anywhere.
 
AlexanderA said:
They already had guns. The ones buying now are less-militant people, of all factions, parties, and classes, who are suddenly feeling threatened. This is a real bad sign.
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A VERY BAD SIGN indeed. If you're not disturbed by this - you should be.
 
Coldfinger said:
Mandatory gun buyback. I think that's what His running mate called it.
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If you parse their proposals carefully, you realize that (a) they are unworkable, and (b) they are political nonstarters. In other words, this is just campaign rhetoric.

BTW, the actual proposal (for existing "assault weapons") is either, at the owner's choice, turn-in with compensation or registration under the National Firearms Act. Neither alternative would pass, not least because of the practical difficulties. There is no money or resources for either one. Rest easy.

What we might get is a renewal of a 1994-style "ban." For those of us who lived through it, it didn't amount to a hill of beans. Even less so now, since there are so many more guns out there.
 
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As long as the new folks buying them vote to support their right to do so, welcome aboard. Buy all the ammo you want too, don’t forget the magazines that will hold as much as you want them to.

More knowledge, common, prolific, acceptance, of them, the better off we are not only in the market place but as far as statutes go as well.

As far as “in stock” goes, my buddy sent me this one the other day, saying things are really getting ridiculous when they pick the fishing lure section clean...

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I guess anyone that has any money left after buying guns and ammo, moves on to fishing lures and toilet paper...
 
AlexanderA said:
If you parse their proposals carefully, you realize that (a) they are unworkable, and (b) they are political nonstarters. In other words, this is just campaign rhetoric.

BTW, the actual proposal (for existing "assault weapons") is either, at the owner's choice, turn-in with compensation or registration under the National Firearms Act. Neither alternative would pass, not least because of the practical difficulties. There is no money or resources for either one. Rest easy.

What we might get is a renewal of a 1994-style "ban." For those of us who lived through it, it didn't amount to a hill of beans. Even less so now, since there are so many more guns out there.
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Sometimes it isn't so much that the law works, it's the severe damage it does to society and Constitutional Rights it causes as it flounders and fails.

I do not want a return of the 1994 ban, or a "confiscation "(buy-back, or whatever you want to call it) because such laws are UNconstitutional and the .gov will, nevertheless, attempt to enforce them. I think that I will live longer if I do not have to deal with the consequences ......:uhoh:
 
This has wandered into pure politics, partisan politics and social theory. While interesting, it is not the focus for General.

Thus, closed.
 
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