http://www.wkyt.com/news/headlines/Busiest-day-for-local-gun-shop-after-2012-Election-179190101.html
This was on our local CBS affliate last night.
This was on our local CBS affliate last night.
He might have thought that prices were going to increase and availability was going to decrease, which at least in the near term is probably an accurate assessment.I think it's disingenuous to panic all at once over one event. Did the guy who bought the metric ton of 5.56 think that he didn't need it BEFORE this election?
I have to disagree with the characterization of post-election buying as "panic." Many of us were burned badly in 1994, and while the likelihood of new restrictions is low, hedging against future restrictions, price increases, or reduced availability is not a "panic" response.
Blaming Obama for gun sales is like blaming a calendar for the Y2K panic.
He might have thought that prices were going to increase and availability was going to decrease, which at least in the near term is probably an accurate assessment.
I have to disagree with the characterization of post-election buying as "panic." Many of us were burned badly in 1994, and while the likelihood of new restrictions is low, hedging against future restrictions, price increases, or reduced availability is not a "panic" response.
Feinstein and McCarthy are not in play here. To drive up prices because of anything they say is opportunism. (They say it all the time.)
Blaming Obama for gun sales is like blaming a calendar for the Y2K panic
So then in 2008 that was not why the same scenario was happening?
Blaming Obama for gun sales is like blaming a calendar for the Y2K panic.
JustinJ said:Blaming Obama for gun sales is like blaming a calendar for the Y2K panic.