White House Signals It Will Ask Retailers for Help on Gun Control

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RP88,
The defense budgets are not what had been.
Civilians are paying a lot more for guns these days, China is out of the way. Currently imports are reduced to the budget sporting market or high end with US made parts.

These days most innovation are going to civilian sales. Gun sales are high profits are decent. Heck walmart had AR-15 rifles in their black Friday catalog.

 

[mgmorden]

Manufacturers don't give a damn about the civvie market as far as guns and ammo and mags are concerned; a lot of the big gun makers consider us the secondary market, and consider law enforcement and military (foreign and domestic) the main market.

And rightfully so.

Some do - many do not. Ruger is the largest firearms manufacturer in the country and they have virtually no government contracts of any note.