But that’s almost all before Sandy Hook and efforts to renew the AWB. Afterwards it was this…
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/business/the-ar-15-the-most-wanted-gun-in-america.html?_r=0
Not to mention Joe Biden, through his cluelessness, doing his best to make the AR15 more popular among women:
That well could be; I couldn’t find any 2013 numbers. Even if that’s the case, though, it affects your premise, as it only applies to a small portion of the Obama administration, and certainly not back to 2006.
I think you are on to something with the increased permissiveness of concealed carry, but gun control advocates still seem to be increasing demand for “assault weapons” in particular. It’s interesting that handguns are so popular now, when in 1959 most people thought they should be outlawed. So what happened in 1959?
A nationwide drop in the lithium content of water supplies?
Man I miss prices like that. Prices are coming back to normal but theya re still high across the board and ammo is still hard to get.
Apparently so. Biden briefly mentions guns and there’s a surge of panic buying by gun enthusiasts. The NRA mentions Obama and there’s a surge of panic buying by gun enthusiasts. 20 schoolchildren get shot and there’s a surge of panic buying by gun enthusiasts.
And that’s why it’s all Obama’s fault.
Sort of. The democrat party seems unable to help itself from banning/attempting to ban/talking about banning guns, and each time the exact opposite of what they want to do happens. You know what they say about the definition of insanity…
“Support mental health or I’ll shoot you!”?
I just got a new S&W Shield 9mm for $369 (fantastic pistol, by-the-by), and CCI 9mm ball for $11.95 a box, they are returning to earth. I’ve just been shooting my 10/22 and waiting for prices to drop.
I don’t disagree with your basic premise, that fear of bans has increased gun sales in recent years. I just don’t think it’s the sole cause, and it may not even be the primary one. It certainly is a factor, though, but it’s one of several.
You know, trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Like repeatedly posting the same charges against Obama and the democrat party and thinking you’re going to change anyone’s mind? Is that insanity, and should insanity preclude gun ownership?
That, or hearing “The Battle of New Orleans” in heavy rotation…
Not changing anyone’s mind? Do you all still think it would be a good idea for the democrat party to try and institute the AWB or any other gun ban?
Handguns, especially small ones with small magazine capacities never went up very much. I bought a glock 27 at the height of the panic for under $500. A S&W M&P SHield for $369 seems really cheap, sounds like a black friday thing.
I haven’t been able to feed my 10/22 in months. 22lr is over $0.10/round around here.
It was the primary factor earlier this year wasn’t it? It is probably a primary factor in the period immediately preceding and following Obama’s election in 2008 and 2012 (there were spikes in background checks both times IIRC).
But I hear what you’re saying. I think there has been a trend towards more gun sales since the Iraq war started. I think being in a shooting war creates a lasting increase in gun sales.
Are you under the impression that gun sales didn’t hit all time highs after the threat of an AWB started getting thrown around Washington?
I wish my party would stop being so stupid about guns.
Obama could have lost the last election on the gun issue alone if he had run a heavy anti-gun campaign. Florida, Ohio and Virginia would almost certainly have flipped, That would have made the electoral count 272 to 266 for Obama.
I suspect that there are other states that would have flipped.
If Hillary runs, I expect to hear her talk about her hunting experience and to see pictures of her hunting ducks or something. She may be a lot of things but she’s not a total moron (of course it will look about as natural as her throwing down shots in that bar).
You keep missing out the intermediate step where the NRA gins up hysteria about the government “coming for your guns” whether the Democrats (who, incidentally, belong to the Democratic Party) mention them or not. And of course they also mention that you - YOU, freedom enthusiasts! - need to donate to the NRA right now to fight the evil government gun grabbers. And people do, in vast quantities.
Suckers.
Terry McAuliffe won a statewide race in Virginia despite taking pro gun control positions, including having endorsed the AWB.
Remember when support for gay rights was going to perpetually be a wedge issue that Democrats should run from? Things change when people articulate a clear and strong position.
The same shop had Shields at $440 just a few months ago. Could just be a holiday thing, sure.
Probably so, yes. Without 2013 sales figures by type, it’s hard to know for sure.
Interesting idea, I wonder if it’s ever been studied.
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The NRA donors are getting what they pay for, at least - pro-gun political advocacy.
What year did that start?
Good for the president. I noticed on the Wikipedia page that a Republican also tried to reinstate the AWB in 2008, so it’s not the strictly red-and-blue debate that you’ve painted it to be. It’s good to see that at least a few politicians from both sides are taking their jobs seriously. I also noticed that every recent attempt to ban assault-type weapons has died before it got off the ground, so there isn’t much chance of it happening. The fear that gun enthusiasts have of certain guns being denied them seems to be unfounded.
If you don’t mind my asking, have you bought any guns because you thought they might be banned?
In that case, I challenge you to a duel. Me and my gun against you and your golf club.
I demand satisfaction!
I’m aware that there are gun owners who aren’t drawn by the power of guns, since I’m one of them, but I don’t pretend that those who are seduced by it are rare. They’re in the news every week. There’s a whole sub-culture big enough to support its own genre of bad-ass movies and video games. Chuck Norris movie posters promise an orgy of deadly power by posing him with a gun, and millions of movie-goers willing to pay to see it have made Norris and his fellow bad-asses millionaires. The threat of using guns for the raw power they offer is great enough that their regulation to protect public safety is one of the hallmarks of modern civilization.
So no, the number of people who get a sense of power from guns isn’t small.