just heard that the gun shop in my hometown, frequented by members of my family, had record sells yesterday
Gun Shops See Big Sales Weekend After Shooting
Long lines and brisk retail. Store owners chalk it up to holiday shopping.
I know, right? Now tell your friends!
Gun Shops See Big Sales Weekend After Shoo...
Katie Notopoulos
Source: georgiagunstore.com
The gun shop 2 blocks from my house has had a packed parking lot for the last few days.
I've never seen so many people at the gun store!
Parking lot at the gun store is packed beyond capacity. #priorities
Social media users around the country this weekend remarked on long lines and big crowds at gun stores, and wondered what connection those sales could have to Friday’s horrific shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in which a young man used his mother’s semi-automatic rifle to murder 20 children and 6 adults.
Gun sales have at times spiked at times when talk of gun regulation turns serious — for instance, after President Barack Obama’s first election — and gun owners believe they might soon be unable to obtain some heavy duty weaponry. The murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School prompted calls to revive the Clinton-era Assault Weapons Ban, though it’s unclear whether any Republicans would support such a measure.
And two leading gun retailers contacted by BuzzFeed said that strong sales are unconnected to the shootings.
“We’re very busy, but we always are this time of year,” said Gina Boone, the owner of 5280 Armory, one of the largest firearm retailers in Denver, Colorado, chalking the surge up to Christmas shopping, not panic.
“This is normal for December. It’s our biggest time of the year,” said Kevin Keer of Lotus Gunworks in Louisville, Kentucky.
Several gun dealers in Connecticut and elsewhere in the Northeast declined to comment for a story connected to the shootings, echoing the silence of the industry’s main lobbying group, the National Rifle Association.
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Alexander Hahn 5 months agoI dont understand americans. why isn´t the number of purchased weapon lockers increasing, except of the increasing weapon purchases.
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sandyt4 5 months agoI am horrified by what happened in Newtown. I am a gun owner, having exclusively guns for hunting. I understand the desire to further regulate guns and would have to agree that there are too many firearms in the country. It is just I can not bring myself to giving a government that freely wiretaps, violently suppresses dissent and assassinates it’s own citizens any m ore power than it allready has
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Buzzedonthefeed 5 months ago
non American here, but something that still baffles me with the argument about respecting ones right to bear arms yet choosing not to own one yourself… When you choose not to own a weapon knowing that many others have chosen to own them, you are actually giving up some of your basic human rights (the the gun owners love to claim as their ‘right’ )in order to allow others to bear arms because if by granting other people the right to carry a deadly weapon that could infact be turned on you at any moment for any reason, while you are not even thinking about guns and going about your daily business.. how is that fair for the people that chose not to carry them? what defence do you then have. the desire to own one to protect from others with them just perpetuates this whole thing.. Gun control can not be compared to that of other civil rights like : homosexuality or to have an abortion etc, they are individuals rights that others should not interfere with (I’m Pro Choice but not when it comes to the right to own destructive weapons that can only be used for murder) , but as to if or not a nation’s individuals should constantly fear for their lives………… You should not be able to carry a gun because you fear the government will try to control you if you don’t have them, because this is not 1852, it’s 2012, seriously get with the times America, your also not a war torn country…… but if it’s continually tolerated then what do you expect. I’m sure many gun owners would agree how many idiots there are, so with that knowledge why promote the issue that they too should own a gun, it’s pretty clear what will happen, does happen, and continue’s to happen with that logic.., why does every other civilised western country and many American’s themselves realise this but not these hardcore gun people..? The debate is actually pretty simple, and people need to get over their pride and sense of entitlement to bear arms, it’s just ridiculous!
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NippyBurns 5 months agoWhy guns are legal in your country and others absolutely baffles me!!!!!!!!
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mauser*girl 5 months agoMost crimes in the US are committed with cheap revolvers - matter of fact, less than 2% of overall crime is committed with so-called assault weapons. And not “any idiot with sufficient cash” can buy a gun. You have to go through a background check. Some states, like Connecticut, have a 14-day waiting period for any long guns and also require licensing/permit in order to obtain a pistol. It’s not as easy as walking in and buying a gun. “High powered” rifles are any rifles using a caliber above .22LR - this includes every hunting rifle. They’re all high-powered rifles. And the reason you must inspect a vehicle is to ensure it’s mechanically sound. You must insure it so someone will pay when you drive that 8,000lbs of metal into another person. You do realize that 43% of all unintentional injury in the US is caused by vehicles each year, right? That every couple of seconds someone in the US is killed, disabled, or injured by a vehicle, right?
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mtbeconomist 5 months ago
Gun owners are incredibly insensitive. The believe their little hobby is some kind of god given right. Most gun owners I know are a little bit sociopathic.
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gillianp2 5 months agoMausergirl, perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the gun show loophole. And my (obvious) point is that automobile operation is tightly regulated whereas the possession and operation of an AR-15 assault rifle - the new weapon of choice for spree killers - is not.
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