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Guns Sales Booming
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RE: Guns Sales Booming
(June 21, 2020 at 1:55 pm)BrianSoddingBoru Wrote: Then why did the spikes in gun sales and background checks coincide with the COVID-19 measures? Could it possibly be because of the fantasy of hordes of post-apocalyptic looters running amok and trying to take your stuff? Yes, it’s an unsubstantiated conclusion, but not an unreasonable one.

It's a conclusion favored by your bias.


Do you think it might have something to do with those $1200 cheques that Trump was tossing about like party favors?

And the fact that all the gun stores stayed open as "essential businesses" while so many other stores had closed?

Perhaps you are right about first time gun buyers. But most of the gun owners I know have bought something in the past couple months.

It's what disposable income is for.
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#12
RE: Guns Sales Booming
With two guns, one in each hand, one gun is badly aimed, if at all. It gets worse with three guns. Ad infinitum.
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#13
RE: Guns Sales Booming
(June 21, 2020 at 2:10 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: With two guns, one in each hand, one gun is badly aimed, if at all. It gets worse with three guns. Ad infinitum.

I practiced two handed shooting when I had a pair of Ruger Blackhawks in .30 carbine. These are single action revolvers - cowboy gun - that require the hammer to be pulled back with each shot. (And take 2 hands to reload)(.30 carbine is LOUD in a revolver. They catch everyone's attention at the range they have such a harsh report)

I practiced for almost a year and never really got good at it. You are better off simply shooting one gun empty then switching guns.

Two handed just looks good in movies.
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#14
RE: Guns Sales Booming
Well, if it worked for Randolph Scott!!
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#15
RE: Guns Sales Booming
"Booming", yes. Big Grin  One local gun store did $.25M on the day that the lock down was ordered. Not a single round left in the store, unless one considers that the employees carry. I did manage to find some CCI Mini-Mags, though, at a different store.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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#16
RE: Guns Sales Booming
(June 21, 2020 at 2:10 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: With two guns, one in each hand, one gun is badly aimed, if at all. It gets worse with three guns. Ad infinitum.

Maybe, maybe not.

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Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#17
RE: Guns Sales Booming
(June 21, 2020 at 2:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(June 21, 2020 at 2:10 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: With two guns, one in each hand, one gun is badly aimed, if at all. It gets worse with three guns. Ad infinitum.

Maybe, maybe not.

[Image: 184-1841865_octopus-with-guns-splatoon.png]

Boru

It's that rare animal, the septopus!
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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#18
RE: Guns Sales Booming
(June 21, 2020 at 2:03 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:
(June 21, 2020 at 1:55 pm)BrianSoddingBoru Wrote: Then why did the spikes in gun sales and background checks coincide with the COVID-19 measures? Could it possibly be because of the fantasy of hordes of post-apocalyptic looters running amok and trying to take your stuff? Yes, it’s an unsubstantiated conclusion, but not an unreasonable one.

It's a conclusion favored by your bias.


Do you think it might have something to do with those $1200 cheques that Trump was tossing about like party favors?

And the fact that all the gun stores stayed open as "essential businesses" while so many other stores had closed?

Perhaps you are right about first time gun buyers. But most of the gun owners I know have bought something in the past couple months.

It's what disposable income is for.

Of COURSE it's a conclusion favoured by my bias.  I happily admit to a certain bias when it comes to gun ownership.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#19
RE: Guns Sales Booming
It must be awful to live in a country where people are so scared they need to be armed
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#20
RE: Guns Sales Booming
Can't have a race war without tooling up first.



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

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