[marktwain]

In spite of our problems, we are living in a golden age. Maybe at the end of a golden age, but a golden age.

[marktwain]

Lines are numbers for 2022, bars are for 2023

[cyclotic]

One of them was me

[Spok]

The more shootings there are, the more people realize they need protection and more guns are sold, and the political tension increases. Hopefully new gun owners will be more 2A supporters.

[suthener]

“Background checks continue to outnumber gun sales by over 2-1, as many background checks are done for purposes other than a gun sale.”

Maybe I’m being a little slow here, but can you expound on that?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Prices of quality firearms were only lower when there were millions of military surplus firearms on the market.***

This is one reason so many New England congressmen were in favor of banning the sale of 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles in the 1960s, to protect their local manufacturers such as Remington, Winchester and Savage.
They used the murder of John Kennedy with such a military rifle to get a ban on imports of these “crime guns”, as they were called.

Those same states that used to protect America’s firearm industry now want to destroy that industry or drive them out of their state.