Posted on 03/15/2020 4:56:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Los Angeles Times reports that gun stores are one aspect of the economy seeing a surge in business as Californians react to coronavirus news.
According to the LA Times, the line of customers at the Martin B. Retting Gun Shop in Culver City stretched out the front door and around the block on Saturday. Many of those in line waited five hours for their opportunity to buy a gun.
A doctor who wanted to buy a gun at the store said, “I want to buy a handgun, I think they call it a Glock, but I’m not sure. I have a house and a family, and they’ll need protection if things get worse. The fear is that civil services will break down.”
Another customer, 39-year-old John Grove, said, “Politicians and anti-gun people have been telling us for the longest time that we don’t need guns. But right now, a lot of people are truly scared, and they can make that decision themselves.”
California has universal background checks, gun registration requirements, and a 10-day waiting period for completion of all gun purchases. So those who were successful in their search for a self-defense handgun Saturday will have to wait over a week to take possession of the firearm.
The owner of Laguna Guns & Accessories in Elk Grove, California, told the LA Times he has not seen guns sell at this pace since just after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Marijuana dispensary and liquor store sales are also surging.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
And it’s going to happen from far, far away. At night.
Good God...there's an accident waiting to happen...I would NEVER tell someone with no experience to buy a Glock..right off the bat.
Do you think I could trade some .22LR for some toilet paper?
I think you mean an AR-14.........
Since there’s a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - why shouldn’t they all be available in one place?
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A lot of these people that would never consider buying a pistol are now afraid. I’m glad that people are using their common sense to do so. I will say that a lot of them, such as the doctor in the article, will purchase it, bring it home and stick it in a night stand. Not a good thing to do.
No need to we are all going to die by the flu the LA Times and all media said so.
Media panic mode is 24/7 here in LA stores help with the never Trump gang by keeping the stores empty,stores did get 3 to 6 trucks a day now maybe one.
Warehouse are full to the max.
I lost all my toilet paper in a tragic boating accident
That excuse won’t work. Paper floats. Anyway you can always buy more TP in our wonderful American capitalistic free market :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zWmDm13M3X8
Waiting for the Gun Stores to run out of stock so I can unload (pardon the pun) my extras on Gunbroker.
Then again, the Government might go after me for gouging.
I have a Walther PPS and a Barretta mini Cougar. Love them both.
“She has no secure place to store a gun, so the Glock remains in my gun safe.”
So if she needs it right now how long does it take her to get it out of your gun safe?
Some of these people shouldn’t have access to a firearm. Especially a Glock with the suicide trigger.
The only thing that’s certain is the past, as we know what happened. The future’s always been a mystery.
News flash: The future was never certain.
Porn will rot your soul.
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