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As the coronavirus pandemic grows, gun sales are surging in many states
LA Times ^ | Kurtis Lee, Anita Chabria

Posted on 03/16/2020 4:20:54 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

David Stone snagged a cardboard box of .223-caliber ammunition from the shelf and slid it across the glass countertop, offering his go-to sales pitch: “Welcome to the biggest selection of ammunition in all of Oklahoma.”

“I’m not sure I can keep on saying that,” Stone said, explaining that the supply of goods at Dong’s Guns, Ammo and Reloading has been seriously depleted over the last few days.

Gun sales are surging in many U.S. states, especially in those hit hardest by the coronavirus — California, New York and Washington. But there’s also been an uptick in less-affected areas, with some first-time gun buyers fearing an unraveling of the social order and some gun owners worried that the government might use its emergency powers to restrict gun purchases.

Stone’s packed store shares a small strip of road with a church, a cemetery and another gun shop, and in recent days he has sold several firearms to truckers traveling along Interstate 44 here in Oklahoma. One trucker, who was headed to Arizona, bought $2,500 worth of firearms and ammunition, and another trucker, who was headed to Illinois, dropped $200 on ammunition alone.

“You got to be protected for all sorts of stuff,” Stone said. “Seems like the world has gone mad.”

In California, would-be customers formed a long line outside the Martin B. Retting gun shop in Culver City over the weekend.

“Politicians and anti-gun people have been telling us for the longest time that we don’t need guns,” said John Gore, 39, part of the crush of customers in recent days . “But right now, a lot of people are truly scared, and they can make that decision themselves.”

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


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1 posted on 03/16/2020 4:20:54 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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"some gun owners worried that the government might use its emergency powers to restrict gun purchases."

Such as Kali, Washington, Illinois, New York, New Jersey? Like the Commie b!tch in Champaign?

I'm detecting the vague shadow of a pattern, here...

2 posted on 03/16/2020 4:25:02 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: RoosterRedux

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

Numbers from Tomas Pueyo


3 posted on 03/16/2020 4:25:07 PM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: RoosterRedux

In a situation like the one we’re in,first time gun owners make me a bit nervous.


4 posted on 03/16/2020 4:25:22 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: RoosterRedux
the Martin B. Retting gun shop in Culver City

I remember that name from the gun rags back when I was a heck of a lot younger. Didn't know they were still extant.

5 posted on 03/16/2020 4:25:39 PM PDT by niteowl77
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To: RoosterRedux

Probably still “on topic”:

On his show last night talk radio host Bill Cunningam said he spent 4-5 days in Florida and was driving back on I-75 to Cincinnati.
“All the way up I-75 I saw a number of big caravans of military vehicles. Someone must think somethng big is about to happen.”

Makes one stop and think.


6 posted on 03/16/2020 4:26:33 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Looks like we may have to break out the scuba gear and go on an SAR mission from boating accidents. I know I have the GPS numbers someplace. Unless they're shutting down the navsats too. 😳
7 posted on 03/16/2020 4:26:56 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Yup.


8 posted on 03/16/2020 4:27:07 PM PDT by databoss
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To: niteowl77
extant [ˈekstənt, ekˈstant] ADJECTIVE (especially of a document) still in existence; surviving. "the original manuscript is no longer extant" synonyms: still existing · in existence · surviving · remaining · abiding · enduring · undestroyed · present · existent · living · alive
9 posted on 03/16/2020 4:27:10 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: jonascord

Time to dust off the seventy five round clip.../S


10 posted on 03/16/2020 4:27:49 PM PDT by refermech
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To: RoosterRedux

I love how FReepers are now regularly using as source material CNN, MSNBC, LA Times and other Fake News sites to bolster Coronavirus!

This site is definitely taking a nose dive!


11 posted on 03/16/2020 4:29:21 PM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Better title would be “As the coronavirus panic grows ...”


12 posted on 03/16/2020 4:30:06 PM PDT by glennaro
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To: RoosterRedux
Why would anyone need a gun in California?

It's such a LIEberal utopia!

13 posted on 03/16/2020 4:30:30 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Yup. Owning and "knowing" it are miles apart.😳
14 posted on 03/16/2020 4:30:55 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
In a situation like the one we’re in,first time gun owners make me a bit nervous.

The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968) starring Don Knotts.

Or the scene in Diamonds Are Forever where the Jill St.John character picks up an automatic weapon, shuts her eyes, pulls the trigger and fires off about thirty rounds before falling backwards.

15 posted on 03/16/2020 4:32:27 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: refermech
I just checked. I don't have 70 5 round magazine clips.😄. Butt......
16 posted on 03/16/2020 4:33:09 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Artcore
This site is definitely taking a nose dive!

I think it is time for JR to remind the people that visit this site why this site exists in the first place. There is no way that Freepers would be down with this virus nonsense 10-15 years ago.

17 posted on 03/16/2020 4:34:38 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Q = Quidam = Fraud.)
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To: RoosterRedux

If there is definitive evidence that it came from the Chinese L4 lab, why isn’t it incinerated? If it’s ours...same. We had better traceability in the auto parts lab I worked in. Citizens anywhere shouldn’t have to put up with this BS. Citizens everywhere would be thankful. What do the 5 eyes do? What do our scientists at are L4 labs know?

“in order to form a more a more perfect union”? OK,...FU politicos / propagandists


18 posted on 03/16/2020 4:36:06 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Artcore
Article on gun sales aren't boosting coronavirus even if they are from the LA Times.

If you don't like this site, head on out.

BTW, note to all other Freepers (who like it here), Sturm, Ruger stock went up 3.6% today.

As an additional note, wise people know it is smart to know thine enemy. Such knowledge often comes from keeping an eye on their media.

19 posted on 03/16/2020 4:36:38 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Well, a little national pub for my homeys at Dong’s.

Run by a new generation of respectable people, but I had the honor of buying some stuff from and getting a little range time with Mr. Dong himself back in the early 80s.

Very much an American, having escaped the Chicoms, very much an advocate of the Second Amendment, and a cool guy in general.

It’s a good thing that the sign on the store still
says Dong’s.


20 posted on 03/16/2020 4:38:50 PM PDT by OKSooner (Tulsi is being pimped by the DNC and FOX as Joe's running mate. You heard it here first, 3-16-2020.)
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