[Wonder Warthog]

"Firearm background checks have increased almost every single year since 2002, except for Trump’s first year in office, when they decreased from 27.5 million in 2016 to 25.2 million in 2017. Federal had to lay off 200 employees in 2017. In 2020, there were 39.7 million firearm background checks."

So this dumbass of an executive has ONE BAD YEAR in an ongoing trend of fifteen years, and he cuts production and lays off employees?? This asshole shouldn't be in charge of a company...he needs to be cleaning toilets.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Federal laid off employees during a slow period so they wouldn’t go bankrupt like Remington.

[Hot Tabasco]

It was three years of market decline until the pandemic hit then demand skyrocketed. You can’t predict the future

[buckalfa]

"So this dumbass of an executive has ONE BAD YEAR in an ongoing trend of fifteen years, and he cuts production and lays off employees?? This asshole shouldn't be in charge of a company...he needs to be cleaning toilets."

Well the stockholders and board of directors likely think otherwise. The guy would have been fired if he had done the humane thing in keeping the workers on. A CEO's job security depends on his EBITDA and balance sheet. That and a contrived shortage keeps prices up.

[Chickensoup]

I didn’t see any slump in ownership or buying during the Trump years.