[2ndDivisionVet]

Comments?

[elkfersupper]

The author has never been in the military and has never seen an AR-15.

[Signalman]

(Why are so many Americans buying guns?)

[cripplecreek]

I’ve never been to Cabela’s but I used to go to Jay’s Sporting goods when I lived up north.

[JRandomFreeper]

But the AR is not a hunting gun.

Tell it to the pig parts in my freezer. And my little sister's first deer, some 25 years ago.

/johnny

[Traveler59]

Although I don't have access to gun sales statistics, many people I know did purchase firearms just after the 0’s election. I wonder if it would be possible to match gun sales statistics with whomever is in the White House (D or R).

[JRandomFreeper]

We enter seasons ahead unlike any we had seen in the passing century.

By that does he mean the century of Adolf Hitler, Musselini, Stalin, Pol Pot, Ho-Chi-Min, Edi Amin, and other dictators? Or the millions killed by their governments? That century?

/johnny

[Bryanw92]

We bought a lot of guns when Clinton was president too. And we formed militias. There’s something about a Marxist in the White House that makes us think about opposing tyranny. Its just a part of the American DNA, I guess.

Wolverines!!

[flintsilver7]

I was invited via an email from Cabela’s to trick out my AR. It took a minute to figure that they were talking about an automatic rifle.

Well, for one, the author sure as hell doesn't own an AR-15. It's also patently obvious from his second sentence that he has absolutely no idea what the hell he's talking about and the rest of the article should be discarded.

[Figment]

The question is a no brainer. Bring it

[smokingfrog]

[Zeppo]

But the AR is not a hunting gun. It is a war weapon...

Actually, it's more of a "sports utility rifle" - one that can fill many different roles.

[familyop]

Lefties are buying huge numbers of firearms, too. It’s all the rage. TV/movie fantasies, maybe...zombies and all of that? Who knows? One weird part of it all, is that most of the buyers of semi-auto rifles are in the cities. Go figure. You’d think they’d want more shotguns, pistols and the like.

IMO, it has to do with entertainment, style, fantasies of fictitious adventures and all of that. Most of the newbies interested in semi-auto rifles are burning bores up (see silly Youtube videos) without any seriousness toward getting educated in ballistics. Mostly posers.

[Rapscallion]

“Why guns?” you ask.

Because “It is about the redistribution of wealth.”

[Rapscallion]

“Why guns?” you ask.

Because “It is about the redistribution of wealth.”

[SampleMan]

I had all the hunting guns that I needed by the time I was 16 years old ( .22, 12ga, .25-06).

Every weapon I’ve bought since has been for personal protection, militia obligations, or community organizing.

[Sarajevo]

I bought a lot of gear from Cabela’s when I was in the Army. They sold good stuff.

[the invisib1e hand]

the comments are cool. i couldn’t get past the 1st paragraph of the article.

[rlmorel]

"...Comments?"

Yeah. Who cut off Bernie's nuts?

[rlmorel]

I don’t know who this guy is, never heard of him. But after reading the last three paragraphs, I know exactly who he is:

A pompous bag of hot air who likes listening to himself speak.

I am not anti-intellectual. But when the description “Intellectual” is applied as pejorative, it could be applied to this guy.

[GenXteacher]

Well, when the occupant in the White House likes gun control, and the presumptuous, er, presumptive nominee is somebody that signed an assault weapons ban himself, then its time to buy lots of guns and ammo.