The Times published a piece today that said that the push among states to loosen gun laws was a reaction to the election of President Obama.
There may be a small smidgen of truth to that, but only a smidgen. This has been going on at least since the passage of the Brady Bill in 1993. Gun rights advocates concluded that there was no point in playing defense and trying to beat back or water down gun control legislation; the better course was to go on the offensive and roll back the gains made by the gun-banning folk.
This was a direct outgrowth of the Right to Carry bills. Each time one was enacted, beginning in Florida in the late 1980s, the gun control advocates promised that "the streets would run red with blood" as people carrying concealed weapons got into gunfights. It didn't happen. What the gun control freaks keep forgetting is that it is law-abiding people who obtain gun permits. Criminals, the people who are already disposed to things such as drive-by shootings and mass murder, don't bother with gun permits.
Lessening gun restrictions is a long-term strategy of the pro-2nd Amendment forces. It has had very little to do with the election of the current president.
The "zOMG!!!1! Obama's Gonna Take My Gunz" sales rush of the last fifteen months is another story. Fools. Money. Parted. You know how it goes.
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Fools. Money. Parted.
The fun and interesting fact about all of that is that a lot of those purchases are now being sold back on the used market, I guess because folks really couldn't afford them in the first place.
Just a couple weeks ago I picked up a like-new stainless Mini-14 Ranch for about 40% of price on the dude's receipt.
Ammo is another matter. That is still high.
Ya beat me to it.
Seriously, it's possible to score some pretty sweet deals now on post-panic items.
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