Who's Buying all These Guns?

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Originally Posted by ray1970

Hell, even people who voted for Obama are buying guns right now.

I look forward to the horror stories from the public shooting areas once the weather warms up a bit.

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Been thinking that myself.

What will happen to Left Hand/Pawnee?

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Originally Posted by ray1970

Hell, even people who voted for Obama are buying guns right now.

I look forward to the horror stories from the public shooting areas once the weather warms up a bit.

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don't worry, there will be campfire/shooting bans soon enough :)


On a more serous note. Does anyone know of a decent collection of YouTube videos about firearm basics? Has the NRA put something like that together? Something we could point new shooters toward?

They guys at blucore are really pushing buyers to take one of their classes on safety and usage. For many of the buyers it is their 1st firearm or a firearm they are not at all familiar with. Their classes are loading up so at least some people are interested in learning. He also stated they are talking about having a range officer in the shooting area to watch people more closely and make sure they are being safe.

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Originally Posted by kraven251

I know some older people that own a hunting rifle or two, that have picked up an AR or AK, and ammo to go with it. I know people that grew up with guns that didn't own any because they didn't hunt anymore and were living in a more urban setting, they are buying guns.

Oddly the reason when I asked both sets of folks about why they were deciding to acquire, largely got the same answer. It wasn't that they were afraid of a ban, it didn't have anything to do with home protection or self-defense. It had everything to do with them wanting to have the tools at hand if the country took a bad turn.

Of all of the words and actions of politicians, and all of the fiscal/financial issues and the shit slide we are on...none of that scared me. These people that are worried about a very real possibility of a not so civil action ranging in ages from 25-85, that scares me. They are waiting for something to give, and they just simply want to be prepared if it does.

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If this is the mood in this country then we are in for some interesting times.

Those who do not have guns are buying them. I was at G&G earlier and a young fellow ~25ish, was looking at an AR15 in a strange caliber, thought he should get one. A little late I'd say. He knew absolutely nothing about the AR platform, didn't know the stock from the barrel. Scary.

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Originally Posted by SuperiorDG

If this is the mood in this country then we are in for some interesting times.

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IF it's the mood. In some places IT's always been the mood. RE: Gordon Kahl
http://www.usmarshals.gov/district/n...l/htm/kahl.htm
http://www.constitution.org/abus/gkahl/kahl.htm

I go to Bass pro a lot to look at everything they have and always see what is in stock behind the counter. Before the rush to buy firearms recently I would stereotypical say that they were being bought by people from out in the sticks and random inner-city people mixed in with a few hunters and such. Now it seems like it is all first time firearm owners with no clue what they are looking at only that they want to buy something. Seems to me a fair number of people are buying for the first time and then joining our site and other firearm sites to educate themselves (wish it was more, and wish the learned then bought after they knew what they were doing).

Its not everyone. It is first time buyers, doctors, lawyers, bank administration. Its not the run of the mill trader. Look on some of the sites and see the feedback of some of these folks. Don't know where they have been, but they have an endless supply of cash.

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Originally Posted by merl

don't worry, there will be campfire/shooting bans soon enough :)

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I know the guy who runs the Lafayette water treatment plant - se says if we have another dry winter like last winter that severe watering restrictions as well as a ban on outdoor campfires and possibly shooting are pretty much guaranteed.

At the Tanner this morning (which was insanely busy; avoid if you can), there was a super-busy vendor near the back of the North hall, selling cheaply tricked out DMPS ARs ($3K+!!!) and 870s. I saw many young guys who I would estimate were 25-30 years old buying up the ARs as fast as they could write the orders. Two of them I asked if this was their first rifle, and both said yes. I'm not sure if they understand the terrible value they are getting, but I don't think it mattered to them - they just wanted an AR.