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Thought summer was generally a slow month for sales anyway. People are going on vacations and doing work on houses.
For me it's more about saturation than anything. The industry does live off of each subsequent generation procuring more firearms though so if the anti-gun folks can largely convince subsequent generations that they don't need firearms, the industry will decline over time.
While not a perfect correlation, background checks are considered a yardstick of overall sales, and June's 1.9 million hits on the FBI's national instant check system, while up slightly compared to 2017, were far from the monthly records set in March, April and May ...
Here's an actual quote:
So OK -- June 2018 NICS checks are higher than June 2017, and the previous three months had set records. What is there to fret about?
Also note, this was "The Washington TImes" not the "Washington Post". TWT is generally conservative I think, but still, the article seems intentionally and irrationally alarmist.
Saturation is a good word for it.
2016 and 2017 were years for heavy spending on firearms, ammo and SHTF gear for me. I scaled way back on that at the beginning of the year due to finances and 'saturation'. Ammo I am still going to buy, but firearms I will only buy when I see an offer I can't refuse - i.e., such high value at low cost I can't pass it up. Otherwise, I will be buying holsters, optics/etc., enhancements (including gun-smithing) and other accessories for the firearms I already have.
The article has it backwards - sales decline not because we feel the heat, but because we are comfortable with the status quo. It is wishful thinking on the part of the anti-gunners and they surely know that - or rather, it is spin on their part.
Guitar companies fret. Gun companies rifle.
sheesh
The story is from The Washington Times, which is conservative and a paper that Trump often links to in his Tweets.Fake Fake Fake...that libtard rag called the Washington Post is making things up again.