National First-Time Gun Buyers Explain Why Coronavirus Drove Them to Gun Stores

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First-Time Buyers Explain Why Coronavirus Drove Them to Gun Stores in Record Numbers

Aaron Eaton learned how to shoot in the Army back in 2006, but holstered a pistol for the last time when he exited in 2009 and took a job as a technician for a sewer company. That all changed on March 26 when the father of four walked out of an Alabama gun store with a Beretta 92FS, the same gun...

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[Xaevian]

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

 

[Stomper]

What I'm getting is.... cognitive dissonance, outright denial, procrastination, and the taking for granted the (relative) ease of living in the USA... until it isn't.

 

[Jonnyuma]

The guy with the asian wife is worried about "hate crimes"... lots of robberies in Asian neighborhoods, according to him.

 

[Stomper]

 

[awshoot]

Saddest part of the article:

All of the new gun owners provided proof of purchase, though some asked not to have their last names published because of potential career backlash.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Career backlash , for purchasing a firearm...
Exercising a Right...is not a crime , nor should it incur career backlash.

Yes I am aware that I said "should" and that could easily be turned into "will".
But to make a person fearful of career backlash , after they exercise a Right , seems , to me at least , a form of workplace terrorism.

Owning firearms is not shameful...It was something that was so important that it is the 2nd of our Amendments.
Andy

 

[quneur]

Unless they work for Bloomberg.

 

[ma96782]

Aloha, Mark

 

[Unicykle]

and that 50rd box of fmj is going to protect them from the down fall of civilization

 

[DivCurlGrad72]

Some more good stories. Hope they're representative.

"Now I'm 100 percent converted," he said.

He's already begun recruiting others.

"I got one of my Asian-American friends to take the NRA basic pistol class with me," Kane said. "Signed my wife up too for a later session so we can tag-team it. Never thought I'd be that guy taking his clueless-about-guns buddy to the gun store."

First-Time Gun Buyers Explain How Coronavirus Changed Their Politics

The pandemic has made the soft-spoken software engineer an unlikely Second Amendment supporter.

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[MannyGlocks]

"The guy with the asian wife is " who is.......Mitch Mcconnell?

 

[The Heretic]

"though some asked not to have their last names published because of potential career backlash."



I have personally seen such "backlash" in the workplace

 

[PenTurner]

So have I, I took a couple of interns out shooting, and my director read me the riot act when he heard about it. He said that it was a liability for the company, and he would let me go if it happened again.

 

[No_Regerts]

The guy with the asian wife is worried about "hate crimes"... lots of robberies in Asian neighborhoods, according to him.
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Yeah, other folks phuck with Asians all the time. Its ok. But don't phuck with black people or hispanics, that's hateful.

 

[awshoot]

Some more good stories. Hope they're representative.

First-Time Gun Buyers Explain How Coronavirus Changed Their Politics

The pandemic has made the soft-spoken software engineer an unlikely Second Amendment supporter.

freebeacon.com

Hopefully this feeling takes root on a widespread level:

"This has taken me, a law-abiding citizen with nary an unpaid parking ticket to my name, over a month," he told the Washington Free Beacon. "Meanwhile Joe Bad Guy has probably purchased several fully automatic AK-47s out of the back of an El Camino in a shady part of town with zero background checks."

 

[Camelfilter]

So have I, I took a couple of interns out shooting, and my director read me the riot act when he heard about it. He said that it was a liability for the company, and he would let me go if it happened again.

I would laugh & laugh & laugh, whilst I invited said director to join me down at HR's office. AND I'm fully aware HR is not (normally) on employees side.

However, that sit down would have been hilarious having HR HAVE to explain the difference to my director betwixt personal & company time.

Obviously, not all companies, nor fields are like mine. So I can understand some folks concerns & experiences.

I wear a large "I heart GUNS & coffee" patch on my book bag to work every day...

 

[PenTurner]

I thought about it, but it is one of those things where you pick your battles. Neither of us work for that company any longer. He took a job in California, and I got laid off a year later.

 

[Camelfilter]

I thought about it, but it is one of those things where you pick your battles. Neither of us work for that company any longer. He took a job in California, and I got laid off a year later.

Oh, I hear ya.

It'd sure have been "fun" to throw in the HR conversation that you all were doing Bible study (or any other religious study, heck even Festivus) betwixt shooting tho, wouldn't it?

 

[cigars]

Not trying to be Captain Obvious here but it's nice to see these stories come out. Seems like a lot of new gun owners from the left are realizing that law abiding gun owners are not the bad guys now that they realize that it's important. Now that they want to suddenly participate in 2A they are seeing how insane their former views on guns was. While I welcome all of them to the flock, I would seriously like to hear an apology from them for demonizing law abiding gun owners over the years. Come on Lefties, let's hear you say it.... "I'm sorry and I was wrong about law abiding gun owners and 2A".
True to my word, all will be forgiven.

First-Time Gun Buyers Explain How Coronavirus Changed Their Politics

The pandemic has made the soft-spoken software engineer an unlikely Second Amendment supporter.

freebeacon.com