Washington Nervous Americans start panic buying GUNS as sales rocket across the country and long lines form outside hunting shops amid coronavirus fears

[Howard1955]

Since we're in the "panic buying GUNS" thread...

Does this represent anyone else's feelings, or just mine...???
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Every time.

 

[edzz]

So... Are we to fear that the powers that be will attempt to order our local gun stores closed during this panic?
Thankfully my LGS owner is a pawn broker, so as a member of the financial community he should be able to stay open right?
I hope so, after all I need my weekly therapy session especially with current events.

 

[EPS]

So... Are we to fear that the powers that be will attempt to order our local gun stores closed during this panic?
Thankfully my LGS owner is a pawn broker, so as a member of the financial community he should be able to stay open right?
I hope so, after all I need my weekly therapy session especially with current events.

I just saw a article about that.
The states with a ten day wait could have a problem.
If they do a lock down.
They might have to close and you will not be able to pick up your gun.

 

[No_Regerts]

An LGS I went to recently had a Shield 9mm for sale at $525!

 

[EPS]

An LGS I went to recently had a Shield 9mm for sale at $525!

Lol more than double what I paid .

 

[sobo]

 

[EPS]

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So true I have the T Shirt.

 

[Tony617]

So true I have the T Shirt.

Let's hope they remember that when it comes to voting in the next election.

 

[sobo]

Don't hold your breath on that one...

 

[EPS]

Don't hold your breath on that one...

Yep as soon as they can walk into a store and buy T.P.
And and any thing else they want .
They will forget about what is happening now.

 

[Tony617]

Don't hold your breath on that one...

Yes even my work colleagues don't keep up on the bills for Washington State House and Senate. I have to remind them ever legislative season.

 

[EPS]

I went to my local Safeway yesterday.
It was like I was in a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY.
I just went basically to see what was up.
No lighter fluid for BBQ.
No frozen veggies.
No soup in cans .
No pasta in any form or rice .
Any thing like that was gone.
Lol so I bought some steak and some fresh veggies .
Lol I don't have to worry I got a few cases of water and like a month or 2 of MRES IN MY CLOSET.

 

[EPS]

 

[Heyjoe]

Where are all these new gun owners gonna get their ammo? I suppose they hadn't planned that far.

 

[Heyjoe]

I don't have to worry I got a few cases of water and like a month or 2 of MRES IN MY CLOSET.

EPS water?

 

[sobo]

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Your avatar...

I had to zoom in pretty far, but it was sooooooo worth it!

 

[EPS]

EPS water?

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Yep I got some of those too

 

[EPS]

. And I got some hand SANITIZER also.
Hehehehe

 

[sobo]

What are all these new gun owners going to do with no ammo? Like most here who have seen multiple outages occur over the years: I'm well stocked. OK, way overstocked is more like it. I was feeling pretty damned cocky about that too until just the other day I saw my wife looking around for a new house. Thinking that moving the amount of ammo I own will be difficult, slow and painful. Be better to sell most of it off and buy more when she figures out where we're moving to.

Some of the 5.56
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I'll "store it" for you until you get settled into the new place...

 

[Jonnyuma]

Bulletin: Trust in Guns During Crises Is a Triumph of Marketing

Caroline Light is a Harvard professor whose field of study includes “America’s love affair with armed self-defense,” as she put it in the subtitle of her latest book. Reading the extensive reports this week of a surge in gun buying around the country, she was not surprised. “Firearms are...

www.thetrace.org

From the propaganda piece:
"Guns, in fact, do not make people safer..."




Oh... if you're waiting for Ms Light to illuminate you (see what I did there?) as to what, in her opinion, does "make you safer" (a stupid Utopian concept to begin with) then you're out of luck. She never says.
Sorry.