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How the NRA Is Using Coronavirus Fears to Drive Up Gun Sales
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It’s tough to determine who, exactly, is buying guns and for what reasons. Anecdotal reporting suggests that many of the sales are panic purchases by first-time gun owners. Of course, it’s helped that President Donald Trump—after a lobbying blitz from gun rights groups—issued guidance that gun shops should be considered essential businesses and allowed to remain open, even as states were forcing other retailers to close their doors in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. Many state governors complied, and some even reversed previous orders to have gun stores closed, citing Trump’s guidance. |
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jac
(5/8/2020)
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I wish we could take the credit, but in fact the NRA has nothing to do with it.
People realized that the pandemic could disrupt society to the point that public services would no longer be dependable. And on top of that thousands of criminals were released on the streets. That is the new reality that drove gun sales.
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PHORTO
(5/8/2020)
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Human Nature is driving up gun sales, no NRA needed.
Where the NRA is needed, as first-time Democrat gun buyers have discovered (much to their chagrin), is to combat the idiotic anti-2A policies the progressives they voted for put in their path to acquiring a constitutionally-protected commodity.
Nice try at scapegoating (not). It's getting old. |
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