Fearful of ban, frenzied buyers swarm gun stores

[NickB79]

Source: Associated Press

Assault rifles are sold out across the country. Rounds of .223 bullets, like those used in the AR-15 type Bushmaster rifle used in Newtown, are scarce. Stores are struggling to restock their shelves. Gun and ammunition makers are telling retailers they will have to wait months to get more.

Store owners who have been in the business for years say they have never seen demand like this before.

When asked how much sales have increased in the past few weeks, Horsley just laughed.

"We haven't even had a chance to look at it," he says. Horsley spends his days calling manufacturers around the country trying to buy more items for the store. Mainly, they tell him he has to wait.

Read more: Link http://news.yahoo.com/fearful-ban-frenzied-buyers-swarm-gun-stores-225130224--finance.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. I'd love to see them all retroactively become illegal.

Watch all these nutz waste their money.

[NickB79]

2. A retroactive ban would be political suicide

That's something even many Democrats wouldn't support, and could also be ruled illegal by the Supreme Court. Besides which, who's going to go door-to-door collecting all those illegal weapons? I imagine there wouldn't be many volunteers for that task.

[crim son]

3. Yeah, never going to happen

for all the reasons you indicate. Doesn't mean it isn't a nice idea.

[oldbanjo]

33. If the Police can have them the people should have them.

Every day I trust the Police less. I will never own an AR15, I don't like them. When I was in Washington DC one night 13 Police cars were broke into (in a maintenance yard) they stole the rifles and vests, that's reason enough for people to own them.

[maxsolomon]

53. Your logic is circular

you don't trust the cops because they got robbed in DC, so you want to have an equivalent arsenal? do you plan to have a firefight with a SWAT team in the near future? how do you think that will work out for you, given the history of every other fool who decided to go out with their hand on the trigger of a gun?

WOLVERINES!

[WinkyDink]

4. The ONLY way to discourage purchases is to require VERY expensive insurance.

[AldoLeopold]

5. That's a good idea

But I wonder what underwriters would set the prices at - and at what risk? Its possible though, and a VERY good idea.

[bongbong]

7. On another thread I estimated the costs

I looked up some info, did a rough calculation, and to cover the liability for gun deaths it would cost roughly $1,000 per year per gun.

[AldoLeopold]

9. Well done!

Sounds good to me. Now THIS is a viable solution. Its going to end up in the USSC because the founding fathers didn't know what an automobile was (or else I'll wager they would have had an amendment saying "the right to drive cars shall not be infringed blah blah."

I want this to happen though. This could work very well.

[oldbanjo]

31. BS

[bongbong]

45. LOL

I did the research, and came up with a number. $1,000 per gun per year for all you Delicate Flowers too scared to exist without a weapon.

If you're a scared coward unable to function without a gun, I would hope you consider that cheap.

[smirkymonkey]

56. +1000

[slackmaster]

38. Your bogus figure relies on a bizarre assumption that policies would pay damages caused by crimes

Like no insurance does now.

[bongbong]

44. LOL

You gun religionists are hilarious. Do you parrots have ANYTHING to waste Liberal's time with besides NRA Talking Points?

The insurance that everyone is talking about would pay for deaths that your slaughter-Preciouses deal out to Americans.

[NickB79]

48. Could you provide a link to that thread?

Or show your work? I'd be interested in seeing that. Thanks

[bongbong]

55. The link

Remember, I said off-the-cuff

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2032871

[Thinkingabout]

12. Good idea with yearly licensed renewal, mental test and liability

[hack89]

13. My home insurance is not effected by me owning guns

when I asked why my insurance went up for a swimming pool and a big dog but not guns he said the risk is way too small to make it worth the effort.

There are so many legal gun owners and so few deaths due to them.

[quakerboy]

39. Cool story, bro

n/t

[hack89]

41. Do you really think gun ownership impacts home owners insurance? nt

[pipoman]

18. Now suddenly it's cool to love

big insurance companies? And encourage them to bump the actual actuarial information in favor of making this constitutionally impossible insurance "VERY expensive", eh?

[Eleanors38]

26. Ha! Caught a good one there. Now, the feds or the states: who requires this?

[oldbanjo]

32. Unbelievable the stupidity of some people,

the biggest crook in this Country is the Insurance Co why would anyone want to make them richer.

[WinkyDink]

58. FUVM.

[WinkyDink]

57. Better them than guns, mon ami.

[slackmaster]

37. My liability insurance premiums are not affected by the fact that I collect firearms

My agent knows all about it. The company doesn't offer a discount for gun-free customers either.

It would not be very expensive.

[YOHABLO]

6. Well I guess it's good for the economy ... No?

Now that they've bought up all the ammo and the guns .. let's see the government take them away .... ha ha ha hah .. that'll never happen ... cause you know we've got to keep arming that Southern Militia when the civil war comes.

[onehandle]

8. Fearful of erectile dysfunction. nt

[malz]

16. HA!

Those guys packon' two onches in their pants luvs their gun. LUVS their gun!

[pipoman]

19. Just can't help yourself, huh?

I see you have crawled out of the gungeon to spew your vile divisiveness.

[Eleanors38]

27. Yes. I believe he has a hate-on.

[enki23]

10. Once all the manly men saw how well they killed kindergarteners, they had to have 'em

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[BlueJazz]

11. Cluck..Cluck

[malz]

17. Chicks with Guns

Hawt!

[triplepoint]

14. It's Sad How GunNuts Misinterpret the 2nd Amendment!

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I am so frustrated with our slowly-evolving/quickly devolving species. We have to go through so much hardship before we EVEN consider changing our ways. Good thing we're on a planet that is tucked away in an obscure location of the Milky Way Galaxy!
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Gun Nutters Swarm Gun Shows (Let me know when you've had enough of this insanity--the gun nutters that is):
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"...We have to save each other because all victims are equal and none is more equal than others. It's everyone's duty to start the avalanche."

--Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair, "The Russia House"

[PavePusher]

23. 5 rounds per second from 9mm pistols?

Yeah, zero credibility... congrats, you've achieved it.

[PavePusher]

47. Don't know what you are talking about. Feel free to explain yourself.

I sleep very well at night, thanks.

[S_B_Jackson]

52. Funny that the Sig-Sauer pistol that you posted

isn't chambered for 9mm. A SigSauer P220 Carry is only chambered in .45 ACP which is moving at a sub-sonic 850 fps, and that the pistols magazine has only an 8-round capacity.

[Odin2005]

15. Sick, violently disturbed assholes.

These gun nuts are exactly the people who should never be around guns.

[SoapBox]

22. You took the words right out of my mouth!

Krazys with guns...terrifying.

[etherealtruth]

34. My sentiments exactly!

[primavera]

20. I'm almost beginning to wonder whether the gun industry is behind these shootings

Every time someone goes out and shoots up a school or a shopping mall or whatever, gun sales double overnight. Gun manufacturers must pray for massacres.

[Brigid]

21. There was a thread around here a few days ago . . .

Linking to an article comparing Americans to a wildebeests--always herds of them stampeding around in panic over something. Here we go again.

[Skittles]

25. shows how sick and paranoid these delusional little bastards truly are

[pansypoo53219]

28. IF your response to 20 little children getting killed, you need a life.

hell, where are those FEMA CAMPS???

[Recursion]

29. You know, every AP editor is merciless about "Xerox" vs. "photocopy", or capitalizing "Realtor"

But asking them to be accurate with "assault rifle" is apparently a bridge too far.

[Union Scribe]

30. "Horsley just laughed"

That's sick.

Okay, he has a legal business. But at least be a little humble or even embarrassed that you're floating in sales due to a massacre of children. Damn.

[ileus]

35. Glad I haven't had to wade thru that mess.

I was in a gun shop last weekend buying archery equipment to set up my daughters new bow, it's was a mad house.


I think I'm GTG at least long enough to get past the panic buying.

One can never have too much ammo after all...

[slackmaster]

36. It's not just military-looking semiautomatics that are sold out

Online retailers are sold out of pretty much everything.

http://www.aimsurplus.com/product.aspx?groupid=671&name=Romanian+M1969+.22lr+Trainer+Rifle

I bought one of those nice little rifles for $39 at Big Five Sporting Goods about 10 years ago. Now I wish I had bought 10 of them.

[ileus]

43. That is a nice little 22.

[booley]

40. fearful of whatever, gun buyers buy lots of guns

Fearful of bans, buyers buy guns

Fearful of Democratic President, Buyers buy Guns
Fearful of Crime, Buyers buy guns
Fearful of shootings, Buyers buy Guns.

Can we can say that the gun industry benefits from people being afraid?

[Blandocyte]

46. Damn them for doing something completely legal

This is why nothing short of a total ban will have a major impact on deaths by firearm. All posession must be illegal.

But while it is legal, enjoy your boomsticks, I say. But please don't leave them in store bathrooms or shoot up a public place with them.

[Hekate]

49. The operative word here is "fearful"

We have just had a 21st century Massacre of the Innocents.

But what really makes them fearful is the scary, scary, black man (thank you Lemont in Candorville) who's gonna send jackbooted thugs to take your guns away and god knows what all else.

These are fearful people.

[Jefferson23]

50. If accurate, this is a sickening reaction. n/t

[gtar100]

51. Strange and perverted values these gun nuts have.

Kids get killed and they worry about not having enough ammunition. What a bunch of assholes.

[Aristus]

54. "Frenzied". Good word.

Nothing better describes the febrile, animalistic terror that drives the gun-humpers. Sad to live in such fear...

[ileus]

59. I'm really considering selling one of my AR's

and some of my ammo...

Person would be crazy not to...make 100-300% profit. Wait a few months and restock when conditions go back to normal.

[and-justice-for-all]

60. My partner works at a Gun Store...

and he said the amount of fucking stupidity that comes through the door on a daily bases is mind numbing.

[Ter]

61. Wish I had that option, but my local city already bans them