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In reply to the discussion: New movie will make NRA ‘wish they weren’t alive,’ says Obama backer Weinstein [View all]spin
(17,493 posts)32. Time to buy stock in Ruger and Smith and Wesson. ...
All the movie will accomplish is to increase the sales in firearms to new record levels. Many gun owners will fear their firearms will be confiscated and run out to clean gun stores out of firearms and ammo just like happened during the last push for gun control.
Sandy Hook Gun-Maker Profits Up 52 Percent In Year Since Massacre
Posted: 12/13/2013 5:26 pm EST | Updated: 12/13/2013 5:28 pm EST
The past 12 months have been unimaginably horrible for the loved ones of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre a year ago, but they have been just fine for the maker of the gun used in that mass killing.
Freedom Group, also known as Remington Outdoor Company, announced this week that its profits have risen by 52 percent in the year after the tragedy, in which 20 school children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., were killed with a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle made by Remington.
The company expects profits in 2013 to reach $235-240 million, up from $156.5 million in 2012, according to an annual financial report released on the company's website.
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It's been a great year for gun makers generally. Sturm Ruger, the largest US gunmaker, will report earnings up 52 percent and sales up 39 percent over the past year, according to the Financial Times.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/13/sandy-hook-gun-profits_n_4442034.html
Ammo Suppliers Everywhere Are Reporting Shortages From A Huge Surge In Demand
BRETT LOGIURATO
DEC. 26, 2012, 12:25 PM 8,679 25
The threat of the possibility of new regulation and gun control laws has sent customers scrambling for guns, ammunition and accessories in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Brownells, which describes itself as the world's largest firearm accessories supplier, said it had sold more than 3.5 years' worth of magazines in a 72-hour span. Its president, Pete Brownell, wrote an apology to customers on gun-owner forum AR15.com after complaints arose over a delay in orders placed on the company's website.
http://www.businessinsider.com/ammo-sales-newtown-ct-shooting-sandy-hook-school-brownells-2012-12
200813 United States ammunition shortage
The 2008-2014 United States ammunition shortage refers to a shortage of civilian small arms ammunition in the United States that started in late 2008[1] and continued through most or all of 2010, with an additional shortage beginning in December 2012 and continuing throughout 2013. As of September 2011, ammunition for the most scarce calibers, .380 Auto.[2] .45ACP, and .40 S&W pistols once unavailable at retail stores and gun shops were again available, but usually with only a few brands or types available.[3] Both firearms and ammunition began selling at a record pace after the 2008 election of President Barack Obama.[4] Cartridge shortages were also experienced for many other popular semiautomatic rifles and pistols.[5] In addition, primers for handloaded ammunition were also in short supply. USA Today reported that in Wyoming, the "run on bullets and reloading components" reached such a "frenzy" that a Cheyenne retailer began rationing sales, and said she was also selling semiautomatic rifles as fast as she could put them on the shelves.[5]
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012, and the perceived likelihood of new firearm control laws being passed by Congress and state governments in response to the shooting, ammunition and firearms were purchased by consumers in large numbers in a pattern often termed "panic buying".[6] This led to a severe shortage of ammunition for most handgun calibers and some rifle calibers (especially the previously easy-to-find and cheaply-priced .22 LR), prompting many manufacturers to drastically increase production rates at their factories.[6] These purchase patterns continued to occur for some time after the failure in Congress to pass the aforementioned firearms laws, and as of August 2013, the rate of consumer purchases of most types of ammunition is slowly receding, but prices continue to be above those found before December 2012 and ammunition for some calibers continues to be difficult to procure.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200813_United_States_ammunition_shortage
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New movie will make NRA ‘wish they weren’t alive,’ says Obama backer Weinstein [View all]
onehandle
Jan 2014
OP
I'd rather they could find away to do away witn video games more than I wish they could get the guns
olddad56
Jan 2014
#34
Why or how would it have been a better movie? I am sincerely curious. Thank you
uppityperson
Jan 2014
#23
I saw this movie where 20 first graders were slaughtered by the fetish of the dickless.
onehandle
Jan 2014
#17
OneHandle, you beat me to it. It was the first thing on my mind when I read that post.
Ecumenist
Jan 2014
#25
His documentaries are a series of half truths and outright exaggerations. He also uses the
doc03
Jan 2014
#108
Godspeed Mr. Weinstein: may your project result in an veritable plethora of NRA members
indepat
Jan 2014
#29
Thanks for the education of someone who's never been outside USA except for a few incursions across
indepat
Jan 2014
#188
I looked at the situation realistically and did not run out and buy new firearms. ...
spin
Jan 2014
#37
You might be right because gun fanciers are a callous bunch. Even some of the Gungeoneers bragged
Hoyt
Jan 2014
#114
What most people who wish to ban the AR-15 don't realize is why it is so popular. ...
spin
Jan 2014
#119
Years ago I was having a difficult time shooting a good score on the target range ...
spin
Jan 2014
#207
True. Many shooters reload their own ammo. It usually is less expensive that buying factory ...
spin
Jan 2014
#126
Just remember to save your brass! Pardon the following rant; I'm not mad at anybody!
raven mad
Jan 2014
#127
The gun-humper universe has very little overlap with the world of Meryl Streep fans nt
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#47
The number of movies he has made his fortune on that feature gun violence
shedevil69taz
Jan 2014
#58
Do you not think it's a little hypocritical to MAKE action films and claim no responsibility
hughee99
Jan 2014
#68
Violence is glorified in the viewers mind, as it was intended to be by the director.
hughee99
Jan 2014
#107
Aww... Are gun trolls wetting their depends at the prospects of a widdle movie?
onehandle
Jan 2014
#70
Exactly, there are FICTIONAL stories and REALITY. One has no real impact on the other
hughee99
Jan 2014
#100
I just finished listening to this interview.. didn't hear any mention of this subject...
2banon
Jan 2014
#106
Offer up some refutations of what I said in post #75, then maybe we'll talk. (nt)
Paladin
Jan 2014
#139
Like I said up-thread: you wouldn't be any happier if Woody Allen was making this movie.
Paladin
Jan 2014
#141
You've never been, and never will be, "right in the middle" on the guns issue.
Paladin
Jan 2014
#179
i suppose you can thank loco right-wing shitbags for him having to beef up security
frylock
Jan 2014
#93
So now he's changed his mind. Better than going through life a gun lover/promoter.
Hoyt
Jan 2014
#161
Ranchemp, I genuinely don't understand your point regarding this supposed hypocrisy.
IveWornAHundredPants
Jan 2014
#170
If you can't see the fact that there's no actual hypocrisy, then I can't help you, either.
IveWornAHundredPants
Jan 2014
#181
If you're lucky enough to live near one of the 4 theaters that will screen this,
Doctor_J
Jan 2014
#195
It's going to be a big theatrical release with big stars, not a documentary.
onehandle
Jan 2014
#197