Shawnee
member
As long as any country has an army or a police force there will be SOMEone SOMEwhere making new guns.
Even if all the gunmakers and gun sellers in the world closed up shop today there are still enough used guns in the U.S. for each of us to have a couple dozen.
Even if all the "private" guns in the U.S. were collected and turned to scrap, one could still get a gun and ammo by simply finding an officer or solder and taking theirs away from them.
Like many, many hunters/shooters, I already have enough cartridges and handloading components stockpiled to shoot/hunt for the rest of my life without ever spending another cent on factory cartridges or components.
So do we really need gun compaines today with their overpriced merchandise that really offers nothing we can't have from models of 50 or 100years ago? Is there really any need at all to buy a new gun?
Personally, I would much rather help out a neighbor by paying a premium price for one of his guns he was selling because he needs the money for his family than go spend my money to enrich some U.S.-hating foreigners who are peddling guns through some "big box" chain store they own in the U.S., and who probably pay their American employees minimum wage with little or no benefits.
So the moral of the story is: Buy Used and tell Walmart and Academy and Dick's and Cabela's and the conglomerate gunmakers to go eat mud.
Even if all the gunmakers and gun sellers in the world closed up shop today there are still enough used guns in the U.S. for each of us to have a couple dozen.
Even if all the "private" guns in the U.S. were collected and turned to scrap, one could still get a gun and ammo by simply finding an officer or solder and taking theirs away from them.
Like many, many hunters/shooters, I already have enough cartridges and handloading components stockpiled to shoot/hunt for the rest of my life without ever spending another cent on factory cartridges or components.
So do we really need gun compaines today with their overpriced merchandise that really offers nothing we can't have from models of 50 or 100years ago? Is there really any need at all to buy a new gun?
Personally, I would much rather help out a neighbor by paying a premium price for one of his guns he was selling because he needs the money for his family than go spend my money to enrich some U.S.-hating foreigners who are peddling guns through some "big box" chain store they own in the U.S., and who probably pay their American employees minimum wage with little or no benefits.
So the moral of the story is: Buy Used and tell Walmart and Academy and Dick's and Cabela's and the conglomerate gunmakers to go eat mud.