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Reply Explains The Increase In AR-15 Sales ... (Original post)
ItsjustMe Mar 2021 OP
SunSeeker Mar 2021 #1
Bev54 Mar 2021 #2
Irish_Dem Mar 2021 #3
lagomorph777 Mar 2021 #4
3catwoman3 Mar 2021 #10
Irish_Dem Mar 2021 #16
calimary Mar 2021 #24
Irish_Dem Mar 2021 #15
hunter Mar 2021 #12
SYFROYH Mar 2021 #5
Kaleva Mar 2021 #6
CaptainTruth Mar 2021 #7
Dial H For Hero Mar 2021 #9
hunter Mar 2021 #13
SYFROYH Mar 2021 #20
Kaleva Mar 2021 #21
SYFROYH Mar 2021 #22
Kaleva Mar 2021 #23
hack89 Mar 2021 #17
SYFROYH Mar 2021 #19
rickyhall Mar 2021 #8
BannonsLiver Mar 2021 #11
BobTheSubgenius Mar 2021 #14
soldierant Mar 2021 #18

Response to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 03:56 PM

1. ...

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Response to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 04:07 PM

2. K&R

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Response to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 04:49 PM

3. Is this why some women have a gun fetish?

To make up for hubby's shortcomings?

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Response to Irish_Dem (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 04:55 PM

4. Boebert hangs metal dildoes on the wall.

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Response to lagomorph777 (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:16 PM

10. Boebert's husband was arrested in 2004 for...

...exposing himself to young women at a bowling alley, and attempted to claim afterwards that the body part he was brandishing was his thumb, and that it was done “in a gesture of fun.”

Fine, upstanding character.

And these morons have 5 children.

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Response to 3catwoman3 (Reply #10)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:54 PM

16. If you connect all the dots, it is not a pretty picture.

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Response to 3catwoman3 (Reply #10)

Fri Mar 26, 2021, 12:01 PM

24. "America's Finest..."

Man, they’re two of a kind.

Real paragons...

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Response to lagomorph777 (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:53 PM

15. I know, she and the waitresses at her restaurant pose with guns.

It looks like pornography.

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Response to Irish_Dem (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:32 PM

12. You never know when you might have to get rid of a bad man...

... which is how it always worked in my matriarchal Wild West family.

I had at least one great grandma who could call upon her friend the county sheriff-coroner to clean up the mess and file the proper paperwork when a bad man was expelled from the pride.

My great grandfathers were all dreamers, playing with their radios, cameras, automobiles, and airplanes. It was their wives who were most handy with the guns and knives. Like lionesses they did most of the hunting.

Foolish men and their guns were soon separated.

My wife's family was similar, on both sides of what later became the U.S. Mexico border. Some of them were forced to the Mexican side by the U.S. Army and later returned as "immigrants."

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Response to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 05:09 PM

5. Ironically, I think the 10-year AWB had a huge impact on subsequent AR sales


The forbidden fruit effect.

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Response to SYFROYH (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 05:11 PM

6. They remained legal during the ban.

manufacturers got rid of the folding stock, pistol grip and bayonet lug to make them AWB compliant.

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Response to Kaleva (Reply #6)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:02 PM

7. Which is why we need to focus on the functionality that makes them so deadly...

...(high muzzle velocity, or very high bullet speed) that makes them so deadly.

That means regulating ammunition to limit muzzle velocity.

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Response to CaptainTruth (Reply #7)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:10 PM

9. So you want to outlaw virtually all rifle ammunition?

 

I would point out that 5.56x45 has a muzzle velocity (with a 62 grain bullet) of around 3,000 fps. The venerable .30-06, one of the most popular big game hunting cartridge of the last century, has a muzzle velocity (with a 150 grain bullet) of 2,900 fps.

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Response to Dial H For Hero (Reply #9)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:34 PM

13. I'm on speed dial under "H"

Call me.

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Response to Kaleva (Reply #6)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 08:40 PM

20. Indeed, but it was the AWB that made me interested in ARs and...


...my first AR was a 2002 Olympic PCR (politically correct rifle).

Sales picked up during the AWB, but really soared after it sunset.

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Response to SYFROYH (Reply #20)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 09:52 PM

21. I was never interested in ARs or most any semi-auto.

I'm fine with my .38 Special revolver.

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Response to Kaleva (Reply #21)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 09:57 PM

22. As is your choice.

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Response to SYFROYH (Reply #22)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 09:59 PM

23. And i really don't care what others prefer to legally own for legal purposes.

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Response to SYFROYH (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:56 PM

17. Sales actually spiked DURING the AWB

It was that poorly written.

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Response to hack89 (Reply #17)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 08:37 PM

19. very true, but I still think it was the AWB that drew attention to ARs and semi-auto AKs

...and other items on the ban list. Even the AWB version of the crappy Tec-9 was popular.

Indeed, my first AR was a 20-inch Olympic PCR (politically correct rife) with detachable mag and pistol grip, but fixed stock, no bayo lug, compensator instead of flash suppressor, and maybe something else.

Still sales increases massively after the ban sunset.




for some reason I can't get this graph to display:
knowledgeglue.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ARchart-1024x604.png

http://knowledgeglue.com/just-how-many-ar15s-are-out-there/

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Response to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:09 PM

8. She could do stand up.

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Response to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:22 PM

11. NRA taught obfuscation techniques are in use in this thread

Just a heads up for those reading No. 9.

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Response to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:52 PM

14. Excellent riposte.

The tweet to which "Harry" is referring is plenty bizarre. I found lots of examples of the story, but the two most credible sources were vice and tmz.

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Response to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 07:07 PM

18. Sure, to get the attention of RWNJs all you have to do is

put the focus on something that's really important

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