coronavirus gun run

Can’t Buy a Gun Now? Why Not Use a Black Powder Revolver For Home and Self Defense?

Courtesy Uberti Since buying conventional cartridge firearms is difficult at best right now, have you thought about buying a black powder revolver for self-defense? Specifically, the cap and ball variety. We’re talking about the cowboy…

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Americans Still Waiting in Line for Hours to Buy Guns, Ammunition

David Liu, right, owner of a gun store, takes an order from a customer in Arcadia, Calif., Sunday, March 15, 2020. Coronavirus concerns have led to consumer panic buying of grocery staples and now gun…


Overwhelmed Gun Stores Refusing to Process Online Purchase Transfers

Courtesy Palmetto State Armory One of the ways that Americans who haven’t been able to find the firearms they want right now locally have been coping with the current gun buying surge is to order…


Post-Gazette: Buying Firearms and Carrying a Gun Right Now Isn’t Helpful

People wait in line to enter gun seller Tanner’s Sports Center in Jamison, Pa., Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Pennsylvania’s state-run background check system for gun purchases processed about three times its typical daily rate on…



With a 10-Day Waiting Period, Mandatory Stay-At-Home Order Means California Buyers Can’t Get Their Guns

A gun store customer that gave his name only at John waits in line, Sunday, March 15, 2020, in Burbank, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) The national gun sales surge began in earnest late last…


San Jose Mayor Orders Gun Shop Closed as ‘Non-essential’

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia,File) During a national emergency with unprecedented demand for guns nationwide, San Jose’s Mayor — someone who wanted to require gun owners to buy liability insurance — has…


Gun Retailers Changing How They Do Business During the Coronavirus Gun Buying Surge

Stephanie Miller, of Atlanta, purchases a shotgun and handgun and several boxes of ammunition at Adventure Outdoors Monday, March 16, 2020, in Smyrna, Ga. Miller said she had been on the fence about guns but…


Coronavirus Gun Sales Surge Demonstrates That Americans Want Firearms

Stephanie Miller, of Atlanta, places shotgun in her shopping cart as she checks out Adventure Outdoors Monday, March 16, 2020, in Smyrna, Ga. Miller said she had been on the fence about guns but with…


Why Americans are Buying Guns: Cities Not Arresting Criminals for Many Crimes During Coronavirus Emergency

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke) When the Great Coronavirus Gun Run first got under way in earnest last week, sneering, sniggering critics in the media made great sport of tsk-tsking at all the stupid rubes, ridiculing them…