The New Normal: What COVID19 is Doing to Gun Stores
(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) We in the retail side of the business have been SLAMMED. To boil it down, the industry has taken a deluge of orders and there’s not enough product to go around….
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Why Americans are Buying Guns: Cops Getting Sick, Departments Stretched Thin
Detroit Police Chief James Craig has been diagnosed with COVID19. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) By Jake Bleiberg and Corey Williams, Associated Press More than a fifth of Detroit’s police force is quarantined; two officers have died…
Got Your First Gun During COVID Panic? Do These 6 Things RIGHT NOW
(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) So you decided to finally become a gun owner due to coronavirus-related fears? Well, we’re glad you’ve finally joined us, but there’s a few things you really need to learn and fast….
Texas County Stay-At-Home Orders Threatening Gun Businesses
Bigstock Texas governor Greg Abbott has been reluctant to issue a state-wide stay-at-home order. As he pointed out in a press conference Monday, almost 200 of Texas’s 254 counties have yet to report a case…
LA County Sheriff Closes Gun Sellers, Then Backs Down Under Blowback, Cities Reopening Stores
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva saw an opportunity yesterday and took it. Governor Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order shutting down most businesses in the…
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…
Ammogeddon II: Stories from the Gun Store Sales Floor [VIDEO]
(AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane) I’m a gun dealer. I’ve seen some crazy stuff over the years and I have some interesting stories. Ever since last Friday, our phones have been ringing off the hook with…
Illinois Governor Pritzker Gets it Right, Designates Gun and Ammunition Suppliers as Essential in Emergency
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) From the Second Amendment Foundation: The Second Amendment Foundation applauds Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker for including firearm and ammunition suppliers on the list of “essential businesses and…
Welcome All the New Gun Owners Who Are Now Buying Firearms…But . . .
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…