Brian Xia, 44, picks up his gun at a gun store in Arcadia, Calif. Sunday, March 15, 2020. Xia who is a first-time gun buyer, says he buys the gun for protecting himself and his…
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David W. Loeffler, the owner of Loeffler’s Guns Etc in Grants, New Mexico(AP Photo/Russell Contreras) The new gun buyer said the Zoom [training] session was part of his attempt to be responsible. [Trainer Chuck] Rossi,…
(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Matthew Rosky, a North Carolinian who bought a Benelli 12-gauge shotgun for himself and a 20-gauge shotgun for his wife on April 4, said he doesn’t “plan on being relieved of my…
Stephanie Miller of Atlanta, buys guns and ammunition. Miller said she had been on the fence about guns but with recent events she decided to buy guns. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) Our morally superior betters in…
As the United States locked down and multiple city police forces started publicizing what criminal events they would no longer respond to, the American public grew fearful. Formerly non-gun households purchased guns. Reports are that…
(AP Photo/John Locher, File) Noah S. Schwartz, Carleton University The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a surge in gun sales. Estimates based on background checks show that an estimated 2.6 million guns were sold in the…
Courtesy Yelp “I’ve been here my whole life doing this,” said [Gun Room owner Shaun] Lacasse, whose father opened the [Portland, Oregon] store in 1965. “I’m 52 years old, I grew up behind this counter….
While it’s nice to see some businesses flourishing in these scary times, [gun store owner Gregg] Bouslog says that safety has been a huge issue at the range, as many first-time buyers seem to have…
Courtesy Twitter Americans bought over 2 million firearms in March of 2020, over a million more than this time last year. We have to keep each other safe by social distancing and washing our hands…
David Liu, right, owner of a gun store, takes an order from a customer in Arcadia, Calif. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) By Larry Keane The firearm industry is open for business. With exceptions of trouble…