America’s new gun owners aren’t who you’d think

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Pardon me, but you keep mentioning T****. And it's gone out of fashion.

Pardon me, but you keep mentioning T****. And it's gone out of fashion.

Yes, we certainly have enough threads discussing him, so I've requested that several of mine be kept clear of distracting references to him, difficult as that may be for his detractors.

When’s the last time four ruffians broke into yours or anyone you personally know’s home, necessitating a musket response?

Did you bother to read the article?

Yeah yeah, a UK rag says America is a racist country and black people are afraid of the bad orange man, it's all so tiresome.

Yes, we certainly have enough threads discussing him, so I've requested that several of mine be kept clear of distracting references to him, difficult as that may be for his detractors.

Boy if that isn't a racist statement I don't know what counts as one on this forum.

Wut? I don't think it's racist. How so?

Not at all.

As I'd pointed out to cyberdad Trump is mentioned once in the entire article and even then only as a brief mention at the end. It covers many more aspects of why black people are buying more guns and those are addressed in considerably more detail than any alleged "Trump effect" might have had.

To then attempt to introduce Trump into yet another thread on the basis of that brief mention, while ignoring the many more salient points which ironically, are related to this topic - is tenuous at best and considering the number of times Trump is shoehorned into threads not directly about him, it's something we should be seeing less of.
We're already aware of his malignant influence and its toxic legacy; there's nothing to be gained by restating it.

I'd also point out my earlier post on that: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=408997&p=9147084#p9147084

By all means post about Trump; just don't introduce him into a thread which is clearly about other, wider issues unrelated to him.[/mod]

This is largely true, I actually bought my first AR15 in 2016 when I thought for sure Hilary was going to win, as I wanted to get one before the prices spiked in anticipation of her pushing a ban (I was thinking I might flip it for cash if the prices went up enough). Then Trump won, and the bottom fell out of the AR15 market, all the companies had been running their assembly lines 24/7 in anticipation of an incoming Democratic administration pushing gun control and spiking demand, but with Trump in office the industry experienced what became known as the Trump Slump, and suddenly guns got really, really cheap, particularly the standardized models like the AR15 and the G3 Glocks that are off patent and thus have multiple manufacturers. I was able to buy multiple AR build kits for under $400 each and fell in love with the platform, which I'd previously turned my nose up at as boring and overpriced, once I realized just how modular and easy to work on it is and how many variations and modifications could be made to it. There's also the fun fact that the modular design makes it easy to skirt guns laws with it, as the only controlled part, the receiver, can be built into many different configurations, including rifles, pistols, shotguns, and "firearms" (configurations that don't fit any of the standard definitions and thus exist in a legal grey area), so when you buy a stripped receiver it transfers as an "other" that doesn't trigger any waiting periods or training requirements, plus the government doesn't know what you built it into. But I digress.

You could definitely see the effect you described here in Washington state, where our anti gun AG Turd Ferguson pushed through a ten round magazine restriction earlier in the year in a shady middle of the night legislative session, and the result was that basically every standard capacity magazine in the state was bought up overnight, and every gun company in the country prioritized shipping to Washington right up to the eve of the ban taking effect in July, flooding the state with more magazines than ever would have been sold had that jackass not pushed his stupid law on us. His law isn't even long for this world either, as the Bruen decision makes it unconstitutional, and it's going to fall along with the one in the PRK once the 9th circus stops pretending they don't understand the plain English of the ruling. I'd like to see the man afflicted with the most painful and undignified form of asscancer for screwing with my rights like this, but I'll settle for seeing his face when his crowning legislative achievement turns to ash in his mouth.

The whole dismissive attitude towards black people having issues with how they're being treated by the US government even to this day really irks me.

You sure?

It's the op, Dox47, that mentioned trump.

It's become distressingly common in the Seattle area these days, it's virtually impossible for a certain type of homeless addict to get arrested around here, and that's made some of them quite brazen. A guy in my old neighborhood had to shoot and kill one who broke into his house last year, he went well above and beyond what the law requires too, retreating further and further into his own house while yelling at the guy that he was armed and would shoot, but the guy kept coming and cornered him.