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It’s a buyer’s market

February 4, 2017 by Dave Knadler

If only mass shooters used muzzle-loaders.

In the tragic wake of the Bowling Green Massacre, you’d think people would be lining up at gun stores. That’s the normal response when guns are used to kill large numbers of Americans at a single sitting: People immediately think to themselves, “hey, how better to honor the memory of the victims than by buying a bunch of the same weapons used to kill them?”

But gun sales now are not just flat, they’re actually declining! I can think of only two reasons for that: (A) The Bowling Green Massacre happened only within the skeletal head of Kellyanne Conway, and (B) treacherous gun-grabber Barack Hussein Obama is taking a break from all that, having failed to grab a single gun during the past eight years.

And so we arrive at the single silver lining of Trump’s dark carnival: Gun makers are feeling some pain. Stock prices are down about 20 percent and so are ammo sales. The NRA’s chosen one ends up screwing the industry on which it thrives. This probably won’t be the only instance where Trump backers find cause for regret, but it’s the best I’ve seen so far.

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About Dave Knadler

Obscure writer. Lazy photographer. Bashful guitarist. Perhaps too fond of wine. Tireless nemesis of New York Times crosswords.

Comments

  1. Joan Clauss says

    February 4, 2017 at 1:05 pm

    Yikes! And I was just thinking that the time might have come for me to get a gun. I never was mainstream.

  2. Sarah Prodell says

    February 4, 2017 at 11:01 pm

    Oh, but the NRA’s GOP friends in Congress just reopened a formerly lucrative market by reversing the ban on selling guns to mentally ill people. Shoot!

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