The blogger at Books, Bikes, Boomsticks is opining that coronapanic-induced gun buying spree is producing a different class of gun owner from the panics of '13 and '08. In those previous periods, gun shops were cleaned out of even stripped AR lowers and lower parts kits, which he reasons shows it was the doing of experienced gun ownersr. But now everybody is out of built-up ARs but there's still stripped lowers and parts a-plenty. Plus there's been a run on pump shotguns, long a staple of home defense. So this is for home and hearth, not for CCW.
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The blogger at Irons in the Fire has a similar take on it. The gun store where he works is being flooded with first-time buyers. Their CCW and beginner gun safety courses are booked solid, as are all the private instructors he knows.
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On a related note, the jeanyuses at Phys.org are calling the coronapanic buyers "gun culture 3," and claim that it is a movement created from whole cloth by the NRA. And all this anti-government and pro-gun public discord is the result of NRA indoctrination. But they've obviously started with a conclusion that suits their political bent and are scrambling to find (or fabricate) what they call 'facts' to support it.
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