Guns, sales and core principles

[krispos42]

23. Really?

So every year, Smith & Wesson just throws a couple of hundred thousand handguns in a closet someplace and keeps making new ones? So then they have a warehouse someplace with a couple of million unsold handguns worth a billion dollars just sitting around in Massachusettes? And Ruger follows suit with billion-dollar wareshoues in New Hampshire and Arizone?

What are you talking about? NICS checks are UP. Concealed-carry permits are UP. Domestic firearm production more than DOUBLED in six years. IMPORTS of guns increased by over half in the same six-year period.

"Not every NICS check is a sale" is misleading bullshit. Am I to believe that when NICS checks soar in total numbers, actual NICS-enabled sales drop? WTF?

Colt filed for bankruptcy because of gross mismanagement of their manufacturing facilities. I know a guy that applied for a manufacturing engineer type of job there. They have him the tour. When he saw that part of the standard practice for dealing with an old machine that had massive coolant leaks was to sandbag it and have the machinists wear waders, he told them "fuck no" and walked away. Colt, coddled in the easy government profits of the Pentagon, failed to stay competitive in the civilian market. Colt owns the classic names and logos, but Kimber, Springfield Armory, Dan Wesson, Les Baer, and a host of other companions make far better Colt designed guns for less money.

Regarding the other companies... I"m going to draw an analogy. In 1996 the Earth had a particularly hot year. And for fifteen years afterwards, the standard RW, global-warming-denier talking point was that "the last X years have shown a cooling trend! See? See? 1996!"

Well, it seems to me that you're doing the same thing. Gun sales have doubled, but because there was a peak a couple of years ago and the surge is flattening, you're using the slight decline from the most recent peak to crow about how the gun industry is on the ropes.

Get a clue. You're trying to use force of will to turn pretend into reality, and it's not working.

Besides, since your side is pushing Clinton and Sanders to take pro-control positions, I'm sure that gun sales will pick right up in synch with the election of President Sanders or President Clinton.