Gun Stupidity at the WSJ
The Wall Street Journal notes that gun sales are up. Everyone knows that. What is odd is that a paper that caters to the financial crowd says:
No one knows exactly what is behind the gun-buying craze.
Only those not paying attention. Curt notes:
This is perfectly acceptable behavior for investors…but for those who invest in guns for the same purposes, it’s all the sudden “greed?”
April 17th, 2009 at 11:20 am
The problem with “investors” is that once they have bought their IGM7.63F7WTF, they have no problem restricting the further importation of them.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:29 am
I know next to nothing about
bullet-wasterssemi-auto rifles, but why would anyone have wanted to buy a Ruger Mini-7 when they could have had an SKS for $69.99?April 20th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
When I was down South many years ago, I bought my first-ever-for-me rifle (I had previously inherited a few).
It was a genuine by-(decadent Western diety) Chinese communist SKS—not the shoddy Norinco, made-for-yankee-dollars version, I mean a nicely-turned-out, beautiful blonde-wood stocked, no-crude-machine-marks military surplus beauty. Unfired, still packed in axle-grease. For $100. And he had a rack of about 20 identical rifles.
If only I’d known.