BAM. This is spot on

[krispos42]

28. Except that the gun-control movement boosts gun sales

Yeah, maybe in some states they can't sell "assault weapons" (by whatever definition the state uses) but they definitely boost gun sales.




I did an entire thread on it a few months ago: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1172211325

But the crux of it is, gun owners know that the idea of "assault weapons" is arbitrary and emotional and based on things like... a protruding pistol grip or a buttstock that adjusts without tools. This is because, shockingly, gun owners knows about guns pretty intimately and non-gun-owners don't.

Once you can ban "assault weapons" you can expand the definition to cover most anything.

To be brutally honest, if I was a gun maker that sold guns in America, I would secretly funnel a few hundred thousand a year to American anti-gun groups. I mean, look at the graph! Mere advertising can't triple the market for guns like fears of government bans does!