There are too many hysterical emotionally driven gun banners in the country-- 50 years ago-they would be seen as loons or needing special care, but now they seem to breed faster than sensible folks. I sometimes think some of them work for the gun makers because they sure cause lots of scary looking guns to be sold.
A range I shoot at got a good deal on Bushmaster (a brand that is at best OK ever since Remington bought the name from the original company in Windham, Maine) AR 15s in November of 2012, and the owner went whole hog and bought several pallet loads of them. He thought Obama's re-election would cause a run, but the GOP remained in charge of the senate so there was no real run on these things. Two of his managers were complaining that they could have used the money to buy stuff that was actually selling, or renovate one of the three ranges. So he put out a flier, offering these guns at only 125 over what he paid for them-which was about 50 bucks less than his normal mark up. And then sandy hook hit. In four days he sold every single one of them-and almost all the other brands of AR's he had. Unlike some dealers, he honored the flier listed price-and he sold me two high end JP 3G competition rigs at a discount that had been announced to regulars right before SH. He made a ton because of this. I was in the store a lot, I even advised one guy who publicly bragged that the four he bought, he was going to sell that afternoon at a flea market for a big profit, that what he was planning was most likely a federal violation. but I saw tons of people buying these things because people like YOU wanted to ban them. And a couple years later, I was able to buy several of the most expensive ones at a big discount, when people who bought them, realized that they really had no use for them.
If you really want to cut down on the number of AR 15s in circulation Bucky, then the best thing to do, is stop howling for them to be banned.
