Chris Brown wrote a wonderful article for Media Matters about the false advertising used by gun manufacturers.
The gun lobby ceased to be about hunting and hunters long ago, but maintaining that image is a critical marketing tool for the NSSF and the NRA. The NSSF's idea of a modern hunting rifle are AR platforms, such as the M-16 civilian variant AR-15. The blurring of the lines can be explained by the gun industry's need to sell new firearms products to the eroding percentage of the population which owns firearms, when the firearms currently owned by Americans have very long lifetimes. While NSSF may present AR-15's as the modern hunting rifle don't expect them to redo the logo anytime soon.The individual gun owners who spout all the NRA buzzwords, perhaps shouldn't be the primary focus of gun control laws. Even the FFL guys who make straw purchasing easy by turning a blind eye, or worse, perhaps are nothing more than pawns. The real guilty parties are the gun manufacturers. They produce more product than can be consumed by the law-abiding. They build into their sales strategies the fact that their products are flowing from the factory to the FFL to the individual owner, and too often to a criminal. These are the guys who pitch guns like the KSG shotgun that Robert was talking about as quail guns.
What's your opinion? Do you think more needs to be done about the producers of these weapons? Do you think they need to be limited more or controlled better?
Please leave a comment.
"They produce more product than can be consumed by the law-abiding."
ReplyDeleteConsidering the high prices of guns, that's doubtful. Now if I start seeing $499.99 AR-15s in the clearance bin at Walmart, I might believe you.
"These are the guys who pitch guns like the KSG shotgun that Robert was talking about as quail guns."
Are you saying that the KSG is incapable of killing a quail?
"What's your opinion? Do you think more needs to be done about the producers of these weapons?"
Yes. I do. If anything, I think firearm manufactures need more freedom. Let's do away with the Hughes Amendment and remove suppressors, SBRs, and SBSs from the NFA.
Perhaps I could be pursuaded by this if I gave a damn about hunting, but I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteDo you think more needs to be done about the producers of these weapons?
ReplyDeleteWhaddya' have in mind--round up the manufacturers' CEOs, force them into a ghetto, and make them wear armbands?
By the way, I've pre-ordered a Kel-Tec KSG, in large part because such arms in the hands of private citizens so offend serial liars like Chris Brown.
The ignorance of the author on the subject he wrote on is disturbing. Secondly the percentage of households which hunt is declining. The percentage of households with guns is increasing.
ReplyDeleteIn the last ten years, gun sales have risen strongly, and once Obama was elected they skyrocketed
If there is such an over saturation and resulting flow to the criminal world, why are there very few instances of AR-15's used to commit a crime?
ReplyDeleteWouldn't older or more traditional hunters think that it was kind of pussy to hunt with a semi-automatic rifle? Is that in case you can't hit your mark with two shots?
ReplyDeleteThat's great stuff. I enjoyed that. I certainly remember the M-16. Modern hunting rifle indeed! That's hilarious comparing the AR-15 to famous advancements in guns from the nineteenth century! Favorite of Teddy Roosevelt. That's just bully!
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ReplyDeleteP said, "The percentage of households with guns is increasing."
ReplyDeleteChris Brown said the opposite and provided a source. Where's your idea come from P?
Now my grandfather was a real hunter in Texas. He hunted to put food on the table for his family of five. He also was an avid fisherman in the Gulf. He usually hunted deer. There were also game birds. Grandmother let him know that she would not pick birdshot out of any birds she was expected to cook for dinner. So he shot the birds in the head with a .22 calibre.
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