Rant of the Week: The Firearm Industry is Alive and Well

By David Lombardo

“The report of my death was an exaggeration,” Mark Twain wrote in 1897 in response to a newspaper publishing the humorist’s death. The same can be said for the state of the firearm industry in the U.S. An article published in the March 20th Washington Free Beacon put the state of the industry in perspective.

“While business is lower than in the corresponding months during record 2013 and 2016 calendar years, it is still quite good on a historic basis. The floor has been raised after a decade-long, generally upward trend in sales.”

Let’s face it, Barak Obama was the greatest gun salesman in history and Hillary Clinton would surely have surpassed the Great Divider had she been elected the 45th President of the United States but she wasn’t.

Going into the 2016 election, paranoia ran rampant within the firearm community causing people to buy up firearms and ammunition at an unprecedented rate. The fact is Obama and Clinton were so good at selling their plan to disarm Americans that their anti-gun dogma became one of the most powerful forces for turning out the pro-Second Amendment conservative vote.

Post-election there was a collective sigh and pause within the industry. The media, never …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms