http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/01/1325463/-Assault-rifle-sales-sluggish-because-cruel-dictator-Obama-still-hasn-t-banned-them?detail=email
attribution: REUTERS
Sure you don't want to buy a few more?
Assault Rifles Pile Up as Gun-Law Gridlock Crimps Makers
The problem, you see, is that a whole lot of very stupid people went out and bought assault rifles because the NRA and other conspiracy groups were very, very sure that Barack Obama was going to ban them when he took office, or after he took office, or during any particular season, or when he re-took office, and so on. And more very stupid people went out and bought them after the brutal shootings of elementary school students in Newtown, Connecticut, because they too thought there was some slim chance that America would pull its head out of its ass and finally do something to maybe stop very stupid and/or crazy people from purchasing assault rifles in order to "protect themselves" from elementary school children, people who walk on the neighbor's property without permission, or car crash victims who knock on their doors seeking help.
Joke's on them, though, because America never did, and now the gun manufacturers and dealers are very sad because stupid and/or crazy people already have bought all the assault rifles they need, and the market is, at least until such a time as yet another person executes school children with one of the aforementioned assault rifles, collapsing:
Plummeting sales of assault-style weapons, also known as modern sporting rifles or “black rifles,” has led to an oversupply of unsold guns and is hitting the bottom lines of the big arms producers. Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (SWHC) shares yesterday fell the most in more than two years after the Springfield, Massachusetts-based gunmaker slashed its full-year sales and profit forecasts. [...] “Everybody wanted to buy one before Congress passed legislation that might take away the right to have one. Of course, Congress never passed that legislation,” said Andrea James, a Minneapolis-based analyst for Dougherty & Co., who lowered her rating on Smith & Wesson yesterday to neutral. “The best thing for firearms demand is to have the constant threat of legislation without ever actually having the legislation.”
could this be why we really haven't heard any noise from NRA or LaPierre or Fox about guns does seem to be coincidental that no mass murders or laws to take guns have happened the need for firepower seems to have left the front pages and lead in stories, can't believe that gun nut faction woke up to reality of guns and innocent deaths they care more for the guns, even stories like Ferguson and others hasn't [provoked a reawakening of "GUNS R US" fanatics. either way as long as we don't hear them neither do the spooked onesn who will buy juastone more, in case.
