The John Jovino Gun Shop in New York City’s Little Italy neighborhood has been around for 109 years. But that long run has come to an end. The combination of the city’s coronavirus shutdown, high rent payments ad the city’s generally difficult business climate has forced the store to close forever. As Untapped New York … Read more
Fred Guttenberg lost a daughter in the Parkland shooting. Since then, he’s been an outspoken gun control advocate. Yesterday, during an online Biden campaign rally, Guttenberg betrayed the hysterical desperation that’s been sweeping through the gun control industry as a result of hundreds of thousands of first-timers buying guns since the COVID-19 emergency started. Guttenberg … Read more
Michigan’s governor has done a wonderful job of roiling people across the nation with her petty, tyrannical responses to the Chinese virus pandemic. And as much as she doesn’t like guns, though, she has not moved to close gun shops. Yet. This, despite not naming firearms retailers as “essential” in her executive order shuttering non-essential … Read more
“I’ve been here my whole life doing this,” said [Gun Room owner Shaun] Lacasse, whose father opened the [Portland, Oregon] store in 1965. “I’m 52 years old, I grew up behind this counter. I’ve never seen anything like yesterday.” It’s impossible to know what proportion of the increased sales were from first-time buyers since that … Read more
By Larry Keane The firearm industry is open for business. With exceptions of trouble spots in a couple of states, the hard work is paying off. Americans, many for the first time, are buying firearms in record numbers, manufacturers are keeping pace with production, distribution is working overtime backfill empty shelves and doors at retailers … Read more
Gun stores across America have long lines of customers waiting to get inside. Dick’s Sporting Goods does not. A while back, CEO Ed Stack made the strategic move of removing America’s favorite rifle and other hot-selling modern sporting rifles from Dick’s shelves. More recently, he ordered an end to all firearm sales at many of … Read more
By Peter B. Mathiesen We talked to Dan Eldridge, the owner of Maxon Shooter’s Supply and Indoor Range last week. The intent is to show how firearm industry companies are responding during this crisis and demonstrating best industry practices to protect their staff and customers while still offering services when appropriate and allowed by law. … Read more
The New York lawsuit follows similar action the NRA took in Northern California, where it sued several cities including San Jose for ordering gun stores to close. New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, said before the lawsuit was filed that she’d defend the state’s decision. New York’s take on what’s essential is at … Read more
What has gun control orgs and their media cheerleaders really worried during this national emergency? Yes, the coronavirus pandemic is bad, but that will pass in time. Much more concerning for them are the thousands and thousands of first-time gun buyers who have mobbed gun stores across the country. People who will now be much … Read more
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