Is the Firearms Industry in Trouble?

[GIJEW]

I have seen the folks in California commenting about buying all they could earlier in the year before some law took effect. The stores around here seem to be way down from what I am hearing.

In a place like commie-fornia, they'll declare you a felon if you don't register what you bought and, if you do, they'll be sure to rearrange the goal posts to ban your purchase after the fact. Even if there's mass civil disobedience like in Conneticutt, you won't be able to actually use your firearm without risk of arrest etc.

It seems like the only to avoid the rat race of staying ahead of the latest gun ban in socialist places like that, is to settle for 19th century designs.

 

[JAL]

Why?

You haven't watched "Red Dawn"? The original or the remake? Need to be ready for the DPRK invasion!

John

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Facts, always those darn facts getting in the way of a good INGO "the sky is falling" thread.

August is another record month.

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year.pdf/view

 

[yetti462]

s&w could increase their sales if they would make a run of hillaryholeless pistols and produce some of their discontinued models. Push another run of 610's and 625 mountain guns and I'm all in.

 

[223 Gunner]

s&w could increase their sales if they would make a run of hillaryholeless pistols and produce some of their discontinued models. Push another run of 610's and 625 mountain guns and I'm all in.

I hear ya. But Smith like so many others are pumping out Poly wonder 9's, chasing that .Gov paper.

 

[2A_Tom]

This is because you have not put enough pressure on them.
Why do you think the pres is talking to the [STRIKE]dems[/STRIKE] enemy right now?

We need a few more in 2018 and we need to fire a couple of our rhinos. It's be good to get a medical update on that traitor McCain.

Wish him no evil, save retirement.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

s&w could increase their sales if they would make a run of hillaryholeless pistols and produce some of their discontinued models. Push another run of 610's and 625 mountain guns and I'm all in.

Um, you mean like all the M40s that they made and people rushed out to buy . . . er, I mean, stood around making rationalizations why they were not buying them.

Internal lock is here to stay. The M40 shows that people don't care about it, they care about price and only price.

2 things sell guns:

1. Price.
2. Movies.

If Smith & Wesson wants to sell guns, they need to cut costs and be more aggressive in getting their weapons into movies.

"Say movies sell guns one more time, Freeman!"

 

[Spike Jones 5 2002]

"BWFRAME" you are back with your double talk.
Everyone please read his thread on 8-05-17.
Then he stated this same thread four weeks ago.
First he writes like Hillery then he acts like Trump.

 

[bwframe]

"BWFRAME" you are back with your double talk.
Everyone please read his thread on 8-05-17.
Then he stated this same thread four weeks ago.
First he writes like Hillery then he acts like Trump.

What the hell are you talking about?

?

 

[JAL]

Um, you mean like all the M40s that they made and people rushed out to buy . . . er, I mean, stood around making rationalizations why they were not buying them.

Internal lock is here to stay. The M40 shows that people don't care about it, they care about price and only price.

2 things sell guns:

1. Price.
2. Movies.

If Smith & Wesson wants to sell guns, they need to cut costs and be more aggressive in getting their weapons into movies.

"Say movies sell guns one more time, Freeman!"

I wonder how many Beretta 92's the movies have induced people to buy. Ever since I started looking at pistols being used in film and TV other than the James Bond and Dirty Harry franchises, the full size Beretta 92's are ubiquitous. The giveaways are the open slide, trigger guard, full length recoil spring guide, and usually the safety placement. May be some Taurus knockoffs used, but I've not spotted any. The Bond and Dirty Harry franchises quite arguably spiked sales of the Walther PPK and the S&W .44 Remington Magnum. The Film Noir genre, including the French Film Noir is undoubtedly responsible for some of the 1911 .45 ACP popularity from the 1930's through the 1960's and beyond to this day (film noir: The Maltese Falcon is a quintessential example). Among the numerous French Film Noir are Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (the Red Circle) and Le Doulos (Finger Man). It is more ubiquitous in other genre than even the Beretta 92 in US film and TV, and is very likely most commonly used handgun with the Beretta 92 running second.

Many of the pump action shotguns I've spotted in films and TV set in the latter half of 20th Century and into the 21st Century appear to be the ubiquitous Remington 870 in one form or another. Terminator 2 has the vintage lever action and there are large capacity drum fed autos usually found in gangster films.

John

 

[Expat]

What the hell are you talking about?

?

I looked. On 8/5/17 you had another Yeager video (that time on CC reciprocity) that you started a thread with, so I assume he is angry about that.

 

[bwframe]

I looked. On 8/5/17 you had another Yeager video (that time on CC reciprocity) that you started a thread with, so I assume he is angry about that.

I post a lot of stuff for discussion. I normally comment if taking a side on it.

I think this gent might be stalking me for other or additional reasons? Guess I should just apologize in advance of that knowledge .

Sorry, my freind.


Now, off to find some more Yeager vids...

 

[223 Gunner]

I have to agree with Kirk, price and movie exposure do sell guns.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I wonder how many Beretta 92's the movies have induced people to buy. Ever since I started looking at pistols being used in film and TV other than the James Bond and Dirty Harry franchises, the full size Beretta 92's are ubiquitous. The giveaways are the open slide, trigger guard, full length recoil spring guide, and usually the safety placement. May be some Taurus knockoffs used, but I've not spotted any. The Bond and Dirty Harry franchises quite arguably spiked sales of the Walther PPK and the S&W .44 Remington Magnum. The Film Noir genre, including the French Film Noir is undoubtedly responsible for some of the 1911 .45 ACP popularity from the 1930's through the 1960's and beyond to this day (film noir: The Maltese Falcon is a quintessential example). Among the numerous French Film Noir are Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (the Red Circle) and Le Doulos (Finger Man). It is more ubiquitous in other genre than even the Beretta 92 in US film and TV, and is very likely most commonly used handgun with the Beretta 92 running second.

Many of the pump action shotguns I've spotted in films and TV set in the latter half of 20th Century and into the 21st Century appear to be the ubiquitous Remington 870 in one form or another. Terminator 2 has the vintage lever action and there are large capacity drum fed autos usually found in gangster films.

John

The M9 is big. Movies like oversized pieces for the cameras and framing the actors' faces.

We have INGO members in the movies. Maybe Mike Grasso can comment on why directors select certain pieces, other than the bribes I mean.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

"Trump Slump", as with everything written about our President, turned out to be incorrect.

https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2018/01/04/2017-second-busiest-gun-buying-year-record/

 

[snapping turtle]

IMDb has a nice list of the guns used in movies.

The M9 is used by the hero’s a lot because it was the military pistol for many years. The 1911 also.
Villains seem to use German pistols a lot if they are euro villains. The H&k items seem to be hot.

Westerns and now monster movies (if you call Trex a monster) use lever actions. The newer marlin 45-70 guides in stainless and grey laminate seem popular.

Also remember that true life villains and hero’s guns are often popular items to buy.

 

[Leadeye]

Broomhandles are the bad guy's favorite.