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Doesn’t take a clairvoyant to realize that given our current political trajectory, the 2030s are gonna be wild. The right has been armed for years and the left
by wayoutthere 5y ago
Doesn’t take a clairvoyant to realize that given our current political trajectory, the 2030s are gonna be wild. The right has been armed for years and the left just bought millions of guns over the last year.
- KittenInABox 5y agoIt's going to be more difficult to actually use the guns though, as there's been an import ban on Russian ammo, which is a huge chunk of the ammo market that's already being squeezed. At this rate only the wealthy will be able to afford to arm themselves/revolt. https://www.state.gov/fact-sheet-united-states-imposes-additional-costs-on-russia-for-the-poisoning-of-aleksey-navalny/ https://www.state.gov/fact-sheet-united-states-imposes-addit...
- wayoutthere 5y agoThe import ban is going to be less impactful than the Biden administration likely hoped. Russian firearms imports were already banned, and ammo prices haven’t risen significantly for non-Russian calibers since the ban was announced; all it did was cut out the cheap steel at the bottom of the market (which, unless it’s an AK pattern gun, is exclusively practice ammo anyway because it’s not very reliable or accurate). The most likely scenario is that the cheap steel ammo just gets made in former combloc countries instead and imported to the US from Serbia or Czech Republic. Ammunition is also a global market, so that cheap Russian ammo will get dumped somewhere, and wherever that happens will then export more to the US to meet the demand.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoThe 2030s are going to be wild? Wow, are you an optimist. I worry about trouble long before then...