Gun sales surge 80% in May, says research firm

[Muhammed45]

Gun sales surge 80% in May, says research firm

• David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
  Monday, June 1, 2020
  Gun sales surged in May as shops reported an uptick in interest and demand amid national protests after the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd and as the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc and stoke fear across the country.
  
  “Almost, you couldn’t even keep up with it. That’s how crazy it was,” said Joe Hawk, owner of Guns & Roses in New Jersey. “After Memorial Day, it spiked again. It just went crazy again.”
  
  
  
  
  Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting, a private research firm, estimated that more than 1.7 million guns were sold in May, an 80% jump from May 2019.
  
  “Yet again, firearms sales have surged in unprecedented ways,” said Jurgen Brauer, the group’s chief economist.
  
  The stock prices for several gunmaking companies, including Sturm, Ruger & Co., jumped Monday.
  
  Larry Hyatt, owner of Hyatt Guns in Charlotte, North Carolina, said the gun demand prompted by COVID-19 was already straining suppliers.
  
  “Then you have this looting and rioting causing another demand, and it’s really putting pressure on inventory,” Mr. Hyatt said.
  
  
  Gun sales typically increase during presidential election years and during periods of national unrest, including after mass shootings, but Mr. Hyatt said the confluence of factors is unique.
  
  “There’s economic worry, there’s crime worry, and then you got the worry of the coronavirus — it’s [a] triple whammy,” he said.
  
  Floyd’s killing flared.
  
  He suggested that police could be trained to engage potential threats with non-lethal uses of firearms.
  
  “The idea that instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there’s an unarmed person coming at them with a knife or something to shoot them in the leg instead of the heart is a very different thing,” he told a gathering of black leaders at a church in Wilmington, Delaware. “There’s a lot of different things that could change.”
  
  During the post-Newtown gun control push, Mr. Biden suggested that people could scare off attempted intruders by firing a shotgun into the air.
  
  More than 4,000 arrests have been made across the country in recent days on charges including stealing, blocking highways and breaking curfew, according to a tally from The Associated Press.
  
  More than 60 Secret Service officers and special agents were injured over the weekend as protests rocked the nation’s capital near the White House. D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Peter Newsham said Monday that the department made 88 arrests Sunday and overnight and that seven officers sustained minor injuries.
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 The Washington Times, LLC.
  

 

[Muhammed45]

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/1/gun-sales-surge-80-may-research-firm/

Looks like people are preparing for something. There is a CHinese saying which is a good advice for Black Community of USA.
"There can be no peace without war."
Blacks, Asians and all the non-Anglos and non-Saxons must unite against the tyranny.

 

[Morpheus]

Its been happening even before that. People were buying guns when virus outbreak was occurring

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/us-gun-purchases-coronavirus-record

 

[Muhammed45]

Its been happening even before that. People were buying guns when virus outbreak was occurring

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/us-gun-purchases-coronavirus-record

That was mostly for self defense and in some cases for daylight robbery. America is where millions of thieves (excluding a minority of the ones that i mentioned above) have gathered around afraid of being looted by own neighbors. They live like this :

Youre unamed then youre dead.

But In this case they are buying weapons for attacking each not for self defence or daylight robbery and Trump as the head of state is threatening protesters with the strongest weapons that are ever made by human kind.