05-22-2018, 08:12 PM
There's good and bad news in the gun community.
The good is that more and more folks are coming to the realization that, "Ban all Guns", isn't going to solve anything.
And with crime statistics going down as gun ownership goes up... The news that mass shootings have been stopped by another person with a gun, have slowly made its way out to the general public. There's been a 30% rise in self-defence gun use. In the case of Rape. If the woman has no gun, then 49% of the time the perp is successful. If the woman has a gun, the attacker success rate drops to 0.04%. I guess the old saying, "No one rapes a .38" is true.
And in bad news. We're loosing some old gun companies.
Several years ago, Marlin was bought by Remington, who promptly fired all the well trained workers and had their own workforce, who up until now had only worked on bolt action rifles. And now that they are finally getting their shit together, Remington is filling for Chapter 11.
Winchester closed down earlier this year. Rifles are made in Japan or by FN.
Colt can't seem to get out from under the bean counters and make new guns that people want. They lost all of their military contracts, and what they do 'make', is outsourced.
As far as other American companies go. Smith & Wesson and Ruger are still going strong. Springfield isn't the 'old' Springfield, and for along time,, and still do, just repackage guns from Croatia. IDK if they make any guns here in the US.
Beretta, Glock and Sig, now have production in the US.
Good news, there are lots and lots of AR platform builders.... The bad news, there are lots and lots of AR platform builders.
The old stalwarts, Bushmaster, Stag, and DPMS are now just part of the pack.
And there's suppressors. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the 'Hearing protection act' will pass one day, but I"m not holding my breath, just yet.
Anyone with more news, or corrections, chime in please.
