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On the Gun Debate
Comment cartoon
Patrick Chappatte
NYT
Feb. 23, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/
opinion/parkland-florida-gun-control.html

Nice Quiet People Buy Guns
Comment cartoon
Bruce Plante
is the staff
cartoonist for the Tulsa World.
Cagle
28 January 2012

Rob Rogers
political cartoon
August 30, 2015
Gocomics
http://www.gocomics.com/robrogers/2015/08/30

Jimmy Margulies
Comment cartoon
The Record
New Jersey
Cagle
5.7.2008

Larry Hyatt,
whose father
opened the Charlotte, N.C., gun shop
in 1959.
The business is
now selling more than 300 firearms a week.
Photograph:
Logan R. Cyrus for
The New York Times
For Some Buyers
With Virus Fears, the Priority Isn’t Toilet Paper.
It’s Guns.
Gun shops and
ammunition dealers say
they’ve seen a
surge in purchases,
particularly from first-time buyers.
NYT
March 16, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/
us/coronavirus-gun-buyers.html

Daniel Hill,
right,
purchased his
first firearm this week
at Hyatt Gun and
Coin in Charlotte, N.C.
He fears that as
the coronavirus spreads,
society “just
won’t have any sense of lawfulness any more.”
Photograph:
Logan R. Cyrus for
The New York Times
For Some Buyers
With Virus Fears, the Priority Isn’t Toilet Paper.
It’s Guns.
Gun shops and
ammunition dealers say
they’ve seen a
surge in purchases,
particularly from first-time buyers.
NYT
March 16, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/
us/coronavirus-gun-buyers.html

Semiautomatic
rifles on sale.
Photograph:
Scott
Olson/Getty Images
Opinion | Op-Ed
Contributor
I’m Republican. I
Appreciate Assault Weapons. And I Support a Ban.
By BRIAN MAST
NYT FEB. 23, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/
opinion/brian-mast-assault-weapons-ban.html

A customer at KC’s Exchange,
a gun store in Roseburg,
Ore.,
in May, the month that Gov. Kate Brown signed
a new background
check law.
Photograph:
Michael Sullivan/The News-Review, via Associated Press
Oregon’s Gun Debate Goes Beyond Liberals vs. Conservatives
By KIRK JOHNSON NYT
OCT. 2, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/us/oregons-
gun-debate-goes-beyond-liberals-vs-conservatives.html

Photograph: Lucy
Nicholson/Reuters
Who the N.R.A.
Really Speaks For
By ALAN BERLOW
NYT OCT. 6, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/
opinion/who-the-nra-really-speaks-for.html
retailer > Walmart >
age to buy guns and ammunition
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/
business/walmart-and-dicks-major-gun-retailers-will-tighten-rules-on-guns-they-sell.html
retailer
> Walmart
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/29/
929342190/want-to-buy-a-gun-at-walmart-youve-got-to-ask-for-it
retailers > sporting
goods > Dick's
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/12/
691999347/soul-searching-after-parkland-dicks-ceo-embraces-tougher-stance-on-guns
gun shops
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/21/
668800660/gun-shops-work-with-doctors-to-prevent-suicide-by-firearm
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/
opinion/parkland-florida-gun-control.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/02/
492144056/colorado-gun-shops-work-together-to-prevent-suicides
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/us/
strict-chicago-gun-laws-cant-stem-fatal-shots.html
gun stores
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/27/
822873078/officials-debate-whether-gun-stores-are-essential-during-coronavirus-outbreak
gun seller
http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000004469648/
gun-seller-sorry-he-picked-my-place.html - June 13, 2016
salesman
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/08/
556375187/salesman-who-sold-gun-to-las-vegas-shooter-could-i-have-stopped-this-no
gun acquisition
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/
opinion/brooks-the-killing-chain.html
buy guns
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/27/
911649891/some-black-americans-buying-guns-i-d-rather-go-to-trial-than-go-to-the-cemetery
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/14/us/
gun-purchase-ban-for-suspected-terrorists.html
gun buyers
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/20/
817369503/some-stock-up-on-guns-and-ammunition-during-coronavirus-crisis
firearm sales / gun and ammunition sales
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/16/
891608244/protests-and-pandemic-spark-record-gun-sales
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/20/
817369503/some-stock-up-on-guns-and-ammunition-during-coronavirus-crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/
us/coronavirus-gun-buyers.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/
business/gun-sales-impact.html
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/31/
522036660/democrats-are-good-for-gun-sales-guess-what-happened-after-trumps-election
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/
facebook-to-crack-down-on-illegal-gun-sales/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/12/us/
as-us-weighs-new-rules-sales-of-guns-and-ammunition-surge.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/nyregion/
gun-shop-owners-report-spike-in-sales-as-enthusiasts-fear-possible-new-laws.html
Facebook
The social network is one
of the world’s largest marketplaces for guns. 5
March 2014
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/
facebook-to-crack-down-on-illegal-gun-sales/
gun registration form
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/
opinion/please-take-away-my-right-to-a-gun.html
background checks
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/12/us/
politics/gun-control-group-urges-expanded-background-checks.html
own a gun
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/
100000005477463/gun-owners-mass-shooting-las-vegas.html - Oct. 9, 2017
gun owner
http://www.npr.org/2016/07/10/
485432478/black-gun-owners-have-conflicting-feelings-after-dallas-shooting-of-5-police-off
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/
opinion/sunday/i-killed-my-friend.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/
opinion/confessions-of-a-liberal-gun-owner.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/
nyregion/upstate-new-york-gun-owners-cast-a-cold-eye-on-new-laws.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/13/
politics/romney-nra-speech/index.html
own guns
http://www.npr.org/2016/07/10/
485432478/black-gun-owners-have-conflicting-feelings-after-dallas-shooting-of-5-police-off
http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004196189/
why-people-own-guns-in-new-hampshire.html - Feb. 9, 2016
gun permit
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/us/
politics/in-california-a-fevered-rush-for-gun-permits.html
have a legal permit to carry
N
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/26/
534386210/philando-castiles-mother-reaches-3-million-settlement-over-police-shooting

US tools up as assault rifle ban
expires
The Guardian p. 12 13 September 2004
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/13/
usgunviolence.usa
Shop
Owners Report
Rise in Firearm Sales
as
Buyers Fear
Possible New Laws
December
21, 2012
The New York Times
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
Rainier
Arms, a gun dealer in Auburn, Wash., receives great Yelp reviews for its
responsiveness. But a call to the dealer on Friday led to a full voice mail box,
and an e-mail to its sales team drew this automatic response: “Thank you for
contacting Rainier Arms for your AR-15 needs. Due to an overwhelming response to
the latest political climate, we are experiencing longer-than-normal response
times.”
At Bud’s Gun Shop in Maryland, a message on the Web site said that customer
service was “completely overwhelmed” and it discouraged customers from calling
or e-mailing.
And on GunBroker.com, an Oracle .223 that normally retails for around $650 had
been bid up to $1,175 with three days left in the auction.
With gun-control legislation getting more serious discussion than it has in
years, gun sales are spiking as enthusiasts stock up in advance of possible
restrictions.
Gun sales have been increasing over the past five years, with marked increases
around the 2008 and 2012 elections, and after mass shootings like the one in
Aurora, Colo., and now in Newtown, Conn.
“The largest factor by far is fears over a potential change in gun laws — that’s
what’s driving most guns enthusiasts or even first-time buyers to go buy a gun,”
said Nima Samadi, senior guns and ammunition analyst for the research firm
IBISWorld.
There is increasing demands for guns in the United States. Last year, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted 16.45 million background checks for
firearm sales through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, a
14 percent jump from the previous year. In the first 11 months of this year, the
bureau conducted 16.8 million background checks, a record since the system’s
founding in 1998.
Since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, though, a few
companies associated with gun sales have backed away. Cerberus Capital
Management put the company that makes the Bushmaster, a gun used in the
shootings, up for sale on Tuesday, saying, “The Sandy Hook tragedy was a
watershed event that has raised the national debate on gun control to an
unprecedented level.”
Dick’s Sporting Goods temporarily ceased selling all guns in its location
closest to Newtown, and has also put a hold on sales of so-called modern
sporting rifles, which include semiautomatic guns, nationwide.
And Deseret Digital Media, which owns KSL.com, a Web site that has been
criticized by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg for allowing unregulated gun sales,
said it was suspending classified advertisements for guns.
Elsewhere, though, consumers are hurrying to buy guns, leading to some models
being out of stock, warnings of shipping and customer-service delays, and
significant premiums on assault rifles.
“We are seeing a total madhouse of buying everything in sight,” said Bob Irwin,
owner of the Gun Store, a Las Vegas shooting range and retailer. Thursday, he
said, was the largest sales day in the history of the store, which has been open
for 30 years. “We have not only a run on the guns, but a run on ammunition.”
Mr. Irwin has begun limiting how much of some types of ammunition customers can
buy, and he has canceled employees’ days off to handle the demand.
Walmart, the largest retailer of guns and ammunition in the United States,
indicated that several semiautomatic guns were out of stock at locations across
the country. Kory Lundberg, a spokesman, said the company was not sold out of
guns altogether, but had low inventory in some situations. Walmart carries guns
in about half its stores, and about one-third carry so-called modern sporting
rifles, the category including the Bushmaster and other AR-15 weapons.
Other retailers around the country were selling out of guns and accessories. On
Friday on ImpactGuns.com, the Bushmaster .223 was out of stock. Davidson’s, a
supplier to gun retailers, placed a notice on its Web site that said it was
seeing “unprecedented demand,” and at MidwayUSA.com, more than 100 parts for
AR-15 guns were out of stock and on back order.
On AR15.com, a gun-enthusiast Web site, a user posted that a barrel for a gun
disappeared from an online shopping cart overnight, and is now on back order.
Another user, named warplg8654, responded, “Dealers can’t keep anything in stock
for what I think are obvious reasons given the current political climate.”
When a user called JazzFan asked whether paying a $100 premium for a Stag Model
3 was a good deal, another user said that seemed “reasonable with all of the
panic buying.”
Gavin Gear, the founder of the enthusiast site Northwest Gun, said gun owners
were feeling “apprehension.”
“People are trying to think ahead, and if they want to own a particular firearm
and they think it’s going to be outlawed or restricted, they’re more likely to
buy now,” he said.
Shop Owners Report Rise in Firearm Sales
as Buyers Fear Possible New Laws,
NYT,
21.12.2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/
nyregion/gun-shop-owners-report-spike-in-sales-
as-enthusiasts-fear-possible-new-laws.html
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