WSJ AR[15]ticle

[MaverickNH]

Essay | The Selling of America’s Most Controversial Gun

Private equity turned the AR-15 into a big profit-maker and a charged symbol in the debate over gun rights and mass shootings.

www.wsj.com

Yet another AR15 article - not a hit-piece, more an informational narrative that appears fairly neutral. And a plug for the authors’ new book. I have no idea who wants to read such books. AR15 owners? Nah…. Anti-gunners? Maybe - just to lift facts out of context. AR15 manufacturers attempt to market their products and make profits? Sinful!

American Gun

A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“A magisterial work of narrative history and original reportage . . . You can feel the tension building one ...

us.macmillan.com

 

[Mtn_Guy]

By those numbers, I’m slacking…

 

[MaverickNH]

By those numbers, I’m slacking…

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I’ll admit my AR15s were all in the gun safe before 2008, but Obama gave me cover to buy a Tavor X95.

 

[Asaltweapon]

I was always a pistol guy from 81. I had a shotgun and a couple of rifles as and had no real interest in AR15’s.
Thanks Obama for converting me!!

 

[silversquirrel]

Watching Biden lead the circus in 1994 on cspan sent me to the gun shop for a cheap AK.
I wasnt impressed with the tinny construction and crappy wood. Went home with a nice colt govt carbine. Thanks Joe!

 

[Mesatchornug]

Essay | The Selling of America’s Most Controversial Gun

Private equity turned the AR-15 into a big profit-maker and a charged symbol in the debate over gun rights and mass shootings.

www.wsj.com

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Yet another AR15 article - not a hit-piece, more an informational narrative that appears fairly neutral. And a plug for the authors’ new book. I have no idea who wants to read such books. AR15 owners? Nah…. Anti-gunners? Maybe - just to lift facts out of context. AR15 manufacturers attempt to market their products and make profits? Sinful!

American Gun

A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“A magisterial work of narrative history and original reportage . . . You can feel the tension building one ...

us.macmillan.com

Come now. You know better than most that academics must "publish or perish." They're writing it to be able to say they wrote it and increase their profile.

 

[GaryO]

At least those numbers boost the "Firearms in common use" theory from Heller.

 

[nordic alien]

way back when bought an old school ar15 a2 with carry handle and bayonet lug. 2 yrs ago picked up a pistol conversion carbine kit ; now i have 2 ars

 

[Palladin]

bought my first AR the day after Barry was elected.

 

[SwampYankee42]

Once you start down the path you can never leave the path

 

[snowballs]

Essay | The Selling of America’s Most Controversial Gun

Private equity turned the AR-15 into a big profit-maker and a charged symbol in the debate over gun rights and mass shootings.

www.wsj.com

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Yet another AR15 article - not a hit-piece, more an informational narrative that appears fairly neutral. And a plug for the authors’ new book. I have no idea who wants to read such books. AR15 owners? Nah…. Anti-gunners? Maybe - just to lift facts out of context. AR15 manufacturers attempt to market their products and make profits? Sinful!

American Gun

A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“A magisterial work of narrative history and original reportage . . . You can feel the tension building one ...

us.macmillan.com

WSJ article comments are entertaining

 

[Varmint]

Essay | The Selling of America’s Most Controversial Gun

Private equity turned the AR-15 into a big profit-maker and a charged symbol in the debate over gun rights and mass shootings.

www.wsj.com

View attachment 798386

Yet another AR15 article - not a hit-piece, more an informational narrative that appears fairly neutral. And a plug for the authors’ new book. I have no idea who wants to read such books. AR15 owners? Nah…. Anti-gunners? Maybe - just to lift facts out of context. AR15 manufacturers attempt to market their products and make profits? Sinful!

American Gun

A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“A magisterial work of narrative history and original reportage . . . You can feel the tension building one ...

us.macmillan.com

That was interesting about the Bushmaster history, thanks.

The article failed to mention how police departments armed up with AR15s before the public did. And now they carry automatic rifles in their squad cars.

How Portland Police Came to Be Armed With Military-Grade Rifles and What Happened as a Result

www.wweek.com

 

[SwampYankee42]

That was interesting about the Bushmaster history, thanks.

The article failed to mention how police departments armed up with AR15s before the public did. And now they carry automatic rifles in their squad cars.

How Portland Police Came to Be Armed With Military-Grade Rifles and What Happened as a Result

www.wweek.com

Its an "assault rifle" in our hands and a "patrol rifle" in theirs

 

[T-Unit]

All this shows is that back in the 90s there were a lot more Mini 14 and AK owners

 

[MaverickNH]

I’m not sure why the surge in AR documentary articles in 2023. I can see Biden trying some EO to mess with ARs before the election - anything to get a few more votes. But not so soon that he’d lose in court before next year’s elections. It’ll be Bread and Circuses June-Nov 2024.

 

[T-Unit]

All that gun owners need is fear to get them panic buying, but I question if people have the money to do that now and after all that was bought in 2020 IDK what more there is for people to buy.

Ammo lasts and I can't see what would cause the prices on the common, popular stuff to drop by much next year, so no reason not to stock up on more .22, .223, and 9mm, but the less popular calibers and revolver calibers especially, I can see those going down in the future because the supply has been shit for them since Covid and once the supply gets better the prices will too.

Guns you should be buying now because inflation is only going to make them more over time.

 

[rogersmithiii]

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[rogersmithiii]

I love how the detailed choice of emotion-manipulating words can state facts, but force people to come to a bogus conclusion about the topic.

The media is nothing but a propaganda arm for the Democrat socialists.

And they wonder why they have no more credibility.

 

[Tartakovsky]

So, according to rough estimates of the graph, I estimate 18.5m ARs since Obama was elected? Do democrats get it yet that their policies are the primary catalyst in the demand for more and more weapons?

 

[pdm]

Archive link: http://archive.today/Nrbzz

 

[Cap'n Mike]

This article and I assume the book focuses way to much on active shooters using AR15s IMHO.
A tiny fraction of guns used in Mass Shootings are AR15s and an infinitesimal fraction of all AR15s are used in Mass shootings.

 

[MaverickNH]

If you have a WSJ subscription, you can post a free read link for non-subscribers. The links above do not let non-subscribers read.

Sorry - thought I did just that Essay | The Selling of America’s Most Controversial Gun

This article and I assume the book focuses way too much on active shooters using AR15s IMHO.
A tiny fraction of guns used in Mass Shootings are AR15s and an infinitesimal fraction of all AR15s are used in Mass shootings.

It’s a corollary to ”Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, attributed to Goebbels, that if you focus on a few trees long enough, you lose sight of the forest.

The gun control advocates have turned AR15 statistics over dozens of times over decades and they can only find single-digit increments in harms.

Why do I need a AR15? Since Biden won’t let us buy F-16s, we’re stuck with AR15s. And when TSHTF (aka, Go-Time), the pistol braces come out of the closet and we pass out Glock switches!

 

[rogersmithiii]

Sorry - thought I did just that Essay | The Selling of America’s Most Controversial Gun

It’s a corollary to ”Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, attributed to Goebbels, that if you focus on a few trees long enough, you lose sight of the forest.

The gun control advocates have turned AR15 statistics over dozens of times over decades and they can only find single-digit increments in harms.

Why do I need a AR15? Since Biden won’t let us buy F-16s, we’re stuck with AR15s. And when TSHTF (aka, Go-Time), the pistol braces come out of the closet and we pass out Glock switches!

Thanks. I hear that the WSJ has been taken over by Murdoch’s woke kids, so the paper has lurched woke left.

 

[Roadglide]

If you have a WSJ subscription, you can post a free read link for non-subscribers. The links above do not let non-subscribers read.

Local store was throwing out the weekend edition yesterday so I grabbed a free copy. Read the article. Waste of time. Didn’t tell us anything we don’t already know. Just a history lesson on the AR and some background on Bushmaster. Junk piece.

 

[Freddy B]

Thanks. I hear that the WSJ has been taken over by Murdoch’s woke kids, so the paper has lurched woke left.

The article mostly dealt with the business side of AR manufacturing, focusing on the private equity firm (Cerberus) that first acquired Bushmaster and grew the business.

I've been reading the WSJ for nearly 40 years. Murdoch seems to have largely kept his promise when he acquired them of maintaining their editorial independence. Yes, they hate Trump. But they would have hated him whether Murdoch owned them or not.