No amount of spin changes the handwriting on the wall from last week’s midterm results. Despite some notable wins, gun rights took a beating that will absolutely have ramifications in both the short and long term.
No one should be surprised if gun purchases, already up 8% last month from the same period in 2025, continue strong buying patterns across the nation.
2020’s pandemic bump in firearm purchases may be duplicated
That’s the word from Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA).
“We may be about to witness a surge in gun buying not seen since 2020,” Gottlieb observed. “We also anticipate a flood of new, anti-Second Amendment legislation designed to further restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens.”
Gottlieb foresaw renewed attacks on the right to possess the nation’s most popular sporting rifles, the AR-15 and similar models.
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“The gun control crowd may attempt to pass legislation relating to modern semi-automatic rifles and pistols in anticipation of the Supreme Court ruling on whether these firearms are protected by the Second Amendment,” said Gottlieb, who added that human nature will spur the opposite result from the one sought by gun rights opponents.
“That could easily ignite a semi-auto buying surge, so nobody should be surprised when that happens. When you tell Americans they can’t have something, they rush to buy whatever it is.”
No truer words have been spoken.
How many Abigail Spanbergers will be sworn into office in the coming weeks and months? Ran as moderates with “common sense” values on gun rights and even trotted out grandpa’s old twelve-gauge for a photo-op.
Now that the campaign cameras are packed away, many will reveal their true agendas. When that happens and suddenly these “weapons of war” are flying off gun shop shelves, stealth gun grabbers will have no one but themselves to blame.
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