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Originally Posted by Sarah_W
I do not believe most Police complain of being Outgunned. What do you think the bad guys have that the Police don't have?
Capitalism is based on supply and demand. Gun manufacturers are a business like any other seeking a reasonable profit. Where are you getting the "greed" comment from?
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I explained that in an earlier post. Here goes again...........Prior to about 1970 all gun magazines were DEVOTED to big and small game hunting , trophy hunting, and sporting bird hunting, and guns and equipment. In the farming areas of ALL states there was a thing called the soil bank, where farmers were paid to NOT farm and plow their marginal areas. These were designed to prevent the good topsoil from blowing away, which had historically been a part (or maybe the main reason) for the Great Depression. These areas of a farm set aside for the Soil Bank provided GREAT cover for deer and game birds. During the 60s it was not unusual to see as many as 30 pheasants crossing a country road in Kansas or Nebraska. The daily limit for pheasant was 4 and many people had large freezers filled up with game birds.
.....Those were the days of the SMALL farms. Today the Soil Bank is gone (I think that the oil companies still get a gov. payment). And so are the small farmers, replaced by FACTORY farms, which plow right up to the property line of a road and overkill the land with phosphate fertilizer. So, there are less game birds and deer due to less cover. So, hunting license sales dropped and gun magazine sales dropped and also gun sales.
The gun manufacturers had lower total profits and some were in danger of bankruptcy. Some bright fellow in the gun makers marketing department said, "Let's turn all the hunters into solder-of-fortune wanna be's, so that we can sell them military look alike weapons". Basically, the gun marketing departments CREATED - through propaganda, video games, and paintball copetetions - a WHOLE NEW class of young GUN OWNERS. And the gun makers got themselves an extra profit benefit because they could charge more for the fully accessorized G.I JOE paraphernalia-laden military style firearm.