One interesting thing that happened in the early 90s was the decline of New England's old gun companies that mostly produced revolvers and bolt action rifles, and the surge of business for newer or foreign companies making semi-automatics and automatics
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There's a story here about about deindustrialization and the change of Gun culture
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Ive seen it noted by people, but I think more emphasis should be placed on how the pattern of American gun ownership went from like a revolver or a shotgun or hunting rifle, to an arsenal of AR-15s. It became something else
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For one thing, there was a huge surge in gun buying after the LA riots
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My conservative take here I think we should basically roll back to a 19th, early 20th century gun culture: you can have revolvers, shotguns, bolt-actions, you can hunt, reasonably defend your home, etc. but not like, wage a terror campaign
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basically you can own a gun, but it has to be an American-built Colt revolver
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The true originalist position is you can only own a musket that blows up in your hands 30% of the time.
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