In the PNW you can buy AR-15s, shotguns, rifles, semi-auto pistols, and more.
I think you’re confusing PNW with New York or some other location with “strict gun control”, which really just means that you travel to another state to purchase firearms anyway.
Firearm sales have tripled since 2000, that’s our bread and butter.
You could argue any and all gun laws are a “barrier” to arming oneself, but no, none of them are in any way whatsoever insurmountable, and amount to “barriers” you can simply step over. You claiming the PNW is unarmed and people there can’t buy guns?
i am claiming what i said. the poster you commented to was being obviously hyperbolic. i don’t know what the gun laws are around pnw. but around here they vary wildly depending on where i go. the point of them was never to be insurmountable, but to be difficult enough to arm the correct people and to dissuade ownership for another.
It’s not rocket science. Yes PNW is more left but it’s still no where near the south or the rest of the red states.
Please provide me info that shows the left is even remotely armed like the right wing in this country. You can downvote all you want but it doesn’t magically make those on the left armed.
Spend a moment to reflect on the fact that you’re confidently incorrect in response to someone who lives here and has spent a considerable amount of time in all corners of the region.
Aside from NYC and DC, the “strictest gun laws in the country” are still some of the loosest gun laws in the world. Even at an FFL dealer it’s basically an instant background check and a three-day waiting period. Not to mention all the gun shows, unless you think someplace like Eugene, OR is a secret MAGA bastion—in-between all the Occupy, BLM, and pro-Palestinian protests, I mean.
In Seattle my coworkers were some of the most heavily-armed coworkers I’ve ever had in any part of the country. They all had small armories. My old boss cast his own bullets from lead ingots. My neighbor in Oregon could probably supply the entire neighborhood if needed, although of course I’d be set. My leftist friend I just had lunch with the other day was just telling me about his collection of handguns and rifles. I guess the neighbor who runs a daycare nearby probably doesn’t have any, though. And no, I don’t live in the boonies.
Reusing this from my other comment…you may think you are, and you might be the most armed of the left in the states, but you still have enough lefties who vote for some of the strictest gun laws in the country.
What? The PNW has some of the strictest gun control laws in the US.
What are these lefties armed with? Rocks?
In the PNW you can buy AR-15s, shotguns, rifles, semi-auto pistols, and more.
I think you’re confusing PNW with New York or some other location with “strict gun control”, which really just means that you travel to another state to purchase firearms anyway.
Firearm sales have tripled since 2000, that’s our bread and butter.
https://www.atg.wa.gov/firearms
https://everytownresearch.org/rankings/state/washington/
https://everytownresearch.org/rankings/state/oregon/
What? You got AWB and high cap mag bans…and 3 day waiting periods…you do have some of the strictest gun control on the books.
Idaho is the only place that has very little gun laws, but the majority of the left doesn’t live there.
https://everytownresearch.org/rankings/state/idaho/
Idaho has voted red for decades now, so please don’t tell me there are tons of lefties there…
Yes, because stricter gun laws than most=cannot buy guns at all only rocks.
are you arguing that stricter gun laws are not a barrier to arming oneself?
You could argue any and all gun laws are a “barrier” to arming oneself, but no, none of them are in any way whatsoever insurmountable, and amount to “barriers” you can simply step over. You claiming the PNW is unarmed and people there can’t buy guns?
i am claiming what i said. the poster you commented to was being obviously hyperbolic. i don’t know what the gun laws are around pnw. but around here they vary wildly depending on where i go. the point of them was never to be insurmountable, but to be difficult enough to arm the correct people and to dissuade ownership for another.
No we’re claiming that lefties being “lots of them armed” in the PNW is bullshit.
Citation needed? Your imagination does not dictate reality… where did you hear this? Seriously
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/gun-ownership-by-state
It’s not rocket science. Yes PNW is more left but it’s still no where near the south or the rest of the red states.
Please provide me info that shows the left is even remotely armed like the right wing in this country. You can downvote all you want but it doesn’t magically make those on the left armed.
Spend a moment to reflect on the fact that you’re confidently incorrect in response to someone who lives here and has spent a considerable amount of time in all corners of the region.
Aside from NYC and DC, the “strictest gun laws in the country” are still some of the loosest gun laws in the world. Even at an FFL dealer it’s basically an instant background check and a three-day waiting period. Not to mention all the gun shows, unless you think someplace like Eugene, OR is a secret MAGA bastion—in-between all the Occupy, BLM, and pro-Palestinian protests, I mean.
In Seattle my coworkers were some of the most heavily-armed coworkers I’ve ever had in any part of the country. They all had small armories. My old boss cast his own bullets from lead ingots. My neighbor in Oregon could probably supply the entire neighborhood if needed, although of course I’d be set. My leftist friend I just had lunch with the other day was just telling me about his collection of handguns and rifles. I guess the neighbor who runs a daycare nearby probably doesn’t have any, though. And no, I don’t live in the boonies.
But by all means, feel free to underestimate us.
Reusing this from my other comment…you may think you are, and you might be the most armed of the left in the states, but you still have enough lefties who vote for some of the strictest gun laws in the country.
https://www.atg.wa.gov/firearms
https://everytownresearch.org/rankings/state/washington/
https://everytownresearch.org/rankings/state/oregon/
What? You got AWB and high cap mag bans…and 3 day waiting periods…you do have some of the strictest gun control on the books.
Idaho is the only place that has very little gun laws, but the majority of the left doesn’t live there.
https://everytownresearch.org/rankings/state/idaho/
Idaho has voted red for decades now, so please don’t tell me there are tons of lefties there…