NPR on the economic impact of a gun show boycott

[BehindBlueI's]

Looks like some folks in PA stepped on their crank when they told vendors they couldn't sell "certain types of weapons" at the gun show. $40 million bite out of the local economy, and it may force some smaller businesses to close.

Perhaps, just perhaps, they shouldn't have tried to ban the selling of legal firearms.

Pennsylvania Outdoor Sports Show Caught In Gun Debate Cross Hairs : NPR

 

[38special]

They want to trample our rights and then complain when it has consequences?

Boo hoo.

 

[Hookeye]

Nobody to blame but the organizers of the event.
Screw 'em.

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

Nobody to blame but the organizers of the event.
Screw 'em.

Right on target. The organizer made a bad call and ended up ruining the economic outlook for many.

 

[IndyDave1776]

No sympathy here for the organizers, and maybe the bus drivers and girl scout will learn a lesson about letting others be thrown under the bus with out so much as an articulated objection.

 

[Hotdoger]

Will the vendors man up and not go to next years Shot Show ?

 

[kevhed]

Good for them!! This is how you get someones attention nowadays......you punch them in the wallet. Forty million is a pretty big chunk and should grab some attention.

 

[87iroc]

I feel for the small vendors and hunting and fishing guide that rely on it for their scheduling for the year. The decision was made above them

 

[IndyDave1776]

I feel for the small vendors and hunting and fishing guide that rely on it for their scheduling for the year. The decision was made above them

Agreed, but this is where the free market comes in. Next time, either the organizers will at least pretend to grow a brain or else someone else will put on such a show without backstabbing their supposed economic base.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

One thing the gun culture is really good at is knifing traitors.

You would think people actually in the gun business would learn this!

Sometimes I think that the people in the gun business do not want to be in business.

 

[cobber]

One thing the gun culture is really good at is knifing traitors.

You would think people actually in the gun business would learn this!

Sometimes I think that the people in the gun business do not want to be in business.

The Left wishes they could organize a boycott on Constitutional principles that would come near this in impact.

Also this drives home the point that lots of non-gun owners are dependent upon the economic benefit of the legal firearms trade.

Imagine what hay NPR would have made if the show had gone off as planned, with the organizer successfully banning "assault rifles"? It would have been proof to the Left that the AR-15 is not a legitimate sporting rifle, and would have led to future pressure on other shows to do similar bans.

 

[silverspoon]

The organizers of this event is in fact a British company. Given the current anti gun climate in England they probably thought they was doing a good thing. They underestimated the American love affair with our freedoms. I think I've read somewhere this incident has seriously put in doubt next year's SHOT show or at least them organizing the event.

 

[CitiusFortius]

They want to trample our rights and then complain when it has consequences?

Boo hoo.

Im waiting for the gun manufacturers that call NY home to pack up and come to elkhart. We got factories sitting around waiting to be used!

 

[Mgderf]

I touched on this subject last week.

I called Rush Limbaugh's show to pose the question about firearms sales, and their relationship to the nation's monthly retail sales numbers.

I told Rush (actually Snerdly) that I wondered about these sales numbers. Obama and his ilk have been trying their best to curtail or prevent as many gun sales as possible.

Now consider this. In these terrible economic times, what would the past quarter, or the past year look like if they had their wish, and were able to ban all sales.

Last year reports were that there were 2.5 million background checks for firearm purchases.

Let's say, for arguments sake, that each one of those firearms were only worth $100.
Could this country have survived (economically) the past year if we had lost that $250 million from the retail market?
That's just the beginning. No firearms sales would eventually curtail ammunition and accessory sales, resulting in even greater losses to our already fragile economy.

Then there would be the multitude of jobs lost by such an economic setback.

I don't think this administration understands the laws of unintended consequences.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Imagine what hay NPR would have made if the show had gone off as planned, with the organizer successfully banning "assault rifles"? It would have been proof to the Left that the AR-15 is not a legitimate sporting rifle, and would have led to future pressure on other shows to do similar bans.

Well, honestly it probably wouldn't have been news at all at that point. Where would the interest be? No conflict, no big dollar amount to grab headlines, no story. NPR news has been pretty even handed in reporting on the proposed AWB and gun owners, as a few other posts here have shown as well. I'll not accuse them of trying to "make hay" one way or the other.

The reason I found it interesting is the same reason Mgderf does. At what cost to the economy do these anti-gun owner decisions come? As hundreds of voices proclaim in any "price gouging" thread, its a free market and an organizer can certainly limit what products are sold at their event...but at what cost?

 

[Hawkeye]

Im waiting for the gun manufacturers that call NY home to pack up and come to elkhart. We got factories sitting around waiting to be used!

I'm sure we could set them up just fine here in IN. I'd feel sorry for the New York residents who would lose their jobs, but they could move here - or vote!

What about the firearms industry in IL - maybe we should go after them, too!

 

[cobber]

Well, honestly it probably wouldn't have been news at all at that point. Where would the interest be? No conflict, no big dollar amount to grab headlines, no story. NPR news has been pretty even handed in reporting on the proposed AWB and gun owners, as a few other posts here have shown as well. I'll not accuse them of trying to "make hay" one way or the other.

The reason I found it interesting is the same reason Mgderf does. At what cost to the economy do these anti-gun owner decisions come? As hundreds of voices proclaim in any "price gouging" thread, its a free market and an organizer can certainly limit what products are sold at their event...but at what cost?

If the show had gone off without a hitch, and no AR's, the gun-grabbers would have claimed that as proof that the shooting public really doesn't care if these guns are banned or not, since most sportsmen don't want to buy one (and only the lunatic fringe wants one) and went to the show anyway. That would have been support for all the talk that the EBGs are only instruments of death.

While we might not have bought into that, the MSM would have had a field day.

And I'm not seeing NPR as benevolent in this as you do.

 

[PGRChaplain]

Too bad the national media didn't cover this story. Where's Fox News?

 

[nate1865]

If you're a small business and expose yourself to the risk of a single thing going wrong that sinks your business, you need to adjust your business strategy.

 

[Hurley]

To The Show Organizer...

Way to go dumba$$.