At Greta’s Guns runs the answering machine: “Due to the high number of Calls, we can’t go to the phone right now.” In the weapons shop in the small town of Simi Valley, California is apparently difficult. It is just around the corner from a Church and a supermarket in the Walmart chain. “Until further notice, our normal opening Hours apply. The best way to reach us is by Email or via Facebook Messenger.” And that’s where most of the other stores long ago?
Actually, Alex Villanueva, the Sheriff for the County of Los Angeles had proclaimed, in the middle of March, that all shops should be closed, which belong to the basic supply. The excitement among gun owners and prospective buyers was great. Nine days later, on 28. March, called Villanueva and referred to a new notice from the U.S. Department of homeland security: The Import, manufacture and sale of weapons are part of the basic supply, it was said in it.
Since the outbreak of Covid-19 in the US, the shelves in the shops just as empty as in many other countries. Toilet paper is a scarce commodity, noodles and rice in many places are sold out. The fear of the uncertain future has driven the US-Americans, but only to hoard food and household items in large quantities, weapons and ammunition are in high demand.
New faces in the arms
the store “I had a lot of new customers in the last time,” Josh Lowry. He runs a gun shop in Tigard, a small town in the South of the largely liberal city of Portland in the West coast state of Oregon. The range of Oregon Rifleworks consists of rifles and pistols, ammunition and knives, a hunting Department, there are also. “Our customers are concerned about their safety,” says Lowry. “Are you afraid that the police have too much else to do and feel forced to take matters into their own hands.” The Coronavirus crisis also revealed in this way, how big is the trust gaps compared to the state.
And so are then in the Lowry’s Online Shop sold out of most of the guns, and the most recent message on Facebook announcing shorter Hours: “We can no longer keep up with this insanity, and we need to take care of it, to fill our inventories and process applications.”
applications are meant, among other things, the so-called Background Checks, which decide whether someone is allowed to buy a gun or not. The passenger data are matched with a database of criminal records and other personal information. The FBI is currently experiencing record numbers of such queries. In February, 2020, there were more than 2.8 million, compared to the Figures last year, an average of slightly more than 2.36 million per month.
If changes to the law seem to be possible
There are always events, the weapons and ammunition purchases in the United States in the heights: the choice of democratic President Barack Obama, for example, or, most recently, the protest marches in March 2018. Across the country people had demanded in the case of events under the title “March for Our Lives” stricter gun laws. The prospect of bans on the sales figures usually on the rise.
The long queues, as they were to watch in the past week in several US States, form, because more customers come in as usual, but also because only a certain number of people at the same time in the shops may be present. In some places, ten is the Limit, Oregon Rifleworks currently only six.
do Not trust the police
Drew Woods lives in Louisiana and works on a tug boat. His family was always like to Hunt and fish. As a child, guns were a part of life and even today he always has one. “With 18 I bought my first gun, and since 2009, I carry a gun always hidden with me.” Woods feels so safe. He shows his gun, however, is not open, because the reactions of his fellow-men to interfere. “Some people think directly, I wanted to Rob you.”
Also, he mentioned in an interview with Deutsche Welle, the concern is that the Corona-crisis could lead to shortages in the police. In the Internet Woods is a communication from the police station in Cincinnati, Ohio noticed that has him worried. This had informed that the officials maintain their distance, and now more personally, scenes would go. Instead, Ads should be on the phone or online. However, it is stated in the official statement, that the police have to come out furthermore, in case of emergency, if suspects or attackers are still on-site, or medical help is necessary.
- Corona-the crisis in the News Ticker of FOCUS Online
defense is a family affair
Dennis Williams lives in the state of New York. He has close ties to the Democratic party in many political issues, decided almost a year ago to buy a gun. After a long Deliberation, the 51-year-old father opted for a Walther PPK/S .380, a model that was developed in Germany and for defense purposes, it is popular.
“When I learned of the epidemic, I bought quite a lot of ammunition. That was not a direct response to the Coronavirus outbreak, but to the fact that in situations such as this, ammunition is quickly running out, and the shelves remain empty for a long time.” It is a kind of chain reaction in which many people suspect at the same time a scarcity, and then stock up before it is too late. See also: toilet paper.
Paul Broshear wanted to go on the safe side. He had enough weapons and ammunition, but decided some of them to other family members to rewrite. “Just in case”, he adds in the interview -. “So you are adequately prepared.” At Most, it would be him, however, if no one would have to use the pistols and all would just about “the idiot father in the large” and his strange ideas of fun.
Broshear for each and every weapon gift of a letter, in which he insists that all firearms must remain in the family from Generation to Generation and will never be sold to Strangers to be allowed to be.
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