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Anonymous asked:

it just hit me that guns are one of the last product that is designed and marketed to a western market to be durable, modular, easy to maintain by oneself, and not depreciate

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Yeah actually a lot of stuff in the firearms space \u2013 “tacticool” style, the industry group NRA’s financial straits, colored (esp pink!) guns, the drive to appeal to women and black shooters, the need for constant innovation \u2013 envelope-pushing short-barrel not-legally-a-rifle pistol carbines and not-legally-a-shotgun “Firearms”, novelties like the KSG or Judge, “buy before it’s banned!” hype \u2013 comes down to that.

Firearms are very durable and hold value well so for the industry to maintain they need a constant churn of new product (and newly manufactured needs); if you just wanted a decent hunting rifle you could just use a still-good hand-me-down from either grandfather of which you’re the only descendant to still hunt

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