How has gun culture changed over say, 10-20-30 years? Between laws and individual ownership/trends.
we didnt have faggot vloggers acting all gay and retarded thinking for everyone 15 years ago.
>>64267869We got cheap ARs and Glocks, which are the 2 best guns of all time so I think we did alright
>>64267869Bill Clinton is trying to either1.) Figure out how to have sexual relations with that AK Or2.) How to smoke weed with it
S'become a lot more SHALL, overall. Like, the AR-15 was hardly on anyone's radar before the ban, after which it and pretty much any similar rifle became the most desirable firearms out there for a while to the point where now it's become increasingly difficult to ban, albeit not from lack of trying. As first post there so eloquently put it, application on the commercial market's become a lot more overtly tactical too. I'm pretty sure you'd give people a heart attack if you went on video back in nineties all cammied up and made a bunch of edgy jokes while showing off a gun. Was pretty much only the militia movement that got fed-ed to death that did stuff like that on camera at that point.
We've produced so much over the last decade that gun control is now a futile effort. Also cheap ARs and GlawksLefties and righties bought a lot of guns during and after COVIDAmmo prices kinda meh. At least it's availableStates that wanted to pursue bans did, but red states just doubled down with permitless concealed carry and other 2A positive things even if virtue signaling shitAWBs aren't on the table anymore
>>64267901Likely both but thinking what order would be best
We diversified far beyond guns. Armor, NV, thermals, helmets, LBE, and tactical-style training are now mainstream parts of gun culture when, outside of professional use, they were fringe as fuck thirty years ago.
>>64267869Well related to your picture Bill Clinton's administration fucked up imports. Of course so did George Bush Sr. but nobody talks about that for some reason.
easiest summaryIts become more mainstream. Both for better and worse.
>>64267869More tactical boogtards who consoom gunko pops for an event that will never happen, advertising has won.
>>64267869More retards, more problems. Simple as.
>>64267869It got real expensive, but then again - what didn't?
>>64267869That subject cannot be adequately discussed without going into the politics of gun control, which is an off topic subject for this board. And it also cannot be discussed without differentiation between the laws and gun culture of various countries which have dramatically changed over the last thirty years. However, without going deeper into the reeds on the subject, I'd say that the trend across the board has been away from moderate viewpoints and towards more authoritarian centralized power that diminishes individual liberties. Which has increased the demand but diminished the supply in many ways.
>>64267952>ammo prices kinda mehCorrected for inflation we're on par with 2018-19 numbers, with the obvious exception of slavic import.
>>64267869we went from retarded mall ninja larpers (SOVL) to retarded high speed low drag larpers (NO SOVL)
>>64267869You niggers made it AR min-max faggotry with no fun left.FUCKI want 2006 LARP around soviet shit drinking Stolichnya with the boys and dumping an RPD into a teddybear nailed to a log. Not fucking ArfCom with furries.
>>64267884One of the most cancerous things about the modern age is when some guntuber fag makes a new heckin poplar video and five minutes later all the morons are making threads here discussing it in a roundabout way
>>64267869Extremely. The 90s was all about Rugers, Mini14s, 10/22s, and P89s mostly. The 00s started getting some cheap milsurp in, that's when you saw SKSs and Mosins hit the scene, and ARs started becoming available to civilians. 2010s was all AKs and ARs. AKs had a very good run from 05-15, then ARs took over as they became less available. Now it's just muh Glock n AR autism because that's all we have available. The market has become boring yet at the same time has more than was every available. It's just all guns based off the plastic strikershit platform or some variation or loose variation of the AR. Booooringggg.
>>64268810Who's stopping you?
I can get an mp5 clone for cheap these days that's pretty fuckin rad. It was really the only gun I wanted since I got into the hobby 25 years ago.
>>64268956i don't care how bad life gets I will not buy a glock if only to be contrarian
Imported rifles are drying up but our domestic industry has arguably never been doing better.Really the firearm industry could be a role model for the rest of the economy if we embraced protectionsm to the nth degree. But we won't
>>64267869It fully maturedIt's not not about hunting or sporting. That civilized image was holding Americans back. Guns are about the 2A and the 2A is about poking holes in tyrants. In my view the reason Americans avoided this simple fact was because with the television and the increased standard of living we became more exposed to uprising and instability in shithole countries, and wanted to believe we were beyond that. This created a cognitive dissonance for the 2a which weakened its support.
I miss 90s gun culture so much. My dad would take my friends and I up to his cabin and set us loose with 22 rifles and all the surplus you could think of.
Back in the 90s we never saw a suppressor IRL, and when we saw it in magazines and movies we called it a silencer. Now, when I'm at a public range. Every broccoli boy got tricked out AR with a seemingly expensive can on it. Always some crazy fucking optic too. Didn't see that back in the 90s
>>64267869Things used to be fun and what-if scenarios were silly as a result, but now everything is so srs and you need your gucci-15 and nods and thermal and Glock 19 Roland special before you're legally allowed to have fun now
>>64267907This. What most younger gun people miss is that the tacticool stuff that is pretty much the standard today was a small niche of the community in the early 1990's. At that time ARs and the like were unusual. Few people had them. Then the AWB came into effect in 1994. Suddenly loads of people who previously didn't give a shit about "military style" weapons were worried that they might be completely banned, so people started buying a lot more. Special models that circumvented the ban in various ways started hitting the market. This coincided with the rise of 3D FPS games. Once the AWB expired in 2004 it was game fucking on.
>>64267869AR-15s are the Meta now. A lot of this was driven by panic-buying every time the Democrats tried to ban this specific weapon after a mass shooting. Ironically, their efforts to disarm America have just made it even more heavily armed than before.
>>64267869In many sorts of ways but I think the most important facet is in carry guns. 25 years ago people still genuinely considered J frames and small 1911s as good carry guns and would recommend FMJ (or hardball as it was often called back then) over JHPs. Reliability was the name of the game, if it wouldn't shoot every time no questions asked then it was trash, if it had the perception of being unreliable (even if the gun was fine) it was trash. Nowadays JHPs and autos are almost bulletproof in terms of reliability so the conversation has shifted to other factors like capability (Can it shoot in the dark? Can it punch through auto glass? Etc.) and form factor
>>64267869more and more retards
>>64267869We went from peak fuddery, to a gradual buildup of understanding that the main purpose of arms is to resist tyrannical overreach by a large government, and now we're going back to sleep. Big government is fine now and will take care of us, and we can work on disarming the troublesome elements of society.
>>64267901So Clinton was just a /k/ommando all along?
>>64268956>The 90s was all about Rugers, Mini14s, 10/22s, and P89s mostly. The 00s started getting some cheap milsurp in, that's when you saw SKSs and Mosins hit the scene, and ARs started becoming available to civilians.This is so fucking wrong I'm just gonna lmao at it you retarded zoomer faggot.
>>642679529mm is cheaper now adjusting for inflationGun culture has widely expanded, historically people would have a .22 in the attic and count themselves as gun owners, now people have rifles and handguns they actively train to fight with. The majority of states allow permitless carry when 30 years ago it was tough to impossible to get a permit to carry and most people supported banning handguns.Diy gunsmithing has also greatly expanded, now instead of putting together a traditions muzzle loader kit, or in the 90s building a clone rifle from an imported parts kit, then in then 10s? making p80s, currently people can do all of that and 3d print firearms. Except in states that subsequently outlawed private manufacturing, and they bankrupted p80, so you'd need the isreali version.
>>64269848>Civil War II breaks out>all the far-right militias who fancy themselves continuations of the Continental Army and/or the Confederacy are pro-government now
>>64268652Yes it can, you're just dumb.Anyway, obviously the big thing is the jump to "tactical" firearms and the cultural shift around that, and people do mention reasons why that might be happening, like as a reaction to Clinton or a byproduct of vidya changing which firearms are considered desirable (and remember that before vidya, people basically liked the guns they saw in movies, which means lots of revolvers and lever guns)But one thing I think gets lost in the move to "tactical" firearms is the plastic and customization crazes, and minmaxing for things like weight, capacity, and accuracy, coincides with a broader cultural trend of people wanting fancy precision technology that is minmaxed based on quantitative data points for just about all the toys and tools they spend serious money on.
