Americans are starting to panic-buy guns with sales rocketing across the country and shoppers lining up around the block outside hunting shops amid coronavirus fears.


California, New York and Washington the states hardest hit by the deadly bug all saw a massive surge in gun sales.


Some buyers sought to 'protect their families' from looters should food and supplies run out due to coronavirus panic.

Others feared that the government's emergency powers could restrict their right to buy a gun while somebought weapons to protect themselves from potential racist attacks.


Photos:

Random photos of people on queue at gun stores in different states of the country in March, 2020.






https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/01/business/coronavirus-gun-sales.html
Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Social distancing.


Customers line up six feet apart outside a gun store in Doral, Florida.


Shoppers inside a store in Arcadia, California, wait to make their purchases as panic about the coronavirus takes hold in March, 2020.


Shoppers wearing masks and gloves line up outside a shop in Burbank, and Culver City, California, as they wait to make their purchases

Shoppers in Las Vegas, Nevada, lined up to buy guns and ammunition as coronavirus panic takes hold.

One shopper displays rounds of ammo.


A gun store before and after.

Chai
Corona see Wetin u cause

Interesting

Can't we have a zombie type of virus like that of resident evil.

I was waiting to see how they wanted to use the guns in shooting coronavirus or covid19 to death. Coro must die.

Explorers

Abeg how much is AK47

Damn... I need a Glock G20 SF right now


Wish i could lay my hands on this too

Americans are really funny.

Wow!! 2 million guns

I guess its just to scare the bad guys away.

I don't really blame them, almost everyone (good or bad) owns a weapon in America.
It will be foolish to allow a repeat of the mistakes/looting that happened in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina years ago.

People who have seen it all and understand the depth of the shit we're in.

nawaa

Officialgarri:
Can't we have a zombie type of virus like that of resident evil.

..
The Covid19 is damn boring...
Why aren't people turning into zombies and vampires, so we could run and have fun..

Are they using it to kill the virus?

This is it, the moment has come!! The moment anti-Americans have longed for! With the look of things it seems America will Be 1st on the list of countries that got hit so bad!

Anarchy in view

mank1234:
Are they using it to kill the virus?

There are many viruses in America

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Officialgarri:
Can't we have a zombie type of virus like that of resident evil.

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UrRealG:
Damn... I need a Glock G20 SF right now


Wish i could lay my hands on this

That's not a Glock, those are m4s

chijioke17:

That's not a Glock, those are m4s

I know. AR-15's too

And when in a couple of months everyone gets normalised, some nuthead will use his neighbors as target practice

Ishilove:
And when in a couple of months everyone gets normalised, some nuthead will use his neighbors as target practice

Or one school boy will get hold of his dad's gun and test it on his classmates

Let them kill themselves Nigerians don't give a fuc.k

Hmmmm... This is serious

Only our police and army are given guns to kill civilians.

But if guns was legalized in Nigeria.

We won't by fighting covid 19 cos we would have been at war before the outbreak.

Erediauwa:
Thinking of traveling all the way to Abuja to get a license pistol....


I really need it.


By the way, what is that little kid doing in a place like that?


This is not right.

Guns are presently illegal in the whole of Nigeria. Before shotguns used to be legal for a certain group.

What's wrong with the little kid being in a gun shop? is a gun shop a criminal hideout? I don't see anything wrong there.


Besides some of those guns are beautiful.

Ishilove:
And when in a couple of months everyone gets normalised, some nuthead will use his neighbors as target practice

Are you sure about that?

Before the covid19 issue, there was an estimated 300 million guns in the hands of American civilians.
Why haven't they all used their neighbors as targets?

sapientia:
Only our police and army are given guns to kill civilians.

But if guns was legalized in Nigeria.

We won't by fighting covid 19 cos we would have been at war before the outbreak.

nah... look at the positive side of it. there would be no fulani herdsmen killings on people's farms and houses.
also, reduced cases of armed robbery. Cos that robber holding a machete and a shortgun would be afraid u may blast his head off in self-defence with ur double barrel gun.

See weapons o