Ruger stock crashing since Trump became likely to win

Crashed even harder when Trump actually got elected.

Similar story with other listed gun makers (S&W [AOBC], etc.).

What's going on?

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No war with Russia means it's more likely that cheap Russian ammo and weapons can once more be imported. Prices have been artifically inflated since Obummer started the sanctions.

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No panic buying, lower sales projections

no fear.
guns are cheap and plentiful.
cheaper russian aks are coming too.
good times.

The free market is fixing itself.
Now we just need some protectionist law to mitigate it and we're good to go.

Basicly gun grabbers sell the most guns. No one thinks the gun market will do good with Trump in charge because no one is worried about society collapsing since the commies lost.

The threat of a Hillary presidency and the prospect of gun and ammo control or ban. The sporting goods dept of the Walmart near me was always running out of stock and would have signs up with the dates they would get it in. Now, not so much.

gun companies can't frighten the poor white folk that the scary black man is gunna take their guns anymore

Why don't the gun manufacturers fund anti-gun politicians to create more panic buying?

Liberals got rekt, so now we enjoy world peace

Liberalism is a mental disease

it's a risky game, per instance if hillary had won, it would have been their end

No panic buy. People know guns aren't going anywhere.

When that scary black man was agitating for another assault weapon ban every time muh chilluns got """killed""", I'd say the gun companies were pretty fucking justified.

hillary clinton helps the CIA distribute and run guns at a much, much higher profit margin than what they make selling to normies in the US.

I want cheap 7.62x54r cases again :(

Fear of gun control sells guns. As long as democrats are in power people are scared that new gun bans are coming so they better get theirs while they can.

Check out this PDF of NICS checks (NICS is done when you buy a firearm from a gun store in a US). It's mostly flat throughout Bush's presidency, after Obama gets in it goes up, after the Sandy Hook shooting happened in December 2012 and Obama started aggressivly pushing new gun control the amount of NICS done went instantly upwards because people were rushing to get their guns because they were scared that stuff was going to get banned.

With Trump in the White House and GOP controlling congress the chance of new gun control is basically 0 so people aren't panicking to rush out and buy everything they can get their hands on.

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Nobody is fearing the government is going to take their guns away with Trump in office.

Thanks for reminding me to invest in 8 years btw. I'm sure whatever socialist the left kicks out by then will be out for all them gunz.

Obama in office was the best thing ever for the arms industry. That man alone made them so much damn money. Now that trump will be in the panic isn't there.

Meanwhile in the defense sector...

Lockheed and Northrop only went down after F-35 re-negotiation comments from Trump (Lockheed and Northrop are primary contractors for F-35).

Investors' expectation of defense spending hike (major war, arms race, or both) is at all time high.

Just trying to gain shortsighted profit isn't their motive.

in the mid 90's ruger tried a strategy similar to that (in concept, help the opposition) and got caught doing it, it took the death of bill ruger and more than a decade for their brand to recover

Buy/sell, that's the game I play with my trading bot.

Tfw one of my best friends just bought one of their rifles

Are you telling me my buddy essentially bought a cuckold gun ?

This is very saddening if so

It's this.

The threat of regulations makes people panic buy shit like AR-15s

William Ruger lobbied Congress for a ban on mags over 15 rounds in 1989. He's been dead since '02 and they've picked up their game at this point.