The gun nuts were yelling as loud as they could that everyone should go get strapped.

That, and the historic, once-in-a-lifetime low prices of the last 3 years. My dad basically ignored me for like 5 years that he needed to move out of his culturally enriched rental, and/or get a $400 auto-loader in the house.

Last fucking week he decided that it was time to get an auto-loading shotgun, And he paid $1400 intead of $1100-ish.