Business brisk at Kyiv gun shops as Ukrainians rush to buy arms

[Deplorable Me]

Business brisk at Kyiv gun shops as Ukrainians rush to buy arms​

Business brisk at Kyiv gun shops as Ukrainians rush to buy arms

Threat of invasion, and draft law giving Ukrainians permission to carry firearms, leads to long queues inside weapons stores

www.theguardian.com

Most Ukrainians – boys and girls – learn how to shoot at school. About 400,000 people are estimated to have combat experience, following Vladimir Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and the Moscow-supported armed uprising in the east.

But the threat in recent days of a possible attack on Kyiv has caused an unprecedented rush to buy arms. Gun shops have sold out of some weapons, such as AR-10 and AR-15 assault rifles, with business now exceptionally busy.

Meanwhile Russia awarded comrade Cuomo the Star of Moscow for his disarmament successes in the United States.

 

[Blimey]

This is analogous to waiting until the fire department is already fighting your house fire to call an agent looking for home insurance. They waited too long. I wonder how much of Ukraine was genuinely head-in-the-sand over this possibility of an invasion.

 

[Deplorable Me]

This is analogous to waiting until the fire department is already fighting your house fire to call an agent looking for home insurance. They waited too long. I wonder how much of Ukraine was genuinely head-in-the-sand over this possibility of an invasion.

It's a bit of a global world leadership failure problem. Lots of weak leadership in just about all the world's countries these days. Too busy tied up with virtue signaling, political correctness and getting re-elected. Snivel Chamberlain and great shades of WWII all over again. Putin is a wolf predator, he's been watching the weakness of the left and has seized this as an opportunity. As a bonus, world economy will take a hit as collateral damage.

 

[repete]

Maybe if they call and ask nicely the Afghans will send some of what we left behind.

 

[jimc]

"In February alone 10,000 firearms were registered. "

And if Ukraine falls to Russia, Russia now has a record of everyone with guns. I'm sure they will let the citizens keep them.