{"id":43087,"date":"2020-03-15T20:44:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T01:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=43087"},"modified":"2020-03-15T20:44:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T01:44:55","slug":"43087","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=43087","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

A Lot of People Are Finding Out You Can\u2019t Just Buy a Gun Online<\/a><\/p>\n

First came the panic buying of hand sanitizer.
\nThen, people panic bought toilet paper.
\nNow, food shelves are emptying and\u00a0 firearm and ammunition sales are through the roof. The COVID19 outbreak might be bad for the stock market, but it\u2019s certainly been a boon for very specific sectors of the economy. The gun industry, used to such boom\/bust cycles, knows how to respond \u2013 but other sectors might not be so acclimated.<\/p>\n

Here at Omaha Outdoors, we\u2019ve been inundated with inquiries from out-of-state folks \u2013 many from California \u2013 asking if we can ship them a gun directly. The answer is, of course, no. Despite what politicians and many in popular media claim, you can\u2019t buy a gun online and have it shipped to your house. Well, you could, if you were a federally licensed firearm dealer (or federally licensed curio and relic collector) and your home was your place of business. Other than that, no, you can\u2019t buy a gun online and have it shipped, especially across state lines, to your home.<\/p>\n

What you\u2019ll need to do to buy a gun from us is order it on our online store and select an FFL, a federally licensed firearm dealer, during the online checkout process. We ship the gun to the dealer near you \u2013 presuming the firearm and its accessories are legal in your area \u2013 and you visit the dealer to fill out the required ATF Form 4473 and undergo the federal and any applicable state background checks. Some states might require a waiting period \u2013 sure to be a sore point at a time when people feel the need for a gun to protect themselves NOW. Only then can you take your new firearm home.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not alone in noticing that usually anti-gun people are suddenly very interested in having guns. On Twitter, Robert Evans wrote, \u201cThe sheer number of normally anti-gun people who have reached out to me about buying a firearm in the last week is wild<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

And my friends who work at other gun stores have seen a crazy surge in gun buying too, with one noting that their one-day sales total exceeded Black Friday by 25%, and that 75% of buyers were purchasing their first gun. He said, in explanation, \u201cPeople need to protect their toilet paper.\u201d Another friend noted that the amount of brass cased 9mm they usually sell in a month was gone in the first week, and that everything else would be sold out soon too if things continued at this pace.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all been told to practice \u201csocial distancing\u201d in the coming months. Firearms are, in a way, the ultimate method of enforcing social distancing. I just hope all these new gun owners learn how to safely use their guns \u2013 and that they never need them for their intended purpose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Lot of People Are Finding Out You Can\u2019t Just Buy a Gun Online First came the panic buying of hand sanitizer. Then, people panic bought toilet paper. Now, food shelves are emptying and\u00a0 firearm and ammunition sales are through the roof. The COVID19 outbreak might be bad for the stock market, but it\u2019s certainly … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43097,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43087\/revisions\/43097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}