Brazil bans firearms sales-Rossi&Taurus future?

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ChrisMkIV

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Just got this off another forum, thought it would be worth a look from TFL'ers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000622/aponline134433_000.htm

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Wonder what the ratio of home sales to world wide sales are? It will hurt both companies for sure but I bet they still do enough business worldwide to survive.
 
Good! This is will be an excellent case for how gun bans can and will fail to stop crime.

I sincerely doubt that Brazil will be as slick as Australia or England in hiding the amount of crime that takes place.

We can use the failures in Brazil, England, and Australia, along with South Africa, to show the utter stupidity of gun bans.

Zimbabwe is doing this nicely. Where do the "veterans" get the automatic weapons to terrorize white farmers, especially since the government banned "weapons of war" 20 years ago?
 
Neither statisticts nor laws work the same south of the boarder as they do to the north amigos.
You will have to watch what they do, not what they say, and this will only unfold with time.
 
Most of taurases sales are for export and military sales also. I beleve they are the 4th largest manufacturer in the world.
 
I'd be willing to bet that the U.S. market accounts for upwards of 3/4ths of Taurus' handgun sales, at least. Now that they've bought Rossi, probably a larger slice than that of Rossi lever-gun production winds up in the hands of stateside SASS shooters. U.S. population size X average citizen's disposble income X gun laws that still allow us to buy one, at least = what, 70-90% of the world's civilian gun sales?

It's similar to the situation with foreign luxury or sports-car makers. They can weather a recession in their own country as long as the economy here is good. The mini-recession of the late '80s-early '90s here, however, almost sank Porsche: we account for 50-75% of Porsche sales worldwide in any given year...

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