• Minotaur@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      I mean, duh, but let’s be honest here man there’s like 2 and a half reasons to buy “nazi branded merchandise”

      1. You are a giant history buff, historian, etc, and you simply collect artifacts from that period. If you are this, you probably aren’t picking random things from your local gun store, but maybe you are.

      2. You are a nazi

      3. You are a “history buff” that, for some reason, only collects nazi memorabilia.

      Now, I’m sure some history buffs go to gun stores for that kind of thing. But let’s imagine the broad spectrum of gun store clientele.

      • Ogmios@sh.itjust.works
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        8 months ago

        War trophies are really common for gun shops/shows, due to the proximity between gun culture and professional soldiers (who actually collected the trophies). You focus on Nazi, and it’s certainly true there are an abundance due to the scale of the conflict, but you can also find Imperial Japanese trophies and other random things some times.

        • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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          8 months ago

          War trophies are really common for gun shops/shows, due to the proximity between gun culture and professional soldiers (who actually collected the trophies).

          No, they really aren’t? I live in Oklahoma, there’s a gun store every couple blocks. I’ve never been in one that has any real Nazi war loot, nor one that regularly displays Nazi memorabilia.

          That’s for the gun shows, where they sell a ton of replica Nazi memorabilia. I’ve never seen a historical piece displayed or for sale.

          More than likely, anything you’ve actually seen at a gun store or gun show are just reproductions.

        • Minotaur@lemm.ee
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          8 months ago

          …. Yeah man, I focus on Nazi because that’s what’s mentioned in the post lmao

          • Ogmios@sh.itjust.works
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            8 months ago

            And the post focuses on it because of the abundance of Nazi war trophies, due to how recent and how massive the conflict was. This shouldn’t be difficult to understand, but too many people go looking for reasons to shoehorn something into their preconceived notions rather than actually attempting to understand it.

            • Minotaur@lemm.ee
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              8 months ago

              … I think you might be overthinking things a bit man. Gun stores have a lot of Nazi merch. A lot of people in the US are literal Nazis who buy nazi merch. Many Nazis get their nazi things from gun stores. It’s a funny joke.

              Are you like… a ‘collector’ yourself or similar? You seem oddly invested in making sure everyone knows that not every single person who owns something with a swastika on it is racist, when I think that’s implicitly known

              • Ogmios@sh.itjust.works
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                8 months ago

                I think you might be overthinking things

                My explanation is a direct line between professional soldiers taking trophies from the Nazis they killed and gun stores having a fair stock of Nazi war trophies for sale. You’re the one attempting to imply extra information.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    I moved from Austin, Texas to Jackson, Wyoming. In both places the gun clientele seems very distributed along the political spectrum. In Wyoming you need a high caliber weapon if you want to enjoy a nature hike because here nature is very keen on killing you. Austin is still Texas and Texas has a unique ability to infect people with an acceptance, if not love, for beer, barbecue, tacos and guns.